In A Red Dress and Alone (Jamieson's Store Champ Deck)

I really like this deck. nice and simple, and uses a lot of uncommon cards. My only thought is that I think All-Nighter is better swapped with Same Old Thing. Your rig assembly relies a lot on events. What if you've test-runned three times and you lose a breaker? You're pretty much SOL.

It has 3, would you like him to go up to 5? :P

This is an awesome deck. I too prefer strategies that are strong but employ cards that are completely void in the meta. A deck with Morning Star, Torch, Woman in a Red Dress and Eureka! I like it! Thanks for posting and thanks for the great strategy/deck building breakdown (I hate seeing published decks with little or no explanation about the strategy).

So when Oracle May comes out, what influence are you cutting for her?

No multi-access makes me raise an eyebrow, but I guess if your runs are cheap enough maybe you don't need it.

Why do you include Scavenge? I don't understand it. But, I really like this deck :)

I just understand it, hahaha...

I feel like Tinkering would be great here, both to allow access to really heavy barriers... and to disintegrate Archer for 1c.

Obviously, since I am not the creator of the deck, just the re-poster of it, I can't comment on changes Jamieson would make. I just thought it was an interesting and original deck and thought the netrunnerdb community would like a chance to see it.

@scumblr: wouldn't you be missing 1 strength if you used Morning Star to go through Archer?

@javistalker: please read the description, they mention why Scavenge is included. If you Test Run a program then Scavenge it to play itself, then you don't have to put it back on your of your stack from Test Run

@DeMarko: One of the three personal touches in the deck would allow Morning Star to break an Archer (with Tinkering). Of course, that is a few combo pieces, but still possible.

I'm gonna try this deck with few changes. Since you won't use Kate's ability on programs and you use 5MU rig, this is pretty obvious:

-1 Kate McCaffrey, -3 Akamatsu Mem Chip, -2 Daily Casts, -2 Quality Time.

+1 Chaos Theory, +2 Diesel

@x3r0h0ur Did not even notice the three SOTs...d'oh.

I've just a doubt. Since the current meta is still dominated by Fast Advance Corps, how do you counter them with no R&D nor HQ lock? Am I missing something?

Let's do the math. Eureka-ing a program will save you 4, 5, and 6 credits, once per game at most, and will usually require Motivation. Modded with Kate saves you 4 credits each time. So at best you are saving 3 credits with the use of 3 cards. Change Eureka to Modded and add RD interface, which you can pay for with a modded.

Guys - After looking at this deck, I tested it on OTCGN for 10 games. BUT only after a few changes. Replaced quality time with deisel (quality time is expensive). Removed daily casts with inflitration (I wanna make sure I dont run in to an ambush after all the hard work getting the exp ice breakers installed). Replaced Morning star with Battering Ram (I tried morning star but it was so vulnerable to Weyland Ice's especially when you can advance a Hadrian). Results were 8 wins 2 losses, but losses were with 4 agendas in hand. My conclusion - this deck is GOOD!

Here are the reasons why this deck is so good, and answer to some of your issues: - Eureka is perfect for this deck. Because it combos with Test run. Often I used test run but didn't have scavage. Eurka helped in the next turn to install the program for free. Modded is also a good solution but then you do not need motivation in this deck.
- The beauty of this deck is having both motivation and woman in red dress installed. It gives you a great edge! Woman in red dress really f$%ks up the corps strategy. You do not need R&D lock or HQ lock.
- Account syphon is a must for this deck. I often had more than 10 credits at a time which is not seen much with Kate.
- Same old thing is also a life saver. Imagine using it for infiltration, when you need it most. or Test run, or Scavage, or most importantly Account Syphon!!

But you gotta play certain strategies with this deck: - Against NBN & W & HB you must run early to rez the ices and put pressure on corp. Otherwise you run in to problems and wait too long trying to create a full rig - Against Jinteki, just the garotte early will serve you well - Also in 4 games I nearly came to the end of my deck, so be careful how you play against Jinteki (do 1 net damage)

But last and not least - woman in red dress is probably the most under-rated card in the game. I'm surprised others do not use it as much. You learn so much about the corp deck and strategy - two thumbs up!

I love how the Bad Publicity guys come up with something different and go back to older cards to see how they can be used as the pool develops. Lots of folk play the same old decks, or just use other people's - its great to see some innovation going on.

I've been playing with a deck quite similar to this one. My results were, ultimately, very different. While Eureka/Test Run/Motivation looks good on paper, it is extremely costly and luck-driven solution. You have just 3 cards you want to pull out. The chance that the next card in deck will be an icebreaker, and that you already have Motivation installed and Eureka in hand... it's just bad. And even if, you're losing a click. With Test Run - a lot of money.

Basically, you're relying on draw and tricks to set up your deck. By the time it's on the table, you have already lost. There's no R&D or HQ lock, there simply no way to seal the game and money-wise, it's still quite click-intensive. No Datasucker means paying a lot for every run. Without any interfaces or Maker's Eye, I fail to see how can you steal agendas with this setup.

I dumped the idea of such a deck, altogether. Maybe it works in your meta, I failed miserably with it in mine.

Why not just use Chaos Theory and replace the Akamatsu with some resources...

Would consider running toolbox in this too?

