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vvribeiro 816

The Man With The Plan.

Keegan Lane. The best ICE designer NBN ever hired. He developed gems like Data Raven, Bandwidth, Gutenberg back in the days when security experts were concerned about killing and bankrupting runners.

A man of peace, some call him. "Why should we worry about the location of a runner if she already entered and left the building safely?", he states. "We are not Weylanders. If we prevent a runner from breaching in, no blood is required.".

His method, refined throughout the years, is very simple, at least for him: "Once the runner is in the server, an alarm sounds on my screen. All I have to do is close the connection. It's like an old Ctrl + Alt + Del, only fancier."

How does it work.

Gutenberg on R&D, Data Raven on HQ and remotes and archives. Bandwidth anywhere. Keegan Lane on all juicy servers. All it takes is a tag mid run and a cheap ETR, aka Wraparound, News Hound, Enigma and this is it.

Out of Keegans? Call your Interns or advance an Allele Repression. There you go. Start over.

Lag Time's most valuable advantage is taking Architect out of Mimic's range. Which means more Keegan Lane and, of course, an extra per ICE every run.

7 comments
26 Nov 2015 aermet69

I dig the Lag Time + Architect combo in Sol. Might try that after I'm done with ELP + Victoria :)

29 Nov 2015 Dothanite

Why Allele Repression over Archived Memories? yes, you could technically retrieve more with it but it's click intensive. You already have Jackson Howard to bring back the Interns, Keegan Lane, etc. to the deck.

30 Nov 2015 vvribeiro

@Dothanite Allele Repression also works as bait. I can trick the runner pretending it's a Global Food Initiative or an over advanced Beale.

30 Nov 2015 CaKnuckleguy

For the same influence on Allele, you can get Archived Memories or even Reclamation Orders. Much less click-and-risk intensive. Sure, you don't get the whole flashy 'Look what I just did' shenanigans, but those shenanigans don't make you a sad panda when they get sniped from R+D or Drive'd By'd either. Don't require any other set up. Just...better.

30 Nov 2015 vvribeiro

@Celebnar it's not about shenanigans or showing off at all. It's more about gear checking. When you're not sure the runner can get through the server. Throw Allele Repression there and see what happens. If he/she doesn't run, you get a couple of Keegan Lanes back anyway.

30 Nov 2015 CaKnuckleguy

@vvribeiro First: Allele doesn't gear check. It gut-checks at best, and doesn't punish the runner in any way if they guess wrong. Compare that to Cerebral Overwriter, Junebug etc. Guess wrong, die. Allele just...does something. Your ice are the gear check. Second: Allele needs to be advanced more than once, and you have more than one Keegan in archives for that perfect scenario to go off. That's late-game dreaming. You won't lose Archived Memories/Reclamation Orders to HQ/R+D pokes while waiting for this dream scenario.

If you're not sure a runner can get into a server, IAA isn't a good answer. It's a whole turn +2 credits used as a lure? Respectfully, this is a poor choice of corp strategy.

Heck, use two slots for Reclamation Orders, and now you have 2 influence for 2 Junebugs, if you REALLY want gear/gut checks that do something more than 'oh hey, guess you ran...whelp...'

2 Dec 2015 konradh

Took this deck for a spin and after four straight loses in the row I'm not impressed with SOL.

Main problems I run into: 1. Lagtime is too expensive to reccur. This is the part of New Angeles Sol: Your News underpowerment, I think this ID would be much better if the currents could be installed for free.

  1. Only five hard end the runs in the deck. Getting the right combination of ICE at the right moment was very hard for me. I either didn't have money for Tollbooth or just coulndn't find that dumb Wraparound or didn't have money to bring back Lag Time to make News Hound worth its money.

  2. Mid-run-Keegan- Lane is mostly useless against Shaper with Clone Chips installed, as long as they have enough money to just reinstall the trashed program.

  3. No Siphon protection. But this is maybe a case of me playing against ultra siphon-spam Quetzal deck.

  4. No tag punishment outside Keegan.There need to be more threat to float tags. Maybe Closed Accounts, maybe Psychographics.