NEXT Line of Defence v1.3

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teddykgb 14

This is a glacier deck through-and-through. Very few fancy tricks, just taxing ice with a heavy focus on ETR. There's a hefty range of low-cost ice to better guarantee a good start for the ID, and plenty of mid-to-high range ice to strengthen your servers later.

The best strategies these days largely depend on the runner, but the general idea is to lay out some cheap ice, hopefully three before the game begins. If you're lucky enough to draw up more ICE and an ABT, score it quickly. With 23 ICE in the deck, your odds are pretty good of getting at least two more out for free.

Without ABT, hopefully you've got an Adonis or other econ to bulk up while you wait for a scoring window. An early power shutdown can help, especially against an over-aggressive criminal or parasite heavy decks.

Archived memories is there to pull any cards out of archives that may have been lost to power shutdown, but generally this should only be used for agendas, other econ cards or NEXT ice. Be sparing because it is currently the only recursion in this build (outside of project vitruvius).

Scoring agendas should be a 'never-advance' style here, with the domestic sleepers serving the two-fold purpose of either getting an agenda past The Source, or activating Archer. NAPD is there for security, although its actually fairly easy to score these against Nasir in my experience, even when installed and known to the runner.

This deck has seen moderate success in testing (4-2) since I've put it together. I'm open to any feedback, comments or suggestions!

2 comments
14 Jun 2014 zzzzzuu

Been playing around with NEXT Design (mine here) abit too!

A constant question I found myself asking is "would it have run better in Haas-Bioroid: Engineering the Future?" Coz that identity is hard to beat alright.

Also, I feel thoroughly insecure activating Accelerated Beta Test without the presence of O Holy One, Jackson Howard. Then again, that's just my preference. :)

Lastly, gonna standby @PeekaySK's helpful comment: Successful Demonstration is totally boss in NEXT. Word!

14 Jun 2014 teddykgb

Hey, thanks for the feedback!

My rationale for this over EtF is the early scoring setup. It's not uncommon for me to draw 2-3 ice, so you plant your best ETR in front of a remote to start and whichever centrals you're most concerned about. If it's an ABT and your odds are looking good, score immediately and wall up. If you have good ice in front of centrals, you may even want to just create a tower with ABT. If it's not ABT, like say a vitruvius, take the opportunity to try and over-advance it early. Worst case scenario, you lose two points which doesn't mean much at that stage of the game anyway. I'd say in 75% of all the situations I've encountered, that early agenda is scored.

Took a look at yours and I like what I see. My initial designs for the deck included successful demo, but I ended up taking it out because I found either the opponent just wasn't running or had enough money to get through. I find between archived memories and vitruvius, you can recur those hedge funds and the like with reckless abandon, or protect yourself from the results of a power shutdown or failed beta tests.

I have an updated version of this deck coming... -2 pup, +1 wotan, -1 subliminal messaging, + 2 J-How. Probably still needs adjustment but it's playing quite well so far.