Building a Basic Deck

Slops 25

With a limited collection of the big boxes and 23 Seconds, I'm trying to craft a reasonable pair of decks that are at least fun to play. This focuses on the benefit of the corp ID to build a stack of credits, with a decent selection of ETR Ice and a few irritations for the runner as well.

5 comments
17 Sep 2016 Steamwood

SanSan might not be a great fit with the agendas you have there. It won't let you fast advance any of the 5/3s, and Hostile already scores in one turn. I'd highly recommend taking out the Glenn Stations unless there's something you really want to store on it, 4/2s are not great and that one is probably the worst. I love me some BaBW, and wish you luck!

20 Sep 2016 Mechanoise

@Steamwood is right, a single SanSan City Grid will do so little here without any decent agendas to fast-advance out of, and without a way to bring it back it's 4 influence worth of dead weight.

Personally, this needs to have a kill option. Weyland struggle to survive without the threat of the kill; especially since their ICE tends to be quite bland and inoffensive to face-check. Plant a few Scorched Earths in here, and let's look at tagging. Of course there's the good ol' SEA Source, but you could always consider News Team instead.

If the Runner decides to take News Team as an agenda, (which, by the by, triggers from archives), it is added to their score area as a -1 agenda point, which is great, but would also give Stock Buy-Back another target to maximise profit. So if the Runner had scored 3 agendas, and had taken all 3 News Teams as -1 agendas, the Runner technically has 6 agendas, meaning Stock Buy-Back will give you 18 + 1 for your ID ability.

I'd also consider changing Viktor 1.0 to Ichi 1.0 to really punish face-checking, and consider some possibly redundant cards to change out - such as Shipment from Kaguya.

So if it were me, just on a quick glance: -1x Successful Demonstration, -1x Rototurret, -1 SanSan City Grid, +3x News Teams, -2x Shipment from Kaguya, +2x Stock Buy-Back. -1x Viktor 1.0, +1x Ichi 1.0.

If you were able to add Crisis Management as an agenda, that would make the threat of tags even more scary. Oh, and Housekeeping! Seriously that current is horrible to deal with as the Runner! Good luck and let me know if you want to go through anything.

21 Sep 2016 Slops

Thanks for the tips @Steamwood and @Mechanoise. Adding in the News Teams ran me over my influence, so dropped out another medical research fundraiser.

Looking at all those changes takes me over 50 cards though, the Glenn Station agendas were just in there to make up my agenda points without putting in too many cards - which is the only reason I didn't have Crisis Management in there! Giving up on keeping it that low, though, I've made a few tweaks as suggested and will give it a crack tonight.

Agendas: -3 Glenn Station, -2 High-Risk Investment, +3 Crisis Management, +1 Global Food Initiative, +2 Posted Bounty, +2 Priority Requisition for a net +3 cards. This is the main reason I had Glenn in there, to cut down on cards without using 5/3s

+3 News Teams - great idea, used these in my NBN deck and a big fan of them. I'm unsure on Sandburg and Space Camp here, happy to take advice on them.

-1 SanSan City Grid, fair call, that was just thrown in as a gimmick.

+2 Housekeeping, great card, big fan. Run it in my New Angeles Sol deck as well. -1 Medical Research Fundraiser due influence limit +2 Scorched Earth for the kill option +2 Stock Buy-Back to double down on the news teams and numerous 1 point agendas. -1 Successful Demonstration for influence

-1 Viktor 1.0, -1 Assassin, -1 Rototurret, +1 Ichi 1.0 to discourage face checking.

Now I'm at 54 cards, the question is, is that such a bad thing? Thoughts there?

21 Sep 2016 Mechanoise

@Slops I wouldn't recommend going to 54 cards without good reason. Experiment with the 5 cards you can drop, play with them for a while and try them with a few different cards instead; then make a judgement call as to whether you think it works for you. Main point is to get to 49 cards, have plenty of econ and have a game plan that is flexible to the Runner you're dealing with. Good luck.

21 Sep 2016 Slops

@Mechanoise yeah I figured. Right now I've dropped the two Posted Bounty I added, the Successful Demonstration and Medical Research Fundraisers for 3 Stock Buy-Back to get down to 49. See how it travels.