Cyber Exploder 2017

bloth 194

This surprisingly effective pile of jank is one of the funnest Runner decks I've ever played. Here's how it works:

1) Mulligan for Bookmark and card draw. Draw like crazy and put stuff on Bookmark.

2) Install Faust and Hyperdriver. Use Indexing or grab remote agendas if the opportunity presents itself.

3) Pop Hyperdriver and take all the cards from Bookmark. Play Interdiction if they have unrezzed upgrades on centrals. Hit all the centrals with Faust. Be sure to use Dirty Laundry on your last central run so you'll have enough money for Apocalypse, because of Nasir. (In this deck, Dirty Laundry is more of a combo card than an economy card.)

4) Play Apocalypse, Encore, and Notoriety. You'll have all of them because you put a ton of cards on Bookmark. On the Encore turn, play Indexing/Mad Dash, or just drop Aesop and start setting up again if you're worried about Midseason/Power Shutdown.

5) Repeat as needed. This deck usually doesn't need to use both Levys, but it never hurts.

I brought it to a small Store Champ and it won 3 out of 4 games, with the only loss being very much due to pilot error (I took 15 cards from Bookmark before Komainu got its subs, rather than after). My corp deck didn't do so well.

"Why Nasir?"

It's just more fun that way. The deck would probably be better out of Kate or something. Plus, out of Kate or Hayley, you'd have the added perk of looking like Dyper at first, and a lot of the things you want to do against Dyper (stack ice on R&D and try to score out fast) don't work so well against this deck. But then you would have to actually put economy cards in, which leaves less room for all the other nonsense.

"What about that missing influence?"

I really don't know what to put there. I've tried a third Clone Chip, I've tried Utopia Shard, but I recently ended up cutting the slot to make room for the second Mad Dash.

"Why two Fausts?"

So if you go tag-me, you can still break ice even if you can't trash a face-down Faust to Aesop. Nasir goes tag-me a lot, since he doesn't generally have money to win traces or clear tags.

"Best Defense is a card, you know."

Sometimes you lose a Bookmark with 20 cards on it, and that's hilarious. The deck has two Levys for a reason.

6 comments
19 Mar 2017 heppu

The one influence could be a Hunting Grounds to prevent a double Komainu from ruining your plans.

21 Mar 2017 SillySod

Hernando Cortez might be a useful way to annoy the runner.

21 Mar 2017 SillySod

Or... how about Q-Coherence Chip for the extra jank? You only need the mem for hyperdriver/SMC so it shouldn't matter too much when it self-trashes.

Love the deck though! I tried a kate version with a Beach Party/Game Day/Aesops combo which was surprisingly fast.

25 Mar 2017 emlun

Oh man, I love your tweaks to my baby! Especially Encore, Interdiction and Mad Dash look very much like the missing pieces I didn't have back in 2016. This gets me so pumped to try this out again!

How do you deal with meat murder, though?

25 Mar 2017 emlun

Oh man, I love your tweaks to my baby! Especially Encore, Interdiction and Mad Dash look very much like the missing pieces I didn't have back in 2016. This gets me so pumped to try this out again!

How do you deal with meat murder, though?

29 Mar 2017 bloth

@emlun Meat murder is way less of a problem than vegetarian tagstorm, in my experience. Bookmark can double as damage protection, and Encore can be used to dodge midseason or power shutdown. Against CtM or Sync, Nasir is usually too broke to care about Closed Accounts, but EoI hurts even with Mad Dash and Notoriety, and Resistor is pretty much the worst possible ice for Nasir.