Hunger Pains

For years now we've had NoiseShop -- a deck that focuses on installing viruses, getting some sort of use out of them, and then selling them off for cash to Aesop's Pawnshop to make room for more viruses. Added to that recently has been Faust, a breaker that frees up deckspace for more viruses and speeds up the aggressive power of the deck.

Now, with the release of Data and Destiny, we have another powerful all-in-one breaker: Endless Hunger. And Endless Hunger requires just one thing for fuel: installed cards. Thus, instead of turning installed viruses into cash to then use to break ice, we skip the middleman and turn the viruses themselves into breaker bits, and smash through anything in our way.

Turning to Endless Hunger requires (obviously) some changes to the deck. First and foremost, the deck needs to deal with Endless Hunger's main drawback: memory space. To do so, we've got two Grimoires (like those were going to get left out!) and two MemStrips, givings us up to 8 extra memory even after accounting for Endless Hunger. To fill that memory we have a standard assortment of viruses, plus a small Breaker suite for cleaning up whatever ice Endless Hunger doesn't catch. We've also added in some Feedback Implants to help increase the versatility of Endless Hunger. D4VID is gone, because most of the high-strength ice you need to deal with falls to Endless Hunger -- just be sure you watch for Destroyers.

The deck is designed to play super aggressively: once Hunger is on the table, your job is to feed the beast consistently with as many viruses as you can cram down its throat. Clone chip them back, Deja Vu them back, and do it again, milling and running all the while. Do your best to keep Datasucker full of tokens, as your main problem will be high-strength Destroyers like Grim or Ichi. Keep a Parasite handy to deal with smaller ones like the stray Rototurret.

The main concern with this deck at the moment is economy -- Cyberfeeders help a ton in getting the viruses out onto the table, and nothing in the deck costs too much, but it's still a low-econ deck with the absence of the credits from Aesop's. Further testing may prove that Armitage isn't enough and that more economy might be a worthwhile addition to bolster that weakness, but we'll see.