HB Test v1 [Core x1]

Hi there :) I am not sure about Chum. I love Chum but it could be too fiddley as you don't have much ice. Keep in mind you have very little ice and a lot of operations, so you don't want a hand full of operations that you can't do anything with. Consider removing shipment from mirromorph and shipment from kaguya for more ice :)

Agree with @Treebourne, on Shipment from Kaguya especially. With only 11 ICE, you're going to get a lot of opening hands with no ICE or only a Heimdall (which is really expensive early game). Kayuga is designed so you can advance an agenda/trap and a piece of ICE at the same time, and you don't have any advanceable ICE here, so it won't do you a lot of good.

Many people will actually add cards to their deck to make it harder for the runner to hit agendas. You could go up to 49 cards before having to add another 2 agenda pts to your deck.

Try adding a Tollbooth that gets put on your scoring server with your Red Herrings, adding a few more Wall of Static or Enigma, and including another Melange Mining Corp. or a pair of PAD Campaigns.

I'd also ditch the Closed Accounts. They only work if the runner is tagged, and the only thing you can tag with is Ichi, making the odds of that happening exceedingly slim. I concur; throw in some PAD Campaigns and some cheaper ice.

I agree with everyone here, although @maxheel, he does have Closed Accounts, so that's other tagging means, but your point on swapping it is still valid. Let's fall back to fundamentals here, the concept of Core HB is to gain money while installing. Having a hand full of operations doesn't help you, or your ID ability. I can understand why you want to keep Ghost Branch, because you want Private Security Force to do something, but I wouldn't bother.

Considerations for cards to drop:
-Shipment from Kaguya
-Shipment from MirrorMorph
-Closed Accounts
-Ghost Branch
-Aggressive Negotiations
-Chum

Swap all these for mostly ICE, (And Chum into Better ICE), preferably those that end the run.

@Mechanoise Ah, I think you meant Ghost Branch, and yes, I forgot about that. Still, gonna be tough to close those accounts.

Thanks for the input! Everyone seems to hate Shipment from Kaguya, but I thought with my multiple ambush assets I could advance two of them (or one of them and an agenda) and keep the Runner on their toes. Still a bad idea?

I could see that working, particularly if you had two servers, 1-2 ICE each; 1st install ambush in once server, 2nd install agenda in the other server, 3rd Kayuga. The runner may only have enough resources to run one server, so which do they choose? Seems like it would be hard to pull off, though, but you can try it!

You may ultimately find that your deck has a lot of little effects that are each good, but doesn't add up to anything great. Many of the suggestions here are ways to "focus" your deck on one or two strategies. Try out the deck and see how it goes! If you're finding you often see cards that you don't want, and aren't drawing the cards you are looking for, you may be spread too thin.