Run early, run often (Startup)

zoey 20

The mindset you should have playing this deck is that the things you don't install are worth more than the things you do. There's no need to build a big rig if you can get into servers and trash stuff. Generally, however, you do want to install imps and botuluses, and sometimes leeches. Botulus especially since it lets you get through one ice servers and put pressure on the corp, which is the thing you want to do the most.

Oh, and don't be afraid to face check unrezzed ice. If the corp has to rez big expensive ice it is very often worth it for you just to hurt their tempo. Sometimes this will hurt, but I'll get to that. Doing this you'll find that even if the corp has money to rez ice they might just let you in anyway because they need the money for other things, like playing hedge funds or advancing agendas. And it gives you a clue as to what the ice might be if they won't rez it even if they're at 5 credits.

How you put pressure on depends on the matchup. If you're against anything that places down assets you very likely want to trash those assets as much as you can. If you're against HB you want to run first click into unrezzed ice to make sure that if it's a really bad one you can still get through. Against weyland you want to botulus pressure as much as possible while getting money to install your rig, because some of those ice you kinda don't want to run into without being able to break them. And always watch out for punitive, if you suspect they run it stay as rich as you can.

As for the deck itself, it's not a perfect deck. You can easily make improvements to it, like wildcat strike should definitely be another earthrise hotel. Overclock can probably be cut for other, slightly nicer cards. I did add Bukhgalter on purpose, however, because it's scary to have a deck without it. But you can make a fine deck without it.

1 comments
17 Apr 2021 Baa Ram Wu

You could also consider 1 Bukhgalter, 1 SMC and an extra Simulchip (in case of rig shooter - could drop the Ret Run then too) as spending 4 inf on an extra copy of a breaker seems steep!