Improved Arggression

Big shoutout to Amavric from Metropole Grid, for playing this deck for his audience (2020-09-17, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCc3Jq4KZeg).

After all the comments (thank you for those!), I changed a couple of things. Gone are the economic assets. Now, more traps!

Game plan.

1.Shell game with the traps. 2.Fast advance with Recoco and Audacity. 3.Make scoring painful (dedication ceremony + City Work Project). 4.Get kill windows (BOOM!, Punitive Counterstrike). 5.Protect the agendas by scoring Divested Trust. 6.Bring the trap back with Preemptive Action.

Contrary Jinteki PE, if you are flooded, there is not much you can do.

Combo.

1.Economic Warfare + Hard Hitting News + BOOM! 2.Prisec + Dedication Ceremony + City Work Project. 3.Reconstruction Contract + Dedication Ceremony + Project Atlas. 4.Economic Warfare + Punitive Counterstrike.

Creds is a bit more difficult to come by with only Hostile Takeover, Hedge Fund and Too Big to Fail. Each bring a fair bit of creds, but with nothing to trash, you'll can only hope to land Punitive Counterstrike early. This deck has more win by scoring than by flatlining the runner.

This iceless experiment is an in-between, compared to Jinteki PE iceless and HB Sportsmetal iceless. The former is a kill deck, while the later is a fast advance deck. This Weyland Argus is a bit of both. This teach the usages of Weyland Operations and the use of multiple combos.

It does operate well. I get a win rate of 60% with it. It surprise many runners. The reason it is less competitive than the Jinteki and HB iceless decks is this : If the runner know the list, you lose a sensible advantage, even if you knew the runner's list. The Jinteki and HB list could be public (and they are), the runner would still have a hard time to play against them (with a normal competitive deck). But against an unsuspecting runner, it create a big surprise. Especially if the runner spent a couple of their turn to build up a rig.

The thing about iceless deck is this : the runner must play the corp game plan, rather than a runner game plan, since most program and hardware are useless against this deck.

It is a lot of fun. The quote is a continuation of Amavric clever name on his youtube channel. I think it suited the deck well, so I perpetuated it here.

Enjoy!