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Improved Bioroids | 2 | 2 | 6 |
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Tracer Glacier | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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Old deck, revisited. Any comments welcome :)
This deck once was called Improved Bioroids, but after my latest restructure of the ICE suite and the influence spread, it mearly has 4 bioroid tracer ICE left to be improved.
This deck was always meant as a slow glacier with heavily defended servers and very taxing tracer ICE. But originally, it had means to fast avance out stuff when needed. Long before the NAPD Most Wanted List was published, I tried to move this deck away from fast advance to make the core glacier concept even stronger. But it didn't work out. I published a v2 with much less FA that struggled harder early game and had no backup for late game because it lacked FA. All in all, it was worse. Then I made a v2.1 that never got published although I've put a lot into it. It really no means of FA and turned out to be even clumsier than the v2. I've reached a dead end with the development of this deck.
And then, NAPD MWL happend. I took out the original version and started from scratch, yet again turning it into a no FA version. When I had reworked the agenda suite, influence spread and ICE suite, smoothed out the deck and removed anything that seemed unnecessary the deck had 19 agenda points and 45 cards. To fill it up, I added The Future is Now, Fast Track, Freelancer and Interns as 1-ofs. I made some testplays and the cards seemed useful. All in all, the deck performed pretty well and I'm glad the transition of my improved bioroids to the NAPD MWL meta went so smoothly.
The deck usually runs with a single remote server and heavy defences on all servers. The remote is used as Melange shell and scoring remote, alternately. Though from time to time, Jackson can go in there as well, sepecially if you want the runner to run there and waste resources.
If possible, Improved Tracers gets scored early and often. Fast Track and The Future is Now can be used to tutor it up if there's a scoring window. Every copy that gets scored makes every ICE in the deck more taxing. Layers of 3 ICE with strength 7+ are quite common on the remote.
Once you have a Surveillance Sweep in hand and the runner isn't immediately threatening a steal (like a wide open R&D or an agenda flooded HQ), play it! Everthing is better with Surveillance Sweep out.
The deck is usually very rich and can afford to stack many ICE, rez them all and still have money left to make traces scary. Typically, the runner will try to not let any trace fire. That's okay. If they never fire, that means that the runner has broken your ICE, which usually doesn't come cheap with this ICE suite!
The original version had AstroScript Pilot Program, the no FA version had NAPD Contract. With the new MWL, I tried to avoid both.
All in all, this deck has fewer ICE than most of my other glacier decks. The goal isn't to rush out 3 layers of cheap stuff in front of every server, but to make each single ICE a tax that matters.
Curently, the greatest problem is runners clicking through the bioroid ICE, which are supposed to be taxing. Currently, my answer to this is just stacking them on the same server.
Let's talk about Rutherford Grid. Great card. 0 to rez, can be faked as Melange/Agenda and strengthens those traces. The ones that usually don't fire, because the runner will break them. All. Don't get me wrong, I still like it, but not without it's combo cards that make it great.
7 comments |
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4 Jan 2016
Pinkwarrior
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4 Jan 2016
Corence
I feel like you could drop 1x Viktor 2.0 for a Tollbooth and use the influence to add in Astros or SSCG. NBN already has many of the best Code Gates in the game so it seems a bit of a shame to be spending 8 influence on them. SSCG forces runs on your Glacier server even if there isn't an agenda in there, and everything except GFI can be scored out of hand. If they don't trash it, you fast advance. If they do, you can likely score traditionally since they'll be poor. |
4 Jan 2016
Krams
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4 Jan 2016
Krams
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5 Jan 2016
Pinkwarrior
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5 Jan 2016
moistloaf
Current ICE suite is startlingly porous, with only 1 ETR - Mother Goddess. These Bioroids and Archangel is effectively blank until the Runner installs something. How are you defending Melange? |
6 Jan 2016
Krams
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@Krams
Have you thought about trying this with New Angeles Sol: Your News seems like the choice of current would allow it to work their as you wouldn't need the trace credits as much then. You could also get in News Hound then which is crazy good. Not that It doesn't look good here either mind looks like an interesting deck idea.