Anything You Can Do. . .

trogdor 42

Still working some things out here, but I think the idea is solid. Lets walk through some pieces:

Agendas:

All two-pointers. I love to slow-advance these until I can get a Mandatory Upgrades scored. Then, my options are opened up. Each player needs 4 agendas to win. Don't panic if they have 2 or even 3 early on. While they are spending resources trying to score, you are advancing your board state to a nearly unstoppable place.

Assets:

Adonis, Eve and PAD for econ, Alternatively, if the runner is intent on trashing them (and they should if they hope to win), they high trash costs at least make them poorer too.

Executive Boot Camp helps against Blacklist & Reina Headlock decks or to bring ice online a bit cheaper. Or to get that Jackson Howard.

The traps of Aggressive Secretary and Shattered Remains are the optional slots. Not sure if I should add another Adonis, Eve, or operation econ instead.

Upgrades:

Crisium Grid usually goes on R&D, but depends on the matchup.

Breaker Bay Grid is the best thing since sliced bread. Stack those other upgrades and rez for free. It slices, it dices, also makes julenne fries. Will not break!

Caprice Nisei - 'nuff said.

Half of the agendas in the deck are 3/2, so SanSan City Grid works beautifully with them. Helps with NAPD Contract too. And if you've already scored a slow-advanced Mandatory Upgrades? gg :-)

Operations:

Here is where the deck is weak - burst econ. Hedge Fund is all you have, so a normal turn may be to install, credit, credit.

ICE:

Heimdall 2.0 usually goes on the scoring remote. Great if you can install Turing just before it. Quicksand on a central. Best if you can get it out early. Turing for taxing clicks. Viper for taxing credits and maybe a click (surprised how many people let that first sub fire). Crick for archives vs security testing, Immolation Script and other situations.
Hudson 1.0 on R&D and either HQ or the scoring remote. IQ where needed. Architect everywhere! Lab Dog - PPvP where? Net-Ready what? Sure, the runner gets to choose, but they made the choice as to what hardware they would put in their decks for a reason. any chance to disrupt that is good.

Comments? Criticisms? Snide remarks? Leave them below. I do welcome any feedback and would love to hear suggestions.

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