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Just tried this out. Awesome. It's everything I love about Argus, with a really cool mechanic. I'm still getting used to the tempo for triggering the Assembly Line.

It's fun and quick just what I like. I just miss a nice trap to keep the runner on their toes, not letting them get too confident in running everything. Especially against Blackmail. Not having ice rezzed really hurts.

Did you try replacing an Advanced Assemby Line with a trap, such as Cerebral Overwriter?

@Pantacruelglad you're enjoying it! I'd include Prisec if you want a trap. You're almost always neveradvancing, and this could tag the runner if they run a prisec'd agenda on click 3. Also no influence, which is a bonus.

Space is tough. I'd maybe consider cutting a Consulting Visit since the prisec would be part of the kill package.

@poorhausso I'm not sure what you mean when you say "You're almost always neveradvancing". Could you explain?

Also, how do you work around Leela's ability? Just Install ice on R&D/HQ before starting to score out?

I think I am going to try -1 Scorched Earth +1 BOOM! / -1 Advanced Assembly Lines +1 Cerebral Overwriter

Will let you know how it goes in testing.

Between AAL and TS, you have the alliance requirement. Why Markus?

It's a punishing face check and/or makes a safe steal impossible if they're breakerless. Like a free False lead when they click thru to score on click 2. Definitely open to other swaps for that spot but it seemed good.

@Pantacruel never advancing means not advancing an agenda until you can score it. Jeeves allows this with Corporate Sales Team, for instance. That's why Cerebral is a bad choice. You want that card when you'll be doing a lot of install advance advancing, which you never do unless it's Oaktown.

Leela can be tough since you're scoring a lot. I like to rush out an agenda before there's much to bounce to keep up the pressure. Then ice centrals and force her to run so you can rez stuff. But Leela's tricky for rush and fast advance both. Executive Boot Camp helps but is a 1 of so not much of a plan. Just gotta out play them.

Boom will make you sad unless you include Midseason Replacements too. I used to run that but I found the extra econ and speed from AAL to be much more important. plus SEA is a better rush tag punishment with all the assets. This is not a sit back and get rich deck- they'd prefer midseasons. this is a force out agendas and must trash assets and kill them when they're low on credits. Cerebral is a bad idea as I said above. Snare may be better but it's too dern expensive in creds and influence.

Totally agree: BOOM! and Cerebral Overwriter are bad in this deck.

So now I am trying to play around with the agendas. No more Hostile Takeover (so no bad pub to trash cards, +1 Corporate Sales Team +1 False Lead. Might still play around this but should be solid. But no more burst econ... we shall see.

With the free slot, I'm currently trying +1 Mother Goddess because often find myself withing for more ice and not giving easy Temüjin Contract targets.

Yes Argus is still vested in your security. We are just putting a younger face on murdering people which threaten that security. Welcome to the firm.

Shipment from SanSan would be a good include over Markus 1.0 in my opinion. Or Rototurret if you want a facecheck ice they can't click through.

@dawspawnyeah good thought. I've been using rototurret and it's decent, but expensive. SFSS would be a good include, but I'd drop an Advanced Assembly Lines and maybe a Consulting Visit for two if you want to go that way. Then you'll also need subliminal. That's a very diff build and would have to be less spikey. Probably a bad way to go. Atlas is the only thing you could fast advance and otherwise sfss is just bad Econ.

@Pantacruellet me know how your agenda experiments go. Hostile Takeover is so good I'd consider Elizabeth Mills recursion to clear BP over cutting them if bad pub is really a problem. I've found Paywall can mitigate the credit swing problems and with a Sponsorship out Hostile is just too much tempo to pass up.

But if you want to go that way, consider a Chronos Project for all the paperclips etc out there.

@poorhausSo I have been playing this deck exclusively for the last 2 weeks. It is so good. But I felt like the meta was going towards to much access and bypass on centrals so i decided to increase the ice by 1. But I was at 50 cards and for some reason we believe more than 50 is bad for repeat experience. But no way this deck deserves some more assets so I went to 13 Agendas (4x1 + 9x2).

And then I played around with different assets. One thing I am sure of, 3 x Public Support and 3 x Executive Boot Camp make this deck sing. And did you know Leela can't read between the lines of your latest marketing scheme to do her thing?

Rez a Public Support for 1 with a Boot in the ass. Get's trashed? Start over by using the motivational skills you earned coatching a bunch of robots devoid of any emotion...

Oh traps in this deck... perfect. Runner feeling confident he can trash all your assets after dressing up like Genghis Khan. Ask your butler to show him the door after trashing his entire hand.

@Pantacruel thanks for the report! Sounds like you've made some great changes. Will you post what you consider the final list? Would love to play it and I think thw others who've been interested in this would enjoy seeing it too. Some really interesting ideas here!

@poorhaus So I will definitly post the final deck when I have it trimed to my satisfaction. Basically, I keep trying the 54 and 49 card version of this deck, and I feel like the 54 card version would be great because it taxes poor runners, forcing them to run all remotes and trash a lot of redundant or none essential cards (making them poor and thus elegible for the Triple S club ). But runners are too rich these days and 54 cards slows this deck way down. So back to 49.

So far, I have kept 2 Public Support; replaced 2 Bankers with their henchmen; and told Junior to take a vacation while we try a new kind of partnership with those yellow boy toys.

And for the final touch, replaced one factory with a prison, to add a litlle spice in the sauce. Will let you know how it goes.

For previous builds, the hardest matchups are definitly Lady Crims, with their money and their bypasses, and little miss nothing but the truth.

@poorhaus As promised, posted the deck I tried. Not sure I was going in the right direction. I just feel there is not enough synergy with the rest of the deck to justify playing the Hass-Biorid engin. netrunnerdb.com