Noise, Noise, Noise.

HepatitvsJ 244

Just a deck I built for mass install. The idea is to just turbo out as many viruses as possible in one shot and hit archives. JackHo may save agendas but the disruption to their deck will slow them down a lot. Now they haveto choose where their dwindling ICE is going. Heavily protect archives? Medium/Nerve agent them. Protect HQ/R&D/remote? Mill them and hit archives. Scheharazade keeps your econ solid and you don't care if it gets trashed since you're not putting Femme on it. If you're actually using medium/nerve agent for more than a mill, don't put them on it either. Draw, mass install, femme into archives, sell to Aesops, deja vulnerable, etc, etc. When the criminal virus that gives you 3c from hosted counters comes out I'll be putting it in. I also plan to try and fit Duggars and Joshua B and Rachel Beckman. Doubt I'll be able to but the idea of a six click turn of drawing with Duggars, mass installing, and running archives, appeals to me.
I haven't playtested this yet but I've been using multiple Femme in my shaper deck and they've been doing well. I think they'll do the same here since you're disrupting the opponents deck much they're forced to choose where to protect. Jinteki low ICE decks seem especially vulnerable to this. Femme bypasses Komainu for free, allows you to ignore inuzama/chum, breaks guard, bypasses Mother Goddess/Chimera, etc. Any constructive criticism is welcome. Thanks.

11 comments
11 Jun 2014 PeekaySK

Man, you're hilariously short on econ. If you want this to work, at the very least find place for two Cyberfeeders (and I'd personally squeeze in three Armitages as well, in order to get the Aesop ball rolling).

11 Jun 2014 CeeTee2001

Why not 3 Cyberfeeders?

11 Jun 2014 PeekaySK

Because from a lot of personal experience, 3 is too much. You're welcome to try for yourself, though :p

11 Jun 2014 CeeTee2001

With 3 cyberfeeders the chance of playing with at least 2 of them lets the money machine working a lot better. Then you start earning money when installing viruses on Scheherazade.

11 Jun 2014 PeekaySK

Do the math on return of investment for cyberfeeders, you'll find that you seldom want to play out more than one. There are legitimate reasons for it, but they mostly don't apply to this particular deck.

Or to put it differently - every time you'll draw a feeder when you're about to do a Mass Install, you'll be wishing it were a different card instead.

11 Jun 2014 x3r0h0ur

Kind of depends on how long the game is, it's tough to say that the game will always end before more cyberfeeders benefit you enough, and it's also super tough to say "oh I don't need more recurring credits for runs" The biggest downfall CF has is the loss of tempo on install, but the recurring credit on ice breaking actually helps to maintain tempo. Mathing it the click-cred analysis way isn't totally effective, as it never is in ANR.

11 Jun 2014 CeeTee2001

They are also used to pay for viruses wich works perfectly with noise. It makes the Virus train much cheaper in the long run.

11 Jun 2014 CeeTee2001

Example, With 2 cyberfeeders you acually get one credit if you install An Imp on Scheherazade. By then, the Viruses pays for themselfs. Sure, you lose 2 clicks and 4 credits installing them but if you play more than like 4-6 viruses รก 2 credits a piece you should make up for the "lost" clicks in no time. :) And how nice is it to mass install two Gorman Drips, and one datasucker on Scheherazade for a total cost of 1 credit on one click! Awesome! :D

11 Jun 2014 CeeTee2001

If you have all three CF installed of course. :D

11 Jun 2014 CeeTee2001

Whoops, my previous calculation was wrong. You actually GET 2 credits for that combo. Result: You play 4 cards and get 2 extra credits and the corp have to trash 3 cards from R&D... in ONE click! Now thats a nice combo!

11 Jun 2014 HepatitvsJ

Thanks for the comments all. I've been debating armitage and CF. I tend to go 3 CF but I'm convinced that 2 is all that's needed. So I'm thinking -2 Kati, -1 SoT for +3 armitage CB. Then I just need to find space for 2 CF. I'm thinking -2 hemorrhage for the CF.