College is a time to experiment

Having played a lot of Stealth Kate and Stealth Andy a few months back, I'm familiar with the stealth deck disadvantage of extended setup time. Therefore, Hayley's ability to gain clicks along the way seems like a natural fit to mitigate the slower setup time.

New IDs are fun but I don't want to play each game feeling wishing I was playing Kate, so I figured I'd come up with a threshold to determine whether Hayley is an ID to get "serious" about. The Kate ability "value" I've experienced and read is in the realm of 10 - 12 credits per game depending on deck. Since a click is generally considered to be worth more than 1 credit, let's say 1.5 credits-per-click. Therefore, if I can usually get 7 Hayley's ability fires in a game without making too many sub-optimal choices to ensure an ID usage, then seems to me that Hayley is in the same ballpark as Kate. As a further comparison, Andy's 4 extra cards is sorta like 4 clicks as a base but is definitely better since -- all at once and at the start, you get to choose from 9 cards for mulligan, etc. Therefore, pegging her at 7 "free" clicks seems reasonable enough as well. Well, enough of how Hayley will be graded.

Some notes on card choices:

Professional Contacts: I've swapped him out for the baby in almost every other deck, so why keep him and his hefty tempo hit here? Mainly because I think Hayley is the ID most able to consistently use him twice a turn without excessive discard. Therefore, his value will rapidly outpace baby value within a 4+ turns and getting him turn 1 can be bonkers value. Of course when he finally appears in turn 11 after 20 click-draws, you want to smash his hipster face. Should I have other card draw -- probably but card slots and I hate drawing diesels with pro-co on the table.

Personal Workshop + Stimhack: Some of my first runner tournament decks were Chaos Theory stimshop, so I've always been fond of this econ package. PW synergizes well with rapid pro-co drawing since you don't have to actually pay for things to get them out of your hand. Also PW lets you use your ability also on the corps turn which is great. Main problem I have with PW is that usually the 2nd one is dead and the 3rd is most definitely dead. Occasionally I can justify a 2nd one installed and ticking down which is fantastic for setting up your rig for almost nothing but it's rare that makes sense. In first games, sometimes can't even keep the 1 PW produce value because all the h/w and s/w is pretty cheap and I want to install from hand as well.

Box-E: Yup, astroble + akamatsu's are great with Hayley as is all cheap, good h/w but went with box-e because I'll be burning my brain on drugs repeatedly and it saves card slots by providing all the memory I'll need in a single console.

Levy: Yeah, you won't be getting back that much that you want, but I just like to have a levy in case all my dog tokens get consumed and clone chips and ghost runners and, somehow, I haven't lost yet.

Potential Weaknesses

• No ice destruction. The breaker suite is about as good as it gets for slicing through ice efficiently but there's still several, fairly common ice that'll ruin your day -- NeXT Silver (oh how I hate you without parasite), Ashigaru are too examples.

• No draw outside Pro-co. This really pushes the variance up. Pro-co in first 12 cards draw is okay after that becomes a real question of whether to even install.

• undoubtedly plenty of others.

In my first 5 games, I'm averaging about 40% of turns using Hayley's ability. If that continues, she'll be getting a C at best based on 15-ish turn games so hopefully can knuckle down and get that score up.

Any questions or feedback is appreciated, thanks.