Adam Sage

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Adam Memory Hoard
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The goal of this deck is to take full advantage of Adam's starting directives. The first two cards you want to put on the table are Brain Cage and The Supplier. The supplier allows you to install a card every turn on your last click (assuming you spent three on Always Be Running, and still draw from Safety First.

In the early game, run run run. Try to access HQ as often as possible to have all the information about what cards are getting put on the table. An important thing i did not realize is that Neutralize All Threats is turned off after the first access of a trashable card, even if you did not trash it. Scrubber is almost as awesome as the supplier in the early game. Turn off that asset econ if you can to keep the early game dragging on. You don't need money if they don't have money.

As the game progresses to mid game, you might have found some extra memory from Dyson Mem Chip or Brain Chip and some agenda or so. Now is the time to use Overmind to threaten twice deep servers. Hopefully some recurring econ is starting to set up in the form of Data Folding and perhaps even Underworld Contact.

If you move into the late game (which hopefully never happens), Sage and GS Shrike M2 work beautifully in this deck as a rig. Sage is nicely backed up by your e3 Feedback Implants and 3 inf. for two breakers is not bad at all. It has the other nice benefit of packing two breakers into the same card to slim down late game deck space. You will hopefully have loads of memory, and he will own. If you hit really high strength stuff, you still have ABR.

I feel like this deck works well against NBN, as you have huge early game pressure, and they don't run enough ice to double ice things - allowing you to never put up a rig. Even when they do run double ice, one of them probably won't end the run.

I think this deck does OK against scorch unless you get unlucky. Hopefully you can get your hand size up to something reasonable before they find their combo pieces. They will have a hard time scoring for a search (project atlas or the future is now) early game. You should be able to look at their hand to know how far along their combo is getting. Hopefully if they've found spiderweb, you've found e3. Not many people running this lately anyway, so i'm not too concerned. Power shutdown hurts against brain cage, you could swap some out for Public Sympathy if your meta has a lot of power shutdown.

10 comments
4 Nov 2015 GrantZilla1979

Have you considered Deep Red or MemStrips? It seems like without them you'll be locked out of mid-strength code gates and barriers if you can't find your Overmind or build your momentum up via Brain Chip.

4 Nov 2015 mmc31

@GrantZilla1979 I think it is a mistake to spend influence for Deep Red over Brain Chip. If you've been totally locked out to the point where brain chip doesn't help, youve got bigger problems that deep red won't solve. The hope is that Overmind carries you until you get enough memory to make Sage viable. MemStrips is a neat thought, although it is expensive influence/cost wise here.

5 Nov 2015 SecurityRake

I really like the idea, just have a hard time understanding how it can perform against things like Turing. Without getting a solid start on Brain Chip you can get permanently locked out pretty quick. Combined with no way to tutor for breakers, and only two Sages, I just feel like this deck can get screwed so many ways.

5 Nov 2015 mmc31

@SecurityRake You have got to try Always Be Running to see what it is like. His weakness is definitely glacier, but he is strong to all the NBN we've been seeing lately. Against Turing you have to use ABR early, and if they get two on the server you're in trouble. Adam is high risk, high reward.

14 Dec 2015 inniscor

I just finished a long game that I lost 7 agenda to 6 with something really similar. Dude had Turing, Eli, and three five sub NEXT Silvers on his scoring server. I got through with one credit to spare. ABR, Overmind, Sage, E3, even Bioroid clicks. I used it all. Glacier may be this deck's weak spot, but with three or more credits coming your way every turn in the late game you can probably plow through some nasty things every turn or two.

14 Dec 2015 inniscor

So one question I do have is why Brain Cage over Public Sympathy? It's equally free with The Supplier but leaves behind a brain damage if it gets trashed. Reinstalling it afterward brings diminishing rewards.

14 Dec 2015 SecurityRake

Presumably he's more worried about tags than hardware trashing. Which, generally, is correct. However I have enjoyed putting in one Independent Thinking and trashing all my handsize stuff and whatever else I don't need after I get some Brain Chip points, and just turning through the rest of my deck in one quick go.

14 Dec 2015 Jamieson

@mmc31 Access to Globalsec how essential is this - does it just help getting things online faster in case you dont see the Dyson Mem Chip to generate link or is this overkill? Are you getting value out of Career Fair if you already using The Supplier? cool idea with Sage with adam , definitely giving this a try.

15 Dec 2015 inniscor

@mmc31 I just ran some numbers on using Creeper with e3 Feedback Implants instead of GS Shrike M2 and it seemed rather promising. Without counting six variable subroutine ice and bioroids (where the math usually leans away from using either breaker) I'm counting 14 ice that are cheaper to break with Creeper, 13 with GS Shrike M2, and 14 that are the same. They cost the same to install, so I need to look at what seems more prevalent out of those ice.

15 Dec 2015 mmc31

@inniscor after some testing, I think it is pretty critical to get some + hand size early on. I think actually playing both brain cage and public sympathy is good.

@SecurityRake I was definitely worried about tags when I made this.

@Jamieson Problem is, you need to get two link, and for a consistent 2 link i felt 6 cards was pretty important. Career fair can be used on the supplier itself, as well as daily casts and data folding. These last two are actually not all that great on supplier since they don't trigger the same turn you pull them off supplier.

@inniscor I like creeper, I feel like i've been trying to make it not terrible since it came out. Haven't seen a lot of jinteki in the meta lately, which is where shrike really shines - so creeper is a great swap. Saving that influence could be key.

This is the adam list I've been that I've been playing with lately