Breaking Bread

Agendas for everybody: share them around guys! I might just keep these big ones for myself though... yoink

SYNC taggy, agenda-swiping style deck.

You only need one remote. Data Ravens on R&D, HQ and a remote are perfect. Pop-up Window is pretty good for scooting you along on just enough credits to score/fire your Snare!s. Quantum Predictive Model behind a Data Raven is obviously standard SYNC nonsense, you'll need to double-stack for Security Nexus or other bypass tech.

Score one-pointers as fast as you can, you can easily have three banked by turn five or so with a decent draw. Don't be afraid to give up points early by simply bluffing out naked, especially TGTBT before the Runner has got any credits going. By depending on some EOI later, you only need to score four or five agendas (you can win with only three scored in the best case), and the Runner might even do one or two uncertainty kittens for you towards that total!

Hard-Hitting News is of course evil if it goes off, but this isn't a rich deck, so some games you just pitch it if the Runner is moneying up. The single 24/7 News Cycle is crucial for fall-back tagging for Exchange of Information. So if you haven't scored a Breaking News and you get the chance, always do it. Even if it takes you to no creds and a bad board state. That goes for any agenda really, but especially Breaking News.

You need a remote, but nothing will keep out the Runner. You're just tagging and taxing them while they try to prevent you pinging them to defeat with single points. SanSan City Grid is good for your remote to get those 3/1s (rather than 2/1s) scored, but it's expensive and you don't have lots of money. Don't use it if you don't need to. Snare! is its perfect bedfellow (installed in either order over different turns as you draw them), just keep shoving a mix of chaff agendas, Quantum Predictive Models, SanSan City Grids and Snare!s into your remote and watch them keep running through Data Raven each turn (or just keep scoring points, either works!).

15 Minutes is a perfect card for bluffing out in your scoring remote (or even naked), for little benefit to the Runner if they steal it. Remember it's pretty good to score yourself though and not just troll the Runner with since it's the perfect Exchange of Information candidate! The single Psychographics is an alternate out-shot once the Runner has inevitably thrown their hands up and just gone tag-me after a while. Otherwise when you are near the finishing line in points, you can brazenly install-advance-advance Global Food Initiative with combo cards (24/7 News Cycle, Exchange of Information) in hand, knowing that you'll have it in your score area one way or another next turn.

ICE: Why Vanilla over Wraparound? It's there to gear check a fracter. They both do that, but Vanilla is cheaper, and you're poor! Why Vanilla over Resistor? Good question. Resistor is better once they go tag-me, but you shouldn't be concerned in that situation. It's getting to the tag-me situation that's the hard bit, and Vanilla hard-gear checks the fracter, whereas Resistor just suggests they might like one!

I recently changed the deck, removing the third Global Food Initiative, a Wraparound (for AI) and a Shadow (Credits and tags, and I can advance out of Mimic range in a pinch or advance once against GS Shrike M2 or Mongoose? Yes please.). This was to facilitate the inclusion of Voter Intimidation also meaning swapping in Private Security Force and a third TGTBT. Voter Intimidation is great, smacking down some cards you really don't want to see like New Angeles City Hall, Film Critic, The Turning Wheel, but can do collateral damage against all sorts of resources too. The other changes needed to include it I think have weakened the deck somewhat though, and I liked the old ICE level better.

Oh, and try and remember to keep credits for Snare! on hand if it doesn't stop you scoring an agenda! It won't kill many people but it will bin a lot of useful tools that Shapers have been saving, or that Criminals can't recur, slow the Runner down considerably and an unexpected click four tag (or click three when they have less than three credits) can open many windows for you.