NBN THE WORLD IS YOURS (NEED HELP!!)

By Undead Toast, in Android: Netrunner Deck Building

This deck is based around midseason replacements and psychographics. I have 2 snares to protect R&D, I've put 7 agendas in but im not sure if thats enough due to the fact the runner has to score an agenda to activate midseason! Any help would be awsome, Thanks!!

Agendas

Project Beale x3

Restructured Datapool x2

Executive Retreat x2

Ice

Ice Wall x1*

Wall Of Static x3

Eli 1.0 x3***

Enigma x3

Pop-Up Window x3

Chimera x3

Data Raven x2

Asset

Snare x2****

Melange Mining Corp x3

Private Contracts x3

Operation

Scorched Earth x1****

Midseason Replacements x3

Psychographics x3

You'll get a lot more mileage out of Private Security Force and Astroscript than you will out of the larger agendas that you're running. Midseason into PSF can just win you the game outright, and Midseason into Astroscript, while not game-winning in itself, is certainly useful, as you can use it to chain another Astroscript or fast-advance a Beale. Also, having the three point agendas makes it hurt a lot more when the runner steals an agenda to trigger MSR. In a tournament setting, you're going to want to limit the number of agenda points that your opponent gets as much as possible.

I prefer PAD Campaign and Marked Accounts in this type of deck, partially because those can be gaining you passive money if you manage to get a Midseason / PSF lock on someone.

Hedge Fund is not worth losing.

I much prefer Viper over Eli. The problem with Eli is that the runner has the option to click past, which becomes more problematic as the game goes on, and is just downright bad on remote servers.

Chimera is good on remote servers, but can be a drain on your resources in the early game. One of the things you can do in this deck is amass a large number of credits and then unload an enormous MSR into Beale for all the points. But that requires money, which you won't have if you're rezzing a Chimera every turn.

Data Raven is easily a three of. It fits into your game plan, and costs the runner additional money and clicks even if they can break it. It's one of the best pieces of ice in the game.

Enigma has fallen out of favor in my area due to the rise of criminal decks running Yog.0. The last thing you want is to spend time and money on ice that becomes irrelevant. Again, Viper is a better choice because it forces the runner to acquire more cards to complete runs.

You have no large pieces of ice, which makes me nervous. A deck that can get the right breakers out along with an R&D interface or Medium will just eat this deck for lunch. You should have a few big pieces of ice that take a fair amount of resources to get through so that you can hard-stop the runner if you need to.

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So my advice would be to re-think your agenda and ice choices and add in Hedge Fund.

Thanks for the imput mate, i'll mess about with some of your idea's and see what happens.

I've took out the snares and the scorched earth and used all my splash points on ice, im more happy with this deck played it a few nights ago and it worked very well, tell me what you guys think.

Agenda

Astroscript Pilot Program x3

Project Beale x3

Private Security Force x3

Ice

Chimera x3

Eli 1.0 x3*

Viper x3*

Tollbooth x3

Caduceus x3**

Data Ravan x3

Operation

Physcographics x3

Midseason Replacements x3

Hedge Fund x3

Asset

Melange Mining Corp x3

Private Contracts x3

Looks a lot better. You should do just fine with that build. Only thing I might trade is one or two pieces of ice for a trap of some sort. With this setup, it's harder to bluff a Junebug because you don't have anything that you need to advance twice, but an Edge of the World would work pretty well, and would allow you to put additional pressure on your opponent with PSF. Alternately, you can bluff an Aggressive Secretary for one, which can be effective.

Or to get the money going sooner you could replace one or two ice with Beanstalk Royalties. Up to you, but you probably don't need 18 ice in a 40 card deck. Certainly it will make it run a little more consistently (not as many mulligans for low ice), but won't be as explosive. Having money for an early Midseason can be pretty important.

Only other thing I can think of is to maybe have a couple cheap pieces of ice to allow you to protect a server from inside job early. Maybe Pop-Up Window, Hunter, or Chum if you want to use influence (Chum on a Data Raven is pretty nice, but you're not using anything to punish tags outside Psychographics, so the value is a little more limited). Remember that you "ice curve" is being compressed a little by the fact that you have fewer cards in your deck than normal. People usually run 18-21 pieces of ice in a 49 card deck, so you can get away with running 15 or 16 and keep the same ratio of ice to other cards.