Butcher Shop - Bad Pub Killer

djsabor 1

Building off the Butcher Shop v. 4 decklist, I've modified by adding 2x Veterans Program (and removing the two Breaking News) in order to counter bad pub. This is especially important and effective when playing a deck based around Valencia Estevez, which leads off the game by forcing the corp to take a bad pub immediately. In the traditional Butcher Shop deck, there is no way of countering this.

This deck is based off of: http://netrunnerdb.com/en/deck/view/405099

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9 comments
31 Aug 2015 gumonshoe

Where's the Profiteering?

31 Aug 2015 djsabor

Not in the deck I built this off of?

31 Aug 2015 Jeb

Why does the bad pub even matter? I think BN is an integral part of any Butchershop deck, I don't see how you'd play the deck without it.

31 Aug 2015 djsabor

See above.

31 Aug 2015 Jeb

You just said that it's in order to counter bad pub. I'm asking why you even want to counter bad pub.

31 Aug 2015 djsabor

To cease its effect, namely, the addition of a credit used during the run.

31 Aug 2015 dherki

If you are afraid of bad pub, it might be a better idea to go without RecOrder and instead take Elizabeth Mills. Switch a few things around so you can take Tech Startup to fetch your other assets (thereby increasing the chances of actually getting your single Lizzie on board). Then you do not have to sacrifice the power of leaving a double advanced Breaking News on board for the next turn kill. Of course, this also means you should have a few more ETR around. Personally, I would go without IO - if you manage to fire it with lots of tags on the runner, chances are that runner is already dead anyway...

31 Aug 2015 Phoenix

I'll echo what has been said more mildly above: bad publicity, so what? If the runner is making runs to use their bad publicity the better for you. Breaking News is, particularly with Film Critic about, probably one of your better kill options. With the ice suite you are using, a bad publicity is going to do nothing. You have replaced two of your best cards with two cards that even bad pub heavy weyland doesn't use and only to counter, what, 1 runner?

31 Aug 2015 djsabor

Thanks, @dherki, for the thoughtful and constructive response! I appreciate it.