Nasir is a Thief

I never really thought as Nasir as a runner who had a strange ability, or a runner who was difficult to pilot. I thought of Nasir as a shaper with a tendency to give the Corp a headache, a shaper with anarch leanings if you will. So, I decided, why not play Nasir as the kind of anarch I find most annoying, the kind that makes every action you make so mind-numbingly inefficient that it drives players mad.

I originally had this deck designed to be event-heavy, utilizing the burst economics of Nasir to start run events that used his credits to run towards servers that would generate the credits required to use breakers by the simple need to defend against them. Cards like Legwork or The Maker's Eye seemed like cards that Nasir could use efficiently, as the cost to use them would often be compensated during the run by the corp simply trying to stop those runs. I think that kind of Nasir is fantastic against fast advance/score-out-of-hand corps, and should be played in metas that favor those. This deck is not particularly well-suited for facing those kinds of decks.

This deck is efficient. It is lean and effective against decks that rely on trashing one of a particular type of breaker (i.e. Overload decks or PE) or decks that glacier not to etr but to make the runs so inefficient that they are not worthwhile (i.e. RP). I originally had The Toolbox as the console in this, but thought that the 9 cred cost was awfully high in a deck that wasn't relying on the MU that it gave, opting instead to use Spinal Modem, although either works with Spinal just being a tad faster if you don't get a lucky ICE rez to boost you early.

The idea should be to use all of your credits early to establish a rig, only running at centrals when there is ICE that can help your economy to this end. Try not to run at remotes early, as the Corp will often elect to give you access simply due to Nasir being notoriously bad at trashing assets. Then, punish the corp by relentlessly running on their least protected central or any remotes that seem disadvantageous to the Corp, With Nasir, event-econ Corps will find that rezzing the stable 'scoring server' ICE will be a huge economic swing against them, meanwhile the asset-econ Corps will find it difficult to keep up in a race with Underworld Nasir so long as you force them to defend their assets. Try to make the Corp spread its ICE thinly enough that you can reliably use the credits from Underworld Contact and Order of Sol to get into at least one important server a turn.

If I wanted to improve this deck I would swap out any under-performing cards for something like John Masanori for consistent draw or Magnum Opus / Kati Jones for the burst economy needed to get into some heavily ICE'd centrals. I think the link might be a tad excessive but honestly its one of the best defenses to the Midseason/SEA Source plays, just messing with the math too much.

Leave any improvements or thoughts as this is around the fourth version that I've come up with and I'm starting to run out of ideas...