Art Thief

Considering Shaper tutor powers, what made you go for Employee Strike for the obligatory Asset Spam hate over some of the other common choices?

Well considering that it can also force an Agenda to be scored since nobody wants a blank ID, it was a toss up between tutoring for Political Operative/Councilman or R&D Interface. I'd rather go for the permanent deep dig after a few turns of econ and Stimhack face checking.

love the deck!

did Levy pull its weight during the tournament? I've often found levy to be a discard or stimhack fodder, curious how often it saved your bacon

Levy does exactly what I wanted it to do. Bring back more Stimhacks and Clone Chips.

do you ever find the lack of test run leaving you high and dry without magnum, or leaving early scoring windows to the corp?(gottalove inside job)

No and no. I get to draw up with normal drops of 1 to 0 cost resources or hardware. Find my Magnum or SMC and Stimhack and wait it out a bit. By around turn 5 or so, I would have my tutors ready to crack. If you're dealing with a Corp faction that FA then you got a fight on your hands to stop them after the 2nd agenda score, but check the points/credits most of the time those quick scores will leave them lacking defensively in one area or another.

I've been playing versions of this kind of thing ever since gumOnShoe posted that "post-Data and Destiny Stimshop" idea a while back. I love, love, love Brain Chip in this! When you get an early agenda it's glorious, but when you don't, it's painful. The big issues for me were always influence (2x Brain Chip is what I ran and that's a lot of influence). Fan Site/Artist Colony now help solve the influence problem, and kudos for that. But here's my only question — I have really enjoyed Game Day in this kind of deck once you get even 2-3 AP. Do you think that has a place here, or is Quality Time just still the better way to go?

I was considering using 1 Game Day for 1 Quality Time. But there would be moments where I'd run on 3rd click and would rather fill up on click 4 instead of using 2nd click to run and possibly get trapped by a scored False Lead.

Then I did the math. Probably after a stimhack run I'd get a 1-2 pointer and using Game Day would mostly put me at max handsize of 6. With an even grip of 3 cards at end of click 3, I'd be better off with a Diesel on that turn instead of the next.

Yeah, makes sense. Thanks! Looking forward to trying this out at our store this week.

Is there any way to get a Chameleon in the deck? Drop Deus X maybe? The lizard has some nice synergy with the workshop and it can support the Femme Fatale when needed for small sentry ice.

Nice deck, any advice on piloting it in the current meta?

if you want Chameleon then make it a 41 card deck. But you're not rushing and running anywhere missy until you Money up with Magnum OPUS.. Besides Femme will handle all sentry problems regardless of strength so why limit yourself? Deus X is core card of deck, you can see it from Madison Regional Stream when they finish archiving it.

@Ulkrond I might be playing the deck wrong since i'm a very agressive runner (I die a lot online :) ). Will try the deck as is.

Do you have a link to the madison regional stream?

Can't seem to find that madison regional stream with the madison regional video.
Reasoning is this. Draw up for personal workshop and a few Fan Sites. Let them score one agenda while holding at least 15 credits and possibly a stimhack or a way to draw up a stimhack and run R&D.

I tried this out tonight, its like a silver bullet gattling gun. Its pretty great. If IG dies out, do you think -2 Employee Strike +1 vamp +1 SoT is a reasonable change? More stimhack, possibly recur of vamp, and vamp to really hold the corp down.

Sure if you want. I generally am leaning toward +1 Legwork/HQI since corp money means little to me. Their ICE is static so why not just spend more time getting money from MOPUS and stimhack your way into anything.

@Ulkrond I am loving this deck in my own testing. what was its record in the tourney?

5-1 after 6 rounds, Win vs Erik Hasse Jinteki BioEthics first round of double elim.

This deck is the perfect shell for what I've been wanting to try since it was spoiled: Rebirth into Rielle "Kit" Peddler: Transhuman and use her ability in a 40/15 deck.

The Brain Chip offers extra MU, so if I don't switch IDs until later in the game, it's still worth switching. And it's easy to fit in a different decoder to meet my needs.

I'm thinking: -1 Employee Strike, -1 Gordian Blade, +1 Rebirth, +1 Study Guide.

If you build that Kit deck I want you to rename this one into "Puberty".

Sometimes awkward phases dont end