1st Place Medical Research Fundraiser 2015 - Textbook Hayley

This basic Hayley archetype has been percolating for so long but Technical Writer really makes it shine 10/10 would install again.

If anyone can think of a better name please let me know, its not my strong suit :)

How about "Technical Hayley is the Best Kind of Hayley"?

"Textbook Hayley". Since technical writers tend to make textbooks and Kaplan is a popular brand of textbooks.

@Iron_Soul I like it but its too long to fit :( @CodeMarvelous Thanks you're the best, I might go with that :) I was trying to brainstorm something along the lines of Hayley plagiarising her thesis because of her professional contacts and technical writers doing all the work for her, but I was completely overthinking it and didn't find anything lol.

Haha, well in that case you could do something like "Plagiarize this, motherf*****!" Then have Hayley Rebirth into MaxX (not that it's actually possible, just a funny image).

Haha that would be hilarious :) I feel thematically obligated to slot in Rebirth so she can turn into The Professor once I've gone through my stack and pawned Pro-Co.

I'm actually playing this on she and it's 4-0. And I had won against a top 16 at world's!

She = SHL.... EHM. OPS.

Yeah its so strong :) I'd like to highlight the changes I made, that make the deck more aggressive and work on less money. -1 imp -3 hedge fund - 1 Gordian -1 film critic. I threw imp in initially because of the synergy with Aesop's and Scheherazade, however it usually turns out to be an economy card 95% of the time, which this deck does not want to spend 3 influence to import. Hedge Funds were taking up too many deck slots, and its abit like drawing a hedgefund in a magnum opus deck, Hayley would much rather just Pro-Co. Gordian was abit too expensive, and bad against tollbooth. Finally film critic can be a good include but you generally want it turn 1 against a Haarp deck, and this doesn't happen often as its a 1-of. I added +1 Parasite +1 Scavenge +1 Zu.13 +1 Cy-cy +1 R&DI + 1 Stimhack. Parasite is great for dealing with spiderweb that will otherwise drain your lady counters, and yeah we all know its good beside a datasucker. Gordian was replaced with Zu.13 and Cy-Cy, both very cheap installs that Hayley loves, Cy-Cy deals with wormhole and tollbooth, and Zu.13 is just there in case of enigma, but is otherwise solid Aesop's food. Scavenge is there to support Cy-Cy and Lady, really should not be used on cache for money, useful for the Weyland matchups where you can easily get locked out. The 3rd R&DI is very important for finding one in the mid-game, and for ridiculous late-game R&D lock. Stimhack is just ridiculous with Hayley, if the corp tries to be clever and not rez anything on a stimhack run, you can always SMC or Clone chip something in, and then get another free install from your grip, enables all kinds of Shaper bullshit :)

Doesn't using Aesop's on Harbinger ruin Hayley's ability for the turn?

@Preachieved yes it does, so I swapped out the harbingers in my play testing for an extra datasucker and a scheherezade. I found the extra money from harbinger to be worth less than the click compression.

Unfortunately I think it does. This is one of the reasons I went from 3 to 2. It remains a very good card, I work around it by taking that turn as an opportunity to install a card when its the only of its type in the grip. Still very solid economy, though cache is undisputedly the best Aesop's food, which is why I have 3.

Forgot to mention it can be vital power shutdown protection since you're running Scheherazade;.

Now I'll consider 1 parasite over 2 Harbinger and a Rd interface for 2nd slot.

Ran the deck in a small tournament today, took third with my only losses coming from my corp deck. Replaced the harbingers with an extra scheherezade and datasucker and I was very pleased with the result.

Great to see everyone having success with the deck. If I had to switch out Harbinger, it would have to be for a Vamp and a Paricia (just as profitable as cache if used once then pawned). I would not recommend a second Scheherazade, if you become too dependent on it you will get wrekt by batty-program trash, and you can't pawn the second one as its unique. Though if it worked for you then fair enough. netrunnerdb.com latest version.

On a turn you plan to sell a face up Harbinger, you could leverage Hayley's ability during the paid ability window (step 1.1) that happens directly before your start of turn triggers (step 1.2) by using an installed SMC or Clone Chip.

Yeah, you could always just do that in the corp's turn. You bring up a good point though, before starting your turn its worth considering whether or not you want to start digging R&D, in that case its efficient to SMC/clone a program and use Hayley to install another, and then on your first click install 2 RDIs and go ham. A bit of an edge-case scenario but its that sort of Shaper bullshit you want to try maximise with Haley :)

Could you explain the use of harbinger? Would that trigger Harleys ability for the turn and because facedown cards are untyped, you're unable to do anything.

Ah, just noticed it's already been discussed.