ENCRYPTED ASSET TRAIN

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FreqKing 297

This is my first published deck, albeit a modification rather than an original design. I'd love to hear any feedback.

Majority credit goes to TattleTayles who created the ASSET TRAIN upon which this deck was built. I refer you there for effective strategy advice that can pretty much be summed up as, 'All your remotes are belong to us!'

I started by simply taking the suggestion from pang4 and making some space for 2 Daily Business Shows by dropping 1 Cyberdex Virus Suite and 1 News Team

Early testing showed the assets were too easy to take down and I rarely rezzed Ronald Five. I dropped him and used the influence for 3 Encryption Protocols, making room by dropping a Hedge Fund and all the Sweeps Weeks in favour of more Diversified Portfolios. That in combination with Turtlebacks usually guarantees a pretty strong economy.

Finally, I found Biotic Labour was rarely needed and swapped it for Scorched Earth since some runners quickly figured out I couldn't leverage the tags generated by News Team and simply sucked them up.

A dedicated runner who trashes early and often can still take this deck down, but if they allow the encrypted economy to build it is a frightening beast once chugging along. Having said that, I've seen wins even against Whizzard if the runner exhausts their resources killing remotes while you score out.

I still think the ice suite could use some tweaking, the deck still has trouble defending against R&D lock or Account Siphon / Vamp / Keyhole tactics.

5 comments
7 Dec 2015 FarCryFromHuman

Does News Team even pull its weight here? I'd think dropping both of them and the Scorched Earth for 2x Shipment from MirrorMorph and a third card of your choice would be way more threatening.

7 Dec 2015 FreqKing

Thanks! Interesting suggestion, definitely worth testing. The tags are typically dead weight in this deck although many runners opt to take the agenda hit and that has allowed me to catch up to some faster runner decks. After turn 2 or so I'd say it's rare to be holding more than 1 installable card in hand for Shipment from MirrorMorph so I'd be curious to see how often they would really shine compared to having the extra assets for use with Team Sponsorship

7 Dec 2015 FreqKing

Might be that some additional ICE rather than News Team would be more effective too.

12 Dec 2015 TattleTayles

Nice to see someone playing with my stuff. It's a nice bit of tweaking, hows the win rate on it? Little Ronnie doesn't really pull his weight I find, hes just there for tax most of the time, or Turtle cash.

I think if you add additional ICE, it'd change the nature of the deck a bit too much, whether good or bad I can't say, as im still new to deckbuilding, but it wouldnt feel like the train anymore. I like how risky you're being with 3 diversifieds though. Best feeling is when you get siphoned, click for a cred or get turtles to pay you, and diversified a ton of creds back. DBS is a good include, but I play most of my stuff knowing itll get trashed, only preparing the sponsors in a good window where they will survive for me to throw 15mins or breaking news out and reap the rewards, so DBS doesn't actually help my playstyle with the train.

I posted the new version of my deck if you wanna have a look, let me know what you think of it.

17 Dec 2015 FreqKing

The deck is performing well. I ended up dropping the News Team and Scorched Earth. I found the deck is fast to deploy in any case so I added another NAPD and brought it up to 54 cards. Diversified the ice, added some more assets. In particular I added a couple Lotus Field because and deck playing Parasite was demolishing it. Still tweaking but I'll try and post my next version at some point!