Corporate Defector

Rescue Op

The wind whistled past the hopper as Geist’s grip started to slip.

“Don’t you let me go you piece of crap! You let me go, and everything goes with me!” Harrison Barker screamed as one of the aerial Hellions snapped at his foot. Geist looped his leg around the hopper restraints and hoped it would hold.

With a heave of effort, Armand “Geist” Walker lunged forward with his other hand and hauled Barker into the vehicle.

They collapsed together, exhausted and keyed up. And a calm voice spoke back to them from the cab. “It’s going to get a little bit bumpier, friends. Best hold on.”

Geist shot Ken a feral grin.

Pop a Cam

This is one of my most favourite decks. I’ve wanted Geist to work for years, and Spy Cam Geist is definitely the strongest build I’ve seen. With the new breakers from Terminal Directive plus Mad Dash, the deck is really nasty. My latest build uses Gauntlet for multi access so we can ditch the Legwork and have some more reliable multi access.

This comes in handy when the corp draws through your Spy Cams. So you trash a Spy Cam and see something you don’t care about. They mandatory draw that card, and then they click to draw again. Now—unlike Bug where you have to pay—we just get to see that card. Plus it’s a 0-cost connection. So we put that on Off-Campus and we get a free draw.

I like it. I like it a lot.

By putting Gauntlet, though, I’m losing some more reliable link cards. That’s why I’ve got some more Sports Hoppers and I’m keeping a Maxwell James on hand. But, even if we do lose our link due to unfortunate circumstances, it’s not a huge loss with two Levys in the deck to recur the dead programs. Plus Gauntlet puts us up to 6 memory. We’ll be able to hang onto a pretty respectable rig even without link.

I love this deck. Finally! A card in the back half that I’m excited about!

A&A Geist (Corporate Defector)

Armand “Geist” Walker: Tech Lord

 

Event (4)

2x Levy AR Lab Access  ●●●●● ●

2x Mad Dash

 

Hardware (9)

2x Sports Hopper

5x Spy Camera

2x The Gauntlet

 

Resource (21)

2x Aaron Marrón

2x Corporate Defector

1x Dean Lister

3x Fall Guy

1x Maxwell James

3x Off-Campus Apartment  ●●●

3x Street Peddler  ●●●

3x Tech Trader

3x Temüjin Contract ★★★

 

Icebreaker (12)

2x Abagnale

2x Crowbar

2x Demara

2x Lustig

2x Shiv

2x Spike

 

15 influence spent (max 15, available 0)

46 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Terminal Directive

 

Deck built on https://netrunnerdb.com.

Dummy Box

Redundancy

Omar checked the temperature on the box one more time. It was up there, but within tolerances.

“Come and get me, you slag heads!”

Reaching

Dummy Box is pretty cool. My plan for it? Have a massive hand size. So we’re going Obelus tag-me and deep-dig. We can protect our Josh B with more Josh B. Protect our Jarogniew with an extra Dummy Box. Stuff like that.

They’re going to Hunter Seeker away our God of War? (Shhhh… I know they could just purge for one click more), drop a Black Orchestra into the bin!

I dunno. It’s an idea at least. It’s probably stronger if I had fewer events and more redundant resources and programs. Resources more likely. Maybe this is a deck that should have Wireless Net Pavilion? But then again, it probably just does the exact same thing as Dummy Box in the long run. Still. Probably a workable deck?

Seems like I’ve been having quite a few stinkers on the bank end of this pack.

Striker Omar (Dummy Box)

Omar Keung: Conspiracy Theorist

 

Event (14)

3x Déjà Vu

3x Mars for Martians

3x Peace in Our Time  ●●●

2x Power to the People

3x Sure Gamble

 

Hardware (3)

3x Obelus

 

Resource (11)

3x Counter Surveillance

2x Dummy Box  ●●●●

3x Jarogniew Mercs

3x Joshua B.

 

Icebreaker (9)

1x Black Orchestra

1x God of War

2x Mimic

1x MKUltra

2x Paperclip

2x Yog.0 ★★

 

Program (8)

3x Datasucker

2x Medium

3x Parasite ★★★

 

12 influence spent (max 12, available 0)

45 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Crimson Dust

 

Deck built on https://netrunnerdb.com.

Reshape

A Shaper’s Playground

Cyberspace was a puzzle for Kit, one that she knew the general shape of. Swapping a piece here and there shouldn’t have worked, but it was her puzzle. So, it did.

It was a skill she had discovered in herself, and she cultivated it.

Unsure

Seriously… I’m missing the big amazing bit for this card. Is it good? I feel like it should be, but I’m not sure. Like Inversificator, it can mess with the Corp’s carefully constructed servers, but if you don’t know what the ICE is, it’s just a guess. Inversificator is much stronger.

So… we could go expose, or we could go derez. I leaned harder into derez with Rubicon Switch. I mean, Kit doesn’t really run more than once a turn, so she can draw, run, Switch, and Opus on most turns. Then on the off turns she can just Opus a bunch.

Otherwise, it’s just a good Shaper Econ package that relies mostly on Opus, but it supplemented by Beth and Bloo Moose.

