Engineering the Upgrades

You have to tell me, if 3 Hive is working out for you. Because that is one thing, i strongly considered as well.

Rush factor is of paramount value in this deck, so I think 3 hive is absolutely necessary to get one as soon as possible. I think this version of this deck suffers from early game money and an incorrect ICE configuration, will probably swap out some of the Eli's for quandaries.

At first I thought this would be a list that would want Quandary instead of Enigma, but I forgot about the install credit you would get from the ID

So I tested this a bit, 3 Hive and 3 Mushin got me both pieces of the combo fairly early and fairly consistently. In fact, in very few of my games did the runner actually succeed in stealing the mandatory upgrades. However, I did feel like once I did that, the rest of my deck was lacking, making it hard to play. I reduced the Hive and Mushin down to 2 each.

What did you miss? When i score my first Mandatory Upgrades in any game, i feel really comfortable with almost every draw/situation.

Usually I spent all my remaining money scoring out the Mandatory Upgrades. I felt like most of the games at this point, I didn't really have a plan to get more money, and the runner had come up with a solution to deal with the 1-2 on my centrals. I think part of this is, with 3 hives, I usually was forced to drop 1 on a central if I was waiting for a Mushin, and then after scoring MU, it got weaker. Basically, I got R&D locked a few times afterwards by criminals, and wasn't able to keep my money high enough to FA out the remaining agendas.

Also, in situations where I got blocked from scoring out MU, I felt super weak, so I threw in just a few biotics as a backup plan, and that has been helpful in the money situation to some degree as well.

Attaching my newer version.