Fun Times Bifrost

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I call this fun times bifrost. After a particularly grindy "Teleporting Caprice" Blue Sun deck, I decided to enjoy playing Netrunner and not take it so seriously. People have talked about Team Sponsorship being good for triggering ABTs, so I decided to build around trying to trigger as many ABTs as I could.

We have 11 pieces of early game Ice. 3 Quandary, Ice wall architect and 2 Rototurret for the early game. Simple, ETR ice that stops a run, forcing the runner to leave servers alone until they are set up, or , in the case of Architect, give you a running start as you slip an ABT into a remote and trigger while giving zero fucks. Rototurret doesn't tax very hard, so it's there just to round out the numbers.

We have three or five medium ice, depending on how you view Tollbooth. Three Turing, a must in a faust heavy meta, and generally taxing at about 4/5 credits with regular breakers, helping you set up a nice scoring remote, and Tollbooth. If you're a crim, get screwed, because Zu won't cut it. Especially if the runner has decided to have little money and rely on Drug Dealer and faust to get in, sometimes, the Tollbooth will ETR because of how poor a runner can be.

Then we have the big boys. 3 Heimdall 2.0, 3 Janus, and 1 LORD OF ICE WOTAN (which might be the worst ice in this deck). These are the reward to your ABT, on top of the incremental ice you'll hit like turings and tollbooths and architects. Janus is a heavy tax on most icebreakers, clicks and D4V1D counters. Sometimes, you will be rich enough to rez it for money anyway, and can blow out a runner's hand with careful play. Heimdall 2.0 is really good as the runner can't just click to remove the ETR, or limit the brain damage. If they don't have two clicks left, or about 7 credits and a corroder, they're going to take brain and ETR.

Team Sponsorship really makes this deck sing in a few different ways. The most obvious way is the safety net for ABT triggering. You fire the ABT, oh dear, an agenda hit the archives. Use it to slam it into the scoring remote and speed up your game. If you have a jackson in hand or in archives, pop it into a remote and get rid of multiple agendas at once.

The next level plays come in with abusing this ability. If you score a priority rec, you choose how your triggers resolve. Use the Team Sponsorship to install big ice from your HQ or Archives, then use Priority Req to rez that ice for free. This will also gain you a credit (if you didn't install something this turn).

Did they trash the ash when they got taxed out of the scoring remote? Use team sponsorship to put it back into your scoring remote and increase your safe score windows.

Did you blank on an ABT and mill valuable cards like Adonis and Pad into archives? Pop the Adonis into your scoring remote while you wait for a fresh new agenda to come in.

Most of the agendas are obvious for Glacier/HB, but Bifrost Array doesn't get used much. In this deck, Bifrost basically becomes ABT / Priori Rec 4 & 5. Back to back to back ABTs can be yours, although it starts to get fruitless after a while.

Adonis, Jackson, Pad, Ash, Global food and hedge fund are obvious choices that are in most decks like this. Despite the high cost ice, if you pace yourself and click for credits as well as using economy, you can easily find yourself getting rich enough to rez Janus for the actual asking price.

In terms of piloting, I recommend closing up R&D and HQ to stop easy snipes using your cheap, early game ice, then building up a remote. Pop down unprotected Pads and Team Sponsorships, and put adonis in your scoring remote. While you're feeding on drip, install an ice or asset on most turns, and click for two credits. If your econ isn't trashed, you can easily gain 4-6 creds a turn this way, helping pay for ice and ash traces. Having only 3 operations really helps you milk the EtF ability throughout the game.

Trigger ABT. Especially if you have Team sponsorship or Jackson, but even if you don't you have lots of ice (23!) and despite the 2 bifrost and 3 ABT, you still have 9 agendas, which is a fairly average amount. Restrain yourself late game unless you know where your agendas are, and have not seen any expensive ice.

Most importantly, have fun! This deck is there to be played casually, but can win championships if you know what you're doing. I won a game night kit with this! (Albeit with 6 people in the tournament, but you know, get the wins where you can :D )