The NEXT Foundry & The Holy Grails

Daigelmir 13

My take on The Foundry ID. This deck deserves more love. My only concern is the economy and getting the assets (Adonis and Eve) asap. Any suggestions are welcomed.

5 comments
8 Jul 2015 thesm17

Does Excalibur fit in the deck for any reason other than being Grail? With how taxing your servers are, I don't think many runners are going to be running twice a turn. What about replacing it with an Architect to get some free installs?

8 Jul 2015 thesm17

Another idea: why not put more 3-point agendas in the deck? It seems to me like IT Department should be able to stop the runners enough to score out some bigger agendas. Maybe -1 pet project -1 vitruvius +1 Hades Fragment (to recur your parasited ice). And the idea of Priority Requisition is nice, but it's really only useful on NEXT Gold; all the other ice are too cheap to bother. What about swapping it out for Utopia Fragment to increase runner hassle?

8 Jul 2015 Daigelmir

@thesm17 cheers mate. I think your suggestions are viable and sound. I'm also thinking of squeezing an extra copy of Jackson Howard but can't provide the influence to do so. Another idea is whether I should include Breaker Bay Grid in this build or not, since it allows me to activate Adonis Campaign and Eve Campaign for free. What do you think?

8 Jul 2015 Daigelmir

@thesm17 another thing about Excalibur is that it is not you ordinary piece of ice, since it is Mythic and cannot be broken unless with an A.I icebreaker or an icebreaker that doesn't specify a type to break.

8 Jul 2015 FarCryFromHuman

If you want influence, you probably don't need to be spending 4 on Caprice Nisei. She's good, but you have Ash 2X3ZB9CY in-faction and his ability typically gets him trashed (so multiple copies aren't likely to be rezzed at once).

I'm not sure you'll have the to spend on IT Department with all the installing you will have to do. Corporate Troubleshooter might be a better idea.

Breaker Bay Grid is really nice with the campaigns. There's also Test Ground for resetting your campaigns, which I have seen literally no one run yet.