Grailed to the Wall

A Grail-NEH set up. Mostly standard NBN stuff with the Grail Suite for one important reason...taxes. In the games I've played on OCTGN with this, even Crims with Sec-Testing up don't have enough cash to constantly run through a scoring server AND pressure centrals. With enough assets, I can force bad timed runs, then run out agendas in the resulting scoring window left by a poor runner the next turn.

Since Merlin is the most expensive ICE (that I often don't ever install and just use as threat+routines out of HQ) and the only time I need more than 8 cash is a SanSan rez play, the drip economy works great.

It has trouble with Whizzard like all asset based decks will.

I switched from 2x Chum and 2x Swordsman to the 2x Inazuma, because even with a Gordian Blade, Inazuma is 5 to break (4 if you don't care about jacking out) before hitting a Grail. Yes, a runner CAN get through that, but to hit a 3 sub Grail next? A two-ICED server can end up easily costing a runner 8-9 credits to break through safely. Which is the point, that's not something most runner decks can afford long term.

Of course, DBS is the MVP of the deck. Saved my butt a few times when I had nothing in hand but 3X Marked Accounts and a PAD. A few runners still haven't figured out they need to trash it right away. Then again, they also need to trash PADs, Marked Accounts, and SanSans as well....and once again no runner has that kind of constant economy right? (Except Whizzard...)