Measured Trust

This deck is just FUN, because of how crazily swingy it is :D

It probably needs be improved in terms of economy, speed and ice layout.
But that's not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about

Divested Trust

What an agenda.
Initially, I didn't think it was useful at all.
Then I thought, it was completely shut down by the rotation of Punitive Counterstrike.

Could I just replace the full playset with a single Send a Message, like a sane person? Sure.

Instead, let me tell you a story of one weird random game against a Deep Dive Magdalene with this deck.

• My starting hand wasn't terrible, but lacked a bit of money and early game tempo. As usual.
• On turn 1 I installed a naked Divested Trust. (all agendas in this game were installed faceup.)

• They let me score it turn 2, which put me in low cred territroy. Still worth it. I recovered.

• A few turns later with a bit more money I score a second Divested Trust behind a single unrezzed Logjam, with both unrezzed upgrades alongside. I don't think they could've contested that at that point.

• Next turn, they do their runner thing were they get into the remote. I rez both upgrades, they accept the card tax (I casually sniped the first Deep Dive) and get rid of them, as they should.

• The expenditure of resources on their end presented an opportunity for scoring Offworld Office with some help of Argus Crackdown and Seamless Launch. Easy thing. I lead 4:0 score now with my three agendas.

• Some slow but steady buildup on both sides followed. We both were prepared for a long match.

• On turn 13 I make the horrendibly stupid decision to spend my cards. All of them. HQ is now empty. I'm a bad player :D

• On their turn 13, they go into R&D, steal a SDS and I used Diveted Trust despite knowing what would follow.
  They go into HQ and I use a second Divested Trust on the same agenda in one turn. They had a left after that, but not the resources to go in again. The agenda was temporarily saved. Score is 2:0.

• I spend the next turn drawing three cards. But now I had 2 SDS in hand which put me a bit under pressure.
  Next turn, I install a SDS and they take it. Third time's the charm, after stealing the same "additional cost to steal" agenda three times, they earned it.

• At the start of turn 16 I draw my very first copy of Measured Response, but it still wasn't threat level 4 after all that time. FML.

• After a long, strategic game of taxing the runner is slowly running out of deck eventually. (Angelique sniped a Harmony AR Therapy. Big W!)
  So far, the score is still 2:3 in the runner's favor.

• On turn 19 I install Above the Law (against a runner that has already spent all their resources and literally offers no trash targets). I make it expensive to steal with ice and the runner decides to attack HQ instead, trashing both my Measured Responses just before threat level 4 activates.
  This was not going to end with a flatline.

• Next turn, I use my second Seamless Launch to score Above the Law and immediately install SDS in it's place, so that it's guarded by Angelique.
  Score was 4:3, so stealing SDS was not an instant win and the runner only had a grand total of 2 cards left, so they couldn't steal it from under Angelique's nose unless if they stole something else first.
  They didn't and I slow advanced the final agenda over turns 20 to 22.
  The end.

I love netrunner.