Off the Grid is a card that you can build a deck around. The most likely candidates being Blue Sun or Cerebral Imaging/ETF.

OTG has one companion card that is a must-include: Crisium Grid which means the first Successful run is wasted and will also stop a solo Eater indefinitely. Interns can and should be used to reinstall trashed Crisium Grids.

A few other cards make a lot of sense in OTG decks. Breaker Bay Grid lets the corp rez OTG for just 1. Eden Fragment lets you stack ICE on HQ super deep. Eliza's Toybox, Oversight AI, Bioroid Efficiency Research and Howler allow you to rez really expensive ICE on HQ. Caprice Nisei and Marcus Batty can both be used to prevent successful runs (in Batty's case trashing a key breaker is usually the most profitable method). Interns is also useful for fishing dead ICE from Archives and installing it for free. Free installation is nothing to laugh at when HQ ICE is 3 or 4 deep.

OTG also has a several problem runner cards that it needs to deal with:

• Sneakdoor Beta is a huge problem and both Gabe and Leela are almost certain to have it in-deck
• Feint is less likely but still annoying
• Political Operative once installed can OTG for 0 at any time
• Inside Job also hurts your HQ defense
• Blackmail can walk right through unrezzed HQ ICE
• D4v1d greatly reduces the effectiveness of expensive high-strength ICE
• DDoS (especially when combined with Inside Job) hurts too (EMP Device is also possible but far less common)
• Run Amok, Forked, Knifed, Spooned and Parasite can whittle down HQ ICE
• Crescentus is simply brutal against expensive ICE
• Councilman can prevent a key rez, although you can play around it
• Security Nexus and Femme Fatale can bypass big HQ ICE too

The other big problem for OTG decks is the cost of putting a reasonable amount of defense on R&D.

Now there are lots of great things you can use OTG to defend:

1. Agendas! Score them and win the game
2. Political Assets (Bankers for 3/turn, Sensie, Clone Suffrage, Bio-Ethics) My suggestion is to stick to Bankers and/or maybe Clone Sufferage (you can use Clone Sufferage to recur Hedge Fund, Restructure or Oversight AI for big money every turn)
3. Eliza's Toybox (rez Archer, Curtain Wall, Janus 1.0 or Orion for just )
4. You only have 3 OTG in deck MAX. Hurry up and score 7 points!

With a deck setup like this Team Sponsorship and Jeeves Model Bioroids start sounding very nice, but the challenge there is keeping them alive long enough to use them.

Salsette Slums is best compared to the other remove-from-game Runner card: Archives Interface.

Both cards can be stacked and cost two influence outside of decks. Interface costs 1 more than Slums to install but is a Hardware instead of a Resource, so it's difficult to trash for the corp. Both cards are silver bullets to Museum Asset spam, but Interface offers a lot more than Slums does. Why?

Advantages

• Slums doesn't need a run on Archives to activate. This may save you a if you trashed the card installed inside a server. Furthermore, you don't need to beat the ICE on Archives in order to activate it's effect. This is great news if the corp has piled a pair of Cricks on Archives.
• Slums stacks with Whizzard, Scrubber and Paricia etc.
• Slums is 1 cheaper to install.

Disadvantages

• Slums doesn't work on ICE, Operations or Agendas. Interface works on anything in Archives. Permanently removing recursion targets for the likes of Jackson, Museum, Archived Memories, Reclamation Order, Clone Suffrage Movement or even the new Raman Rai can greatly weaken an opponent's deck, especially one that relies on recurring cards from Archives. decks that frequently feature ICE destruction don't want to see ICE getting re-installed by Team Sponsorship, Architect or Interns.
• Slums doesn't work on Ambush assets and upgrades if they are discarded or trashed by the Corp. This means the Corp can dump Cyberdex Virus Suite, Disposable HQ, News Team, Space Camp, Shock! and Shi.Kyū in Archives and make it quite painful for the runner to run it. This frees the corp to cycle Agendas in and out of R&D with Jackson and Museum and also puts the hurting on Datasucker. Corps that use a lot of archive ambushes can also take advantage of cards like An Offer You Can't Refuse and Susanoo-no-Mikoto.
• Slums doesn't synergise with Imp
• Slums needs Employee Strike as a back-up against IG or costs can get out of control. Otherwise the Slums user has to run Archives and suffer all the aforementioned nasty Ambush effects.
• Not compatible with Political Operative or Drive By etc.

Econ & Deck Issues

Archives Interface works well with Modded, Personal Workshop or The Supplier. It can also be tutored using inefficient hardware tutors such as Trade-In or Tyson Observatory.

Salsette Slums is a waste of a Career Fair but also works great with The Supplier (free installation). There are no special cards [yet] that tutor for Location sub-type resources. Non-compatibility with trash effects like Imp, Demolition Run or Noise mill means the runner is forced into spending s to remove cards.

Opinion

I've been running 1x Archives Interface out of Noise for a few months now and it is a stunningly effective card against about 1/3 of the corp decks I encounter. Salsette Slums on the other hand allows the corp to recur ICE and Operations, as well as use Archives Ambushes. Even worse, the cost means it's best played out of Employee Strike Whizzard and turns off the option of Imp for expensive cards like Jeeves Model Bioroids or SanSan City Grid.

Plan B is basically unplayable without Mushin No Shin because there is not much point in using it to score any Agenda that only requires two advancements. Because of its dependence on Mushin and its lack of flatline potential it is not often used, even in trap based decks.

Plan B has a big advantage over all other advancable ambushes except for Ghost Branch:

• It costs 0 to activate its ability when the card is accessed. This means runners that think they are safe to run after playing Account Siphon or Vamp can get a rude surprise.

