The Gang Sign Blackmail Mill

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moondark89 196

Experimental Fisk deck, trying so hard to make him viable!

Try knock out an early Investigative Journalism, which activates your Blackmail. Between Blackmail and Inside Job, you should have most of their sneaky early Agenda attempts covered.

Still try to save some of the Blackmails for later game, as you have no Remote Breakers, you rely on these.

Then, continue to start hammering HQ and forcing the Corp to overdraw as and when you can. Get the Gang Signs and HQ Interfaces up so that when they do start scoring out, you get to see the other agendas in their hand.

Councilman ruins their Jackson Howard fun when they start tossing Agendas in Archives.

When you have some more Bad Publicity stuck on the Corp, throw out an Itinerant Protesters and start aggressively Fisk Investment Seminaring them into an awkward place.

Hit their juicy Archives with a Councilman at the ready, and Turntable back any fluff you snag.

6 comments
15 Jul 2016 FarCryFromHuman

I recommend swapping Itinerant Protesters for Corporate Scandal as you'll actually be able to install Investigative Journalism that way. Unfortunately IJ is not spend 4, add bad pub to corp.

15 Jul 2016 h0bb35

The economy seems really really tight. How do you benefit from Bank Job with only central breakers?

15 Jul 2016 lunchmoney

Yah, how do you plan to give the Corp some Bad Pub in the first place?

15 Jul 2016 Relenzo

I would use Corporate Scandal probably cut Raymond Flint (he's not terribly good even if you do get Bad Publicity). Also, I can't figure out why you're running 3 turntables. Might benefit from a few more credits instead. A creative deck idea though.

15 Jul 2016 PureFlight

Slots here are tight, but...Account Siphon is pretty good... The corp usually can't FA or rez much ice if they're poor. This means agendas build up in their hand, which is what the deck is all about.

I agree about Turntable - switch to Desperado for moneys. Or you can be sassy and use Vigil, which is badass in Fisk. That works well with Protesters once you get that going.

Yeah, you need Scandal to install Journalism. I know you're building around the pressure that IJ creates, so maybe drop an IJ, add +2 Scandal to get it out, and then have some Same Old Things to get them back if the corp scores.

If they're only building a single remote (i.e. glacier), the Bank Jobs don't work, and you're left with only gambles for econ.

We're suggesting lots of cards to add, so maybe you can find slots from dropping Info Sifting (no synergy with HQI/Gang Sign, which is your HQ pressure), 1x HQI, 1x Gang Sign, 1x Inside Job, and some or all of the Bank Jobs.

17 Jul 2016 moondark89

@FarCryFromHuman, @lunchmoney Wow, thanks for pointing that out, total oversight on my part. Ive only ever played that card out of Val and totally forgot that you need the bad pub initially to install it.

@dark_link the idea is that with the very common horizontal decks, and the fact that you are forcing the corp to keep heir hand-size low, they will be throwing out assets like they are going out of style. The central breakers make central runs very cheap and they will be looking to place 2-3 layers of ICE over both HQ and R&D. This does not leave them with much ICE to cover all their asset servers.

@Relenzo, Good advice, ill give this a tinker.

@PureFlight Great feedback! Ill take this onboard and see how some of those changes work out. I was definitely concerned about the econ, so Bank Jobs seemed like the greatest bang per card, wasnt really the best thought out addition.