Heartbleed

Generic Gabe with hemorrhage.

I initially wanted to make a deck where doppelganger was superior to desperado, but couldn't make it work. Hemorrhage is special in that it gains counters wherever gabe runs successfully , which really fits his style of threatening all centrals. However, the problem with doppelganger is that it only helps significantly when Gabe is already winning. Desperado still assists when you're winning, but helps Gabe recover from a bad position as well. There's synergy as well, as both hemorrhage and desperado work on any successful run.

My view on viruses is that if you're not Noise, you should keep your virus (type) count down. With more viruses, the corp has more and more reason to wipe. While that can obviously be a good thing that the corp loses a turn, I want to be more 'virus efficient' by making the wipe occur when I have few virus counters. I initially tried to always get up to eight tokens and spend an entire turn having the corp discard four cards. Playing the deck a bit, I feel eliminating three cards (6 virus tokens) is often sufficient to put the corp in crappy situation where they have to choose between letting go an agenda or some combo piece the might want to keep (Scorched earth, midseasons, etc). The HQI synergizes with wiping part of a hand as you can easily check what the new cards the corp has inevitably drawn to replace the cards they have bled out.

Why hemorrhage and not medium or demolition runs+HQI? The advantage of hemorrhage is that it gains tokens from running anywhere at all. You do a surprise medium, you'll get three runs assuming everything goes well. What does the corp do in response? Ice up R&D of course. Now to make use of medium, you will pay more and more, potentially being shut out. The same problem exists with demolition runs, although the problem is potentially worse, since preference will be placed on iceing HQ against Gabe and Account Siphons anyways. There's no iceing up against Hem.

Problems: I'm really treating hemorrhage as a bonus that shows up occasionally, but 1x isn't enough to depend on it showing up in game. I've come to enjoy Gordian Blade, but I'll try to fit in a second hemorrhage on the next version I test.

Thoughts appreciated