The Chamber of Secrets.

BahnCalamari 890

Yes, a Nisei snake deck.

Here is the breakdown:

House of Knives combos with Mamba to make sure that the runner keeps a full hand when running.

Labyrinthine Servers. Use these tokens with a bullfrog to force access on a Project Junebug or Psychic Field.

Philotic Entanglement probably won't kill the runner but a solid taxing agenda in this deck that will force the runner to draw back up before running.

The Future Perfect will be somewhat safe in your HQ and R&D but you likely are going to have try try to score at least one 5/3 agenda, more likely two.


Mental Health Clinic, Sundew, Celebrity Gift and Hedge Fund for economy.


Cerebral Cast is kind of a wild card and can potentially be replaced. If the runner has no resources they will probably just take the tag if they have seen enough of your influence to know you are not running Scorched Earth.


Snowflake is a great value tax on the runner if they try to break it.

Bullfrog on the inside of a server is a big headache for the runner if they are trying to figure out the math of getting into a server.

Viper, Caduceus, Uroboros are all great taxing EtR ice.

Mamba is the stuff nightmares are made of.


Remarkable, isn't it, how quickly the venom of the Basilisk penetrates the body?

9 comments
3 Nov 2014 PaxCecilia

With Celebrity Gift in a deck, I always want to include either Fetal's, or Snare!'s. I'm nervous to give away my entire hand if I can't also disuade them from running it. Still, this looks like a cool deck list. Jinteki doesn't normally Trace a lot, so I'd be interested to see how this plays out.

3 Nov 2014 BahnCalamari

@PaxCecilia, Yeah it is more of a backup plan for econ. The main strategy is the psi games and the assets but if you draw a handful of the expensive snakes and no assets, Gift can get you where you need to go.

3 Nov 2014 Stygian

Cool theme. 3 psychic fields basically create the scoring windows for scoring the 5/3s?

3 Nov 2014 BahnCalamari

@Stygian, Exactly, With support from Mamba and the House.

Caprice helps a lot too.

4 Nov 2014 Kroen

Atman at 4 breaks half your ICE.

4 Nov 2014 BahnCalamari

@Kroen and thus rendering their datasuckers useless! My secret plan all along. Muah-ha-ha!

5 Nov 2014 gawbo005

if anything use will o the wisp to send the str 4 atman straight to the bottom.

5 Nov 2014 Two_EG

@BahnCalamari OMG about 6.66 percent of their deck becomes useless! How wicked deck...

20 Nov 2014 FourLeaf

I want to see a scorched so badly in this list it's unreal. You have tag mechanics. I think you should try and force them to respect it. If they realize you have no punish on the tags, they will never remove them.