Ban damage in Jinteki!

Yes! It is possible to play the Jinteki faction and NEVER do any damage.

Game plan : Do two towers, one on R&D and one on the remote, then jam everything in there to score or tax the runner.

Mulligan plan : No Send a Message and at least one ice.

This started after a conversation with my local meta at EddytheYeti's place. Eddy was saying that playing Jinteki would feel better if no damage was done. But the Jinteki faction does a lot of damage with a LOT of its card pool.

To showcase this, there are only three ices in the card pool that do no damage : Hafrún, Tatu-Bola and Mycoweb.

There were multiple iterations, using Sericulture Expansion, F2P, Stavka, Hammer, Anoetic Void and Mycoweb.

Then, after a game, DeeR exchanged ideas with me and suggested M.I.C. and Flower Sermon. Genius idea! MIC gives extra protection and every subs matter (thus expensive). While Flower Sermon gives tempo to rush more, while adding protection to HQ and R&D. Big thanks to DeeR for those suggestions.

The deck taxes the runner with a deep remote, than can then be forced to come back because of Adrian Seis. Also, Idiosyncresis is economy and a tax for the runner. Finally, after all this, we can play NAPD Cordon to great effect with our ID. Install, advance, play NAPD Cordon, let our ID fire and the runner must now pay 8 on top of anything else to make the run.

Here, Adrian Seis was deemed better than Anoetic Void because it can move around to protect R&D while waiting for an agenda, and does not tax the cards in hand, which we will have only a few anyway.

Lamplighter is a sentry gear check, nothing more.

If you try this with damaging ices, it might be slightly better, with ices that gives worst facecheck, such as Saisentan, Diviner and other.

This is a classic glacier deck that rush agendas behind ices. This is for you EddytheYeti and for anyone who want to try the Jinteki faction in a less lethal way.

Cheers!