Tipping the Scales of Justice

This deck is totally unfair.

I placed 1st at Leisure Games London's first Winter GNK with this horrible, horrible deck. It's mostly pretty standard HB Glacier.

Here's a few of the unfair things this deck does.

• Get absurd amounts of money forever with Breaker Bay Grid and the sexbots.
• Win psi-games with Caprice Nisei.
• Fire Accelerated Beta Test all the goddamn time (well, any time you have either a Jackson Howard or a Team Sponsorship on the field... so all the time).
• Use Cyberdex Virus Suite on a Breaker Bay Grid to purge viruses for free as they hit an Ichi 1.0/Ichi 2.0 with a Mimic and a bunch of Datasucker tokens.
• Score a Global Food Initiative
• Have a GFI stolen from you.
• Have GFI in the deck at all.

I feel the need to elaborate on the last three points. Global Food Initiative is just ridiculous in this deck. Sure, the safe agenda thinning is ok, but that's just a distraction from the main power of GFI. The main advantage of GFI is the totally busted asymmetry it introduces into the game. The runner always has to steal 4 agendas. You almost always only need 3! I think one game of the five I played at the GNK I didn't find and score a GFI.

Trust me, it's ridiculous. Having the ability to score out a mere 3 agendas with no risk that the runner will be able to win with less than 4 is amazing. It just skews the game in your favour.

The Unorthodox

I know what you're thinking. Mandatory Upgrades? Really?

Well, yes, they are kind of throwbacks to to when this deck was a Waldemar list. They are amazing when you score them obviously, but they're probably less good with the inclusion of a 5/3. Not sure I scored one all day at the GNK, truth be told. Could definitely be cut for NAPDs, or just 2 more Project Vitruvius, for that matter. HB really needs some good 4/2s. Also with Turntable a thing now...