Nasir, Cyber Vandal

Nasir Meidan, ICE wrecker. As is so often the case when I think I've come up with something, a cursory glance on the internet shows that I am nowhere near as original as I like to think...

The idea here is to use PW, Clone Chip and SMC as credit sinks so you don't waste your money, and Datasucker and Parasite to trash ICE. Wyrm is a newer addition, and links up well with this strategy.

Economically it's an odd deck, relying on Order of Sol, Personal Workshop, and recurring credits, with ways of making use of Nasir's sudden credit fluxes. This means you can cheerfully run against almost anything unrezzed, as his ability deals with it (particularly if you have an SMC or Clone Chip out), but you will absolutely suck against traces and will be unable to trash things.

As a first stab, it runs quite well, but is incredibly rough around the edges. The icebreaker suite is pretty terrible; it's a mark of how out of practice I am with Shaper that I thought it was okay at first glance. However, it's a mark of the deck's potential that I managed to win some with only Inti and Pipeline out as my breakers!

I suspect that Atman may be the general answer here, but before anything else this deck needs a sharpshooter and a Deus X. I kept being caught by Ichi, and thank god I didn't face Komainu.

Test Run and Levy were intended to be used as extra tutors and recursion to keep the whole thing rolling, but I only played Test Run once, and I've yet to play the Levy. The cost is a little high in a deck like this; you either have to run into a large piece of ice or click a lot. I'll probably keep a single LARLA as a backup, but I'm open to suggestions for the three slots that just opened up.

Ideally I'd like programs or hardware, I think, to keep getting use out of the PW.

So, any thoughts? As I said, it's only a very rough start, but I really enjoy playing it, so i would like to get it into some sort of fighting trim.