Mushin's Vanity Initiative

Cobra seems pretty good here, as killing breakers really adds to your arsenal of rush tricks. Have you tried it or any other destroyers?

Have you considered Fast Track? It might help put the agenda density in your favour - plus you could Fast Track straight into Mushin No Shin for a hardcore mind game.

@FarCryFromHumanI like Cobra, but in this deck I don't want the runner to just be able to take the punishment and then get to the server.

@KikaiI have thought about Fast Track. That would definitely add to the mind games with the ability to Mushin No Shin out right after. Thanks for the suggestion.

I'd use Cobra strictly as ICE #2, and only play it if it's going to land or be extremely taxing for the runner to pull out the counter. The whole point of destroyers in rush decks is to kill the breaker needed to get through the ICE at the base of the server.

I second Fast Track, it's a pretty integral piece of any low-agenda density deck.

Do you have 3x Excalibur just so you see it early? I suppose you can use extra copies for Allele Repression.

Is Toshiyuki Sakai just to tax the runner/see how curious he/she is, or am I missing a combo here?

Got it :-) Swap with Plan B and score.

That doesn't always work. The runner has to access Plan B for it to score out an agenda. Toshiyuki states the Runner can choose not to access the new card. It depends on how confident the Runner is that you haven't placed a Junebug there I guess.

Does predictive algorithm/herrings ever do much? It's not like you run a very credit taxing deck, so i'm not seeing either one often stopping a runner in even the early game, let alone the mid . Likewise there's a somewhat similar issue with old hollywood and them just running once to trash and again to score (which seems especially rough given its cost. Nsei isn't quite as bullet proof, and can quickly become more expensive, but she's cheaper to get going and can protect herself (while being in faction). Also betting 0 so you keep 1 credit can be scary.

Saikai seems...gutsy, but maybe worth it.

Plan B strikes me as just bad? Even if you mushin and they run, you literally can't score anything from your deck when it fires? I suppose mushin, advance, lets you score an improved protein, but that's literally it. Shattered seems at least useful in niche situations (trashing a console can ruin their memory and trash programs). If it's a sakai play, then almost any other ambush you run wins the game.

Shi kyu- you don't seem to have a ton of money in this build. Do you stick these often? Shock might be better as it doesn't cost you anything, makes R&D and Archives runs costly, and is in general annoying.

Some other cards i'm curious about:

Overwriter- it's sorta the go to asset ambush for mushin given the damage is rough tempo wise and secretary could be nasty 1 of (but then again it doesn't win you the game).

1/2 back channels- it's obviously more conditional than beanstalk, but I probably wouldn't replace that anyways. More of another way to turn your failed traps into tempo.

Psychic field- ok so it's not nearly as good as the others since it can't kill, but lately i've run into 3 expose heavy val's. Maybe that's just my luck hitting jank though.

No enigma? It's at least taxing/obnoxious.

@k.art``@The Broken Meeple``@Eji1700 Thanks for the feedback. When I originally built this deck, the plan was to have alot of advanceable Assets. However, as I started playing games with the deck, I took some out and that's how I got to where it is in this deck. I've updated the deck and published it. netrunnerdb.com

I removed both Toshiyuki Sakai because it never brought me any gain. I also removed Red Herrings and Old Hollywood Grid because I never used them. I also removed 1 Executive Boot Camp and both Predictive Algorithm. (I'm keeping in one Executive Boot Camp solely as a potential DDoS protection.

Additions: 1) 2 Cerebral Overwriter to go along with my Project Junebug to ambush the runner and make them think twice before running a possible agenda. 2) I added in 2 Jackson Howard for the ability to draw two cards of course, but mainly as a recurrence possibility on Mushin No Shin, Economy cards, and Project Junebug and Cerebral Overwriter. 3) 2 Fast Track for the games when my few agenda are buried in the bottom (Jackson Howard shuffles will help with this too).

Interesting things I've found about this deck: 1) Melange is sneaky good. I had my qualms about using it, but figured I'd give it a try. A lot of times I put it out with my last click. Then on my next turn, assuming the Runner did not access and trash it (which has happened much fewer times than I would have imagined (I'm thinking Snare! fear is the culprit)) I rez it for 1 and gain 7. Many times the Runner is so bummed, they forget to run (and trash) it and I can gain 7 on the next turn as well. 2) Shi.Kyū actually works pretty well. Money is really not a problem in this deck, certainly not with the ability to Allele Repression and Jackson Howard econ cards back if needed. The runner usually takes the negative 1 agenda point which couples greatly with what Global Foods does best. I's fun for them to find a Global Food Initiative along with 2 Shi.Kyū in archives. 3) I love the ability to load up Project Junebug and Plan B with a lot of advancement tokens and then Trick of Light them over for the win. Very demoralizing to the Runner. If they run it, great. If they don't, that is great also.

Thanks again for the feedback.