First Non-Starter Deck: Feedback appreciated

By HK47, in Android: Netrunner Deck Building

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Reporting Live!
Identity: New Angeles Sol: Your News
Agenda
3 AstroScript Pilot Program ○​○​○​
2 Breaking News
2 Character Assassination
2 Explode-a-palooza
2 Improved Tracers
1 Market Research
2 TGTBT
Asset (9)
2 City Surveillance
1 Dedicated Response Team
2 Jackson Howard
1 Melange Mining Corp.
2 PAD Campaign
1 Primary Transmission Dish
ICE (21)
3 Data Raven
1 Enigma
2 Gutenberg
1 Matrix Analyzer
3 News Hound
3 Pop-up Window
2 Quandary
2 Tollbooth
2 Turnpike
2 Wraparound
Operation (8)
1 Closed Accounts
2 Manhunt
1 Predictive Algorithm
2 Scorched Earth

2 Surveillance Sweep

Thoughts?

Edited by HK47
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As a first time deck builder here are a few thoughts I would consider:

1. Drop down to 49 cards. Very, very few corporation decks should go above the minimum + 4 deck rule-of-thumb.

2. Focus on your win condition, how are you going to achieve it? Maximize your ability to hit that win-con.

3. How are you going to make money? You have next to no econ in that deck. Melange might fire once, pad is slow, pop-up is slow, Explode-a-palooze requires the runner to hit it and they get 2 points out of it. You have some expensive stuff in there and no real bursty econ.

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Seconded from the above--this deck is trying to do too many things and none of them well.


You've got a lot of tracing and tagging to get done, but not a lot of money to pay for them. Without money, traces just become a way for the Runner to tax the corp, leaving you broke with little to show for it. High Link runners are quite popular at the moment so tracing is kind of weak. Although if there were a deck that could do it, Sol keeping Surveillance Sweep consistently in play would be the one to do it. You should be running 3x.


You need 3x Sweeps Week and 3x Hedge Fund, no question about it.


Cut your deck down to 49 cards and 20 agenda points. This will improve your deck's consistency and help you draw into key cards for your win condition.


If this is a true kill deck, drop the Dedicated Response Team and go 3x Scorched. You generally need two to kill unless the runner is stupid, and it's never a good idea for opponent stupidity to be a necessary win condition. This plus Astroscript will take up your 15 influence, so you're tournament legal. 3x Breaking News and 2x 24/7 News Cycle is a tag & bag first strike that's difficult to counter. Look up "Butchershop" or "Convenience Shop" played under the Haarpsichord Studios ID for the prime incarnation of that archetype.