Kate McCaffrey, Agent Of GLOBALSEC

StashAugustine 63

This deck has been pretty great on OCTGN and live play over the last two weeks. Basically you rush to get out Nexus and Rabbit Hole as quickly as possible. Then you facecheck ice, get paid for it as long as your Power Taps are up, and then maybe the corp blows a bunch of money (after they already had to rez the ice) to make you lose a click and two credits, maybe they don't boost and you get free money for facechecking and maybe an access if they're only one deep. Lategame as long as you have an econ advantage you can get right past the nastiest ice the corp has and get more money as the run goes on. Drip econ solidifies your advantage, RDI digs let you keep up the pressure even when they're not advancing stuff. It's weak to very fast decks that can win before you get set up and to very rich decks that can actually afford to keep me out. I think it could perhaps use a little more setup speed, econ pressure, or HQ pressure but it performs really well. I want to put it in Criminal for Au Revoir, Compromised Employee, Emergency Shutdown, and Forged Activation Orders but they have more trouble with setup speed and have to import RnD pressure and recursion so the influence is tighter.

8 comments
27 Aug 2015 DarkMite2

I'm not sure why you want Security Nexus? Seems like you are asking to get your Resources trashed and/or flatlined, especially without Fall Guy on the table. (I admit I haven't played much of D&D - so maybe I'm not seeing the advantage) Why Security Nexus and Rabbit Hole together? It seems redundant. Also, why not use all three of Sunny's "War Machines"? THANKS! =)

27 Aug 2015 StashAugustine

Keymaster is in faction, I like the influence. Nexus is the real MVP of the deck. The idea is, once you have Rabbit Holes and the console, you run ice blind. The worst the corp can do is give a tag and end the run, so as long as you have a click and two credits you just drop the tag. You don't go tagme with this deck (Corporate Town hurts btw.) I've never had a tag from Nexus stick, and I'm 90% sure there's nothing the Corp can do about it (DRT triggers off successful runs). Security Nexus is the real point of this deck, the cloud breakers just support Data Folding and high link. It gives you painless facechecks, it bypasses high-impact ice in glaciers, it gives econ with Power Tap up. If you're not doing an actual run, you can even run a server, fire the trace, collect your three Tap credits, and you're either clicking for three or forcing the corp to blow a ton of money. (Bonus points if they leave tracer ice outermost on a server, I had a guy rez a muckracker which I proceeded to run twice for twelve credits.)

27 Aug 2015 StashAugustine

Keymaster is in faction, I like the influence. Nexus is the real MVP of the deck, the cloud breakers just support Data Folding and high link. The idea is, once you have Rabbit Holes (so you have 5 link and pass the trace unless the corp boosts) and the console, you run ice blind. The worst the corp can do is give a tag and end the run, so as long as you have a click and two credits you just drop the tag. You don't go tagme with this deck (Corporate Town hurts btw.) I've never had a tag from Nexus stick, and I'm 90% sure there's nothing the Corp can do about it (DRT triggers off successful runs). Nexus gives you painless facechecks, it bypasses high-impact ice in glaciers, it gives econ with Power Tap up. If you're not doing an actual run, you can even run a server, fire the trace, collect your three Tap credits, and you're either clicking for three or forcing the corp to blow a ton of money. (Bonus points if they leave tracer ice outermost on a server, I had a guy rez a muckracker which I proceeded to run twice for twelve credits.)

27 Aug 2015 mrgoldendeal

Why Infiltration?

27 Aug 2015 StashAugustine

I like to play safe, it could probably go depending on personal preference. Hardware destruction is one of the big counters to this deck and a one or two to make sure I'm not wandering into a Shattered Remains is nice. Probably could do to be replaced with Sac Construct if I'm worried about destruction.

27 Aug 2015 Spaceman_Spiff

Sacrificial Construct also screws over an NEH who forgets about it and thinks they can CVS your clot

27 Aug 2015 mrgoldendeal

I like the basic tech that this deck has but I made a few changes to it (adding in Professional Contacts, New Angeles City Hall, and Film Critic mainly). I'm interested in getting some testing games in!

27 Aug 2015 DarkMite2

@StashAugustine - OIC... Thanks for explaining.