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So, this deck was born out of a misguided idea to combine Argus, lots and lots of one point agendas, and The Board (along with Oaktown Grid to protect it as much as possible).
That proved gimmicky and fragile, because the Runner would steal the board and win. Or even just trash it. They would need to get into that server only once, and that would be enough.
So, after a couple of iterations (one including Self-destruct), I abandoned that. And gradually, I found the solutions to my problems.
As mentioned, the cost to steal an agenda is tolerable. How can we make it worse?
Corporate Town plays two roles: it trashes potentially essential resources (some game breaking ones are Off-Campus Apartment, Film Critic, anything that hosts a bunch of cards, Adjusted Chronotype, etc). And it also costs the Runner precious time and money to trash, especially when paired with Oaktown Grid. Even unprotected, its role isn't to be there for the entire game. It's, again, to give us breathing space. And we can rez it almost anytime, with so many small agendas!
This deck wins both on points and flatline. It's never straightforward, though, some circumstances need to converge, usually.
To win, we generally want to score The Cleaners, to keep the Runner point-poor, to give us 3 precious agenda points, and finally, for the ability.
Then, on one hand, there's plenty of ways for a flatline to occur:
On the other hand, we should always keep pressuring to win by points, mainly using our high-point agendas (Oaktown Renovation and Project Atlas).
To accomplish that, we need to be building a very costly server (a couple of Archer, some of the advanceable ICE, etc.), and then we need to do two things. One is to distract them with taxing (for them) or really helpful (for us) assets in other servers, potentially protected by Checkpoints and Oaktown Grids, so that they run those and not our scoring server. Two is to bluff low point agendas in the scoring server, so that we can see how they manage to go through our defenses (as they're bound to do at least a few times), while at the same time draining them of money, and perhaps counters (eg. from D4v1d, "Lady" and so on). This gives us windows to score Atlases or Renovations. As long as we've scored The Cleaners, we only need a couple of those, and we're done.
We do not win, when the Runner accidentally steals The Cleaners before we've managed to get a hold of it. We do not win, if the News Teams are all stashed in the bottom of the deck, and thus all stolen points count. We do not win if all our Posted Bountys come too early, or too late, and we don't have Scorched Earth in hand at the time. We do not win our economy cards are late.
This deck is vulnerable to Runners that can trash for lessened or no cost (Imp, Whizzard etc.). They make nonsense of our pressure assets: they trash our Corporate Towns right after we rez them, making the agenda sacrifice worthless. They trash our Mumbas before running, and then we can't rez. And so on.
We also lose one of our main advantages if the Runner is playing Film Critic. Sure, it's slow, but they have time, as we're not pressuring them.
We do badly against Apex with Heartbeat, as it's very hard to flatline it.
Mongoose is always a sad card for us, as it makes our Archers pretty easy to deal with.
We obviously don't do well against Jesminder.
I finally won some games as Corp! Let me know how I can improve this deck.
6 comments |
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23 Apr 2016
FarCryFromHuman
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23 Apr 2016
Letsaros
The Cleaners doesn't work with the Argus passive. With the Argus passive the dmg is not done by the corp. |
23 Apr 2016
Reverse
Fuck. You folks are right, I didn't realize. This honestly just made this deck a little bit worse for me. :-/ I even think it might be implemented wrong on Jinteki.net.
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23 Apr 2016
bracketbot
A problem with this deck is that there are a lot of hate cards for your ID as well as some of the cards in your deck. Councilman for Corp Town, Film Critic for your ID and Data Dealer/Artist Colony for News Team and the bajillions of things people are running to trash assets. Still, it's a cool concept for a deck |
23 Apr 2016
Reverse
Thanks for your kind words! |
24 Apr 2016
Letsaros
What you will find that you need in Argus is someway to tag the runner other than your passive. You passive can be shut down by film critic and/or NACH. That why most people run 2-3 Data Ravens. If you don't wanna pay the influence there's always Hunter and/or Shadow. Shadow is the junkier combo because you might need a Dedication Ceremony to take it out of Mimic Range but that's 2 cards. Especially since after 1-2 Bad Pub the trace 3 won't matter much. (Tough since you are running builder it might work better) Same with Checkpoint. After some bad-pub runners can pass it by paying. It's the reason i ended up taking it out. |
Sadly The Cleaners doesn't work with Argus. It does work with the rest of your cards though!