Daredevil Faustsafe - Post Rotation
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BardofSnow 40
This is a deck that I have been tinkering with for a while revolving around attempting to make the worst runner ID work in some way, and with the release of Daredevil, I believe there are now some redeeming qualities to Nero. All in all, his ability is partially what enables this moving mess of a deck to work, especially in the early game. But let us get into what makes this deck tick:
The Combo Pieces
The bread and butter combos of this deck are all based around cards that give effects during runs. Jak Sinclair, Daredevil, The Turning Wheel, GPI Net Tap, Au Revoir, and Aeneas Informant are all cards that require you to make runs, and make them frequently. Luckily, the "safety-net" that Nero provides is more than enough to make runs viable, especially if GPI Net Tap is on the field.
Jak Sinclair is really what I consider to be the best part of this deck. Allowing you to make runs against 2 ice servers at the beginning of your turn to draw 2 cards for free is an amazing combo. This also allows you to then draw 2 more cards with Earthrise, having a total of 9 cards to use during your Faust runs, and allowing you to make runs on smaller / less protected servers. You can also use overworked and underpaid employee to make free runs against annoying assets and either trash them, or gain some free credits with Aeneas Informant.
THE BREAKERS
Next up we have the breakers. Faust is the bread and butter breaker, but because so many annoying AI-neutering ICE exist, I've included one-offs of every other type of breaker, just in case you have some idea of what you are up against. (NBN using IP Block, HB using Turing, etc.).
The only breaker I have misgivings on is Femme Fatale. I haven't been able to test the deck enough yet, but I will most likely remove it in the future and replace it with a copy of Same Old Thing to make sure I have a form of recursion for Levy AR Lab Access
General Gameplan
Draw cards with Daredevil. If you get cache, install it immediately, get more money. Trash Cache with Rosetta 2.0 and get Au Revoir on the board. Keep making runs to draw cards and get money with Aeneas Informant and Au Revoir. Use Jak Sinclair to get more money and cards. You should now be set up enough to make runs with abandon, trashing assets and destroying your opponent. If you don't have enough money, just make more runs for Au Revoir credits. Your opponent can't fully punish you if you don't succeed in your runs. And lastly, do remember to try and make many runs. You have a safety net that is quite adept at catching you when things go awry.
If you have any questions on this deck, feel free to ask. I am working on an alternative version of this deck that does not run Faust but runs more breakers. Freeing up roughly 8 influence allows for the inclusion of another copy of Jak Sinclair. I'll be testing that version more in the future and posting a copy of it when I have it more fully finished. Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy trying the deck for yourself!
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31 Jul 2017
stoppableforce
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2 Aug 2017
BardofSnow
Sadly, the combo is definitely less efficient and slower than with the previous Snitch/Au Revoir version. I think overall, the combo still works well. If you're going to run into a barrier like Eli 1.0, you can faceplant and still build counters, and faceplant into some less dangerous code gates to build counters as well, even though you won't be getting credits. Losing easy Au Revoir credits hurts, but you can still make that money with Jak Sinclair runs, and other runs after rezzing more of the corps ice with Forged Activation Orders. |
Do you find that using only The Turning Wheel for R&D multi-access in a post-Snitch world is slow at all? Part of the advantage of it in the Snitch/Au Revoir decks was that you could potentially build 4 counters a turn while also getting filthy ducats from Au Revoir, while this deck can't easily build that many counters (typically 1, assuming an outer Sentry, 2 a single time if you use GPI Net Tap, and other than that you're relying on your opponent putting a simple outermost piece of ETR ice to bounce off of).
Is Recon Drone worth the slot? You have a Levy, so your lifespan vs. net damage is fairly high. (And preventing the damage from the new hot source of net damage is worthless.) So this is protection against ... what, Cerebral Overwriters? A third Siphon seems like a better use of that deck slot.