I have personally used Plan B in a variety of decks ranging from shell game, NEH Horizontal Spam and even a Cerebral Imaging Mushin recursion novelty deck. It is fun to play and I've scored a surprising number of two-pointers with them.

However I'm writing this review solely to introduce a truly nasty jank combo:

• Plan B + Team Sponsorship + Any Ambush in Archives or HQ
• Suggested Ambushes include: Edge of World, Snare!, Psychic Field or Shock!

1. Runner runs Plan B server and accesses Plan B
2. Corp scores an Agenda and Activates one or more Team Sponsorships
3. Corp installs the nastiest Ambushes from Archives or HQ in the Plan B server
4. Runner continues to access all cards installed in the server
5. Flatline
6. Corp Jubiliation + Salty Runner Tears

For this combo any Agenda is fine, so IAA and scoring a Clone Retirement on access will trigger the goodness of Edge of World if you want to use it in a scoring server.

Note:

Don't forget : PE does 1 net damage when the corp scores an Agenda (preferably Philotic Entanglement).

On that note if the Corp happens to be broke during access they can still Sponsor a Team of Fetal AIs to do 3 net damage if it will achieve the flatline! Shock! is free to trigger as well.

Upon first read it's easy to get excited and imagine this card says:

,: The Runner loses 5 or an Imp Counter

But in reality it's not so simple to make this card work. The runner must have 5 or a virus counter on Imp when they access Mumbad Virtual Tour. If the runner is too poor or doesn't have a loaded Imp then this is effectively a blank card. What's more, it is quite unlikely the corp will be able to land its effect once the runner knows what it is.

Now it's clear that Cyberdex Virus Suite is superior if the goal is to eliminate virus counters, so that only leaves draining credits from the runner. That's not easy to land either well. Since Virtual Tour only activates when it is installed there's the question of where to put it.

• HQ: Doesn't stop Account Siphon, likely to be the last card accessed as well.
• R&D: Doesn't stop multi-access and is likely to the last card accessed as well. Does not even activate in the case of Indexing or Keyhole.
• Archives: Again it's likely to be the last card accessed, but unless there's a NAPD Contract, Fetal AI or The Future Perfect then the runner won't be spending any credits during their access phase. However there are a number of reasons why this won't get triggered off a successful Archives run too (Sneakdoor Beta, Retrieval Run, Hades Shard, Security Testing or Patron being the most common ones).
• Naked Remote: The likelihood of getting checked is quite high, unless the corp is playing a ambush shell game. It will only be effective if the runner has 5 at the time of access, or likely the runner will budget so they never fall victim to its effect.
• Protected Remote: It's likely that the runner has spent a few s just to get into the server. If it doesn't fire the first time the runner will try to have 4 or less left over the next time they access.

How to make Mumbad Virtual Tour work:

• Hostile Infrastructure is a nice combo to magnify the hurt
• Self-destruct along with a Melange Mining Corp. - if the runner has 6 let them in. If the runner has less than 6 then the corp can win the trace for 3 net damage. This combo actually works better AFTER the runner knows there is a Virtual Tour in the remote.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse
• Susanoo-no-Mikoto (Virtual Tour in uniced Archives only)
• NAPD Contract it doesn't work if the runner has exactly 4 but it does make things more challenging - keep in mind that Jeeves Model Bioroids or Efficiency Committee+Shipment from SanSan both enable NAPD as a never-advance play. Also Tennin and PAD Factory allow the corp to 'advance' any card.
• Spark Agency benefits from a nice way to bring the runner's credit pool back down to earth if they ever get out of control
• Fake Crisium Grid in a horizontal deck - often the runner tries to get rid of those first if they are playing Keyhole or Siphon. That will guarantee the runner has 5 on hand when they access.

Note: It can be used in Gagarin too - just put it on a central server.

Overall Rating: Not enough raw power to justify the deckslots without a good strategy.

The timing depends entirely on the runner and there are ways to play around it by accessing last and/or having 4 or less on hand. CVS is better against Imp and additional econ cards are better in general. The best possible result might be draining multiple Ghost Runners but that's unlikely to happen often.

Vamadeva has three limitations:

• It can only break 's on ICE with exactly 1 .
• It's an AI breaker and hence struggles against the terrible triad
• It costs 6 to install.

Out of these three limitations the only problem is its installation cost.

By it's very nature it is not going to be a solo breaker like Eater or Faust (which also have problems against the terrible triad). Vamadeva is the final piece that rounds out other breaker suites. I've covered it's uses as part of the Deva suite in my Endless Hunger review but here I want to focus on Vamadeva by itself.

Vamadeva is very strong against Rush decks (except possibly which contains Spiderweb and Hive). Enigma is probably the most common problem Vamadeva may encounter that can't be solved without an appropriate breaker. Bioroid ICE can be dealt with using e3 implants and a .

Vamadeva is the perfect companion to Sunny's cloud suite breakers (GS Striker M1, GS Shrike M2 and GS Sherman M3). All of them are quite efficient to pump against large ICE and are highly efficient against multi ICE. However they have a serious efficiency problem against cheap single ICE. Having to pay 4 to break Wall of Static or 2 for Quandary is rather unpleasant and will quickly deplete a runner's credit pool. Vamadeva has the efficiency of Corroder or Eater and is perfect for handling the cheap stuff.

Combined with Grappling Hook + e3 Feedback Implants (to break multi ICE) it is also a great utility breaker for Geist, getting you through the cheap ETR barriers and code gates and saving your Crowbars, Shivs and Spikes for better targets.