Chess is Hard v0.4

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Chess is Hard v0.3
Inspiration for
Chess is Hard v0.5
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paintner 6

Still work in Progress

So I was itching to make a 'Chess Deck'.

The aim of this deck is to make it costly for the Corp to rezz ICE. Any ICE rezzed will get lowered strength so cheap breakers may pass.

Make it Expensive: - Costly to rezz ICE

  • Reina
  • Rook
  • Xanadu
  • Emergency Shutdown (to some degree)

Make it Weak: - Easier to bypass ICE

  • Datasucker
  • Bishop
  • Ice Carver

Make it Break: - Get past the ICE

  • Knight
  • Crypsis
  • Yog.0 or ZU.13 Key Master
  • Mimic or Ninja
  • Corroder
  • Emergency Shutdown (to some degree)

Make it Bleed: - Deny them cards they want/need

  • Medium
  • Imp
  • HQ Interface
  • Sneakdoor Beta

Idea is to prevent Corp from rezzing ice while stacking up Mimic so you can access more and more cards, trashing the good ones with Imp. Any good ice they rezz you place Knight on to break or Bishop to weaken for your icebreakers to pass until Datasucker can do it for you.

Hurt their economy with Emergency Shutdown in strategic places.

Access HQ through Archives with Sneakdoor Beta, making their HQ ICE worthless while you hurt the R&D ICE with Caïssa.

2 comments
30 Dec 2013 omegakadaj

I don't like the sneak door, it's fine with the theory of the deck but it sucks 2 MU, considering 2 for this, 1 for djinn that will host viruses you're left with 1 MU for a single icebreaker, very occasional. I'd remove sneakdoor and Key Master (no way to pump your link) to add an account siphon and one crescentus, even though you'll have only a single decoder with DS you should pass anywhere.

I'dd also add 2 SOT to get back those events, and maybe a couple clone chip dropping crescents and one HQ interface, since you don't play pawn

still personal toughest of someone who didn't put his hands on male tempura yet so only theory here

31 Dec 2013 apo

@omegakadaj

  • Totally disagree on MU issues with sneakdoor. Caissa stuff goes to deep red and imp is not permanent. You simply host sneakdoor and datasucker on djinn and dump sneakdoor for medium when they sealed off archives. Remember it is only one sneakdoor in the deck, so if it is drawn too late... Well you just dont play it.
  • I don't see clone chips worth their influence in this particular deck, 2 deja vu is enough.
  • SOTs in this deck are useless. What you're gonna SOT? Sure Gamble? They would make sense with siphons, but 1 siphon and 3 SOTs would also be terrible - if you draw your SOTs before the lone siphon you're screwed.

@painter

  • Why HQ interface? Anarch's have built in HQ pressure with nerve agent!
  • Again too light on econ, you're back to square 1 here (Chess is Hard v0.1).
  • I hate daily casts in a deck that isn't rich. It will just slow you down.
  • Demo run is amazing in a right deck like Swiss Army Whizzard where you can use it with both medium and nerve agent, and surge those viruses before. Here it's a wasted slot.
  • I see what you're trying to do with icebreakers, but come on, youre playing both bishops and datasuckers. 2xyog and 2xmimic is better in this build than going broad.
  • Chess is Hard v0.3 > Chess is Hard v0.4 :P