Startup Starter Tao v 1.0

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This is one of my set of Startup Starters. These aren't meta-defining decks, but the should be solid enough to win games, and give you a shell you can use to start deckbuilding. You can find the others here.

This Tao deck is meant to allow you to run aggressively and keep your economy going using a lot of event based cards. With Prepaid VoicePAD giving you a fresh credit to play events with each turn, and Aniccam drawing you a card on the first event played each turn, you're hoping to generate a lot of value and put some pressure on the corps. Your late game finisher is Khusyuk. Khusyuk has a wall of text on it, but it conceptually is not too bad. You choose a card cost (in this deck 2) and if you successfully run R&D, instead of breaching, you will reveal the top X cards (where X is the number of 2 cost cards you have installed). Then you pick one of those revealed cards and accesses it, just like you had breached normally. Usually you'll want to access an agenda, and get some points that way! Tao benefits from being aggressive, so you can maximize the value of ICE swaps, so I would encourage you to run early and often.

Like with all shaper decks Self-modifying Code (often abbreviated SMC) is a big part of your playstyle. If the Corp has unrezzed ICE, you can run it with SMC installed, and after they rez it, you can use the paid ability (2) to search your deck for the correct breaker. You can also use it on the Corp's turn if you have all the breakers you need, and you want to get a Rezeki out earlier to help you keep up in the economy race and power up your Khusyuks.

In terms of modifications, if you feel slow, Overclock and Jailbreak might help you get some more burst economy and accesses into the deck. You may find that you're running out of cash, which could let you explore other historical powerhouse shaper economy packages like Aesop's Pawnshop, or add some newer tools like Telework Contract. Many shaper decks also make a good use of "toolbox" programs like Imp, Paricia, and Tranquilizer to help against certain problem decks. As you play more, all of those are worth testing out.

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