Professor of Good Stuff

This is a decent professor deck. I haven't tuned it yet for competitive play at the highest of levels, but the frame is pretty solid and if you count the influence, we're well into Professor Only territory.

The hardest part of building a Professor deck is getting the economy right. The second hardest thing is knowing what you actually need and/or want in the deck as far as programs go. Its extremely easy to just shoot yourself in the foot in either of these steps and often tripping up on one ruins the other.

So, I thought to myself when building this one: "Its the economy, stupid". And any time I was going to make a move in deck building that compromised the economy of the deck I stopped myself.

The deck plays the good-stuff anarch breaker suite that has dominated the good decks of nearly every age in this game. Mimic, yog, corroder. It does not need to compromise and it brings in atman & d4v1d too. Since it is shaper, we have SMC & clone chip to make sure 1 ofs are enough. This is how we're going to get in, with a regex breaker suite.

Economy is just about as simple. Proco+almost every economy option available. Our economy is pretty diversified, mostly because it has to be. Laundry/gamble provide a little bit of burst & pawnshop supports it. We can only play 1x cache & 1x harbinger, but that's fine since we can eat imp/d4v1d and other programs as we need to. Sahasrara & Multithreader are find aesops targets after your economy stabilizes and you need another slot in your rig. And clone chip can recur either cache or harbinger as necessary.

Mostly though, our rig only needs money when its installing things. Yog is free to use, d4v1d is free to use. Corroder is the most expensive piece of the puzzle and atman/net-ready provide a discount there.

Daily Casts & Technical writer smooth out different parts of the game's economy. Daily casts is typically most useful early/mid game making sure you can keep installing the bits you need. TW lets you recoup install costs late game to sustain pressure and if you have to, aesops can eat it.

The deck runs smoothly for a professor deck. It doesn't have a lot of the problems I usually experience with being broke, and proco is superior to opus when you want an influx of new stuff to install.

Professor still might not be "there," but this deck gives me hope that he's getting closer. Another shaper econ option or a good neutral one that fits with his type of play and we could very easily see Professor on the competitive field.