Subsidized Hacking ver. 2

Finnbarre 72

Purely hypothetical thought experiment deck.

The idea here is to use the corp's bad pub to pay for your rig. Install Personal Workshop, host whatever you want, then run an un-iced server. Let's say you run 4 times with 1 bad pub. Each run use the bad pub token to pay for programs on the rig. Doesn't seem that amazing though does it? 4 clicks, 4 runs, 4 credits.

Ah but what if you are running those centrals with 1 or 2 datasuckers? That's a money equivalent right there. But it gets better! Score just 1 Investigative Journalism and you are suddenly getting magnum opus returns, 4 clicks, 4 runs, 8 credits to dump into your femme, corroder, or mediums/nerve agents.

Vigil for free card draw or forcing the corp to make awkward and usually bad decisions with hand size. If they are making the painful decision to run a 4 card hand to prevent you from getting a free draw, punish them with Itinerant Protesters, further reducing their hand size. Steelskin to replace plascrete.

Potential problems: No remotes, centrals iced early. Bad times. Economy could be tight too until PW gets rolling.

Update: added program tutors. Removed gordian. Added crypsis.

3 comments
26 Jan 2015 McKindling

I love the out-of-the-box thinking on personal workshop+run+bad pub. Perhaps too many pieces, but It's a neat idea.

26 Jan 2015 IceFalcon14

Looks quite interesting, been thinking of doing something similar. One problem I see though, you have no target for Hostage (it only fetches connection resources). Not sure what to replace it with as of yet though.

6 Feb 2015 ddbrown30

Why are you running Hostage? You don't have any connections in your deck.