Winging It

CobraBubbles 1300

So I thought I'd have a crack at seeing what a Nasir deck would look like, and I discovered something amazing. With the credits from the Toolbox and the correct breaker out (usually Garrote/Corroder/Gordian), and barring major advancement/subroutine-adding shenanigans, there is only one piece of Ice currently existing in the game that Nasir cannot break straight through when his ability goes off. That Ice is Archer, and he can still break the trash-y subroutines so it's not that big a deal.

Thanks to this discovery, I focussed the deck around getting that rig set up as soon as possible. The draw events, SMC and Test Run obviously really help with this. Scavenge lets you be a bit more flexible if you have to trash a lot of stuff from over-drawing, and of course combos with Test Run beautifully. Also it allows Atman shenanigans if you ever need to do that. Opus/Kati are to quickly get the money you need to install your console and breakers, and also to fuel you in the late game when the corp has rezzed all its Ice and you stop getting money for it. To delay that point for as long as possible you have Shutdown and Same Old to recur it. The early game will be short for this deck but as soon as you stop getting free accesses you just dig like hell for your pieces and then steamroll into any server you like.

Thoughts? I'm not quite sure if the econ will work as planned - maybe one more Opus or Kati is necessary to ensure you see them when you need them. Apart from that though I'm super psyched about this deck and can't wait to play it.

Edit: and yes I'm not running Sure Gamble. I feel like if anyone can do without it, Nasir can, but obviously it could be slotted in if it turns out I'm wrong.

3 comments
19 May 2014 bazyn

Hi!

I think that you do not challenge the biggest weakness of Nasir - what happens if someone sticks a cheap ice in front of some already rezzed, big ice and installs an agenda in the server? You will break the cheap ice but you won't have a solution for the big ones.

19 May 2014 benhosp

Sharpshooter, Faerie, or Grappling Hook would help deal with Archer specifically.

19 May 2014 CobraBubbles

bazyn - Yeah that's a good point. I guess you could jack out, take money off Kati and run again? Or alternatively just Shutdown the big Ice. Needs testing I guess.