Jintekill

Taking a look at all the corp identities, my eye was immediately drawn to Jinteki. Not only for the sexy, subtly threatening colour scheme, but for the mind games. beautiful mind games. I don't know Gabe, is that a Project Junebug that I'm hoping you'll run into? Or maybe it's a Priority Requisition that gets me three steps closer to buying Earth. Why not risk it? What do you have to lose? Always be running, am I right?

Of course, having played a few games with a deck like this, most of the net damage shenanigans (Like your Hokusai Grids or your Neural EMPs) are more there to tax the runner rather than actually kill them, but that can still be really effective or even devastating. That said, an unprepared runner encountering a sneaky Snare! can easily win you the game there and then. And what happens if nobody falls for your Project Junebug? Simple. Buy a smoke machine, close the windows and doors for maximum effect, and play a Trick of Light to move those counters onto something more agenda-y.

Sadly, pursuing honourable tactics, brain mapping, cloning, and certainly not psionics means that there's not a lot of time for Jinteki to actually make some money. Outside of Celebrity Gift, all your economy is going to have to be neutral or imported. Hope you like living off PAD Campaigns and Melange Mining Corp.

Ice-wise, Jinteki is kind of interesting. Swordsman laughs at Crypsis, Yagura is a fun card to place in front of R&D to reduce their chances of stealing agendas, and while Himitsu-Bako will stave off early aggression, late game it's mostly fun to just bounce it and make them guess whether what I placed is another box to be solved or a Wall of Thorns to be feared.

Overall, this is probably not the best deck you can build out of the Jinteki parts, but it's one I've had great fun piloting, with most of my wins coming from flatlines anyways. Scare the runner out of running, and you scare him out the game.

Oh, and don't be like me and forget all your Jinteki: Personal Evolution triggers.

Made with one Revised Core Set