Mass-Driver

Style Points

Kit stared at the server’s readout and laughed. “So you think you’ve got the big walls, eh? We’ll see who has whose number today.” Kit paused, ran back over her words, and shrugged to herself.

“Whatever. This will be fantastic.”

Engaging the Mass-Driver, Kit’s interface went technicolour as she rocketed forward in cyber space. The overcharged icebreaker sapped at her power reserves, but it blew through the Weyland defenses as if they were paper walls.

Underkill

Once again, an iteration on Adam’s Kit/Dedicated Processor deck, this one tries to find a good use for Mass-Driver. Thing is, it’s damn expensive at only one strength and two credits to break subroutines. Eight to install? That’s also tough to swallow.

But! With Inversificator, we can set up intense Mass-Driver turns later on. Picture this, the corp has a Curtain Wall on the outside and a Vanilla on the inside. You use your Inversificator (and Dedicated Processor) to break the Curtain Wall once and then swap it inwards. You definitely jack out at this point.

Next turn, you Mass Driver through the Vanilla for two credits, and break the Curtain Wall immediately. Seems like a good deal to me!

Okay, I’m stretching. But the only other build I could think of was a Mass-Driver on a London Library with LLDS Processors, and it’s still not amazing. But at least this might give some cool stories?

Anti-Freeze Kit (Mass-Driver)

Rielle “Kit” Peddler: Transhuman

 

Event (19)

3x Diesel

3x Dirty Laundry

2x Levy AR Lab Access

3x Modded

2x Spooned  ●●●●● ●

3x Sure Gamble

3x Test Run

 

Hardware (11)

3x Dedicated Processor

3x Lockpick

3x R&D Interface

2x The Gauntlet  ●●

 

Resource (5)

2x Beth Kilrain-Chang

3x Same Old Thing

 

Icebreaker (6)

1x Inti

2x Inversificator

2x Mass-Driver

1x MKUltra  ●●

 

Program (4)

2x Equivocation

2x Magnum Opus

 

10 influence spent (max 10, available 0)

45 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Blood and Water

 

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Jarogniew Mercs

Fresh Start

After leaving Earth—Chacon’s men hot on his heels—Kim had spent an agonizing few weeks in space. It had been his first time away from a gravity well, and nothing about it had been pleasant.

Now though, he had new contacts, new friends, and a mark. Old tricks were the best tricks, and Kim was ready to smash through some Corporate servers and build his capital back up.

Who needs Plascrete?

Adam piloted a deck like this against my Harischandra deck last week. I decided to take the core idea (which he’d put in Null) and put it in Kim. For fun. I like the idea of using regular accesses to pull apart combo pieces along with keeping the corp poor.

The game plan is pretty simple. Get your Obelus out, make some cash, get your rig up, then siphon spam into oblivion. Next step? Counter Surveillance for the win. Use Jarogniew to protect yourself from meat damage, and just do mean, mean Anarch things.

Headlock Surveillance Kim (Jarogniew)

Edward Kim: Humanity’s Hammer

 

Event (11)

2x Account Siphon  ●●●●● ●●●

3x Day Job

3x Déjà Vu

3x I’ve Had Worse

 

Hardware (3)

3x Obelus

 

Resource (20)

3x Counter Surveillance

3x Fall Guy  ●●●

2x Ice Carver

3x Jarogniew Mercs

3x Joshua B.

3x Same Old Thing

3x Wireless Net Pavilion

 

Icebreaker (6)

1x Black Orchestra

2x Mimic

2x Paperclip

1x Yog.0 ★

 

Program (6)

3x Datasucker

3x Parasite ★★★

 

15 influence spent (max 15, available 0)

46 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Blood and Water

 

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Alice Merchant

Cheers

The dive bar smelled of stressed O2 filters and burned coffee. It was a clan-run place dug into the rock nearby the Station One mag-lev network named Fortune’s Fold, and Alice liked it for meetings. There were enough transports and enough bolt holes nearby to ensure a clean exit when needed.

The Aeneas mole looked uncomfortable. Her ragged coat and worn pants were still a little too clean, and she wore them a little too awkwardly to fit in with the miners and explorers who straddled chairs nearby.

She produced a drive and laid it on the table. “Everything I could find is on there. Architectures, future prospects, even a few Bioroid schematics ready for deployment.” Her eyes darted to the door, and her fingers drummed on the table.

Alice grabbed the drive and slid it up her sleeve then ran her fingers back through her hair. “That’s good work. We’ll put it to use. Go ahead and get gone.”

The mole looked relieved, she immediately stood up and started for the door.

“Friend,” Alice said, and the woman stopped. “Maybe you should take the back door out?” Alice pointed towards the bar, and the mole looked sheepish. She made her exit.

With the mole gone, conversation around the bar died. All eyes turned to Alice.

The freedom fighter stood up slowly and struck a fist to chest. “Tonight!”

Killer Queen

Once again, I can’t take full credit for this. I just keep playing games against cards before I’ve had a chance to really put some thought into them!

I liked Adam’s build though, so here we are. His core was around Maw, Bhagat, and Aeneas. I decided to replicate that and go hard into ICE destruction with cutlery as well as Parasites.

He was running Temujin, so he couldn’t fit the Career Fairs. I’m running Liberated, so I actually have four free influence.

Anywho, this deck is annoying as hell. It threatens all three central servers, and it can slice through ICE to dismantle scoring remotes. Sideways decks have to spread their ICE out because unprotected assets become Maw/Aeneas bait. When I was playing against it, I found my only option was to keep HQ completely empty. Install everything, never draw cards, and just protect R&D and my scoring remote. That turned off Archives and HQ accesses, Bhagat, and Maw. But it really hobbled me.

Interesting deck. Very Anarch with the finding weaknesses and exploiting them. Make sure to kill ICE as much as you can, because it’s a little economy light unless your opponent slips up with assets.

Merchant of Destruction (Alice Merchant)

Alice Merchant: Clan Agitator

 

Event (17)

3x Career Fair  ●●●

3x Déjà Vu

2x Forked

3x I’ve Had Worse

1x Knifed

2x Spooned

3x Sure Gamble

 

Hardware (2)

2x Maw

 

Resource (15)

3x Aeneas Informant  ●●●

2x Bhagat

3x Daily Casts

3x Earthrise Hotel

1x Ice Carver

3x Liberated Account

 

Icebreaker (8)

1x Black Orchestra

2x Mimic

1x MKUltra

2x Paperclip

2x Yog.0 ★★

 

Program (8)

3x Datasucker

2x Medium

3x Parasite ★★★

 

11 influence spent (max 15, available 4)

50 cards (min 50)

Cards up to Blood and Water

 

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