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Shannon.L 117

I've always wanted to play a Professor deck. He's this crazily interesting archetype, focused wholly on the deckbuilding, that offers an astoundingly unlimited array of possibilities (when, of course, coupled with his native Shaper insanity).

This deck was built to leverage what the professor can do better than anybody - tailor his plan to the opponent you're facing. For everyone, the first goal is to find that #MagnumOpus. After that?

  • NEH-FA? Go hunting for that #Clot, set up for HQ punishment with #Nerve Agent and #Lamprey, and your efficient breaker suite to remove all of your opponent's secrets each turn. #Deep Thought will let you knew when it's time to run R&D for a quick score.

  • PE? Take some time early on to get out your appropriate breaker suite, then just keep your hand full and pound away. Levy when required.

  • RP? Grab #Snitch, and use it to batter those remotes by never-rezzing the centrals.

... and so on. Always choosing the right breakers for the opponent, never without the tool from your toolbox... and then everything else is straight damage absorption. Run hard, run often, run with crazy efficiency.

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29 May 2015 FarCryFromHuman

Freelance Coding Contract is godly, especially with your Box-E installed. In the same way, Savoir-faire can save you several install clicks and critical SMCs over the course of a game by installing what you need from your hand mid-run.

Deep Thought is nice, but I'd consider Sahasrara or Scheherazade in its slot instead. If you want to empower your multi-access, check out Expert Schedule Analyzer.

Djinn seems really important to getting the correct central pressure out. I'm wondering how critical you find it.

You don't have any draw; having a toolbox is wonderful but digging through it is not, and having to tutor everything into play gets expensive. Diesel or Quality Time would combo nicely with Freelance Coding Contract!

London Library seems to have a lot of utility in these decks, but this particular version doesn't have many targets so I think I'd avoid it or carry a singleton. It's fun to keep that D4v1d in hand to break an OAI'd monster ICE for 3, plus whatever other run effects you get.

In the interest of freeing up card slots, how important do you find The Personal Touch, Net Celebrity, and Lamprey here?

It's too bad Logos is 2 influence, it just screams The Professor!

29 May 2015 FarCryFromHuman

Somehow I forgot Keyhole.

30 May 2015 Shannon.L

Let's see if I can address some of it:

** Let's start with #London Library: Yup, it would be fantastic (it's a great card that's only getting better as people play with it). However, I ended up designing around it in this deck, as I want more permanent programs.

You could alter the deck to really take advantage of it, from running heavier on the dog breakers to doing nasty things with Femme .. well. You know the possible synergies. This deck isn't meant to do the constant program recursion, however - I want whatever I get out, permanently, and running as efficiently as possible. At that point, everything else is ablative .... which... is also the argment against Scheherezade. If stuff isn't being cycled, her utility is fairly limited.

Though... again, Sahasara is one of those cards I'd largely forgotten. Might be a good trade for Lamprey or that lonely Parasite.

Djinn matters - this deck hasn't seen a ton of play yet, but I'm finding it something that relieves the pressure on your core tutors. However, it, in turn, can be tutored in this lovely recusive pile. In most games, I find myself Test Run - ning it to the top of he deck, and using its virus pull while it's on the board to arrange things for after its installed next turn.

Freelance is a thing of beauty... except that it does the one thing that destroys your tempo in my Meta: it empties your hand. The money is a tremendous boost, you can dump lower-priority items for clone chips... but then you've got to spend several turns pulling just to put your padding back against PE and RP shenanigans and to raise your shields against things like Punitive Counterstrike. So far, it's actually cost more time than gained credits in my handful of tests... though if credit starvation becomes a problem, it's likely to come back to the deck.

Net Celebrity exists as a local counter - YMMV. In this meta, /not/ having something that can deal with Currents is akin to trying to play with one hand tied behind your back. Enhanced Login Protocol, Housekeeping, Paywall Implementation, Manhunt, and Targeted Marketing are all common things to face that can damage you a great deal before they're pulled. Net Celebrity gives you a tool to deal with that - not the best tool, but really the only one in-faction - plus some money. It's something anyway.

Lamprey can go - it's not vital. Useful, but one of the tradeable cards.

Personal Touch? Not sure. I just transitioned the deck to the fixed breakers as a means of getting more efficient, and given that the right stacking of Personal Touch against the right opponent could open up entire swaths of the server, it seemed a logical include. I'll have to play with it more to see.

I do love Savoir-faire, though; I'd basically forgotten that card. It adds the missing piece to the Shaper tutory, bouncy thing... and can be replaced when the suite's out. Yup, might be replacing lamprey shortly.

(Oh, god, yes, on Logos. Another great one would be #Vigil - and, wierdly, I could see an argument for Spinal Modem and the upcoming Turntable, too!)