The Brush is Mightier than the Blade

skydivingninja 412

After tinkering with my kit deck for the past several months, going through Cyber-Cypher, Torch, and Yogasuarus builds, I think I've hit on something I'm very proud of that's proven to be very effective.

The basic idea is to utilize Paintbrush to set up an awesome Gordian Blade run through a server. This is not a new strategy. However, I've found this deck to be incredibly consistent in getting money, tutors, or tools when you need them.

My two MVPs in the deck have been Demolition Run and Personal Workshop. Demo Run helps save money when you run into those pesky Jacksons or SanSans, and helps A LOT against the Future Perfect and NAPD Contract. Send those suckers to archives and run there until you get them. Personal Workshop alleviates the high cost of my hardware, Omega, Femme, Opus, etc. and I can use my leftover Stimhack credits to push them out when I need to.

The lone Deus X is to help against the upcoming onslaught of Jinteki decks, but I might replace it with Feedback Filter or Net Shield to have a more permanent solution. Other than that, I can't think of any changes I want to make to the deck right now, though if Tori Hanzo starts dominating my meta I'm definitely going to replace that 3rd Stimhack with something.

2 comments
7 May 2014 BreadRising

I like it

I think I'd drop 1 Gordian for another SMC. That's just me personally; I always prefer more flexibility in what I can tutor out of my deck.

20 May 2014 skydivingninja

Yeah I understand your point, but if anything I might replace an Opus with another SMC. I like having 3 Blades as insurance against program destruction/damage since I'm not running anything that makes Clone Chip super useful.