Pinochet

This is a fun deck.

This is a fun redcoat deck.

This is a fun redcoat deck on Jinteki...

Wait what?

Okay, so the moment Data and Destiny came out and I had a good look at the cards I immediately thought "GFI with Harmony is gonna be broken". And really, this is the main theme of this pile of cards. With Harmony's ID ability you need only two agendas to win. The runner in almost every case is going to need three.

Playing Pinochet is not rocket science. Sit patiently, waiting for your credit pool to steadily increase, build some ICE towers on R&D and the first remote, and when an agenda comes up, use two turns to score it.

So let's break this down, shall we.

Agendas:

Global Food Initiative - This card is broken and almost certainly is going to end up on MWL. It's an incredibly solid 5/3 and the reason why you shouldn't mind if it's scored by the runner. Remember that there only are six agendas in this deck, very often runner is going to sit on 5 points, running R&D all the time to find the last one he needs. And chances that he's gonna mill through your entire R&D with a Medium or R&D Interfaces is very very slim.

The Future Perfect - Basically a built-in Caprice Nisei should the runner accidentally encounter it. If you're playing against something with a tendency of sitting on low credit pool, they aren't ever going to steal it. And even if they have 7-10 credits at the beginning of the run, punching through the ice is going to take a bit of those credits - but I'm getting ahead of myself here.

Fast Track - Yes, this is an agenda. Moreover, this is an unstealable agenda. The only real disadvantage to Fast Tracking (which also makes it so that fast tracking should be done only if absolutely necessary) is that you can't score your agendas in two turns.

Economy:

Standard burst cards: Hedge Fund, Medical Research Fundraiser and Celebrity Gift - this deck relies quite a bit on burst because if the runner realises that you don't have any easily available agendas, he's going to try to run against your less protected servers. And wasting credits and ice on protecting PAD Campaigns, Launch Campaigns or Mental Health Clinics is rarely viable...

Mental Health Clinic - ...That said though, the MHC is still a pretty useful asset. If you don't have any agendas in your opening hand it might be useful to install it in the first remote or later just keep it in the open field - it takes 3 credits to trash so even if you lose it, the runner loses probably a lot more (unless he's Whizzard). And it doesn't cost anything to rez it, as opposed to PAD Campaign.

His Excellency Lord Howard - Do I need to explain this? To be real, Howard is gonna mostly sit in the first remote and get exiled when he's no longer useful. Similarly if he's sitting naked in a remote, you can just exile him when the runner runs at the server.

Pop-up Window - The single Pop-up, if it comes up, tends to always go on HQ as the only thing protecting the HQ (unless the Runner gets some benefits from running on HQ, like they're playing Gabriel Santiago).

Protection:

Caprice Nisei - I mean really, Caprice is very often your last line of defence. The first one always goes on the first remote and if the runner gets through all the ice, the psi game will often kick him out without much of a problem.

Yagura - This is a very useful card to install as the last ice protecting R&D. If the runner doesn't have anything to mill through R&D more easily (Maker's Eye, R&D Interface, &c.) then it is a better "End the run".

Snare! - We are playing Jinteki here, lads.

A lot of other ice - The principal is the same: put big towers of ice on the first remote and R&D.

Cards that didn't make it:

SanSan City Grid - I kept it until it got put on MWL. After that it became unnecessary dead weight that I preferred to swap out with Pop-ups and Elis. Since you just need to score two agendas, SanSan is useless for the most part.

Clearances - I thought about those, but in reality Lord Howard combined with Hedge Funds and Medical Research Fundraisers are often just better than those.

I will most likely update this as I get more ideas what to write.