Sand Storm

Motivation

Caprice inspected the Crisium architecture that had been retrofitted to her Tennin servers. The melding of Weyland brutishness and Jinteki finesse had created a defensive measure beyond any she’d seen before.

That combined with her own abilities made the information nearly uncrackable. And this was the sort of work that Caprice enjoyed—She was protecting advances that would help everyone. Not just her sisters, not just Jinteki, but the struggling peoples of Earth, Luna, and Mars all together. New hybrid food types to be shipped to the red dunes of Mars. New medicines that could improve quality of life for so many people.

It was good work.

Misdirection and Deflection

I put in ALL THE DEFLECTORS. I think? I don’t think there are others.

Anyways, Bullfrog, Miraju, Susanoo, and Sand Storm all work together to force the runner where they don’t want to be. That’s usually Archives. Filled with Breached Domes and Shocks. Crisium on every central server (prioritizing HQ and R&D) will help Tennin’s ability fire, and it’ll help protect our Off the Grid server.

Yes. Off the Grid Tennin. With Caprice on HQ. Deflectors on HQ. Crisium on HQ. Friends in High Places plus Crick plus Interns to bring our Grids and Caprice back. With a good Tennin rotation, we can never-advance all of our agendas. And even if they do get some successful runs through our strange labyrinth of deflectors and grids and psychic clones, we can always leave two advancement counters on our Ice Walls to Trick of Light onto our agendas.

It’s a silly deck. But I think it’ll work.

Pinball Tennin (Sand Storm)

Tennin Institute: The Secrets Within

 

Agenda (9)

3x Improved Protein Source

3x Medical Breakthrough

3x Nisei MK II

 

Asset (6)

3x Breached Dome

3x Shock!

 

Upgrade (7)

2x Caprice Nisei

3x Crisium Grid  ●●●

2x Off the Grid  ●●●●● ●

 

Operation (13)

3x Friends in High Places  ●●●

3x Hedge Fund

1x Interns

2x IPO

2x Preemptive Action

2x Trick of Light

 

Barrier (3)

3x Ice Wall  ●●●

 

Code Gate (7)

2x Bullfrog

2x Crick

3x Mirāju

 

Sentry (1)

1x Susanoo-no-Mikoto

 

Other (3)

3x Sand Storm

 

15 influence spent (max 15, available 0)

21 agenda points (between 20 and 21)

49 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Revised Core Set

 

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Caldera

The Plan

With all of her time spent jacking into the London Library, Hayley had learned a lot. More than most who accessed those servers.

And she’d shared that knowledge. There were a few corporations who were more than upset after their secrets had been published in LL periodicals.

Today though, Hayley had a new plan. She was going to take down the Jinteki infrastructure in Breaker Bay once and for all, and the division known as Replicating Perfection would crumble from within.

The BS Reigns

Caldera is pretty cool. It’s better than Net Shield, at least. And in a London Library deck, one of the worst things to happen is to have your hand knocked out and lose all of your Chameleons and big breakers.

The other terrible thing that can happen is that you smash into a Snare while all of your breakers are on the board and your hand is empty.

That’s basically the best thought I had for Caldera. Otherwise it’s just a support card that can go anywhere—I mean, it’s only one influence. Expensive in the credit department, but pretty good as a non-meat damage mitigator.

Nothing super surprising or special about this deck. Chameleons and LLDS work together great. Mass-Driver and Na’Not’K and Cerberus for the occasionally annoying piece of ICE that Chameleons have trouble with. Brahman to return non-Chameleon programs without LL trashing them, and Ubax to get your Brahman/Test Run programs back into hand clicklessly.

Lots of economy in Opus, Temujin, and Tech Writer. Enough that I felt comfortable not putting Hedge Fund in. Once you see a Dhegdheer, you probably want to get the Opus out. Unless you see a Temujin first. That’ll keep you comfortable while you build up.

Might need some more card draw, but we’ve got the Artist Colony/Fan Site combo to find any missing piece quickly as well. Oh! And you can Scavenge something off of London Library if you’re looking for a cheap way to get something out for two clicks and you’re low on the credits. Which also pumps the Tech Writers. Lots of combinations in this one. Very Shaper BS.

