New Corp Deck

swider 1

2 comments
17 Dec 2015 ycombinator

Just played you on j.net. Thanks for the games!!!

You understand the terrified mind-set that people have when they see Argus Security: Protection Guaranteed. You're doing a decent job to capitalize on that now, but there are a number of things I would personally change. If these aren't your style, ignore me ;-)

  1. You have a huge amount of ice. I'm not convinced that's helping you much here. Tyrant is a very bad card, in general. You can't advance it while it is not rezzed. Thus the first time the runner sees it, they're running through it for free. No surprise. Then, it becomes better, after spending a huge amount of resources to advance it. Long story short, there are much better ways to spend a bucket of cash than on it. Enforcer 1.0 has no place in this deck because you really don't want to sacrifice any of your agendas. Even if you had Hostile Takeovers, Archer is far better. I'd say leave the sacrifice agenda ice home. You seem to be going pretty all in on the advancable ice. Noone has made this work before, it seems, but I applaud the attempt. You might consider some support for ice advancement such as Builder.
  2. To keep up the pressure that having to worry about tags provides, you might consider 2x or 3x Reversed Accounts. Since you're playing with mainly 5/3s, Reversed Accounts is a great bait. They lose money going in to trash it, or they lose money from it firing.
  3. Global Food Initiative seems near mandatory to me here. It will simply make it harder for the runner to win.
  4. I'm not so sure about Bad Times. A 3rd Scorched Earth might be better, but I'll leave that decision to your own personal style.
  5. I'd figure out if you want to be bluffing no-advance agendas (Project Atlas), or 5/3s. I'd go up to 3x of either GRNDL Refinery, or Melange Mining Corp. depending on which works better for you.
  6. I'd consider Ice Wall. I know it is boring, but it would benefit from advancement support, and it is good to rush out some of your econ early on (Melange Mining Corp., Capital Investors, or GRNDL Refinery).
  7. I generally think that High-Risk Investment is vastly superior to Glenn Station here. I'd go 3x.

Another observation is that since the runner won't be scoring many agendas, Argus Security: Protection Guaranteed might not be the right choice. That said, the intimidation factor is pretty awesome with Argus Security: Protection Guaranteed.

Thanks again for the games!!!

17 Dec 2015 swider

Thanks for your tips, really appreciated. I removed Tyrant, Enforcer and added Ice Walls immediately after our games, before reading your comments :). The changes you suggested seem to suit my playstyle since I want runner to guess and gamble. I am going to tweak the deck right now, once again thanks.