Red Guerrilla

moonwalker 141

My attempt at a Reia Roja deck, the identity that will be released on December in the Mala Tempora data pack.
This is a deck that focus in forcing the Corp to make a lot of hard choices.
Forged Activation Order becomes a dilemma if the Corp needs to pay 3 extra credits due to a Rook on the same server and Reina ability.
Being Vamped while a Medium is installed puts the corp at risk of a triple run on R&D for at least six cards accessed, and then the necessity to BOTH gain credits and purge virus on the next turn.
Parasite+Datasucker becomes more punishing if a simple Ice Wall has been rezzed paying 3 or 4.
3 comments
14 Nov 2013 moonwalker

Are 3 Knights (supported by Clone Chip and Deja Vu) enough as Icebreakers? Does this deck need a Crypsis or Darwin (both searchable for by Djinn) in support?

14 Nov 2013 saetzero

i see what you want to do, and i won't try to alter that

but theres 2 very big blocks in your way

swordsman, and just 4 cheap ice on a server (ice wall ice wall enigma wall of static for example)

if you need to get things moving, surge for your parasites might be a good option.

otherwise i see this deck running out of steam and having limited options to come back. trashing ice with knights on it also presents a VERY VERY big problem. pawn might help that, but who knows.

tl;dr - get tools for a back up plan imo

14 Nov 2013 moonwalker

Swordsman is not a hard lock-out as in a pure Atman+Datasucker deck, because can easily be trashed by Parasite (which can be searched for by Djinn), and the deck has 6 recursion cards to recover a trashed Knight from the heap.

About the 4 cheap rezzed ICEs, this is effectively an issue that should be considered (even if the player should use Xanadu/Rook/Vamp to prevent that from happening), and can be worth swapping in a single Crypsis in place of Imp to reduce the risk.