Changes I have made: (-2 Quality time, +3 Diesel), (-1 Garotte + 1 Femme), (-2 All-Nighter, +1 Nerve Agent)

Diesel's just preference. I like the efficiency of Garotte, but with Motivation, you're probably going to Eureka something. That leaves you with extra Scavenges to redirect Femme's bypass. Nerve Agent over all nighter, just because I like multiaccess, and Nerve Agent compliments Woman In The Red Dress.

I have to say I disagree with almost every syllable of rattkin's comment, based on experience with the deck. In order:

• "While Eureka/Test Run/Motivation looks good on paper, it is extremely costly and luck-driven solution." Left out of this is Scavenge, which is actually the principal Test Run combo, not Motivation/Eureka. It's an exceedingly cost-efficient solution, and in fact Test Run tricks rarely cost more than 1 or 2 credits more than a SMC-based tutor strategy would do, while getting you a guaranteed monster breaker in the process (to say nothing of the cost effectiveness of a breaker like Torch once it's on the table). The bottom line is that there are at least 3 different combinations of cards that will get your breakers on the table for less than retail cost, and if there's one thing that Test Run ELIMINATES, it's dependence on luck to draw your breakers. Describing this approach as entirely luck-based is simply bizarre. Yes, it's possible jam up on awkward events, but there's not a strategy in A:NR that doesn't present some chance of awkward draws. With SOT there's insane redundancy, too, so I find the deck to be surprisingly consistent.

• "Basically, you're relying on draw and tricks to set up your deck. By the time it's on the table, you have already lost." Sometimes that might happen, but not any more often than other big rig Shaper decks, and in my experience I find that if I can spend less time jerking around with hardware and programs like Prepaid Voice PAD and SMC, I'm actually much better off.

• "There's no R&D or HQ lock" How not? If you can't figure out how to pound through HQ and R&D with that setup, I don't know what to say. No ICE is keeping you out of centrals with the rig this deck threatens.

• "there simply no way to seal the game and money-wise, it's still quite click-intensive. No Datasucker means paying a lot for every run. Without any interfaces or Maker's Eye, I fail to see how can you steal agendas with this setup." This sounds a lot like tunnel vision to me. A few things: 1) Multi-access is not an absolute requirement as long as you can run efficiently. Stealing agendas one at a time is perfectly fine. 2) Datasucker is very powerful and can make for cheap or even free runs using fixed breakers, but it's not the only way to get 'er done. Again, I just don't know what definition of "cheap" we're working with here, but a Fracter than can walk through Eli for 2 credits WITHOUT having to ramp up a Datasucker in the early game seems awfully cheap and efficient to me. 3) Once the rig is set up, all you have to do is run, make money, run, make money. Kati Jones still makes a lot of cash, Motivation-Oracle May is absolutely terrific, and even the dead Test Runs you sometimes see in the late game can be used for shuffle effects if you want to find an econ card.

Besides, there's obviously got to be "a way to seal the game" if a guy is going to take down a Chronos Protocol event with it. Some games had to get sealed, at some point, by him, using this deck, for that to have happened.

Maybe the problem here is theoretical. People have become very, very focused on click efficiency, and have come to assume that click efficiency is the only method for winning games at A:NR. But in addition to click efficiency there's also what you might call click efficacy, or potency. This style of deck is much more focused on click efficacy than click efficiency, though of course there are some real efficiencies built into it as well.

The best illustration of this is the very smart choice of All-Nighter, which is a perfect example of a "click efficacy" card. It's true that all you're doing with it is spending two clicks (and a card slot) to get two clicks back later. This is hardly click-efficient. What it does do, though, is enable those two click s to actually matter when you have more information in the mid- to late-game. Rather than blowing them on draws or credits "just because," those clicks are stored so they can have the maximum impact at the critical time of the game. Faerie is another example. Yes, you burn resources on a card that just trashes itself a moment later, but you're able to squeeze maximum impact out of the card at the moment you need it because it's so cheap and easy to deploy, and is simply guaranteed to do what you hope it will do.

A final example is Woman in the Red Dress, which seems like an odd way to spend 3 credits until you consider the opportunity cost of attacking various servers trying to find the agenda that may or may not be hiding in them. WitRD makes it possible to avoid wasted clicks, enabling your runs to really matter when you need them to, rather than being spent flailing about. Think of the credits saved using that kind of approach, to say nothing of the blind draws you're avoiding with cards like Motivation.

Pro Contacts, a "2 clicks for the price of one" card, is perfectly illustrative of the power of click efficiency, but it's not the only way to attack the problems that A:NR presents to the runner, whose biggest issue of concern is lack of information. You could argue that this deck sacrifices a bit of efficiency at the margins (if you consider Test Run-Scavenge or Test Run-Eureka "inefficient," which I don't), but what it brings home is the importance of making really powerful plays in the early game to set up really powerful plays in the late game. And again, based on my experience, that's not always a bad place to be.

Fun deck that can do a lot of damage. Only played it a couple times but I can tell it's not going to do me much good in my meta. Between Fast Advance not giving me enough time to set up my rig and Blue Sun with two barriers I literally can't break (outer Curtain Wall and advanced Hadrian's Wall).

I'm gonna do some tweaking and see if I can make it more workable because it has some really great combos I'd love to see in action more. I may need at least 1 or 2 SMC because my first match I went through 25 of my 45 cards before I saw any breakers or test run. The odds on that are low of course but considering there is only one of each breaker I need to be sure I can get my hands on it if my deck is just giving me nothing but hate.