Iterative Updates: Click City 1.1

I miss MCA Austerity Policy. The old version of this deck used it to drag the runner through a deep server of Surveyors and Seidr Adaptive Barriers that had been mass installed with Vaporframe Fabricator and our strong economy. Now we lack those pieces, but Mirrormorph is too fun not to try and rejig into working.

1) Economy

MirrorMorph: Endless Iteration offers a credit or click (often draw) each turn that you can jump through the hoops. This isn't attainable every turn but provides a relatively accessible source of credits and cards. You can pair it with burst operations that double as installs, and Nanoetching Matrix's unique economy action to happily build a board and your bank. Offworld Office helps us keep our forward economic tempo.

Charlotte is quite strong here as she provides an advance-click option, and then gives cards and cash in return. She's strong enough that she may compel a runner to run the remote to trash her, which is excellent for us: either we're rich or the runner is poor. Not MCA, but still good.

Petty Cash is here instead of Hedge Fund for the click shenanigans it can enable (more below). We get paid if we trigger Mirrormorph and that often precludes the use of too many operations as we try to quick install in the early turns. So Hedge Fund hasn't made the list at present.

2) Protection

A suite of cheap ice gear checks the runner early on, and provides some utility later on to protect secondary servers holding charlotte or our money printer. Vaporframe Fabricator helps us stack the remote and also works well with MirrorMorph's click diversity condition.

Brân is expensive to run through, and M.I.C. can double up on key turns. Paired with Manegarm Skunkworks, you can reasonably ensure one or two precious turns of near impenetrability.

3) Scoring

We have a couple options. The first is the honest method: to score from 1 or 0 advancement counters in the server. Charlotte lends a hand here as she works like an NGO Front: if the runner has seen here before, they have to decide if they want to risk a no-profit run.

Vulnerability Audit is in the deck and managing to find a turn to score one of these seems to be one of the biggest win conditions of the deck. I'm considering finding space for Wage Workers to make it a little easier, but am not sure where to cut yet if that's the plan.

We can score everything else from hand with the combination of Bass + RLC: [1] RLC installs Bass and gains a click; [2] Bass is (rezzed and) clicked; [3] we install the agenda. Our ID now triggers giving us a click we can use to advance, AND we have 3 more clicks from Bass and RLC. It costs 8 credits all told and can NA a 2/4 - this is better than biotic labour, but has a few more moving pieces.

Petty Cash can also do the same job as RLC(/en/card/26037) if Bass is already installed in the scoring remote.

A third piece of tech currently being tried is The Holo Man. He acts as a third Bass, letting us score our 4/2's from hand with RLC but he sticks around! He trashes for less though, so may get cut.

Nanomanagement is our fourth, expensive copy of RLC - I may also add a third Bass to have 4 and 4 on the combo pieces. He's a harsh trash at 4 for the runner afterall...

Sideboard/Changes to Consider:

Call me crazy, but I think Petty Cash may just be better Hedge Fund in this deck. Giving it a shot.

I think another Manegarm Skunkworks and a third Bass CH1R180G4 are both warranted if space can be found.

May cut a M.I.C..

Maybe Board:

Click Tricks: Key Performance Indicators, Peer Review

Scoring Aids: Malapert Data Vault, Seamless Launch, Otto Campaign, La Costa Grid, Aggressive Trendsetting

Ice: Descent, Bumi 1.0 if Trojans go nuts, Mestnichestvo as another synergetic and taxing ice.

Econ: Regolith Mining License, Working Prototype, Janaína “JK” Dumont Kindelán

Other: Ontological Dependence plus more Core Damage ice may be an alt way to fast score and punish the runner. Perhaps Bumi 1.0 and Hákarl 1.0? Vulnerability Audit may not be the best ice given our propensity to otherwise score from hand. We could cut it for a few smaller agendas and see...