Have you met my Brahman?

iBreatheBullets 12

This deck utilises Brahman in all its recursive glory, giving you a solid AI breaker that works to increase the value of your entire rig. Oracle May is in here to pay you for doing what you were going to anyway, redrawing that Brahman'd program, with LLDS thrown in to make reinstalling it a little sweeter. Inti is simply for the odd Wraparound, and Datasuckers and Net Ready eyes to cut the costs of pumping Brahman. Astrolabe was my console of choice given the asset-heavy meta - see Paricia also - plus the extra deck cycling. The 2x NetChips I chose over 2x Akamatsu for the potential net MU value of 3, though if rig trashing becomes a problem then there's an argument for the latter.

6 comments
10 Jun 2016 n00noom4st3r

Why Inti, it seem like a bit of a waste, why not get Cerberus "Lady" H1 and recur the counters with Brahman?

10 Jun 2016 esutter479

A good case can be made for either. Inti is cheap, but Lady gains more benefit from Brahman's drawback. My personal preference is Inti in such a deck, but either one is valid. Honestly, if you're using Inti, I'd try to find a way to splash in a Savoir-Faire. After you draw it with May, play the Inti with ease during a run or something with SF. :)

10 Jun 2016 tzeentchling

Thoughts on adding Autoscripter? Seems really good in a deck like this. That or Scheherazade, since you probably need more money. You have the influence for it!

11 Jun 2016 iBreatheBullets

@n00noom4st3rI realised this soon after publishing the deck. I honestly completely skipped over Lady for some reason. @esutter479 makes a good point for it but I don't think I have the influence or deck space for other supports like SF.

11 Jun 2016 iBreatheBullets

@tzeentchling This was also something I skipped over for some reason. My guess is room can absolutely be made for it at the expense of -1 Test Run or Oracle May.

Scheherazade is a head-scratcher for me, even though your point about being credit hungry is sound. The only way it really works with the rig is to swap the NetChips out for Mem Chips and then find a spare influence somewhere, but it's a super good consideration.

11 Jun 2016 iBreatheBullets

Okay so initial reviews and tests of this deck lead me to spotting some slightly poor choices over much better ones. So the changes I've employed are:

-1 Oracle May, +1 Autoscripter

-1 Inti, +1 Lady

-2 NetChip, +2 Akamatsu

-1 Test Run, -1 London Library, +2 Scheherazade.