Corporate Architect

I mostly play Cambridge PE, and I really like what Architect does for that deck. I started to piece together what a HB shell game deck with Architect would look like, and I realized there was a ton more synergy in the deck than I anticipated.

It's a shell game deck at its heart, but it uses the zany interactions between Engineering the Future, Architect, Alix T4LB07, and other asset economy to come out of the gate loaded with credits.

What are we going to spend all of these credits on? We will probably have to sink a lot of it into Ash 2X3ZB9CY traces and Corporate Troubleshooter to slow down runner accesses and to make sure our Architects keep firing every run. When those subs do fire, we install assets/agendas in remotes and Ash/CT in centrals. We can even reinstall the CT we just trashed from Archives!

Hopefully, while we keep dancing that jig, we will have enough credits left over to triple advance our agendas that have been sitting there unprotected for a few turns.

One non-obvious combo that jumped out to me was Eli/Viper+Architect+Alix. If you successfully drain the runner of his last click, rez Alix before Architect triggers. On your turn, install things and trash Alix for click 3 - you'll get him back later.

Psychic Field and Snare! are critical components of a shell game deck, but I had second thoughts about also including Shock!. The deck doesn't need card draw, but Jackson actually still fits right in with this deck. He would be another unrezzed asset and he would allow me to filter agendas out of archives in an emergency. However, switching to Jackson lowers the ambush density of the deck, and he can't be recycled with Architect which goes against the theme of the deck.

Before making that decision I want to try and go all in on this strategy. If it turns out Project Vitruvius and Architect aren't good enough at keeping agendas out of archives, I'll consider bringing Jackson in.