Safe Keeping Hayley (Caldera)

Hayley Kaplan: Universal Scholar

 

Event (6)

3x Scavenge

3x Test Run

 

Hardware (8)

3x Clone Chip ★★★

3x LLDS Processor

2x Ubax

 

Resource (19)

3x Artist Colony

1x Beth Kilrain-Chang

2x Caldera  ●●

3x Fan Site

1x Film Critic

3x London Library

3x Technical Writer

3x Temüjin Contract ★★★ ●●●●● ●

 

Icebreaker (7)

1x Brahman

1x Cerberus “Lady” H1 ★

3x Chameleon

1x Mass-Driver

1x Na’Not’K

 

Program (8)

3x Dhegdheer

1x Equivocation

1x Magnum Opus

3x Self-modifying Code

 

15 influence spent (max 15, available 0)

48 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Terminal Directive

 

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Breached Dome

Shell Games

Reina looked across the board at her opponent’s defense. The checkered squares of her cyberspace interface representing—to her—each individual server that the corporation had walled off and secured.

There was a myriad of them. Some were bristling with countermeasures, others were suspiciously devoid. Some bristled with activity, others appeared dormant.

It was a crap shoot, but she had to find out what was behind the red door. Martian freedom may damn well depend on it.

Hurrah (the last)

This is basically… the epitome of pre-rotation Jinteki heaven. I’m not running Caprice, but I’ve got 3x Shock and 3x Breached Dome. I’m running Fetal and Obokata beside each other. I’m running Ronin and Junebug together (even though now we know that Ronin is entering Core 2.0).

This deck follows the idea that Eady from RLC espoused a few months ago (and again recently), that Jinteki does best when advanced cards and unadvanced cards both can kill you. The runner is always damned if they do, damned if they don’t. It could be a Breached Dome. Or a Psychic Field. Or a Bio-Ethics. Or maybe it is a Philotic or a House of Knives after all.

Maybe it’s a Fetal, an Obokata, or Junebug. Or maybe it’s a Ronin.

Spiky at its best, and that’s why I called it Quill. Porcupine was taken.

Quill PE (Breached Dome)

Jinteki: Personal Evolution

 

Agenda (10)

3x Fetal AI

3x House of Knives

3x Obokata Protocol

1x Philotic Entanglement

 

Asset (20)

3x Bio-Ethics Association ★★★

3x Breached Dome

3x Jackson Howard  ●●●

1x Project Junebug

1x Psychic Field

2x Ronin

2x Shi.Kyū

3x Shock!

2x Snare!

 

Operation (8)

3x Celebrity Gift

3x Hedge Fund

2x Neural EMP

 

Barrier (3)

3x Kakugo

 

Code Gate (3)

2x Lotus Field

1x Yagura

 

Sentry (5)

2x Komainu

2x Pup

1x Swordsman

 

6 influence spent (max 15, available 9)

20 agenda points (between 20 and 21)

49 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Crimson Dust

 

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Aumakua

Righteous!

Silhouette rode cyberspace like a great Pacific current. She ducked every trap and snare that the sysops could think to throw in her way. It wasn’t luck—it was preparation.

Layered Connections

Aumakua is a tough card to figure out. It’s a lot like Darwin, but you have to be more proactive. It rewards going in and seeing things, so obviously it fits well in Crim. I tried to layer on as many synergies as I could, and it resulted in a pretty cool deck.

Obviously, let’s go Silhouette. That means we get a built in expose any time we run HQ. Desperado will benefit us, and Aeneas will incentivize running and not trashing (Aumakua trigger). We also want a little wiggle room, so Datasucker goes in too. Siphon acts as a balancing factor in cash flows and adds another HQ run, so now I’m looking hard at Pheromones.

With all of those viruses (and Medium as a game closer), Fester is looking cooler too. Fester plus Siphon means the Corp will be in some cash distress. I like that idea.

Last synergy to really lean on is Bhagat. If we’re running HQ so often for exposes, Pheromones, Datasuckers, and Aeneas/Aumakua, might as well trash some cards of R&D!

And all that in a 40 card deck.

In the end, I think this came together really well.

Oh, and rather than go 2x Mongoose, I went 1x Ninja and 1x Mammon. Mammon for a backup breaker against high-strength ICE after a purge and you’re low on Datasuckers, and Ninja because of the deck name.

