The Outcast

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Makhina 13

The basics of this deck are to tutor your way to answer any of the ice in play. It has multiple ways to achieve this by recycling Self-Modifying Codes or straight up abusing Scavenge.

When you Test Run you can look for any Program necessary then use Scavenge to Keep it in play (you Sacrifice the Tutored Program as part of the cost, then place it back with the effect).

There are more combos, like using Clone Chips in the middle of a run to break those two Overight AI/Bioroid Efficiency Researched Janus or Heimdall with the same Deus Ex. I still find new things to do with every game.

Lastly the amount of Link it has naturally is high enough that the corps have to use +5 credits just to make you spend a few of your own. I simply love this deck!
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1 Nov 2013 nbove

Nice deck. If I were to offer a bit of advice, perhaps you should reconsider the inclusion of Helpful AI, Levy AR Lab Access, and Retrieval Run. Also, you are only accessing 1 card at a time, which is very low pressure on the corp. Finally, your economy seems very weak with only Modded, Professional Contacts, and 1x Kati Jones.

Regarding Helpful AI. 3 clicks to draw, 3 clicks to install, and 6 credits to pay for 3 helpful AI just to get 3 link seems very weak. If traces are incredibly common in your meta, and you really like getting link fast, consider rabbit hole instead, 1 click to draw, 1 click to install, same cost and you get the same link.

Regarding Levy AR Lab Access. If you find yourself drawing through your deck and you haven't won yet, you are probably not applying enough pressure and a decent fast advance deck would leave you with a loss.

Next regarding Retrieval Run, you already have many ways to recur your programs from your heap and the 4 influence spent on retrieval run I suspect would be better spent on 1x parasite and 2x datasucker. Having the option to straight out destroy an ice mid run gives you more tools to keep pressure on the corp and keeps your runs efficient.

The next major thing you are going to need is a way to put more pressure on the corp. Fortunately you have lots of great in faction ways to pressure R&D with Shaper (R&D interface, Indexing, Maker's Eye). Consider some or all of these options, they also have great synergy with Cyber-Cypher.

Finally, you should be very careful any time you decide to cut core economy cards like Sure Gamble and Daily Casts. They are very click efficient ways of getting money and can greatly reduce the number of turns it takes to get your rig set up.

Good luck!