NEXT King of England v8

Version 8 of my King of England deck.

Agendas

Accelerated Beta Test - Scoring an early ABT is key. With 22 ice in the deck, you will hit one or two when you score this (most of the time). The combo with Team Sponsorship helps you build larger ice towers or multiple secure remotes.

Global Food Initiative - You really need to be careful when choosing your influence for NEXT since the ID is crippled with only 12 of it. GFI is worth the slot. It has a psuedo form of self protection and it means the runner need to steal four agendas, while you only need to score 3.

NAPD Contract - One of the best defensive agendas in the game.

Assets

Adonis Campaign - First part of your economic package and a prime candidate for TS/Architect recursion.

Melange Mining Corp. - Two turns of this sets you up with enough credits for the rest of the game.

Team Sponsorship - Gives the deck quite a bit of speed, combos well with ABT, and helps keep your economy robust by recurring Adonis. I'd include 3 but I need the CVS.

Jackson Howard - Only two copies of our lord and savior because agenda floods happen rarely. More recursion is always good.

Upgrades

Pretty standard here. Two Ash and a CVS to prevent accesses and wipe viruses off Mediums/Suckers.

Operations

Again standard. 3 Hedge, 3 Green Level gives a good early game burst economy and side advantage of some card draw.

Ice

Grail suite - Galahad, Merlin, and Lancelot. Merlin is capable of turn 1 kills, albeit rarely is out of Yog range, costs Zu 6 credits to break, passport 5, and refractor a stealth and 3. Lancelot helps with surprise rig trashing when tacked onto one of the other ones. Galahad costs Lady two tokens or Corroder three credits to break through.

NEXT Ice - I've been a big fan of NEXT ice for a while now and it's wonderfully thematic in its namesake deck. Up to 6 strength or 6 subs provides a substantial tax to the runner.

Viper - This forgotten gem is a powerhouse. Being able to leverage your economic advantage into draining clicks from the runner is strong. Put it on HQ to deny Account Siphon spam.

Turing - Shuts down Faust pretty hard. If they want to get into a remote or R&D the ice tower you have will likely cost them their entire hand and then Turin eats their remaining clicks for the turn.

Ichi - Always a threat. Being able to trash rigs, occasionally deal out a brain, and handing out tags so you can kill Kati, Earthrise, Liberated, etc. makes this a quality piece of ice.

Architect - One of the few pieces of ice in the deck that doesn't die to a sideways glance from a Parasite. A 2 credit tax is decent, recursion is better.

Score out an early ABT or two (preferably with TS backing you up), and then sit back and leverage your massive ice towers and economy against the runner until you can score out.