That is very, very close to the same list that I run. I’m not sure that Enigma gives you much more than Quandary, since either will be broken with bad pub once a Profiteering is scored. I would love to squeeze a Checkpoint in, but all of the influence is already spoken for.
Frankly, in this deck I don’t know that there is even a need for codegates, the only real gear check is Plascrete.
This is basically the list I’m running as well, though I’m on 2 Wrap, 1 Little Engine, and 2 Special Offers. Profiteering is the most amazing card in this deck. Having a Profiteering and a Breaking News scored is absolutely amazing.
Ah, and the 2 strength is enough to keep it alive for 2 turns, whereas Quandary is insta-kill? That makes sense.
Personally I expect to give up access, and focus on landing tags, with Wraparound to defend HQ. There have been a couple times I’d have liked a resistor, but I worry that the trace is too weak with all the bad pub from profiteering.
Updated by taking out 1 scorch instead of the astros. Let me put utility like shattered and CVS back in, which are important. Random Psychic Field is the best use of 1 influence I could think of so you can 24/7, TA, Scorch if they get a plascrete down and run it 3rd or 4th click.
I run an extra tfin to have higher chances of fetching the now fewer scorches, and use one sansan instead of the psychic field, and a third wrap instead of resistor, but I really like this. Single psychic field is awesome for 1 inf, it’s in almost all my NEH decks, or at least used to be…
My projected list is likewise very similar; just -1 Profiteering -1 Psychic Field -1 Resistor +1 Little Engine +1 SSCG +1 QPM. Profiteering might just be too good not to play 3 of, though. I’m also on the fence about cutting the 3rd 24/7; you’ve got 7 good targets for it (and Astro will do in a pinch), and it really helps to draw into those early, I’ve found. Haven’t had many great opportunities to Midseason people recently, either.
Wish I could do more MWL testing, but I’ve got a pre-MWL Store Champs coming up next week, and considering all the tag hate popping up in my meta, I’m not sure if it’s the best option to play Shop anyway…
Man, I fucking love The Future Is Now in combo decks, especially decks where you don’t mind 1-pointers. I was super leery of taking out a scorch, even though it seems like a good candidate influence wise, but TFIN makes this a tempting thing.
Why aren’t people slotting in Lily Lockwell? Both her abilities seem like they would be solid in Haarp. First of she draws cards on demand. Secndly if you’ve landed a bunch of midseasons tags then sending one to tutor up something you want our protecting the top of R&D seems solid. I guess she would be getting trashed out of R&D.
I put 1x Lily in my lists as a pet card. The problem is, she’s only great post-Midseasons if you’re missing one kill piece but you’re generally very poor at that point so the 2 rez can hurt. She’s fun but probably not the best use of a card slot.
There are other high value plays competing for that click, though. I’ve killed a lot of runners with advance-advance-BN-Scorched (or if you’ve got an astro token, trade an advance for another meat damage card) & it’s often an opportunity to trash a key resource (Kati, Film Critic) that disrupts our game plan. So while it’s possible, just seems it would rarely be the best available play.
Now that salem’s hospitality is about to release in a few days do you think that the butcher archetype will be viable? any initial draft? I really like this card
I think with Employee Strike being fairly widely played anyway, trying to bring back Haarp now is not going to go well. Maybe it could work in another ID (probably NEH or Sol) though - Salem’s certainly seems like a card that’s worth testing.
My thought on salem’s is that as long as you have the cash, its never a bad play, especially at higher levels of play where you can see parts of a player’s deck, and know what common archetype it is, and call out cards from it. Seems very good, and even better in a kill deck.