Courier 6/7-pt Combo v1.0 - Hollywood/Govt Takeover FA

This is the first version of a Weyland power shutdown combo using Dedication Ceremony and Red Planet Couriers in place of Shipment from SanSan.

The first 12 influence of such a deck are set in stone: 3 for Jackson Howard, 3 for Accelerated Diagnostics, 2 for Reclamation Order, and 4 for the first copy of Biotic Labor. These are the cards minimally required to fire 3 ADs starting with Jackson Howard, Power Shutdown and Accelerated Diagnostics in hand. Playing as titan allows us to narrowly shoehorn in a second copy of Biotic Labor, which will come into play as a way to fast advance Project Atlas, to fight through hate cards for the combo, and as a way to enable a secondary power shutdown combo if the Government Takeover is stolen.

If you're unfamiliar with Power Shutdown combos, the deck functions thusly: The runner makes a run, their turn ends. You play Power Shutdown, putting all of R&D in archives. You play Jackson Howard and activate his ability, shuffling in 3 operations, and then you play Accelerated Diagnostics, playing those 3 operations for free. In this deck, the ADs are likely to hit something like:

1st Accelerated Diagnostics: Interns for Jackson Howard, Biotic Labor, Reclamation Order for Accelerated Diagnostics. Jackson stacks the deck again, and...

2nd Accelerated Diagnostics: Two Dedication Ceremony on any faceup card, Interns for Jackson Howard, stack the deck, and fire...

3rd Accelerated Diagnostics: Dedication Ceremony, Interns for Government Takeover, Red Planet Couriers all the counters onto Takeover, Score.

With 6 advancement counters in play, you can replace one Dedication Ceremony in each of the 2nd and 3rd Accelerated Diagnostics piles with Interns for Hostile Takeover and Biotic Labor, allowing you to score all 7 points at once.

If the Government Takeover has been stolen, you can replace the 2nd Accelerated Diagnostics with:

Interns on Hollywood Renovation, Biotic Labor, Interns on Jackson Howard, and then replace the last Accelerated Diagnostics with:

Interns on Global Food Initiative, Biotic Labor, Biotic Labor, Advance 5 times and score.

The more advancements you have in play, the more hate you can play around. With 3 Advancement counters in play, you can replace a Dedication Ceremony with a Cyberdex Trial to kill clot, with 6 in play, you can replace two Dedication Ceremony with Cyberdex Trial to kill a clot + sacrificial construct, and if you have all 3 Accelerated Diagnostics in hand and 6 advancements or Biotic Labor and 9 advancements in play, you can fire 3 Cyberdex Trial, plowing through the mountain of hate that is clot + two sacrificial construct.

Points of interest:

-> Adding a current to turn off Rumor Mill

-> Messing around with ice/operation suite