Smoke Hypothesis

Hypna 1

I am just about the greenest of green nooblets, but I've been digging around the netrunner universe for some initial deck concepts. I came across Smoke and these stealth cards and it just sounded really cool to me. I haven't been able to test any of this yet, and I'm very interested in feedback.

3 comments
26 Mar 2017 Manadog

You probably don't need 3 cloaks in smoke but there's nothing wrong with it. You definitely don't need more than 1 feedback filter. You have 2 spare influence which would be perfect for clot, especially since you already have 2 clone chips. Maybe add another copy of your console so you see it in a reasonable amount of time. Then you'd be at a fairly standard smoke deck.

27 Mar 2017 Cyberzack

I definately agree with manadog about the clot. If you play enough of smoke you'll soon realize that if you assemble your rig you can render ice nearly irrelevant - and usually outpace anything trying to score behind ice. So if you can beat those archetypes in the majority of matches what is left? Fast-Advance and Asset-Spam.

There are F.A. decks out there that will simply beat you in a race, you'll get your ultimate god-forsaken hell rig assembled right about when they win the game. The archetype is common enough so simply including a clot (especially since you already have the clone chips) will just - win games - simple as that.

As far as the approach to asset spam i've seen two basic ideas that seem to work alright for different reasons. One is to go really draw heavy, and multi-access heavy, planning to trash next to nothing, and out pace/ out acess, and win before things get too out of control. The other approach is to include either paricia or scrubber, and along with temujin, be able to target-trash the most important assets.

I don't think you will find yourself actually needing the extra credits you can get out of mirror. especially with three cloak. I'd reccomend astrolabe for extra lightweight speed and gear for asset-spam matches.

29 Mar 2017 Hypna

Thanks for all the advice. I've edited my deck to drop 1x Cloak, and 1x Feedback Filter, and added 1x Clot, 1x Paricia and 1x Mirror. I stuck with Mirror primarily because it gives +2 MU to Astrolabe's +1.