Turtle Soup

Yet another attempt at an Ed deck, this time built off of two recent developments.

1. The new FAQ, clarifying that Salsette Slums does, in fact, synergize with Maw.

2. The new UFAQ that clarifies that Aumakua does work with Eater. The turtle only cares that you made it to the access phase, not whether or not you accessed anything. Accessing zero cards? YOU STILL GET A VIRUS COUNTER.

So let's abuse that.

I basically took the overall shell for Chaebol Killer, and streamlined it further down to just two points: make a lot of money, and make it into HQ. Eater loading up Aumakua greatly reduces the long-term credit-cost for server-busting, meaning you want both online ASAP, and preferably immune to Skorpios Shenanigans. So three of each and three Special Orders ideally means you're never short of modes of access.

The economy suite, meanwhile, should last you pretty much forever:

• Dirty Laundry for run credit
• Aeneas Informant for asset spam credit
• Human First for FA and rush credit
• And the standard Anarch shell of Sure Gamble, Daily Casts, and Liberated Account.
• Tossed a singleton Trope in there in case you end up burning through your entire deck and still need more money.

The draw engine should basically ensure that you get what you need ASAP, as well.

Logically, of course, relying on two AI breakers should mean disaster when facing up against Hortum, Swordsman, or Chiyashi. But the first two are also among the few cases where a single activation of the trash breakers, Black Orchestra and MKUltra, are all that's needed to slip through. Conundrum and Wraparound both present potentially higher difficulty ratings, except that Conundrum's trash-a-program sub is only a mild annoyance into recurring breakers, and Wraparound effectively disappears when Paperclip is installed.

Your biggest danger is actually IP Block. Don't run last click against NBN.

This is basically the deck that forces corps to ice centrals up, and especially HQ, at cost of remote protection. An active Bhagat/Maw combo with a powered-up Aumakua is terrible news for them.

For the runner, however, it's a tasty and nutritious bowl of Turtle Soup.