Best Day of the Week

You really can't argue with The Cure on this one, Friday I'm in love. I'd been looking for a reason to play a deck that revolved around viruses for some time, and Friday Chip really made that decision easy. This started off as an extremely heavy virus-based deck, with the likes of Progenitors, Yusuf, Datasuckers, Festers, etc. While fun, that deck took far too long to get going. I whittled the deck down to what I thought was the most powerful combo with Ed: Imp, Gravedigger, three Friday Chips.

With Ed and Imp you can guarantee that no matter what card you see from any server, it's getting trashed no questions asked. A single Friday Chip continuously fuels that lone Imp forever, and if they purge viruses then Ed's ability or trashing with credits works just fine to get Friday Chip running again. I stumbled upon Gravedigger by accident as I was scrolling through cards looking for meaningful Friday Chip interactions, and boy let me tell you this is nasty. Three Friday Chips means you get an Imp token and two viruses on Gravedigger every turn unless you fail to trash or they purge. A purge means they lost a turn which is valuable, a failure to trash means you were likely drawing up or making money, not the end of the world.

As powerful as this combination is, it's not the entire focus of the deck. I found that building everything for Friday Chip takes too long and is prone to purges even with the likes of Acacia and/or Fester. So we use the conspiracy breakers and Security Nexus to enable actual runs. The rest of the deck is built with this in mind, link from excellent sources in The Archivist and Maxwell James, drip econ for those turns where your clicks are best spent on Gravedigger trashes, burst econ for the early game and to get things installed, and finally Laguna Velasco District for the card draw you'll inevitably need.

This deck is already in it's 10th version and still has room for tweaks, don't be afraid to play around with it. Maybe you feel like Hemorrhage is superior to Gravedigger or Professional Contacts would serve you better than Laguna. I've seen a couple decks on here try to make Friday Chip work and I think mine is the best iteration yet, but I'd love to hear feedback from the collective mind here on NRDB.