Tag 'n Bag

A deck focused on demonstrating aspects of the game, not on balance, power, etc...

can play out many different ways, but this is an enduring archetype of the game: tag the runner, then kill 'em with meat damage.

Rule & Play Notes

A few things that might not be super-obvious:

• Hard-Hitting News is a key card. It is the main vector for us to give the runner multiple tags. We want them to end their turn with multiple tags. As this gives them 4 at the end of our turn (should we win the trace, of course), we're off to a good start. But they can always simply pay 8s to clear the tags for their next turn. Thus, you must time your use of Hard-Hitting News well, and do so in coordination with using Economic Warfare, with them taking other tags (Funhouse, Prisec, or Mausolus), or from them simply overextending.
• Once they are tagged, you kill them with BOOM! or (often multiple) High-Profile Targets. Consulting Visit can tutor these out.
• Note that BOOM! has a , so it might get accessed, and trashed. You can use Spin Doctor to recur it!
• This is not a rich deck. You likely don't want to play much ICE, and you don't want to rez much of it. You'll often dig deep and go close to 0 s landing a Hard-Hitting News, then use Too Big to Fail to get the s to kill them.
• Spin Doctor enables recursion, and you often want to use it on Prisecs or Snare! to keep taxing the runner.
• Every unadvanced card you place into a remote is designed to drain the runner of econ, and an make them more Hard-Hitting News-able. You can make it very difficult for the runner to steal an agenda. Between the Argus Security: Protection Guaranteed tax, a Prisec or two, and the tagging ICE protecting it, you can put the runner in a bad spot. Even better if they expend resources only to hit a Snare!. If they go for the agenda, then you might be able to Hard-Hitting News them and kill them the next turn. These are the situations you're looking to set up. But do it quickly! You can't keep the runner out for long, and their econ will outpace yours. You'll often win or lose with the runner on 6 agenda points.