Not sure if Reshape is worth a deck, honestly.

Radd Switcher Kit (Reshape)

Rielle “Kit” Peddler: Transhuman

 

Event (16)

3x Diesel

3x Dirty Laundry

1x Emergency Shutdown  ●●

2x Infiltration

2x Reshape

3x Sure Gamble

2x The Maker’s Eye

 

Hardware (6)

2x Dedicated Processor

2x Rubicon Switch  ●●●●● ●

2x The Gauntlet  ●●

 

Resource (12)

2x Beth Kilrain-Chang

2x Biometric Spoofing

2x Bloo Moose

3x Daily Casts

3x Same Old Thing

 

Icebreaker (6)

2x Inti

2x Inversificator

2x Na’Not’K

 

Program (5)

2x Magnum Opus

3x Self-modifying Code

 

10 influence spent (max 10, available 0)

45 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Terminal Directive

 

Deck built on https://netrunnerdb.com.

Diana’s Hunt

Thrill of the Hunt

Jesminder ran the simulation again. This time, she refined her trim rate by 10%. The pieces fell into place as they always did, but just like every other trial before, it wasn’t enough.

“Frag it!” She shouted, ripping her headset off and throwing it across the room. It bounced off of a rich-looking lamp, and both objects fell to the floor.

Ignoring the interface, Jesminder tried the trial again. This time without any modifications. She wiped all the settings clear and just went by feel.

This time, it worked.

Jank or Not?

Okay, so apparently everybody else saw this interaction. I worked on this deck, and then a few days later, I saw the same sort of idea on the front page of NetrunnerDB.

My version, however, is not rotation acceptable, so I get to do fun things like LLDS Processor and a Prepaid shell.

It also gives a cool reason to use Maya and Equivocation and Deep Data Mining together.

This deck feels like it’s a half card choice away from putting together a bunch of Shaper ideas that always seemed like they’d be awesome, but never found the right combination.

Raptors Jesminder (Diana’s Hunt)

Jesminder Sareen: Girl Behind the Curtain

 

Event (23)

3x Deep Data Mining

3x Diana’s Hunt

3x Diesel

3x Dirty Laundry

2x Levy AR Lab Access

3x Quality Time

3x Sure Gamble

3x Test Run

 

Hardware (8)

3x LLDS Processor

2x Maya

3x Prepaid VoicePAD

 

Resource (7)

2x Caldera  ●●

1x Hernando Cortez  ●

1x Keros Mcintyre  ●●●

3x Same Old Thing

 

Icebreaker (3)

1x Golden  ●●

1x Peregrine  ●●

1x Saker  ●●

 

Program (5)

2x Equivocation

3x Multithreader  ●●●

 

15 influence spent (max 15, available 0)

46 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Terminal Directive

 

Deck built on https://netrunnerdb.com.

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

 

Deck built on https://netrunnerdb.com.

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

 

Deck built on https://netrunnerdb.com.

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

 

Deck built on https://netrunnerdb.com.

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

 

Deck built on https://netrunnerdb.com.

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

 

Deck built on https://netrunnerdb.com.

Bloo Moose

Always a Heist

Gabe was rappelling down the side of the building when his comm chimed.

“Hey Santiago, you out of there yet?” Marron’s voice was impatient and impertinent.

Gabe looked down the thirty floors he had yet to scale, and he flexed his cyborg arm, pulling his body upward and settling against a ledge.

“Nearly. Now stay off comms until I clear the security net.”

Run Gabe Run

I also love Gabe decks. It might be because he was the first Runner I ever really had success with, but it’s probably also his wolf motif. I mean, there’s also the awesomeness of rewarding you for what you already want to be doing, and I like to run. That’s why I like Desperado, that’s why I like Criminal.

My choices here are pretty straightforward. We’ve eschewed any recursion to really turn Bloo Moose on, and by including Career Fair, we get Moose out cheap. That means we should also go for heavy costed resources like Earthrise, Daily Casts, and Temujin—and the other thing you’ll notice about them is that they all expire, hit the heap, and feed the Moose.

Lister is a great card for a surprise run on a nasty remote, and he trashes, so he’s great for Moose as well.

Also I still love Equivocation.

Honestly, Bloo Moose probably needs to be on the MWL. It’s just that good.

Blue Storm Gabe (Bloo Moose)

Gabriel Santiago: Consummate Professional

 

Event (18)

3x Account Siphon

3x Career Fair

3x Dirty Laundry

3x Inside Job

3x Special Order

3x Sure Gamble

 

Hardware (2)

2x Desperado

 

Resource (17)

2x Aaron Marrón

3x Bloo Moose

3x Daily Casts

3x Dean Lister

3x Earthrise Hotel

3x Temüjin Contract ★★★

 

Icebreaker (7)

2x Abagnale

1x Femme Fatale

2x Mongoose

2x Paperclip  ●●●●● ●

 

Program (2)

2x Equivocation  ●●●●● ●

 

15 influence spent (max 15, available 0)

46 cards (min 45)

Cards up to Terminal Directive

 

Deck built on https://netrunnerdb.com.