Let's Break Reduced Service

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Let's try to break Reduced Service. Completely untested and never played, read at your own risk.

It's "When you rez", which means if you can find a way to derez it you can rez it again and add more counters. Suddenly runs on that server cost 16c instead of 8c to initiate.

The ID that comes to my mind for this is The Outfit. It gives you enough money to be able to keep pumping money into Reduced Service. There's probably a build in Blue Sun that works better.

The plan is to use Divert Power to derez your Reduced Service so you can pump it again. Another possibility is Test Ground but man that card is real bad.

Border Control always goes on the remote to make them pay as many times as possible to initiate the run. Remember, the runner only collects bad pub credits after they initiate the run - they can't pay for Reduced Service with BP.

Crisium Grid goes on centrals to stop them from removing counters from Reduced service, since they're not making successful runs. Your beefy ice also goes on centrals to make taking counters off service even harder.

You can stick Reduced Service on HQ or R&D early to survive early pressure and get set up. Or put it in the remote early to build up counters on it. It's hard to make 8 successful runs on centrals when you've got horrible ice there.

@rotage suggested Elizabeth Mills which is very certainly correct with Divert Power and helps mitigate your BP. I had Batty in here to rigshoot with trash program subs on your ice and synergize with Divert Power but subbed him out for FC3. No idea which is right.

Anyway this deck is hugely stupid and is my first draft at breaking Reduced Service. I bet we could break it even worse!

3 comments
22 Mar 2019 rex_monolith

I was thinking commercial bankers group with a reduce service on it would be good providing there were no open servers. It would push the trash cost up by 8 effectively ! Probably better with CtM.

26 Mar 2019 Japoco

As you are playing divert power - how about switching your fairchildren for Gatekeepers?

30 Mar 2019 Koala

The synergy Divert Power is a really cool.

Is Reduced Service also working if the run is initiated by a run event?