Food Standards Authority

Yet another Eater+Keyhole deck.

I tried to also play to a lot of Valencia's strengths and weaknesses, and it turns out pretty good. You usually don't want to put Paige Piper in a deck, unless it's large like a Valencia deck, but the secret sauce to her in this instance is that you are running a lot of cards you only want one of, like eater, keyhole, magnum opus , wyldside, adjusted chronotype, grimoire and memstrips. If you play her out first turn, effectively, you can mill out 14 cards you don't need, and with Wyldside, this means you will draw into your Blackmails and Deja Vus a lot easier.

That's the other part of the deck that Valencia offers that you don't get with Reina, Quetzal or MaxX : Blackmail can help you keep remotes under pressure even though your main breaker is Eater. With this deck, you have a LOT of blackmails.

1) Blackmail itself. Draw it, play it. (3)

2) Same old thing. Set it up, or click three times to Blackmail again (6)

3) Deja Vu. For 3 credits and 2 clicks, get into a remote. It also works really well with getting parasites back (9)

4) Levy AR Lab Access. Wyldside will run through your deck pretty quickly. Once that happens, and your Blackmails and Plascretes have been burned though, Levvy will let you get it all back, allow you to take additional meat damage and ensure you won't run out of cards. (18)

All in all, if you have a very long game, you can Max out your deck by using 18 blackmails.

We have one faust just to really enjoy the excess card draw at one point. I might want to revisit this idea and go for an all faust deck, but I feel that faust might have an ebb and flow that's different to just clicking the hell out of Opus.

For various other support cards, let's talk about our Virus Suite first. Datasucker and Parasite are there for efficiency, and in case our opponent plays out an Anti-AI ICE like Swordsman or Turing on R & D , or , if they're using Executive Boot Camp to screw over our Blackmails. You can, of course, choose to ignore this and race on R&D with keyhole, but you have enough deck slots in Valencia to be paranoid and prepare for every eventuallity.

As a support for Parasite, and to minimize program trashing damage, we have 2 clone chips. Sometimes the corp is frisky, or we might have misjudged the amount of credits needed.

Memstrips are there in case we are running a full stack of viruses, as a lot of our programs take up lots of memory. Grimoire helps, as we can get Keyhole, Eater, Magnum opus and one other support card in there, but memstrips can ensure we can get multiple suckers and parasites humming along with no problems.

For economy, we are running Magnum Opus and Sure Gamble. I feel that with the click compression from not having to install too many breakers and The card draw with Wyldside, we can get away with this minimal package. Besides, most people feel that Magnum Opus is good enough on it's own anyway, so it should be fine.

The last two cards are Plascrete Carapace and Hades Shard. Plascrete is obvious : I hate getting blueballed from having the game end suddenly because my opponent is trying to kill me, and Hades Shard allows us to not have to mess around with running on archives once we've got the winning agendas in there. It also bypasses jackson, which is a treat. On top of that, Deja Vu allows you to recur it multiple times, if you're saucy enough to want to use it over and over again.

All in all, Food Standards Authority is a fun deck to play, and can catch many decks without traps or upgrades unprepared. Be warned though : you're going to want to spend a long time shuffling between rounds.