Corporate Deforestation (Nuvem SA Rigshooter)

Nuvem SA has been one of my favorite identities ever since it was released. The combination of extraordinary income and R&D filtering is great, but I still needed to find a way to turn those credits into a victory. Enter a lesser-used upgrade - Corporate Troubleshooter. When combined with any ice with the potential to trash programs, she can nearly guarantee that those subroutines fire, shredding the Runner's rig and opening wide scoring windows for you to score your big agendas.

The ice that I've found most effective with her is anything with both program destruction and an ETR - Hagen, Rototurret, and Archer are this deck's ice of choice. The program restrictions on Hagen and Hammer aren't as bad as they first appear - a lot of Runners these days run several non-breaker programs, and as the title of this deck implies, cutting down a World Tree can be a very powerful play. Most other ice is either cheap gearchecks, or other program trashing sentries. I highly recommend keeping an ETR as the innermost ice, especially in your scoring remote. That way if you wind up having to use a Troubleshooter on something like Stavka, you can still trash the right breaker to make sure your agendas stay safe.

I've found that my trickiest matchup for this deck are actually WhaleWolf rigs. Rigshooting is in theory very useful against them, since they run very few programs and don't often have ways to get them back outside of Ashen. However, both breakers scale much faster than your Trobleshooter will, meaning you can't often afford to make your ice truly unbreakable, and they often are more than capable of winning on centrals, meaning less opportunities for you to rigshoot with ZATO. Most other matchups are fairly doable - Buzzsaw, Cleaver, and Echelon all scale poorly, meaning you can efficiently use Troubleshooter on them multiple times and outspeed the recursion those decks usually have, and Criminal usually doesn't pack much recursion so even one or two trashes can swing the game in your favor. The only other card I'd recommend to watch out for is Bankhar - doesn't matter how strong your ice is if all it does is a few points of net damage.