Spawn more (criminal) overlords!

Nex 22

This decks is ridiculously fun to play and effective at pressuring corps.

The overall plan is quite simple : install, draw, trash. Use Symmetrical Visage to gain money when drawing for the next piece of your rig. Use Street Peddler to accelerate your installation while keeping drawing.

Once you have Forger , some breakers and a few credits, start pressuring by going wherever you want for almost nothing. You're missing a breaker for going to that remote? You probably drew it when trashing a cloud breaker for going this far : that's when Savoir-faire shines. Or you have one in your heap : good old Clone Chip it is.

An ice is too big for your breakers? hack your way into HQ and Emergency Shutdown it! With cloud breakers and Inside Job, no server is safe!

Don't worry about surprise program trashing, you have so much of them you'll rapidly get back on your feet. You can also run with a small number of cards in hand (Hello Komainu!), you'll draw when using your breakers anyway.

And the last but not the least : survive domages in a creative way : Use Forger to negate those nasty SEA or deny Breaking News - Traffic Accident combo by preventing a tag while getting a 6th card!

5 comments
29 Jul 2015 Father Tork

How is the match-up against Jinteki, with high risk of Snare!?

29 Jul 2015 Nex

I havn't played against domage intensive decks like Cambrige style Jinteki, but you are more resilient to damages than regular criminals. You can draw more cards mid run and if you lose cards, you can get them back later or draw another. You just have to be carefull with multi access.

29 Jul 2015 Father Tork

My concern for the Draw is aside from Clone Chip and Forger, your trash to draw cards only works when encountering Ice. (You can't break subroutines with your Cloud Breakers unless encountering said ICE. So against Jinteki decks you still need a full hand just in case.

Might I suggest finding space for Fall Guy. It could save your Kati Jones, and provide card draw/money mid run in an emergency

29 Jul 2015 Nex

Fall Guy is indeed a nice idea, but I don't think I want to remove Emergency Shutdown or other cards for it.

29 Jul 2015 Father Tork

I've been trying out a Geist deck without the B&E Ice, I ended up going for Crescentus instead of Emergency Shutdown as it allows me to make multiple runs on the same server if necessary instead of needing to run HQ. It also fuels card draw, but your memory limit is restricted so it's a Call to make.