Suck Harder, Meidan

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ironblue 166

Inspired by cspieker's excellent Nasir deck, with a little bit of that kitchen sink flair added by yours truly.

The deck is all ice killing and recurring credits, in preparation for that nightmarish end-game scenario wherein there is no more ice to rez (and subsequently kill).

It has several suitable jumping off points, another one of Nasir's bugbears. No PShop in the opening hand? Don't panic! Trade-In or Replicator are exactly what you want to start building for, or if you see Datasucker, Order of Sol, or even Net Celebrity, you can probably start running. Obviously, if you have a Self-modifying Code, go nuts.

You want to Parasite low-strength ice, ward off Archers with Sharpshooter, and Femme Fatale the scariest thing you see. Deus X is out of the deck after some soul searching (more accurately, some card searching). All that scary AP ice that RP plays? Parasite bait! They won't want to rez in most cases.

If the Corp seeks to bring out more ice than you can kill, Replicate Clone Chips and dig for your Deja Vus, and see who cries uncle first. If they give you free accesses, Trade in for Interfaces or the Plascrete and dig for Armitage. You'll need money to trash, money to score NAPDs, and money to avoid the inevitable backlash.

Feedback super appreciated. I haven't run this yet, but already I'm liking it more than Stealth or Atman.

2 comments
22 Oct 2014 Pinkwarrior

I think you may have missed the point of Deus X a little its not for AP jinteki ICE in a deck like this, it's for Jinteki Traps like Project Junebug, Snare! and Shi.Kyū. ICE wise it's for HB the like of Janus 1.0, Heimdall 2.0 & Viktor 2.0.

22 Oct 2014 ironblue

HB Ice doesn't scare me between Femme and Parasite, but Junebug and Snare certainly scare me more than enough for the both of 'em.

Very well, it's just a matter of finding the slots, and happily this deck is already way too heavy on support hardware. Right now I'm thinking either:

-2 Omni-Drive, +1 Deus X +1 something... (maybe Trade-In or Armitage Codebusting

OR -2 Cyberfeeder, +1 Wyrm +1 Deus X.

Another Wyrm would be huge, as SMC'ing both him AND Parasite is a little tight. I will be forced to rely more on Omni credits though, along with all the install order restrictions they come with.

On another note, I'm thinking about replacing Inti with Snowball. Smart move? Nasir doesn't mind install costs as much, and it would let me save my parasites for juicier targets than gear check barriers.