FARP (3-1 Kzoo SC)

I was very satisfied with my corp's performance at the recent Store Champs at Fanfare Games in Kalamazoo, MI. I wanted to bring a horizontal deck because I was concerned about ParaSifr. I thought about my FAIG deck, but it collapses to Whizzard sometimes. Rather than tax credits, I decide to tax clicks to defend my assets. Thus, FARP was born.

I played Sifr Smoke (won), Sifr Ed Kim (lost), Reg-Ass Leela (won), and Reg-Ass Andy (won). Thanks to Ross, Ryan, Ty, and Josh for great games!

Strategy

Political Dealings turns your draw into clickless agendas installs, allowing you to Fast Advance. To keep the engine running, you need:

• Money (Turtlebacks, PAD, Sundew)
• Start-of-Turn draw (Sensie, Agroplex)
• Political Dealings

I found that runners could either deny all my money assets, or deny my draw/recursion assets, but rarely both. Many of my card choices dismantle the runner's efforts if they only attack one category.

Card Choices

• Executive Boot Camp helps with Val and Au Revoir, plus it doubles as a tutor for the 1x Agroplex if they keep trashing Sensies. No one ever trashes the Agroplex.
• Team Sponsorship was going to be Friends in High Places, but I didn't have Martial Law yet. Still, it was effective at bringing back econ assets. I think Friends is better, as sometimes I had to never-advance a Braintrust to get it to fire just so I could get back part of the engine.
• An extra copy of Clones is there to get rid of Employee Strike.
• Bio-Ethics is there solely as click bait. In RP, click bait is usually worth 2, so they end up leaving econ assets online. I try to only have one BEA rezzed at a time so it's a constant threat. It can cause players to tilt often (esp crims, who really don't want to lose that gordian blade in-hand).
• I just used NASX as a PAD.
• Chiyashi got rezzed twice and killed a guy. The facecheck is the real deal.
• I'm using Excalibur as Medium defense instead of Macrophage because it doubles as a decent ice on any central in RP.
• Beta Cat was an MVP. The deck is rich and forces runners to trash things to make them poor, so the trace is really easy to pull off. I used it 3 times in 4 games, trashing a Sifr, a Net Mercur, 2 Desperados, a Kati, and a Temmy J. Runners are already taxed for set-up clicks, so dismantling their rig is a huge tempo hit for them.

Here's a poem:

Ode to Beta Cat

Got trouble w/ Slums?
Beta Cat that Shit!
They Critique your Future?
Beta Cat that Shit!
Sifr killing your ice?
Beta Cat that Shit!

Runner see something crossin their path?
Bad news bears, it's a Beta Cat.