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SMC has anti-synergy with Personal Workshop .. which is a bummer. Special order is ideal, but hard to splash for. However, SMC does pair decently with the ID. For example, running into a hive or something would let you just get out any program costing 3 or less for 'free' (the cost of the 2 clicks).

Replicator almost worth it here, but you're already at 54 cards.

You need some form of econ. A single opus will probably do. Once they have the ice rezzed, you have to get through like normal, don't forget :)

Overall I like the concept. Though its not always the goal to make every deck uber-competitive, I think its important to think about why you would run this ID vs. some other. My instinct is that this deck wants to be able to run fearlessly much earlier on than other identities. I think this list is well on the way, but might be missing a few opportunities. Faerie comes immediately to mind.

I have been playing a fair amount of Nasir, and can hopefully help. first of all, both compromised employee and social engineering are so-so: Remember, you lose those credits after the corp rezzes the ice, so you have to use it up on your workshop anyways. I am not sold on the Omni-drives: Yes, mem + an extra credit is nice, but your deck is too big and you HAVE to cut down to 45. You are utterly dependent on getting those personal workshops out, and 54 cards is way, way too much.

One card I would highly, highly recommend after my own testing is Professional Contacts. It lets you cycle your deck WHILE getting cards to put on personal workshop. You get to a point with Nasir that the ice is rezzed, their are assets to trash, and you have to click for credits. Then the corp puts down a Quandry in front of their assets, and you're still stuck out. ProCons helps with that. I'm actually trying out Underworld contact myself - Nasir tends to be very, very click starved, so drip economy may be the way to go. I'm not sold on you needing the 3 Helpful AI's for 'em, though. 3 dysons + enough draw should be fine.

Beyond that, I'm sure I could say more, but those are my initial impressions!

P.S. I'll say it again; you HAVE to get your deck size down, to at LEAST 46 or 47. Nasir is inconsistent enough, and is very, very unique in his playstyle. YOu need to add consistency.

I meant creds and cards, not cards and cards for ProCons, but the point still stands ^^

It maybe too early to say but, Nasir main here. I agree that you need to cut down on cards. You have the right Idea running lots of recurring credits and PW. I don't agree with running Datasucker though. If you are playing Datasucker then you want to get it out early so you can insure you get it rolling fast. That goes against Nasir's play style of running and making corp rez ece to pay for your rig. If they rez ETR ice then you dont get your virus tokens. I would try running big breakers. That way when you have all the ice up and rezzed you can break it cheap.

Thanks for the comments.

@cpsubrian I thought of Replicator as well, but didn't think I could fit it in. I agree on the economy issues that you and Aesynil bring up. I'm working on an edit right now that will likely include both Magnum Opus and 2-3 Professional Contacts. I didn't consider Faerie, and I am already looking a tweaking the icebreaker suite so I'll try to fit a copy in (which I can then recur with Clone Chip).

With regards to competitiveness, I'm not sure this identity could really be competitive, but I'm playing around with it, maybe I/we will come up with something interesting.

@Aesynil Thanks for the advice on Social Engineering and Compromised Employee. I'll pull Social Engineering on my next rev. Compromised Employee is mostly there for tag and bag protection. When researching other decks with Nasir a common comment I saw was that it was suseptible to cards like Sea Source since there isn't a lot of cash to beat traces. I tried to counter this with a good amount of link and Compromised Employee, which I thought would also synergize with the identity. I'll probably drop down to two Compromised Employees.

Like I mentioned in my comments to cpsubrian, I will likely get 2-3 Professional Contacts into the deck for the reasons you outline. It was a card that I had included in an earlier rev but had taken out while trying to trim.

The helpful AIs were dual purpose, link + an emergency ice breaker boost if needed, I see your point, but I'm not convinced that they aren't worth trying.

@LegalizeStimHack I see your point about the Datasuckers, in my mind it was a way to reduce breaker strength without needing credits, I'll examine running big breakers instead for fewer cards.

Nasir NEEDS Parasites. More than any other card. That way you can annihilate 0 strength ICE before you encounter it, so Popups and Quandries don't empty your account.

@killionaire I can certainly see the huge benefit of parasite .. especially if already running SMC/clone ... however .. I think the point of this particular build is to never encounter ice with any credits anyway ... if you are about to lose any credits ... you ideally have something queued up to spend it on (personal workshop).

Have you considered emergency shutdown at all?

@pants on headI did consider emergency shutdown, but it's 2 influence to splash vs. 1 for crescentus. I can also recur crescentus with clone ship, which I can't with emergency shutdown.

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