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This combo is built around getting four cards out - Progenitor, Harbinger, and two copies of Virus Breeding Ground. On your turn, you use the VBGs to move virus counters to Harbinger, then you harbinge them. Also, you say "Harbinge" out loud, because it bothers people who don't like when you make up words.

Almost every card in this deck is here to get the combo out as soon as possible, particularly MaxX herself. Once you get it all, your deck is gonna go bye-bye, so it might be a good idea to get a sacrificial clone out if you suspect a Breaking News/Posted Bounty and Scorch combo. You're not running much, so SEA Source and Midseason Replacements are not your worry at all. Ideally, you'll run exactly once - a very early run on archives to get Hades Shard out.

A secondary combo possibility is to get an incubator and hemorrhage installed next to your combo, so you can spend a turn and six incubator tokens to make the corp discard three cards, which is horrifying from the corp's perspective. Then, hopefully, you still have a few on Hemorrhage so they feel the need to purge. The only other reason for Incubator is to make sure you have at least one on Harbinger, as a sort of backup to Grimoire. Grimoire is easier, if you get it, but if incubator comes first, just incubate.

Use the Déjà Vus on VBG only, unless you already have two of them out. Else, you may end up with all of them in the trash and no possibility of getting them back.

The best first turn would be Sure Gamble, VBG, VBG, and run to install Hades Shard. The next turn, Sure Gamble again, install progenitor, install grimoire, and draw. The third turn, you install Harbinger and get going. So, the fastest you can really get going is by turn 3, and you've got a few ways to get there by turn 3. Turn 4 should probably be average, and turn 5 at the latest.

I have not played this, but I feel like it has potential. Anyone want to try it? What changes do you think? More economy? I think that might be a weakness, but it doesn't really need

And yes, this is an obvious tie to the other deck that I posted that plays exactly the same and has a more polite name, only out of Criminal and with an entirely different set of cards. It dies to Power Shutdown, just like the other deck. It isn't as versatile (no inside job or crypsis), but it's faster.

4 comments
22 Jan 2015 Heinrich

I feel like Fester is unnecessary in this deck. The corp has no reason to purge your main combo ever, so the only thing to possibly purge is Incubator and Hemorrhage. I think purging a single incubator is a big enough hit on its own. They could probably be replaced with a little more set-up money, perhaps Day Job.

22 Jan 2015 Wolf88

Definitely replace the festers with money but i don't think that day job is the way to go, find something that takes less clicks. Daily casts maybe

22 Jan 2015 Jashay

45 cards is inefficient for MaxX: You'll have 40 after your initial draw, and your ability loses you three cards a turn. That gives you 13 turns, and a 'spare' card, which you lose next turn. 47 or 50 work better to give you the extra turns. Except you've also got Earthrise Hotel and Steelskin, so you'll run out of cards before that.

No breakers at all. You can be entirely shut down by three pieces of ICE. If you don't get your Hades Shard down before they ICE archives, you lose. If they have a scoring remote with a single bit of ICE, they'll play any agendas they draw before you can trash them. (I've run into similar problems playing a 'headshot' deck.)

Progenitor is pretty much a wasted slot; it only helps the Incubators, and even then only minorly. Harbinger is only even useable if you keep wasting clicks with Breeding Ground or trashing your limited, and vital, Incubators.

I'm not trying to rag on the idea of the deck, which I think is interesting, but it's not going to work without a severe retool. MaxX doesn't have the tools to win without running. Noise is the only one I've seen pull that off, ever, and even then he was lucky.

As a suggestion, with all your virus-generating things, Darwin with e3 might be workable as a stop-gap measure.

22 Jan 2015 Wolf88

Progenitor is important because without it you can't ever recharge harbinger after a purge. But i generally agree with the spirit of your post.