Ninja Turtle Silhouette (Aumakua)

Silhouette: Stealth Operative

 

Event (13)

3x Account Siphon

3x Hostage

2x Special Order

2x Spot the Prey

3x Sure Gamble

 

Hardware (2)

2x Desperado

 

Resource (16)

1x Aaron Marrón

3x Aeneas Informant

1x Bhagat  ●●●●

2x Biometric Spoofing

2x Bloo Moose

3x Fester  ●●●

1x John Masanori

3x Temüjin Contract ★★★

 

Icebreaker (4)

2x Aumakua

1x Mammon

1x Ninja

 

Program (5)

2x Datasucker  ●●

1x Medium  ●●●

2x Pheromones

 

15 influence spent (max 15, available 0)

40 cards (min 40)

Cards up to Terminal Directive

 

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Restore

Projected Upgrades

Jeeves was in his most enjoyable function. He was approving expenditure reports.

Another data pipeline to the SanSan outpost was being requested, and Jeeves transferred it to the expedite queue. SanSan’s grid service was impeccable, and with that sort of computing power, Jeeves’s work would go even more smoothly.

You Say You Want Efficiency?

This is another deck that is just hoarding the clicks and making the advancements go quickly. Restore is an interesting card. It’s slightly better than Friends in that you can do it on your first or second click, and it’s slightly worse in that you only get one card, and you lose duplicates (Jackson and Marilyn help with that, though. And Vitruvius, even Pet Project).

I like this as a target for an MCA Austerity after the runner has bent over backwards to kill one. Just Restore it back to its previous server and then click it again.

The cool thing about this build is that you can put SanSan, Warroid, and MCA all in the same server, then if they want to kill your MCA, they have to deal with the Warroids. Once you click/trash the MCA, you have a six-click turn on a SanSan, more than enough to score a Mandatory Upgrades. You could even score both Vitruvius’s from hand. Or score a Vitruvius with a million counters to recur your operations and anything the runner trashes.

Pet Project is a fun addition that can rebuild a Warroid/MCA server, or SanSan, or whatever. Or Adonis. And you can Biotic it out or SanSan it out. Lots of options.

I think if a runner doesn’t go heavily aggressive, this deck will run over them.

SanSan Makeover ETF (Restore)

Haas-Bioroid: Engineering the Future

 

Agenda (9)

1x Director Haas’ Pet Project

3x Elective Upgrade

3x Mandatory Upgrades

2x Project Vitruvius

 

Asset (12)

3x Adonis Campaign

3x Jackson Howard  ●●●

3x Marilyn Campaign

3x MCA Austerity Policy

 

Upgrade (5)

2x SanSan City Grid ★★ ●●●●● ●

3x Warroid Tracker

 

Operation (7)

2x Biotic Labor

3x Hedge Fund

2x Restore

 

Barrier (5)

3x Eli 1.0

1x Heimdall 1.0

1x Heimdall 2.0

 

Code Gate (6)

1x Fairchild

1x Fairchild 3.0

2x Ravana 1.0

2x Turing

 

Sentry (4)

2x Architect ★★

1x Ichi 1.0

1x Ichi 2.0

 

Other (1)

1x Loki

 

13 influence spent (max 15, available 2)

20 agenda points (between 20 and 21)

49 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Revised Core Set

 

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Salvaged Vanadis Armory

Chrome is the Style

MaxX yanked the Muresh up over her hips and shoved her hands into the sleeves. The damn thing was tighter than an HB exec’s arse, but it’d keep her one step ahead of her debts.

Taking a second to check herself out in the reflection of a dead screen, MaxX winked her remaining eye at herself.

“Hard core.”

REVISED CORE 2—I mean MaxX with Muresh!

I’m a little bit overwhelmed. I’m writing this blog post on September 11^th, right after FFG just announced the revised core and the first pack of the Kintara cycle.

So, I’m just thinking about how I lost a bunch of cool cards, but how I got to keep some of my favourites. Particularly, Reina. And Gabe. I mean, I lost Desperado which is the shits, but I got to keep Reina and Gabe. And honestly, I’m happy about those changes.

Desperado, ETF, and Kate were all the same sort of thing, and it’s good that we’re moving away from baseline-no-interaction efficiency. I’ll miss Noise though.

This deck though! I found a use for Muresh Bodysuit!

We’re taking lots of damage to stack Clan Vengeance and Officer Frank, but we can control how much we want. Now, Net-Ready and Titanium will only do one, and Dadiana and Tri-Maf will only do two! Plus with the ribs, we can target that damage to our I’ve Had Worse! With the Ribs, we can also target our Amped up on our duplicates.

Spinal Modem is great for the theme, and it helps out with MKUltra and Black Orchestra’s costs.

Vanadis is tough to pull off, but we can at least trigger it by Chop Botting away a Tri-Maf or hitting an Amped Up.

Sorry. This deck is cool. Back to revised core stuff.

