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@Daine: You make me love Netrunner, sir.

I concur that this deck is brutal to run against. Those cheap Janus will ruin your day when aren't expecting them. Well done.

I've been looking for something ridiculous/good to take alongside my Professor deck to a GNK this week. Will have to test this out tomorrow.

This deck is beautiful. Thank you for this deck, sir.

How can this troll blackmail spammers?

@Simone"Suka" Surat City Grid

Wotan could be nice

Great innovation Daine, thanks for posting. How did you find the breaker bay grids? Given you cannot combine with them with Surat and only have 3 full-value targets, would you consider switching them out for 3 other economy cards (maybe 1 more assembly lines, 1 more adonis and something ..) ?

@Scud praise about jank from you is high praise indeed. You're the godfather of decks that shouldn't work but are somehow impossible to play against.

@FBI.Net I honestly hadn't even considered Wotan. I'll try trading a Heimdall 2.0 for one. Thanks for the tip.

@sruman thanks for the praise. You're right that BBG is the closest thing to a nonbo this deck can have. They can't proc Surat and they're worthless without another money card. I have found, however, that they are so good combined with any of my other money cards that they always seem to pull their own weight. If all else fails, installing them in their own server helps frustrate the runner and helps me keep my jacksons and Brain Taping Warehouses alive. Once the runner makes a few worthless runs on blank servers they stop running them unless I score something naked from the table or if they have a desperado. BBG is also exceptional against siphon spam. Keeping an Adonis or an Advamced Assembly Line loaded on a BBG has won me a few games after a siphon. I just rez the asset for free at the beginning of my turn and then have the credits to score out from my remote. I could consider losing one for a third Advanced Assembly Line though.

Grid addict.

11/10

I agree with @FBI.Net: get a Wotan in here.

I've been looking forward to using this combo ever since Surat City Grid was spoiled. Kudos on the success!

ok, i know this might be crazy, but with the amount of things you can rez, would Lakshmi Smartfabrics be worth playing around with?

Either way, this is a great deck and I'm so glad you did well with it.

Wow! I'm super impressed. This seems very similar to the Surat concept I released, but you went whole hog on the super-beefy ice. Is there any reason you skipped past say Vikram 1.0?

Hello. Really nice deck ! Congratulations. On question: Have you considered/ tested Ryon Knight to force a catch 22: run first click -> combo vs run Last click: brain ? Theoretical comment, as I did not test the deck

You can combo before their first click after their turn starts. In fact, waiting to combo for a first-click run would lose value on the combo, because they have fewer unspent clicks.

I'm not seeing a way to rez the combo with the huge discounts while the runner has 4 unspent clicks. There is no paid window between the beginning of the runner's turn and his first click. Brain Taping has no effect before the runner's first click. But I do appreciate how this deck uses Surat to force the issue with BTW earlier in the runner's turn.

There is a window. It's in the latest version of the FAQ. The version that comes up when you google "Netrunner FAQ" is out of date. Get the version from the FFG site.

Okay I see it now in the new FAQ. page 19, 1.3 (The Surat window)....I guess I thought it was too good to be true.

Having just played this on Jinteki I can attest to the power of this combo. It is insane! There aren't a lot of runners who could deal with this. Will definitely be doing my own testing with it

On Jinteki.net, Surat seems to work, but how do you get that new timing window so that you can credit for all 4 clicks?

By rezzing an asset or upgrade in thé server.. anytime

@corcovado you just have to let your opponent know you're going to use the window before they spend any clicks. I usually try to confirm this before passing the turn.

@spags People still expect every HB list I make to include Heinlein Grids so this caught some Chicagoans a bit off guard.

@Benjen Lakshmi is a great card for the right deck. I don't think this is the deck for it though. Once you're set up it becomes a math problem you can always solve.

@Teveran Vikram is basically equivalent to Ichi 1.0. I usually go back and forth between those two. On Saturday I went with Ichi, though Vikram would have done work too.

@Him Ryon has never worked out for me and has never done that much damage when I've played against it. But he could proc your combo if you needed him to so there could be much worse includes if you wanted to test him out. Let me know if he wrecks face for you.

I've never played on Jinteki, but it's pretty easy to call your shot on your combo turn. Just don't end your turn until they agree that you're still working.

