Analyzing Buying Habits for the Benefit of our Valuable Cust

I have been playing this deck since Worlds and it has been doing serious work for me in local tournaments (7 wins out of 8 this past weekend in GNK's placing 1st in one of them).

I like all of my Corp decks to have a few paths to victory. I was trying to make Ash 2X3ZB9CY work in NEH before D&D was released and Spark Agency: Worldswide Reach brings it to the next level.

AGENDAS

I was playing 3x Global Food Initiative initially but decided bringing in an Eli 1.0 was worth cutting 1 for the NAPD Contract. NAPD Contract is strong already and gets a boost from Ash 2X3ZB9CY.

Project Beale is a very strong agenda that is generally underutilized IMO. Outside of the Psychographics play, we can install, double advance this in many cases as Ash 2X3ZB9CY and Spark Agency: Worldswide Reach open up huge scoring windows.

AstroScript Pilot Program is OK too I guess. Score these and save the tokens when possible. I sometimes win by scoring two AstroScript Pilot Program and then installing a Project Beale or Global Food Initiative without advancing for the win next turn.

You are going to want to install and single advance a lot of agendas to bluff the NAPD Contract.

ECONOMY

The economy is subtle with Spark Agency: Worldswide Reach. What we are attempting to do here is create a credit differential, not necessary just boosting our own credit pool endlessly. You want the runner below 10 credits or so while you have more than that. Around 3 after they break Ice is ideal!

Adonis Campaign provides many great plays here. I had a turn 1 opening vs MaxX recently where I installed 2 and played Sweeps Week. I then rezzed 1 on my turn and another at the start of the runner's turn. He started with 6 cards and 3 credits. He could have trashed 1 but then he has no more credits with MaxX bringing in the cards. I followed that turn with an Ash 2X3ZB9CY install on one and a Product Placement on the second. Basically, it is a fantastic advertisement worth your influence.

City Surveillance should also be viewed through the credit differential lens. Spark Agency: Worldswide Reach produces windows where rezzing City Surveillance turns into a great play. Throwing a Breaker Bay Grid or Product Placement into the server with it is a nice bonus.

If they go and trash the City Surveillance, it will cost them. If they don't, it enables Psychographics and Closed Accounts and boosts Resistor. I go between Closed Accounts and The All-Seeing I based on how likely I feel DLR to be. Ignoring DLR, I like Closed Accounts a lot better as it enables Ash 2X3ZB9CY scores.

Breaker Bay Grid does work between Adonis Campaign, City Surveillance, Ash 2X3ZB9CY, and in rare cases, PAD Campaign. Also, the runner REALLY wants to trash this card in addition to whatever you have installed in that server so you can use that to your advantage to "defend" the asset without Ice for a turn or two.

Interns can recur City Surveillance onto a Breaker Bay Grid or get you a trashed Ash 2X3ZB9CY back into your scoring remote. I have even used it to get back a Tollbooth after the Apocalypse and install a Pop-up Window on a 3 Ice deep remote.

ICE

Resistor is fantastic here. The only real downside is Parasite. It is generally better on centrals unless they decide to go tag me early (where it can really boost your scoring remote). But if they don't get a breaker, it does play into the Ash 2X3ZB9CY trace. Eli 1.0 I was able to fit in by adjusting influence so why not?

Archangel is fantastic R&D defense. The agenda density is low enough that single accesses aren't a big threat so Archangel is solid defense against an early RDI or Medium. It is decent on the scoring remote with an ETR below it as well.

Datapike is better here than Enigma because it plays into the credit stealing gameplan and they can't run click 4 to avoid the extra tax when breaking with Gordian (no kill threat here so a click 4 run vs Enigma is smart).

Pop-up Window and Tollbooth are obviously great here. Pop-up Window has a huge amount of utility as an Advertisement. Let it defend an Adonis Campaign or City Surveillance. Tollbooth is mainly for the remote but can be utilized on HQ when you fear siphon or R&D against Shaper or Medium.

Finally, Turnpike is in place of Architect. Get this on R&D ideally. HQ is fine too. The 2 credit savings on rez is huge in the early game. Most runners respect Architect at this point so what is important is the 2 credit tax as a sentry. Turnpike will steal a credit and then the trace 5 for a tag needs to be broken unless they go tag me.

Going tag me vs this deck usually ends poorly for the runner.

Thanks for reading!