New Angeles Sol Concept (read notes!)

Sol - Cards 49 - Influence 15

Agendas ( 9 cards - 20 points)

Gila Hands Arcology x1
Hades Fragment x1
NAPD Contract x2
Private Security Force x3
Restructured Datapool x2

Assets (12 cards - 6 influence)

Jackson Howard x3
News Team x3
Primary Transmission Dish x3
Snare! x3

Ice (10 cards - 0 influence)

Data Raven x3
Enigma x1 (Bandwidth can be considered)
News Hound x3
Resistor x3 (Pachinko can be considered)

Operations (18 cards - 9 influence)

Blue Level Clearance x2
Fast Track x2
Green Level Clearance x2
Hedge Fund x3
Media Blitz x3
Sweeps Week x3
Traffic Accident x3

This is a passive control deck. Like a midseasons deck (which this easily turns into), it aims to gain money quickly, lightly defend centrals and force the runner into a difficult position.

This deck does have an air of jank (look who's posting it!) but it sounds so good on paper I had to share.

Agenda choices: Before we can discuss agendas, we need to look at this deck's star card: Media Blitz. NBN Current that costs 2 credits to play and essentially becomes an agenda in the Runner's score area.

Every agenda has a passive ability that MB can adopt. That is this deck's goal: let the Runner steal agendas then use them. Gila for money, Hades for deck recycling (along with NAPD, these are mostly filler). Our main goal is letting the Runner trip a Restructured Datapool as early as possible. Then use Media Blitz + Primary Transmission Dish to repeatedly hit the Runner's bank. This continues until the Runner steals Private Security Force. You know the rest.

By now, they should be hanging by a thread. Between 2+ credit taxes per turn (oh, the joy of catching a broke Runner with RD!), News Team (on access, take 2 tags or claim for -1 AP), Snare! and troublesome Ice, the Runner is forced to make smart decisions. Traffic Accident can also slow the Runner down a lot.

Data Raven is always a star tagger, while News Hound works well with Sol, who should always have an active Current (key to getting MB on RD and PSF!) Resistor (or Pachinko) are both great barriers for this deck that only get stronger as the Runner gets careless. The single enigma can catch the Runner on a tag and / or force a decoder install. Also minimizes the effectiveness of Adam / Apex breakers. Perhaps an additional one could fit. Or bandwidth even, if you don't mind more positional jank.

GLC and BLC help cycle through the deck to get what you need. Fast Track can force that last puzzle piece in place. Now, its not terribly realistic to survive the Runner scoring a 3-pointer, then 2-pointer without getting the last agenda, but News Team helps alleviate that issue, and Snare! + Jackson recursion can dissuade the Runner from late game runs.

Again, using Sol to gaurantee the Media Blitz plays on each agenda. Its like Sol's ability becomes an agenda instead. I considered Making News, but that only helps the ice and RD, and does not add security to the 'combo'.

Tl;dr: Jank is cool!

Questions and comments appreciated!