Running with Corrosive Knives

Your goal is to get DinoBlade with Magnum Opus funding everything by the end of turn 3.

Your starting hand MUST have a code gate breaker + Magnum Opus OR one of those & Self-modifying Code to tutor for what is missing. If you have to mulligan & still don’t get what you need, it isn’t the end of the world – just start tearing through your Stack with Diesel & Quality Time until you find everything.

You NEED to get MO on the table first. Once that is settled, the rest will follow much easier.

Cyber-Cypher is there in as an early game breaker until you get DinoBlade working. Cyber-Cypher is the code gate breaker I will tutor for with Self-Modifying Code, if I didn’t start with Blade in my opening hand.

Multiple Ghost Runners will easily fund Dagger and the creds are available for all your breakers.

You will usually need Leprechaun on the table to get all your stuff out. I don’t bother to put MO on it because I want that on the table ASAP. You’ll use it for SMC. {Unless you get a game of perfect draws! = DinoBlade, Magnum Opus (2MU), Corroder (1MU), Dagger (1MU).}

I chose to spend my influence on Corroder and Lucky Find. Corroder is the best barrier breaker available, IMO. Lucky Find may seem odd, but I’ve had a lot of games where they’ve allowed me to get my DinoBlade + MO rig and on the table & Running the end of turn 2.

The deck is short on cards that punish the Corp. I wanted to put in Vamp, but it was mostly a utility card and didn’t always hit the table. (When it did though, it was a game winner.) Hopefully, the Rig is cruel / fast enough to plow through everything the Corp puts in front of you on its own.

Kit will Tinker to force a couple layers of ICE to be code gates. You can then play Maker’s Eye to run with DinoBlade that stays as strong as needed the whole run - accessing 3 cards from R&D.

Net Celebrity is there to play in defense of other currents, but it never hurts to have a recurring credit.