Chromed Up MaxX (Salvaged Vanadis Armory)

MaxX: Maximum Punk Rock

 

Event (9)

2x Amped Up

3x Déjà Vu

3x I’ve Had Worse

1x Levy AR Lab Access  ●●●

 

Hardware (10)

2x Chop Bot 3000

2x Muresh Bodysuit  ●●

2x Net-Ready Eyes  ●●●●

2x Spinal Modem

2x Titanium Ribs  ●●●●

 

Resource (13)

3x Clan Vengeance

2x Dadiana Chacon

3x Officer Frank

3x Salvaged Vanadis Armory

2x Tri-maf Contact  ●●

 

Icebreaker (9)

3x Black Orchestra

3x MKUltra

3x Paperclip

 

Program (4)

2x Medium

2x Trope

 

15 influence spent (max 15, available 0)

45 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Terminal Directive

 

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MCA Austerity Policy

Duck/Water

Jeeves had been reassigned. He enjoyed this work as well—not as satisfying as helping to run a mining operation, but production of Bioroid models on Mars had hit a fever pitch, and efficient service was Jeeves’s primary function.

Clicks? You say you want clicks?

I went overboard. This card is insane.

If the runner can’t get to it—through ICE, through net damage, encryption protocols, and through click costs, they just keep losing clicks. Then you get a six-click turn!! With that six-click turn, you can score a 5/3 (like Elective Upgrade) from hand. Or you can use Jeeves and score a Mandatory Upgrades from hand. Or you can over-advance a Vitruvius into the freaking sky.

Or you can click Eliza’s Toybox twice.

This is such a cruel, mean, terrible card. And I love it. Because it can be killed by running or by using something like Political Operative. There are ways around it. What a silly deck this will be.

More for Us HB (MCA Austerity Policy)

Haas-Bioroid: Engineering the Future

 

Agenda (9)

1x Domestic Sleepers

3x Elective Upgrade

1x Mandatory Upgrades

2x Project Vitruvius

2x Voting Machine Initiative

 

Asset (21)

1x Eliza’s Toybox

3x Encryption Protocol

2x Hostile Infrastructure  ●●●●

3x Jackson Howard  ●●●

2x Jeeves Model Bioroids

3x Marilyn Campaign

3x MCA Austerity Policy

1x Ronald Five

3x Turtlebacks  ●●●

 

Operation (6)

3x Friends in High Places

3x Hedge Fund

 

Barrier (5)

3x Eli 1.0

1x Heimdall 2.0

1x Wotan

 

Code Gate (5)

1x Fairchild

2x Fairchild 3.0

2x Ravana 1.0

 

Sentry (2)

1x Enforcer 1.0

1x Ichi 1.0

 

Other (1)

1x Loki

 

10 influence spent (max 15, available 5)

21 agenda points (between 20 and 21)

49 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Terminal Directive

 

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Respirocytes

The New You

Null looked at himself in the mirror and barely recognized the man looking back. He’d gone to the chrome shop more times than he wanted to count now. He certainly wasn’t more machine than man, but he had more than enough of the former.

He was starting to realize that it was an addiction. Always chasing the next upgrade.

Running a hand across his bald scalp, Null felt for a ridge or a scar where they’d done most of the work on his Brain Cage, but the Martian chromers did good work. His skull was unblemished.

And it would make him even harder to catch.

Diggers

Respirocytes are great for Severnius deep-dig decks. Basically, use some Prepaids to Quality Time or I’ve Had Worse up, Severnius the cards away, then draw some extra cards up to save you from a Snare! It’s genius I tell you.

At least that’s how I think it works. It’d suck if you can’t stack multiple Respirocytes, but I haven’t seen a ruling for it.

Anywho, it’s a pretty straightforward PPVP money, draw, recursion deck, but with Cybernetics as a flavour. Two Levys means we’re getting lots of work out of our Day Jobs, Dirty Laundries, etc. etc. Severnius gives us a use for our duplicates, and Null lets us deal with odd-numbered hands when you sack cards to Severnius and want to trigger your Respirocytes.

If only Black Orchestra wasn’t so dang expensive to use against HB.

