The Rocky Horror Picture Show

TonyStellato 783

This is going to be fun.

The Combo: You need to have a Jackson Howard, an Accelerated Diagnostics and a Power Shutdown in hand. You also need to have scored a Breaking News and one other agenda. Most likely, a single Quantum Predictive Model will end up in your score area. The combo costs a total of 10 credits, and the runner must have made a successful run during his or her last turn. This deck is like an easier to run CI combo deck with less cards needed in hand and less mental effort! Let's get to it.

Click 1: Install Jackson Howard

Click 2: Play Power Shutdown

Use Jackson Howard to return 2x 'BOOM!' and 1x 24/7 News Cycle'.

Click 3: Play Accelerated Diagnostics to deal 14 Meat Damage.

This combo kills through 2x Plascrete/Sports Hopper. It isn't countered by Film Critic or any number of IHWs. The only reasonable way to survive the combo is to install New Angeles City Hall or other tag-avoidance. My answer to that is to combo Hatchet into BOOM.

The deck primarily runs rush ICE to give you an early advantage. Ideally, you'll score a Breaking News by the time they complete their rig. Archangel is another speed bump assuming the runner hasn't installed D4V1D. Gutenberg fuels Quantum Predictive Model.

If you draw any of your AD targets, just overdraw and discard them. Tutor your combo pieces if you need to. News Team slows down the Runner as they race to 7 points. The threat of Scorched or BOOM! will probably be enough for them to take it as a -1 agenda point.

Remember, if the cards are dealt right, you can always cheese a win out with just 24/7 into Boom! (it has happened, even with just a singleton 24/7). The AD combo is for getting around the typical counter cards that runners often use.

Have fun.

3 comments
11 Oct 2016 HolyMackerel

Point of information:
You don't actually need a second agenda scored. Accelerated Diagnostics ignores additional costs.

11 Oct 2016 lilelia

I feel like this could either do with more draw (nbn have some lovely draw in faction), more ways to deal with hate, or both. As it is, I think a lot of runners will be able to find enough agendas to win, or enough hate to stop you winning before you get the combo off.

11 Oct 2016 TonyStellato

@pang4 oh my god that is exciting!

@lilelia it used to have DBS, but it's still being workshopped.