Horchata [Valencia+Desperado+Personal Workshop]

marsellus 431

As a player who embraces the jank, my initial idea was to build a Valencia deck that uses 3x HQ Interface, Raymond Flint and Investigative Journalism. I did that, but it just didn't work due to lacking consistency. So I overthrew the whole concept and built the one you're looking at now.

The basic concept is aggression in its purest form. Run early, run oftren. The Bad Pub is awesome. It either finances your efficient breakers or gets things off of Personal Workshop. Desperado makes money on the way. Card draw is supposed to be Earthrise Hotel, but against non-lethal Corps you might just as well use I've Had Worse. VoicePads are awesome, as there are no free Events. Speaking of which, Blackmail is an auto-include. Dirty Laundry is an efficiency beast, especially in combination with Desperado, Datasucker, Personal Workshop and Bad Publicity, but that's nothing new. Déjà Vu gets back Parasites or Davids. I've Had Worse is obvious and the Event suite is completed by Sure Gamble.

Apart from the already Desperado and VoicePADs you also need MemStrips because of the amount of viruses.

Resources are the already mentioned Earthrise Hotels and Personal Workshops. Also, one copy of Utopia Shard (which due to the lack of Keyhole, is better than Hades Shard I feel). Investigative Journalism is nice too. I am not so sure about the Armitages anymore. They remain from a previous iteration that did not run Desperados and that needed money desperately. Maybe they can be cut for cutlery, probably Forked as the big Weyland barriers are a pain the ass.

Program Suite is conventional anarch stuff. Corroder, Yog.0 and Mimic twice each plus one Knight for Lotus Field. D4v1ds, Datasucker, Medium and Parasite are the remaining cards.

The deck plays very aggressive and poses many problems to the Corp. You are very often able to steal at least 4 points in the early game with Medium big digs. That is probably the point where you should change to a control type of game. Build a rig cheaply with Workshops and Bad Publicity. Force the Corp to rez ICE and use your Parasites on them. Keep the Corp busy. Trying to advance agendas in a remote is very risky due to Blackmail. You being able to run Archives for a hell lot of profit forces him to even further thin the ICE.

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