Chromed Up Null (Respirocytes)

Null: Whistleblower

 

Event (20)

3x Day Job

3x Dirty Laundry

3x I’ve Had Worse

3x Inject

2x Levy AR Lab Access  ●●●●● ●

3x Quality Time  ●●●

3x Sure Gamble

 

Hardware (12)

1x Brain Cage

2x Net-Ready Eyes  ●●●●

3x Prepaid VoicePAD

3x Respirocytes

3x Severnius Stim Implant

 

Resource (6)

3x Chrome Parlor

3x Same Old Thing

 

Icebreaker (9)

3x Black Orchestra

3x MKUltra

3x Paperclip

 

13 influence spent (max 15, available 2)

47 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Crimson Dust

 

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CFC Excavation Project

Greener Pixels

Jeeves was satisfied with his new contract. Many bioroids together made the work more efficient. This was exceptional.

Occasionally, when going for his weekly maintenance, Jeeves would take a more roundabout exit through the Haas-Bioroid factory to pass by the server rooms. Within, he would observe the countermeasure bioroid models at their constant vigil.

Jeeves wondered what it would be like to experience another reality. One more akin to his own mind rather than the physical world. Cyberspace seemed freeing.

More Coats!

Unfortunately, Adonis, Jeeves, and Marilyn are not Bioroids. That’s sad. Warroid Trackers are though. And Ronald Five, but I didn’t include him in the final draft.

We’re doing a FoodCoats-style shell game here. Breaker Bay brings our Campaigns, Caprice, and Warroids up for free, and Jeeves lets us install our 4/2s without advancing them. If we score a CFC, Warroids alone will net us back 6 credits. Not to mention that all of our ICE are Bioroids.

For fun, I’m also running two Brain-Taping Warehouses. This makes our Wotan, Heimdalls, Fairchild, and Ichi 2.0 much more accessible and compounds the value of CFC.

Runner trashing your stuff? Friends it back. Plus they’ll lose some stuff off the Warroid, most likely.

Fun, eh?

Steelhand Architects (CFC Excavation Contract)

Haas-Bioroid: Architects of Tomorrow

 

Agenda (10)

3x Accelerated Beta Test

1x Advanced Concept Hopper

3x CFC Excavation Contract

3x Corporate Sales Team

 

Asset (11)

2x Adonis Campaign

2x Brain-Taping Warehouse

2x Jackson Howard  ●●

2x Jeeves Model Bioroids

3x Marilyn Campaign

 

Upgrade (7)

2x Breaker Bay Grid

2x Caprice Nisei  ●●●●● ●●●

3x Warroid Tracker

 

Operation (6)

3x Friends in High Places

3x Hedge Fund

 

Barrier (8)

3x Eli 1.0

2x Heimdall 1.0

2x Markus 1.0

1x Wotan

 

Code Gate (4)

1x Fairchild

1x Fairchild 3.0

2x Ravana 1.0

 

Sentry (2)

1x Ichi 1.0

1x Ichi 2.0

 

Other (1)

1x Loki

 

10 influence spent (max 12, available 2)

20 agenda points (between 20 and 21)

49 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Terminal Directive

 

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Mining Accident

Planned Assault

Omar was patient. He waited for his opening, carefully monitoring all the feeds coming from the Haas-Bioroid servers. The NBN servers. Every megacorp with a finger in the goings-on in the mining sector.

As soon as the accident happened, there was an immediate dip in revenue, and Omar struck.

Mars would know how dark those corporations were, and with the dirt he’d gathered, Omar would be able to find the answers.

Clever Games

No, I didn’t actually put in any Planned Assaults. With Blackmail costing 3 influence for each inclusion, I was plum out of pips to spend.

The game plan is pretty simple. Use Omar and Lamprey to pressure the corp into spreading themselves thin. Kill their nasty ICE with recurred parasites. Then surprise them with a Mining Accident. From then on, their remotes are Blackmail bait. You’ve got lots of breaker recursion, and Inject will find them quickly for you. Game plan is to Medium to win.

Mining Accident is a cool card. It probably should combo with Vamp or Account Siphon, but I decided to play it more cerebral rather than brute force.

Discovery Omar (Mining Accident)

Omar Keung: Conspiracy Theorist

 

Event (21)

3x Blackmail ★★★★★★★★★

3x Day Job

3x Déjà Vu

3x I’ve Had Worse

3x Inject

3x Mining Accident

3x Sure Gamble

 

Hardware (2)

2x Grimoire

 

Resource (3)

3x Same Old Thing

 

Icebreaker (9)

2x Black Orchestra

3x MKUltra

3x Paperclip

1x Yog.0 ★

 

Program (10)

3x Datasucker

3x Lamprey

2x Medium

2x Parasite ★★

 

12 influence spent (max 12, available 0)

45 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Crimson Dust

 

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