Login Fees May Apply - 3rd GNK @ Troll2Jeux, Paris

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This deck went 4 - 0 at a small GNK tourny @ Troll2Jeux, Paris.

Ok so people were playing fairly experimental decks that day, take the result with a grain of salt, but it still seems fairly solid to me so could probably be built into something even stronger.

Win strategy is to just score out with never advance most of the time, and try to end it with a Food once a scoring server has been setup.

Choice of currents for the ID are Enhanced Login Protocol & Paywall Implementation. Early game, the ELP is fairly taxing for aggressive runners. It's especially good against Security Testing, anyone playing that just has a disappointed look on their face when they realise the ELP is going to be there pretty much the entire game. If the runner starts getting through in mid-late game, you can switch to Paywall Implementation for some nice economy (also good because it has 0 cost, so you can always keep a current in play even when broke).

It's pretty important to have a current always active, because News Hound does a lot of work when it has that ETR sub. It's a definite MVP with this ID, taxing early game because of tag punishment fear, most runners paid the trace to avoid the tag.
Once you get the current out, it pretty much stops them dead unless they have an efficient sentry solution.

Rest of the ICE suite is pretty standard with a tendency for tagging (Data Raven, Gutenberg), hoping one will stick to maybe land a Closed Accounts or an All-Seeing I (which took out a DLR setup on the day). At the very least, you want them to take a tag during the run so that Keegan Lane can take care of whatever is the biggest threat at a given moment (or the runner scores the Quantum Predictive Model for you). Other ICE tries to tax clicks, to pair up nicely with ELP, or to bring some AI breaker hate (Eli, Enigma, Turing & Swordsman).

Economy is Hedge Fund, Sweeps Week, PAD Campaign & Marked Accounts. I've mixed feelings about MA, but it tends not to get trashed too often so there's that.

Other choices: only 1 SanSan and 2 Astros because I only have 1 core set :-p Psychographics to help finish if the runner goes tag me through the DRs and Gutenberg. Cyberdex for datasucker and medium etc.

Stuff I'd change: maybe add a Lag Time instead of Psychographics, to up the current count and help handle a possible Atman at 4 catastrophe. Also maybe cut Gutenberg and add a Data Raven.

Hope to hear some ideas for improvements, thanks for reading.

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