NBN Choke

This deck is about capitalizing on a runner mistake early and "choke" him/her so that s/he cannot recover using Midseason replacement. If the runner stays passive, you can rush out the astroscript train and win with FA. Alternatively, you can score a breaking news and obtain the same choking effect.

Do not be afraid to give "freebies" to the runner if you are in an economic advantage. Perhaps the best card to give away is NAPD, which makes your MSR even better.

Hive+Ash is used as remote server defense to protect your first APP or SanSan. If you can get 2 hits of the same SanSan, especially to score at least 1 Astroscript, you are well on your way to win. Rezzing SanSan to score a Beale as a first agenda is probably a bad idea, since your SanSan could be trashed and you haven't started the chain by scoring a Beale first.

The regular gameplan is: APP > APP > Beale > Breaking news, where APPs can be substituted by Beales using SanSan. Excess APP tokens can be used for Breaking News > Closed account or trash resource.

The hardest part of playing this deck is knowing when to start the APP train. Scoring the first APP is probably the hardest thing, since you either need to put it down in a remote, or rez a SanSan which is costly. Make sure you stabilized your centrals first. If you score it too early and you're not stabilized, you will run out of gas before the game is over. If you try to score too late, the runner might be already set up and you won't be able to get it started. The choking aspect of the deck is basically there to buy you time and a scoring window for that first APP or ensure your SanSan survives more than 1 turn rezzed.

All the ices are taxing but not instoppable, they're designed to make the runner run while wasting money, so that they're softer targets for MSR.

Agenda screw can be a big issue for NBN, but can be mitigated by the presence of 3 JHow and 1 Corporate shuffle. Econ cards + ices are what you need early game.

You will almost never score the Datapool and should bury it back in the deck whenever you can. It's there to free up deck space.

This version of the deck won the Store Championship at Teddy 'N Me.