The next generation of damage

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The basic idea of this deck is to use a combination of all three types of damage to overwhelm a runner's ability to mitigate damage and stay alive.

I envision this playing with just centrals and 2 remotes. One undefended remote for Melange Mining Corp., and the other defended remote for agendas or Project Junebug.

Cerebral Cast is a key card in this deck as it either deals brain damage or lets me punish with Scorched Earth or Closed Accounts. The latter is there since many runners still run Plascrete, and are therefore likely to just take the tag. Alternate punishment is always helpful.

The Reclamation Orders are there to recur Cerebral Cast or Scorched Earth.

Caprice Nisei is there to defend HQ or R&D, but also as a bluff for Tori Hanzō. Tori Hanzō will, in theory, convert net damage into brain damage. She only has to go off once or twice to put you in very easy Scorch/Junebug flatline range. She also combos well with House of Knives.

As for the ICE suite, Himitsu-Bako is there to protect centrals, especially HQ in case of siphons. Snowflake is also a solid defense, and can be used as a Pop-up Window if required. Worst case scenario, it still requires 2 creds and a corroder to deal with.

Bullfrog can divert runs over to a remote loaded with Junebug, or just send the runner over to Archives if need be. It also combos with Whirlpool, which should be the outer ice on the protected remote to force runners into Junebug.

Lotus Field is solid binary ice, which really messes up decks that rely on Yogs and Datasuckers/Parasites. Too effective not to include.

Komainu forces decks to go searching for a sentry breaker. It's vulnerable to mimic but will still cost 5 to avoid taking any net damage. Even if the runner only decides to take 1 damage, that leaves an opening for Tori Hanzō.

Pup is decent, low cost, taxing ice. Not much to be said about it. Tsurugi forces stealth decks to spend stealth credits on Daggers. Vulnerable to Mimics, but it still costs 4 to break, which is not bad.

I haven't playtested this deck yet, but suggestions and advice would be appreciated!

1 comments
14 Oct 2014 Exo

What about Mamba? You can spemd the token from it on a run on any server, it's like another House of Knives with match Tori Hanzo perfectly.