Exile - Core + Creation & Control Only

As rain poured down on a mid-autumn night in New Angeles, the street were emptied. Behind the big city lights and down a dark and unused alleyway, a light flickered from one of broken and ran down buildings.

Inside the building a guy was working in his own accord. Tapping away at the keyboard at a rate of knots and then all a sudden stop and to search for a pencil to write something down only for the next minute to scrunch it up and through away. Then leaning back against his chair he would swing for awhile and grab some previous scrunched up paper and start typing again.

Exile, as he is known in the Shapers society. No one knows why but maybe his passion for freelance coding and armitage code busting, has left him with no time for inter personal skills. Or as some say his mind is too busy with codes.

He is a talent as many of his friends, (the term friends used loosely, more contact and associates) has quoted time and again but an enigma at the same time. Many has tried to get him an interview with the big Corporations but all has failed with the same ending.

"Son, your codes are useless junk, scavenged from past master – has been, nothing useful to us, you might be consider a street-hawk "tech whiz" on the streets but we have many here. You need to up your game".

Incident Report:

Incident 1: Chronos Protocol (Lose 6-7) This started well, hitting an early Professional Contact, and totally confusing the Corp with scavenge Femme from one to another previously unbreakable ice, swinging the momentum in Exile favor 6-3; only to be halted by the Corp with the lack available agenda. 4x Maker's eye reveal nothing but traps. His Ark Lockdown proved to be an Achilles heel, and then the game turned when I was spotted by Marcus Batty and in attempt to get away dropped the agenda and programs to be locked out of the remote server. Lady luck was not with Exile, lost all but 1 psi game.

Incident 2: Harishchandra Ent (Win 8-3) Feeling bruised but not battered after the last Jinteki encounter, Exile decide to go for a more public approach. Breakers had little trouble with any ice. Went 5-1 up only to hit a couple of news team but knew it wasn't a problem as had data dealer somewhere in my stack. It only meant a matter of time.

Incident 3: Replicating Perfection (Win 7-1) With his ego restored, Exile was back for another Jinteki test. This time much easier running at time with no breakers was criminal. Jinteki bluff at it's worst, in between walking into HQ 4 times, whilst security was low yielded and a single remote run, this was the easiest and fastest pay day. Agenda's Exiled.

Concluding thought:

The Creation and Control was definitely a bonus and a much needed addition for the Shapers from the Core set . I have always found Kate in Core only too slow to setup and hence lose too much momentum and was always relying on a bit of lucky on memory count. If I was to be completely honest this deck though was thoroughly enjoyable and the look on people faces when it wins, can easily be ran with any other Shaper ID and be much more efficient even the Professor. The shift in meta with flashpoint cycle does add some interesting counters but that is both ways and with lots of spare influence can easily add in a combination of rumor mill/paperclip/beth etc.