Dig, dig, dig....kill

I've liked the look of Argus Security: Protection Guaranteed since it was spoiled. I actually love the idea of the Dedicated Response Team paired with it, as a lot of folks have done. It sounds like it could work really well, but that's not what I wanted to do here.

I've not done a deck yet with the Power Shutdown + Jackson Howard + Accelerated Diagnostics + Scorch combo, and thought this would be a good way to try it. The ID, plus quite a bit of ice that can cause more tags, should make it easier to do this without SEA Source (though it is there if you need it), and make it more likely that the runner just floats tags.

At the same time, I feel like you have a very real possibility for winning out with points. The ID already slows the runner down, and I think this is a reasonable agenda mix of 3-pointers and 1/2-pointers. Project Atlas is great, as we all know. Utopia Fragment makes it harder for the runner to score advanced agendas. The Cleaners obviously works great with this ID if you can score it. Granted with the ice make-up (and lack of ETR ice) that might be tough, but it's possible. If you fake an advanced Ghost Branch (either landing more tags or showing that you have advanceable traps), the runner will be less sure about running double-advanced cards.

Tons of economy and card draw. I almost thought about running this with Weyland Consortium: Building a Better World, to make even more money given all of the Transaction cards, but I think this ID really slows runners down. They will never run click 4, and rarely on click 3, especially if they are getting multi-access. So they will probably only run clicks 1 and 2, and then money-up or do other stuff. Slowing them down helps get the combos you want. Between the Green Level Clearance and Blue Level Clearance, and Jackson Howard, you should have no problem getting the combo mentioned in the second paragraph above.

Even without the combo, really only Accelerated Diagnostics is not super useful in this deck by itself. Power Shutdown can open scoring windows against a lot of decks, Jackson Howard is always useful. So having those 2 cards is not just gimmicky; they are truly useful on their own. But with so much draw power, getting one of the two Accelerated Diagnostics shouldn't be too difficult.

So there it is. The deck has the possibility of the 1-turn triple Scorch (if they float tags), SEA-Scorching them (if they don't), or scoring out (I think/hope). Taurus is there to burn up a Plascrete/IHW or two also, if necessary (everyone's running some of at least one of those cards, sometimes even both).

I'd love to hear people's thoughts on this. I feel like it's a pretty flexible but powerful deck, but would love to hear from others. Thanks in advance!