Make 'em Pay V 1.1

Cancer Ace 156

This is the Jinteki deck I am currently running, I have been playing Jinteki since the beginning, and recently moved to his concept which plays very similar to the Replicating Kills deck by Dyrda. Honor and Profit gave me Jinteki a lot of new toys. I am still tweaking this deck, but it works very well with my play style, and has only lost to my brother who helped build the deck and knows it (and my play style) very well.

Stealing my agendas costs a lot, between sticking Fetal AI and NAPD Contract behind costly ICE like Tollbooth and backed up by Caprice, plus they will need to have already run on my central servers, which sit behind ICE like Komainu, Tsurugi, Yagura, Shiro, Neural Katana to make 'em pay with their hands. Himitsu-Bako can protect Assets depending on who I'm facing. To make matters worse, the ambushes make my opponents think twice before running on any of my central servers; I'll even dare my opponents to run with Celebrity Gift. When they finally manage to steal an agenda, Punitive Counterstrike and Philotic Entanglement can take them out, but most of the time they just can't afford to take my agendas before I can score up for game. This list is a lot of fun, you'll find yourself daring your opponents to take risks they can't afford. I have on more than one occasion had both my copies of The Future Perfect in my archives, along with a few Shocks and Shi.Kyu's, and watched my opponents pay to just try and steal them time and again.

A note about ICE: this is where the deck spends most of its influence. Tollbooths work great with the theme of the deck, as an agenda behind those guarantees they are paying like crazy to get through. RSVP works similarly well, as some opponents might disregard it, but it stops them from stealing almost all of your agendas and also prevents them from trashing things. Ichi 2.0 is kind of overkill, but I like it over other Destroyers.

Let me know what you think, and I will update you guys if further playing of it takes me anywhere.

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