Thick Shelled

Card draw simulator
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Amputret 71

A deck that aims to utilise Apex's free face down installs to fuel good card draw and economy. Relying more on Plascrete to protect against meat damage, rather than burning through cards. Whilst giving the security of breaking sentries (most likely to be scary non-end the run ice).

Not played with it yet, this is a first draft. Does not include harder to source packs such as Creation and Control nor SanSan Cycle (new to the game).

4 comments
28 Sep 2015 Gaxeco

Why do you use the MemStrips? You dont seem to have any virus program

29 Sep 2015 tendermovement

I've played a bit on jinteki.net with Apex.

Chop Bot is a good include usually. Memstrips is there for the Data Folding, yes? I think it's wasted a bit though as you don't have any viruses. I tried including Leprechaun for memory issues, you might look into that as well.

The worst things that you can meet with Apex are big things that don't have an End the Run subroutine, like Wormhole, which only becomes one after the window for breaking it has closed. Maybe look into having a solution for those situations, an AI breaker or something like that. I'm not sure which would work best, and with an AI breaker you of course still need a way to confront Turing and Swordsman.

It's hard to make a deck that works in all cases, especially if you want to use Apocalypse. When you use it, you really don't want to have a lot of expensive stuff on the board, unless it's absolutely sure that you're winning the next turn. So, a full breaker suite, or Magnum Opus Apex, should not rely on it overly much.

Maybe trying out some powerful discardable breakers would be a nice way for capitalising on Apocalypse. Just sit and wait while the corp builds and then do a run for Apocalypse to trash everything when you deem it's time.

29 Sep 2015 tendermovement

An addition to my last comment: I've been playing a minimal board Apex lately, where basically the only things I have out are Endless Hunger, E3 and Heartbeat. It has worked well against horizontal corps because you don't need to check any remotes. Inside jobs can allow you to get in and Apocalypse everything, which sets the corp back much more than your minimal board investment.

29 Sep 2015 Amputret

@Gaxeco MemStrips is primarily there because it's very cheap and reliable memory to get your Data Folding up and running as soon as possible. Using Apocalypse will probably require you get your econ back up to speed ASAP, so that's the logic behind it.

@tendermovement I was going to use the 3 sunny breakers with a little link from Dyson Mem Chip as an memory free alternative to Endless Hunger/e3 Feedback Implants. But I pared it down to just GS Shrike M2 because I figured the vast majority of scary destroyers would be Sentries, and having 2 copies would improve reliability/redundancy.

Thanks for the feedback guys.