Thanks for all the support, everybody! And thanks for helping answer questions, @dodgepong and @HipsterWannabe

Do you find that most runners leave the Brain-Taping Warehouses alone or do you find you need to protect them with an ice since they wont' be in your mega server

@jgoahl I've been wondering the same thing, but it really depends on the runner. I'd test the waters first with something you can afford to lose, and see if they take the bait, and how often.

I wish there were room for Bioroid Efficiency Research in this. Also, was the Aggressive Secretary really that useless? I was thinking it might be worth trading it for a Cerebral Overwriter, because that'd be a nice thing to fake as a Food and impede Fausters, but...

So, dumb question since I'm forever fuzzy on the paid ability window element; do I presume that when the Runner's turn begins and their 4 clicks are there, that's when you start rezzing before they take that first click? Then presuming that and 3 Brain-Tapings, that makes a 12 credit discount, plus the extra 2 from Surat?

@Aryn You got it right, that's the window for maximum value

Why Victor 2.0 and not Vikram 1.0?

This deck is incredible, Janus is my all time favorite card but it is so hard to use. I was just able to rez a Janus for 1 credit! I subbed the Eli's for Marcus and played with the agendas a bit so that I have room for a Caprice. Best scoring server so far: Wotan, Heimdall 2, Heimdall 1, with Caprice in the server. In another game I had Wotan, 2 Jani, and Heimdall 1. The third game I hit my all time best ABT: Wotan, Heimdall 1, Heimdall 2. The crazy thing is that it all sets up quickly and it's super taxing for the runner to take apart all of your pieces. Playing against it I have found that it is pretty weak to Atman/Sucker. All in all though I have to give this deck an A+!

This deck is just sick! I'm going to have try this one out.

Someone alert the RLC guys. They love Brain Taping Warehouse. Super cool that you did so well with a cool card!

Hi ! I'm new so it's just a question : did you consider to cut Breaker bay and Eve to ad 3 Hedge fund and maybe 1 or 2 Restructure and 1 or 2 Green level clearance to get money quicker ? Thanks.

P.S. : Nice deck !

Very cool deck! But it does seem to me that you could probably crank it up a notch by tweaking the ice.

For example, I don't see Ichi 1.0 or Viktor 2.0 as good early game cheap ice (5 rez is quite a bit after all,). Why not replace those with Viktor 1.0 (still 3 cards for Faust) and Vikram 1.0 (which the runner still needs to fear without any breakers installed, unlike Ichi 1.0). Also Ichi 2.0 seems like it could be decent in the mix of ice to rez in the combo (especially if you've swapped out the Ichi 1.0's).

Since no-one else has asked this, I'm going to have to: you have a deck with tons of Bioroids, focussed on rezzing for cheap. Could this actually be good as a Haas-Bioroid: Stronger Together deck?

@jgoahl I generally leave my brain-takings unprotected except against whizzard.

@Rhaplanca1001 advancable traps are actually pretty bad in this deck, it seems. Though I added a psychic field for a tournament today and it was fun.

@Celebnar Viktor 2.0 and Vikram 1.0 are totally different functions. Vikram works ok in this deck (better early game than Ichi, worse late). Viktor is always taxing and is cheap to rez. It's you're early ice.

@Manu l Humain operation economy might work--and would be better against Whiz--but you're losing assets which can help you proc your combo. It might be worth testing though.

@Ber I played a Viktor 1.0 today and liked it well enough. It didn't tax much late, though, which was a problem.

@LeonardQuirm you're too poor without EtF. I've seen this deck in ST and it was, IMO, strictly worse. Then again, if you're going for jank, maybe just commit to it and go ST!

Thanks for the answer, the idea is to get more flexible and get money quicker without waiting for BBG, so maybe - 3 Eve, - 3 BBG, + 1 Assembly Lines, + 1 Adonis, + 3 Hedge Fund, + 1 Restructure... I have another question with Assembly Lines please : if you rez it to proc the combo I think you rez it, make the combo and then discard it, put another asset rez it full price and make another combo (to rez an Ice in another server for example) you can not trash Assembly Lines "during" the combo. Am I right ? Thanks. To bad your deck became "deck of the week", I will not surprise my friends. ;)

Assembly Lines seems very good in this deck because you can use it at the same right time for three effects : proc the combo, gain an extra credit by installing an asset, proc the combo again (?).

