[throwback] rigshooter skorp

I'm going to be (trying to) publishing a list a day for two weeks, in anticipation for my upcoming New Year, Old Cards throwback tournament.

This is almost a run of the mill Skorpios deck - I did choose to include some interesting ICE (Afshar because it's a hard ETR code gate, which is sometimes enough), Aiki because it's the cheapest, most taxing piece of ICE I could include, and random net damage means either chances to snipe breakers or your opponent slowing down and giving you a window, and Sapper because extend the rigshooting threat to random accesses as well is very productive for our gameplan.

You've got a few ways to trash programs:

• You score SDS Drone Deployment behind ICE
• The runner does not play support programs, and has to sacrifice an icebreaker to steal SDS Drone Deployment
• Sapper fires
• Aiki fires (always make them draw, if you can), and snipes a program
• Public Trail into Retribution to punish poorer runners
• Prisec (always fire if the tag will stick, or there are programs missing) hits a program, or allows us to use Retribution
• We dump all of our money into Trojan Horse, and pray that removing one fracter is enough
• Paperclip gets discarded (because our opponent is greedy, or they have another in hand and it's bait), and we can hit it with Ark Lockdown

As for counterplay, there are a few good options:

• Sacrificial Construct, like in a tap-lock deck, will ruin us
• Any deck that plays multiple fracters can probably win pretty reliably, unless it is MaxX: Maximum Punk Rock (potentially)
• Ice Destruction, like Parasite or Chisel, or even Hippo, can make the game unplayable
• If the runner has triple Aumakua, or triple Mammon, we might be in trouble
• Dummy Box, like in a DLR deck, will ruin us

And last, but not least:

• The runner plays support programs, and has a good start

I think retribution might be a bit of a controversial tool for skorpios, and it definitely feels good to play, but I'm uncertain just how competitively viable this deck will end up being. At the very least, I think it can lead to some interesting games against well constructed decks.