10 Pounds of Jank in a 5 Pound Bag

MTUCache 59

Weyland with almost no barriers? This is a first attempt at a Mill deck...

Harvester/TLDR/Wormhole/CellPortal all attempting to mill 3 cards off the runner per sub, and stacked deep over HQ. CurtainWall/Nebula/Orion to stack over R&D and Will'o'Wisps/PowerShutdown to attempt to bottom-deck or trash their decoders. And an Off-the-Grid Remote with either a MumbadConstruction to build up FA counters or an Underway to mill for every advance, forcing them to get through that HQ Harvester stack.

3xConsultingVisit and 3xOversightAI to make sure you're getting that Blue Sun bonus off of this huge ice right off the bat. The Consulting Visits are also quick tutors to get to the Ark Lockdown or Power Shutdown when the opportunity is there.

And of course, the Chronos and Ark Lockdown to remove the Levy and recursion targets.

Possible alternate choices were Wendigo, Blacklist, and of course Jacksons. The first cards to drop would be The Board, and I'm not sure they'd help with slowing down the agenda leak anyway (or possibly make it even worse). Disposable HQ would also be a handy way to bottom-deck those GFIs and Atlases for when you're not set up yet and don't need to be giving away too many points.

I figure if you see an Oversight/Consulting and a big ice in your opening hand, and you can find at least one Harvester and one other way to copy its subs within the first 3 turns, you can get a 'surprise' mill off for 9-12 cards the first time they run an iced HQ (likely tutoring for their fracter/killer), and then feed them 1-pointers long enough to get the Off-the-Grid lined up and trash their decoders. Even if they're losing 12+ cards getting through HQ, they can't let an Off-the-Grid Underway sit around for more than 2 turns before they're losing 6 cards every corp turn. They're going to have to get through those Harvesters one way or another to get that remote back on-line.

Could it work? Maybe 1 out of 10 times... but it would be glorious.

12 comments
14 Oct 2016 killj0y

So silly question, can you wormhole the TL;DR and have it double the double? First TL;DR on Harvester means 4 subs, would wormhole up that to 6 or 8?

14 Oct 2016 MTUCache

@killj0y- that's the way I understand it (8)... I haven't looked for any FAQ on the matter. Assuming they don't jack out, and don't break any subs, if they hit a Wormhole/TL;DR/Harvester, the Wormhole doubles the TL;DR, the first TL;DR sub turns Harvester into a quad-sub and the second TL;DR sub doubles it into an eight-sub, so they're drawing 24 cards.

14 Oct 2016 killj0y

So why no Whirlpool Maybe we can up this to a 15lb bag.

14 Oct 2016 MTUCache

lol. I had it in originally (particularly why I was trying to make the Jinteki versions of this), but it's never going to fit influence-wise. The only way I could be sure that they're going to run through the Harvesters was to Off-Grid a FA-tool and/or scoring remote and stack everything on HQ, so they have to get down to the HQ root.

14 Oct 2016 MTUCache

edit: At some point it's more important to remove stuff from their Heap so it's out of the game than it is to make them over-draw... whether they're drawing 30 cards on a run or not, if they've got a Levy and get all their decoders back it's just another Off-the-Grid you've got to find and install to make them do it again.

14 Oct 2016 killj0y

@MTUCache Bah, drop the two global foods for a Government Takeover. It'll lower your agenda density and give you back the 2 influence. You've got the atlas and future now tutors to pull it once you have your off the grid set up. Just "accidentally" flash it to the runner, install into your off-grid, and force the run on your HQ and put them through your millstone.

14 Oct 2016 killj0y

@MTUCache Here is one problem as I see it. Once the combo gets rolling if the runner has a Levy in their deck you just handed it to them. Say runner sees the setup, falls for the trap and gets rolled for their entire deck. They still have 5 cards in hand because you're not doing any damage on the cycle and they had the choice to pare it down to just the 5 they need to recover. Click 2, install levy, pop levy, click 4 run the off the grid server, steal agenda, win game. Even if what you have in that scoring remote is a neural katana they're still sitting on 1 card and a freshly cycled deck and now you need to go fetch a new grid to keep your remote safe and your R&D is wide open. Without the influence to load a Ibrahim Salem or Salem's Hospitality you can't get into their hand to pull it out and you can't score the chronos project until after they've already had a chance to pop levy.

14 Oct 2016 MTUCache

No doubt. I don't think there's ever a way to avoid the first Levy, since I'm drawing it for them. The real problem I'm imagining (against Shapers, for the most part), is what happens after I've decked them without the Levy. As long as they've still got a fracter and a decoder (and can click for a dozen or so credits), they can now ignore every Code Gate on the board. While I'm getting all of this set up, advancing Underway and such, I've still got to do more than threaten a FA, I've got to be able to actually score out if it comes down to them still a way to play without their stack.

14 Oct 2016 killj0y

@MTUCache I assumed that since this was a mill deck once you had the majority of their cards in the heap you roll a power shutdown to kill the last of their functional rig and then it's shake hands GG.

14 Oct 2016 MTUCache

100%, that's one way it could go, but if they've got the tools in their deck (and I'm drawing all of them for them), they're probably going to have more recursion than I'm going to have Shutdowns.

Anyway... I'm sure there's a lot of tweaking to be done in order to actually get to a win-condition. I put this together mainly because I wanted to find a way to force the runner through a big Harvester mill. I attempted to import all of these pieces into several different corps and IDs, but this one looked the most promising since Weyland has ways to copy subs, has Underway for extra mill, and Blue Sun has the most functional way to re-arrange ice and make money at the same time.

The Foundry/Twins version was probably better for the surprise-factor, but it didn't have any way of forcing them to do it more than once. Once I saw Off-the-Grid and knew I could stack all this on HQ, I knew green was the color for this baby. :p

14 Oct 2016 killj0y

I'm still sticking with Jinteki for this since Palana foods has such synergy with the card draw. I've been working on something similar. Credit to you for helping with my thinking. netrunnerdb.com

15 Oct 2016 OneFabric

@MTUCache Great idea. I especially like the use of TL;DR.

Cheers, OneFabric