Susan Got Offered a Free Trip to Camp (3-0 GNK)

If you want a solution to David, how about swapping a Firewall for Tyrant or Hadrian's Wall? The big downside is that they are pricy as hell, but the ability to pick off multiple counters must be great for this deck and you don't look like your suffering much for money. If they don't have David, then you can advance them to some unbelievable strength and challenge them to break in to your server again. It's not like Criminal emergency shutdowns are as widespread as when those cards were new.

I used Tyrant for a while, but Parasite just absolutely murders it, and decks that have David pretty much always have Parasite. Hadrian's is a decent option, but the 3 influence means I'd have to lose the Crisium in addition to the Fire Wall for it. It's probably worth testing out.

I've been doing extensive testing on my own oddly similar deck, and here's what I can report:

5 advance-able ice (with no other advance-able assets) is not enough to ensure you have targets when they hit your early Space Camps. Consider Shadow as another low-influence way of holding tokens, and a very solid taxer (people are always paranoid about getting tags, regardless of what deck you're running), or consider an advance-able trap like Project Junebug to hold your space camp tokens in a place the runner will never go (remember to actually rez the Junebug against criminals so it doesn't get hit by Drive By).

An Offer You Can't Refuse is terrible, those people who told you that were right. It's the card that brought me back to my Tennin Spacecamp deck, thinking it would revive it, but it just sounds better on paper than it actually is. Early game, you don't want it, because it's expensive and you haven't had enough time to set up your scary archives. Late game, unless you're sitting at 6 points, the runner will always just give you the point, which actually isn't all that helpful by itself. Unfortunately, it's a card that's going to sit there taking up HQ space until you can find the perfect time to use it, and then the runner will just say "...nah.". It would also be a lot stronger if you were running something like Ichi 1.0 for an alternate rig destruction win condition (they can't click to break it). Gotta admit though, it's hilarious to drop a The Future Perfect at 6 points and use An Offer You Can't Refuse (3x spacecamps in archives) and Trick of Light to score it right out of your hand.

Other thoughts:

• Commercialization doesn't seem like it's going to get you much except in a very ideal situation, meaning it's another hand-clogger.
• Security Testing (a very common card) shuts your entire strategy down completely
• No smart runner is ever going to let you plop down a card inside your scoring remote and NOT either a: run it, OR b: deactivate your Tennin ability. Your agenda suite forces you to rely on this technique (except on your 2nd and 3rd Medical Breakthroughs), and I'm sorry, but no one should ever let you get away with that.

@Bigguyforyou518 I agree that I've had games where some of the issues you've mentioned have cropped up, but I would also say that after extensive practice with this deck, the deck provides ways to play around those issues. I haven't had problems only having 5 advanceable ice. Maybe 1% of games have I had that feeling. If I'm not seeing the advanceable stuff then I probably have an agenda installed behind a Susan and a quandary.

Offer You Can't Refuse very rarely results in someone running. I mostly use it when I'm at 4 points to get myself in range of winning with another 2-point agenda.

A 1 or 2 of Project Junebug is probably a decent addition.

I wouldn't swap out Commercialization. In fact, I might add another one in. 4 advancement tokens (which almost always happens) means it's a hedge fund from 0 credits. Often it hits for 5-8 credits.

Sec Test hasn't been a problem. Against criminals, you just ice archives as soon as sneakdoor or Sec Test hits the table. No criminal is going to pay through a strength 3 ice wall or crick every turn just to disable your ability. Once you've iced archives, you just hold your traps in HQ as much as possible rather than tossing them into archives. But against Gang Sign (which is the most common criminal archetype I've seen lately), you would do that anyways.

On your last point about "smart runner"s, if someone is running your remote every time you install a card in it, just install a snare, space camp, or shock. Then do it again. Also, you can double ToL a Nisei from hand if the situation presents itself and no scoring window is open. If I can get a runner to pay 4-5 credits to turn off my ability, I consider that a win in most situations. Especially if on my next turn I just ToL, Advance, Advance a Nisei.

So I see your concerns, but in practice they just haven't been an issue.

@Shulmey

Sec Test hasn't been a problem. Against criminals, you just ice archives as soon as sneakdoor or Sec Test hits the table. No criminal is going to pay through a strength 3 ice wall or crick every turn just to disable your ability.

Not to come off as argumentative here, but any security testing criminal who understands how Tennin Institute works would absolutely pay through a strength 3 ice wall to turn off your ability (especially if you just dropped a facedown card in your remote). Don't forget that Security Testing comes with Desperado, so whatever you think you're taxing them...it's actually 3s less.

More to the point, now, in addition to heavily icing up R&D and your scoring remote as usual, you're also reinforcing HQ (which you said you do against criminals) and now reinforcing Archives (possibly with an Ice Wall that you manually advanced 3 times).

I'm not trying to be annoyingly hypothetical - this is basic criminal strategy: force the corp to spread their ICE thin. With only 13 ICE, that's going to spread you very thin indeed.

@Bigguyforyou518 I completely agree with your argument in the context of a single run. If there is a server that they can pay 2 credits to get into in order to turn off my ability for a turn, they will probably do that since it still gives them a credit. I have noticed that if I just pump the strength once or twice more, a good runner will have to find a different server to get into because spending a credit and a click every single turn just to turn off Tennin won't be worth it, and the fantastic thing is that as soon as they stop running every turn, future runs become more taxing.

Maybe your meta is just a lot more criminal heavy than mine, but I feel like criminals don't have a good answer to so much of my ice that they just haven't been an issue.

Also, Crick is still in the deck only because of Criminals running on archives, and Crisium Grid is generally most effective against crims as well. I used to play a lot of criminal and I hated playing against decks like this that could tax every server and at the same time punish you for not running.

When I read Security Testing, it make me think that Security Testing doesn't work during a run in the Corp turn. It start with "When your turn begins" and follow with "run on that server this turn". So it must be the first run that append the turn the runner selected a server.

@beam1306 That's correct, Security Testing only works on the runner's turn.