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Title: "Apex"

Description:

"""

Apex rules.

This deck is designed to apocalypse mercilessly, then recur its breakers via the Anarch conspiracy suite.

Reaver Chop Bot with Apex's raw ability to draw along with Wasteland for bucks.

Seems decent against most stuff minus assetspam.

"""

Praise the machine god! Hail Omnissiah!

3 Heartbeat, 2 Braincage, 1 Plascrete. Holy shit dude.

@Gilgamesh_KoH I think everyone can speak binary, they just have trouble reading it.

I like this build. No nonsense. Apex smash. Could a Prey or two be worthwhile for those nasty little low cost ice? How well is Wasteland working out?

Wasteland is decent economy with Chop Bot 3000 chopping almost every turn, but with the sting of virtual resources only your econ pool is a little limited, especially when your big move is to blow everything up. I'd give it maybe a C minus.

Prey is probably worthwhile to blow up zero/low cost ICE. I haven't tried it in this build. In the last Apex I played it was a little lackluster, but that was in an older meta.

Interdiction is pretty hot in Apex - it takes away surprise defensive upgrades, so you can time your Apocalypse around Crisium Grid and the like, while slowing down some Corporate Assets like Adonis Campaign.

Oh ya and that Brain Cage brain damage can get prevented via Heartbeat. The Plascrete Carapace is mainly just because of how spicey BOOM! is right now everywhere, but the hand size and general dmg prevention all helps keep the Hangry AI hungry and alive.

Need to mention that this deck inspiration came from Ironcache - his build is a little different but the Conspiracy suite + Faust // no Endless Hunger idea came from a little pow wow with him.

The craziest thing to me is the thought of Apex having a Day Job.

What's his Day Job? It can't be something that has a physical presence. Is Apex a remote programmer?

Is his job creating ICE (that just so happens to have security holes easily exploited by Endless Hunger and Hunting Grounds)?

He probably worked on Tollbooth, Asteroid Belt, Data Raven, Data Ward, Fire Wall, Wraparound...

@Raiddinn Haven't you seen the art on Day Job? He's working in a call center. He's one of those automated call softwares that you phone up and press the buttons for.

Also, didn't even notice the lack of Endless Hunger. Wouldn't one or two work in case you do run into Curtain Wall?

I could see getting some decent value out of Endless Hunger post-apoc, although that breaker is extremely MU demanding so it's a lot harder to get the multiple copies of Reaver that you want up if you're running it.

Verdict: could be worth a slot or two, but Faust is doing most of the heavy lifting here as your breaker.

1010/1010 would read again

@Snake Eyes I mean you could go with a few dyson mem chips to help a little with traces and endless hunger, or just play some number of sports hopper to keep that hand size full. You should consider my list for a few card choices even though it's very old, took it to every store chap I could go to last year and loved it!

Dyson Mem Chip is fairly expensive for something that you're just going to blow up in an Apocalypse. Faust does all of the heavy lifting here for breakers. I don't think that link really matters for Apex. Sports Hopper isn't a terrible idea for draw, but the Reaver Chop Bot 3000 engine is usually feeding you 2-3 cards for free a turn anyway so I see Sports Hopper more as an emergency survival tactic or last second Faust Food for the apocalypse.

@Snake Eyes Very true, didn't really think about that. Hmm....I'm not sure then. Most everything else I'd suggest costs influence and your deck seems pretty tight in that area.

I'm too afraid to run a suite of 1 of breakers that sit in my heap half the game. I hear Ark Lockdown is a thing

@vertigen you can hide them facedown instead, and just chop bot them to bring them out when you know what the ice is, if Ark Lockdown is a concern. Faust will carry for you otherwise. When the Reaver Chop Bot 3000 engine is online Faust is pretty well more efficient than anything else anyway.

I need to make a correction on myself here - Interdiction does not stop economic assets like Adonis/pad/ etc for the turn, there's a window after the runner turn ends before the corp turn begins where they can rez. Basically what Interdiction is doing here is stopping surprise Crisium Grid or Caprice Nisei etc rezzes for the Apocalypse or remote runs. It's a more versatile but weaker version of Rumor Mill basically.