Hound Fortress

Concept

Basic concept is to play a yellow version of foodcoats and that's exactly how it plays, but weaker due to no Adonis/eve/BBG. The plan is a single scoring remote that rotates agendas with Launch Campaign. Lock every central so that sucker tokens are a pain to make. If playing against Yog.0, put your codegates on the remote. Make them hard to get in after a purge. Stack Caprice Nisei and Ash 2X3ZB9CY and just threaten NAPD. You only want to score 3 agendas in this deck.

Card Choices

• Targeted Marketing is still what I believe to be Sols best current and will land if you have a good read of the board state. It costs 0 and that's the most important part. It takes away nothing in a list where every credit is valuable. It's easy to force a named breaker early if you put out remote pressure. Some general things to name: Lucky Find for Kate, Cache/Wyldside for Noise, Sure gamble against everyone, Siphon for Crim as pure denial, etc.

• Predictive Algorithm I always play this while on game point if I can. This is mostly here for the 4th current so we can turn on our hounds. If I have it turn 1 with an NAPD sometimes I'll lay it naked and advance it once. They need 6 to steal it.

  • I do think other currents are playable, I just personally dislike them or they cost influence which I use to play a very strong remote game. I NEVER expect TM to land. Sometimes your opponents will deny you it until they cant anymore. That's fine. The list is balanced around the worse case scenario; your currents never fire.
• Data Raven and Closed Accounts. I recently switched to this from assassin and am liking it a lot more. Most runners will clear the tag if they don't know my deck or will jack out immediately or parasite them over tollbooths, hounds, popups, or archangels. Working well for me.

Agenda Plays

When forcing agendas, sometimes you want to score the first astro as if it were an NAPD by advancing once. Sometimes you don't. Sometimes lay a GFI at 1 advance when you have an Astro token to spend so they consider if it's an NAPD or a GFI. Sometimes lay an NAPD and IAA so that they think that's the food. Change up your advance patterns with the suite. Try to score food as 2nd agenda whenever possible. Sometimes go for a 3 point beale.

In Conclusion

The deck is overall a lot of fun and mimics the play style of foodcoats very well. If you find yourself a glacial player and want to play the guessing game with Targeted Marketing, give this a try. There is room for improvement yet with this style of Sol. I think this is a tournament worthy deck that can take small GNKs and is solidly a tier 1.5 list