Lunar Perfection

obscurica 1313

Why should Haas Bioroid have all the fun? Import seven key cards away from your rival faction in the labor solutions market and show them what it's really like to inflict pain and misery on the runner -- a full set of Estelle Moon and Friends in High Places, along with a singleton copy of Ronald Five to force their hand. Unlike HB, you also get access to Hostile Infrastructure and Jinteki: Replicating Perfection's on-card ability to put a tighter squeeze on runners than possible under any other identity.

Not to mention that net damage is a whole lot better than brain damage, natch.

While the actual scoring aspect is naturally slower than the HB equivalent, the taxing approach gives it a few key advantages. Turn-one damage potential off an R&D facecheck of Komainu or even Kakugo into Fetal AI is punishing enough to neutralize rush threat, and the forced central run inherently means even an all-out Whizzard/3-Scrubber deck is going to have a very difficult time suppressing your horizontal play. This is doubly so with both Hostile Infrastructure and Ronald Five on at the same time, as the hit on both cards and clicks drags down the runner's pace to a near-standstill.

The main disadvantage is actually scoring points. While the usual Caprice Nisei and Marcus Batty combo means you actually do have the time and opportunity to crank out a four or five-point agenda, it's definitely not as safe as just outright scoring it from hand. Luckily, you're playing Jinteki, so between Fetal AI and The Future Perfect, even your agendas are bullshit and hard to steal. A two- or three-ice scoring server ought to do the trick in most cases.

5 comments
15 May 2017 WhyohWhy

Boooo! FiHP is ruining this game. You know something is wrong when Whizzard can't keep up with asset spam.

15 May 2017 obscurica

@WhyohWhy I fully agree that it's too impacting in the status quo. Should be a tier 2 or 3 on the MWL.

Until then, ABUUUUSE

15 May 2017 WhyohWhy

@obscurica Indeed, I like the MWL and think it really helps. But they really dropped the ball by not putting FiHP on it. #teamtier3

16 May 2017 codychilton13

The only reason friends came out was because whizzard was literally the best runner for about 8 months to a year. I don't think it should only be 1 influence, BUT I don't think it's ruining the game that much. Not in my locals anyway

8 Jul 2017 ThunderCloud

The economy spam is just amazing! And your economy is extremely good and pretty much controls itself because the runner isn't really able to trash it (Sundew works so unbelievably good with RP). Only Employee Strike is a bit annoying. I would drop the Ronald Five to replace it with a second Hostile Infrastructure. Eating all the net damage is unbelievably annoying. I remember the good old triple Bio-Ethics Association and triple Hostile Infrastructure decks on Jinteki Potential unleashed <3 Still one of my favorite decks.