Awakened Bioroids go to College
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Mark 14
A Bioroid ice hosted on an Awakening Centre in a server with Breaker Bay Grid costs 12 (twelve!!) less to rez. That means a 3 credit Janus 1.0!
With The Twins, you can rez a Janus hosted on an Awakening Centre in your scoring remote, find a copy of Janus with the ability from The Foundry then trash the copy you just fetched to force the runner to encounter Janus twice! Hopefully they die at this point. If they don't die, or you don't draw a Janus, you can try for the kill by paying 6 to rez a Merlin. Obviously it won't go on an Awakening Centre, but it does do 8 damage with The Twins and the Foundry, and sometimes runners feel safe face-checking without a code gate breaker.
Heimdall is included for when you need to actually protect the contents of the combo server while waiting for The Twins or Janus. It can occasionally land a point or two of brain damage or seriously drain the runners credits which can help set up future Janus or Merlin kills.
Economy is provided by Hedge, Sweeps, Blue Level and Eve. Please note that each Breaker Bay Grid beyond the first (which you should save for the combo) can either rez an Eve for free or set up a second kill server if needed.
If the runner won't be baited into a remote but is seriously telegraphing a route of attack (e.g. RnD Interface, being Gabe, etc...), you can put the combo on a carefully selected central, and try to kill them from there.
With 3 copies of Eli, Next Silver, and Next Bronze, and only 7 agendas, you should be able to create taxing enough centrals and ride your luck to stay alive long enough for the combo at least some of the time.
Obviously, this is not a very serious, or well tuned deck. It won't work if the runner runs first click with a full grip. It wont work if the runner has a pumpable sentry breaker and the credits to use it. It will occasionally land an audacious and extremely funny kill though, and isn't that what Netrunner is all about?
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18 May 2015
FarCryFromHuman
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18 May 2015
Tsgstarwars
Love seeing someone using Awakening Center, never really found a use for it. I know its not actually out yet, but Brain-Taping Warehouse would be awesome for if the runner does run first click. Breaker bay grid + brain taping warehouse + awakening center = free Janus if they run first click! Maybe this deck could morph into some kind of brain damage deck with Self-Destruct Chips and Ryon Knight to punish them if the Janus 1.0 isn't leathal. Only problem is I'm not sure if breaker bay grid + awakening center works. Might have to ask someone who knows more about the game than me :) Reclamation Order would also be an amazing card to throw in here. Also, Heinlein Grid might be rather nasty if they try to click break the Janus. Finally, I'd replace the NEXT ice with more bioroids. I guess you're foundry, but I would rather have more really expensive bioroids to awaken. Oh, and a Wotan or two might be a nice ETR being awakened. |
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18 May 2015
FarCryFromHuman
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18 May 2015
Tsgstarwars
You are right, since a weaknesss to siphon would be punishing if the deck ran only bioroids, I just love the synergy with the (upcomming) Brain-Taping Warehouse. NEXT is probably the right call. As far as your comments about agenda comp, I agree that hades shard is just too good to pass up. Maybe replace the other two Project Wotans with NAPDs and 1 Haas' Pet Project? |
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18 May 2015
MrAaronSA
The synergy between Awakening Center and The Twins seems shaky here. We already know "in the server" and "protecting the server" are distinct, and we know Breaker Bay Grid works with Awakening Center because the ice is considered to be in the server. So then why would the ice also be considered to be "protecting the server" when rezzed. The Twins requires the ice to be protecting the server, and I don't think that trigger condition will be met here. I may be wrong. |
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18 May 2015
juicyd
I've been playing a similar deck for a while now (in Stronger Together) and we have never seen a reason to believe that The Twins works with the ice on Awakening Center. The real star of the deck is Breaker Bay Grid however. The card saves me upwards of 20 credits on a regular basis and allows rezzing of the big Bioroids.
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18 May 2015
Mushroom No Shroom
There is syngergy here, though perhaps not in the way you would expect. The Twins and Awakening Center both trigger from the runner passing the last piece of ice. You can let Awakening Center trigger first then use The Twins to send them back to the ice protecting the server. When they pass the ice again you can trigger Awakening Center a second time. |
This looks like the best kind of fun. I have a few thoughts:
Architect would be delightful here. You can use its subs to install the ICE you burn with Awakening Center and The Twins, getting more use out of it. Archived Memories is probably even more awesome, even if it can be used fewer times. It creates a check-like situation where the runner knows you have the ICE in hand that will smoke him if he runs your scoring server.
You could try NEXT Gold instead of Merlin if killers are as big a problem as you think. It might be a little less reliable, but you could use the extra 3 influence for The Root, which is wonderful to let sit in your scoring server while you find agendas to score. It is also a big enough threat to bait out a run, leaving you with a pretty nice scoring window.
Project Wotan feels like your weakest agenda here, and the other fragments would fit in really well (especially Hades Fragment... good god that agenda is so good for The Foundry). Director Haas' Pet Project lets you build or rebuild your death server on a whim, although it would be annoying to rebuild your agenda suite to work it in.