Shannon Channels

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I've been doing fairly well with this deck. played 15-20 games on Jinteki/FLGS and haven't lost yet. Will obviously play more games, but I've gone up against every faction and some popular archetypes with success. Combination of traps guessing game and traditional meat damage. The star of this deck though is Back Channels. Explanations below:

Government Takeover gets put on the bottom with Shannon Claire. But if you don't see Shannon, that's fine. Just ice up R&D and IAA any asset or agenda you get.

If your traps don't work, just keep advancing them. Is it a Takeover? If yes, 12 net damage to the face. If not, continue advancing to 9 or 10 over the course of 5-6 turns depending on the pace. Back Channels gives you value for all your hard work! They think they're safe from the Midseason Replacements and steal an agenda? Back Channels click one for what, 30+1 credits? Sounds good to me. Click 2, Midseason. Click 3, Punitive, Scorch, or just wait for more damage options from your draws.

Many times you can get a Project Atlas with 2 counters on it just because they're afraid to run. At that point you have access to Scorched Earth, Punitive Counterstrike, Jackson Howard, or whatever else you need. I have never scored out with this deck, but have won all of my games with it so far. I've even beat a few Apex's with Heartbeat out. It's overwhelming.

1x Snatch and Grab for Kati or whatever else you might see. I don't mind the Atlas sac to Archer if I can use the tokens efficiently without having to discard too many cards. Assassin on HQ and R&D. Pretty demoralizing. Being patient is the biggest part of the deck.

9 comments
3 Dec 2015 pizzarony

Played it on Jinteki.net. Won. It gets my heart.

3 Dec 2015 whirrun

Any thoughts on Argus instead of BABW? I was planning on doing something similar there for the extra tax on steals to set up punitives.

3 Dec 2015 Waterpile

@Bigguyforyou518 Absolutely Shattered Remains belongs in here. Could get rid of some econ to put 2x or something. Then advance it along the same lines of the rest of the advanceable assets.

@whirrun Argus does sound like it could be ok. But since I'm only counting on them stealing 1-2 agendas, I personally think the benefit isn't as strong as the extra cred per transaction.

3 Dec 2015 Saan

Might be good to change the Midseason's into a SEA Source or two just so Film Critic doesn't turn off the kill portion of the deck entirely. Snatch and Grab can help kill Film Critic, sure, but you have to actually draw it, and when you use it you're down on money. With the free 2 influence, you could import something like a Tollbooth instead of a Fire Wall or an Archer, perhaps.

4 Dec 2015 moistloaf

This deck gets beaten by the same strategy that beats any Punitive deck. Run anything advanced first click, and have Plascrete and/or Film Critic. IAA Ghost Branch and Junebug aren't very threatening; in fact, no IAA traps are very threatening. No offenses intended, these decks can get surprise wins but IMO that's all.

4 Dec 2015 Waterpile

@Saan Yeah SEA Source might not be bad if I wasn't worried about Plascrete being on the table. If there are Plascretes I land the Midseason and wait for a third Scorch. I don't have any way to reliably get the Scorches back other than Jackson. So maybe a Reclamation Order would fit somewhere. Not sure though.

@moistloaf Sure, I think you're correct on some of this. But if you're running all of them, I'm cycling them back in with Jackson. Also, some important pieces of your rig are probably getting hit by Junebug, allowing me to score. And I'll probably feed you an agenda pretty early on then to land a Midseason. In addition, I'll usually put my first IAA card behind one piece of ice in hopes that I can continue to advance it early on with limited access to breakers. Anyway, I think there are adjustments on both sides that can be made, and I don't think it's apparent from the start that you need to run every IAA card. I understand what you're saying, but I'm not sure the vulnerabilities are as simple as they seem. Thank you for your thoughts though.

8 Dec 2015 BobAloVskI

An Executive Boot Camp or Tech Startup would help getting the Shannon Claire. The worst part about playing a Government Takeover deck is the inconsistency but if you can consistently bury the takeover then the deck should be all the more better.

30 Dec 2015 PureFlight

I could see The Cleaners being a viable choice instead of High-Risk Investment. You'd bolster your Scorches and Punitives. Heck, maybe you use Contract Killer over Snatch at that point. Do you find that you need the econ from HRI?