[Startup] Weapon Smuggler

Marbles 182

Sentries giving your shaper deck trouble? Installing Orca too expensive and unwieldy? Why not try shooting them in the face - with poison dipped bullet, no less?

Poison Vial helps your Revolvers go a lot further, as well as being a Rigging Up and Environmental Testing target. You can also charge either of them during your R&D runs - or even both, if you install a Flux Capacitor.

This deck still runs Spark because realistically we need some tutoring to try and get our programs out quickly during matchups where they just don't wanna show. The big hole in the boat right now is Flux Capacitor - not because it's a bad card, in fact it's great with almost everything this deck is trying to do - but it's a huge non-bo with Spark. Likewise, Conduit is not a program you want to see early, so some players may consider trimming all of the above for Diesel/Earthrise.

Game plan: Mulligan aggressively for Revolver and/or draw. You want it on the table early to enable R&D runs every turn, regardless of unrezzed ice in the outermost position. That said, Revolver is probably not your best Charge target - try to get a Dr. Nuka or Environmental testing on the table early. Obviously, we're drawing for breakers and Boat, the former of which can be brought online with Into The Depths or Spark Of Inspiration. Once you have breakers + K2CP, Boat often feels like overkill, but you'll want it for the extra memory.

In matchups where R&D gets iced too heavily, forget Conduit and install Flux Capacitors to help charge your Wake Implant.

2 comments
13 Jan 2023 Satoshi

It seems like you have only one copy of each breaker, and no recursion, so what happens vs. the Ob Stavka + Hafrun tricks? netrunnerdb.com

I guess you need to have boat and revolver, or you can lose the game if you hit that?

13 Jan 2023 Marbles

Test run is recursion. It's bad recursion, but it's recursion.