Looks like a fun deck. I just played against this with my Quetzal with e3 and cutlery and the matchup was brutally one sided against the corp - the only breaker I ever installed was a single d4v1d.

I always feel like 3+ card combos are terribly inconsistent.

Another concern is Leela. Have you played against her with this deck? Seems like it would be a very tough matchup since you have no early game ice outside of the Elis'.

I don't want to sound too negative, it looks like a really fun deck, but sadly one that could never get too popular since it seems it's main advantage is the element of surprise.

I've been looking into Bioroid ice lately as an answer to Faust. And the Brain-taping/Surat city grid combo looks like the way to make this happen.

Cutlery/E3 seems to be the only significant problem here. Maybe a Test Grounds to counter?

@Daine I would love to have you on the channel to talk about this deck.

So, on corp turn runner has 4 unspent clicks? I mean, do they suddenly "refresh" when runner's turn ends?

No, the runner has no unspent clicks on the corp turn - you fire the Surat/Brain-taping combo by rezzing a card at the start of the runner turn.

Have you thought about including Net Police?

Is it correct that you can trigger the Surat City Grid can trigger before the Runner uses Wyldside? Or is that window priority on Runner side?

I ran this deck twice last night and it was brutal. The fact that it cost more to install 2 Janus, a Wotan, a heimdal 2 and a Heimdal 1 on my scoring server than rez them is incredible. Even in the 2nd game, against someone who knew the contents of the deck and how to play it, the tempo loss in trashing the Brain Tapings as they come out slowed him down way too much and that didn't stop me getting to rez just using one and the surat at the start of his turn.

It seems that Leela and Cutlery are the main issues here but they aren't too prevalent in my meta so I'm going to play around with this for a while and tweak it a little to my playstyle. Fortunately my friends all run horrific Jinteki decks and so they won't hate me too much for pulling this out against them.

I had the most amazing Accelerated Beta Test with this deck when it fired into 2x Janus 1.0 and 1 Heimdall 1.0 :D

My opponent had the most depressing look in his face.

I played against this last night (vs @Trebor, I was his match 2). I knew exactly what was coming as I have read this page and we even discussed it! Yes, I trashed the Brain-Taping Warehouse when could, but one got through a turn and that was enough for a SERVER O' DOOOOOOOM (yes, it deserves the capitals) to appear. I couldn't get in :(

However I took revenge and melted his face with B*Stard IG Deck of Nastiness :)

Like most things in this game there are counters and our Runner meta will evolve to stop this monster. Then Corp meta will evolve again. I love this game for this (and many others) reason :)

I saved like 50+ credits in a game with this deck, 3 Janus and a Wotan rezzed plus other robots. It doesn't get better than that.

How do you survive aggressive decks? They seem to just rip this to shreds. You have no punishment for players that just run everywhere early.

You were mentioning that E3 was a major problem against this deck, but how about using Shattered Remains as a response to that? You're taking out the Aggressive Secretary anyway, so why not run a trap that hurts what could potentially hurt you?

Fun deck, I had a go with it last night in a game against my Girlfriend. She was playing Apex which is bit scary as a lot of the ICE is either ETF or Brain Damage subroutines both of which Apex can handle. I lost but would of won next turn if the winning agenda wasn't stolen from R&D in a hell merry run.

The best part of the game was at the end, my Girlfriends description of the deck. It’s not a fun janky deck; it’s more like a janky spade to the face. She now plans to hide some of the deck (wouldn't be the first time).

Great deck, the intimidation of sudden board state change is brilliant. Cheers for sharing.

This is just nasty. Love it.

I decided to take this game to a local game store tournament and, even though agenda-flooding lost me 2 of the three games with it, the sight of a four-ice deep server of Heimdalls, Janus, and a Wotan (I replaced a third Janus with it because Wotan is my favorite HB ice of all time) just felt so amazing to have in place. I decided to switch out the Agressive Secretary for a Heinlein Grid because, even though I can't put it on my remote while Surat is in there, it's still good on one of the focused centrals when I've got a lot of ice around that too. The only other change I made was replacing the Viktors with Vikram 1.0. My problem with Viktor was that he's much easier to click through and Vikram, while one more credit to rez, does a lot more in terms of damage and his first sub is essentially an end-the-run for Faust or Eater. All in all, fantastic deck that I will be playing for a while.