The Experiential Jazz Professor v2

JWHamner 345

Refined from first mediocre attempt after a lot of play testing. Added some memory, and while the use of a lot of fixed strength Anarch breakers suggested a second datasucker for Prof's 1 influence, the ability to use Stimhack credits to install with SMC and Clone Chip seems too useful to forego. Economy is very vulnerable to tagging/NBN but I don't know that there is really a better option for the Professor. I keep another Kati and Freelance Coding as spares to swap for the Plascrete if I'm not playing Weyland nor scared of Tag and Bag for some reason(which seems fairly seldom).

Good combos are the fairly obvious Test Run->Scavenge to get our Femme or Morning Star. Nobody ever expects Sneakdoor Beta from a Shaper so that's great to slap down and either SMC or Clone Chip into Nerve Agent.

Obviously not a great tournament deck, but fun (though mentally challenging) to play. Suggestions welcome.
2 comments
21 Nov 2013 HepatitvsJ

I disagree with the stim hack. your inf should be a 2nd datasucker. no question about it. SMC can draw them cheap and 2 Datasuckers are a LOT better than one on the board. Test run/scavenge is your combo for femme/morning star and clone chip/smc should be for IMP/Parasite/datasucker/lower cost breakers. I think FLCC needs more draw to fill your hand and I never felt it worked right in the deck I ran. I think -2FLCC, -1 PC for +3 armitage coding contracts will help economy more. In any case, good luck. :)

22 Nov 2013 JWHamner

Good advice. I like Freelance Coding Contract because I'd rather get money for my discards than not but I agree that it is inconsistent. More than once I've had it in my hand and Diesel->Dieseled into 9 cards and ended up with 2 or less programs. I had Daily Casts in an earlier iteration and found myself not playing them mid- to late- game because of the 3 credit install cost... Armitage is an alternative I forgot about.

I initially had 2 Datasuckers but found myself seldom pulling out the second one and preferred to have the Stim Hack for match point, but that may just be because I am bad at Netrunner. :) With only 2 mem chips though that means I need to be SMC-ing into Djinn pretty much every game.

I'm a little scared of only having 1 plascrete because a couple of nights ago I played 3 Weyland decks out of 4 matches and they were all running The Cleaners and had more money than God because of Restructure. However I will give all your changes a try. Thanks!