Removing part of the brain of the runner is still considered being a good guy ?
That was the evil part.
Unrelated perhaps, but my NEH Biotic/Architect deck has been running 2 Power Shutdown to muscle openings against Kate Clot (for what itâs worth, successfully, won a Chronos bag and Acrylic Andy taking first with it over the weekend) for sniping SMC or Clone Chip, also running code gate heavy to abuse Zu/Cycy. Iâm facing terrifying MaxX decks running NRE and Shutting down for zero with my best troll face now on top of it all 
I really see Power Shutdown being a strong 2-of going forward, especially if you have Interns and Bootcamps to find Jackson when you need to recover from a 0< Shutdown. With Blacklist you get so much control itâs ridiculous.
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I was shocked to see very little NRE this weekend.
Still doing well for me too, brought me to 3rd in the Santa Clara regionals (89 person tournament). Oaktown Renovation is amazing.
@aandries @nungunz
Did the Chronos hold its weight? I felt like a 1-of Blacklist was enough (and that one did a lot of work for me).
Also, well done on the ITD, both the concept and execution.
While Blacklist did MAJOR work for me on the day of, I think that was partly luck and partly inexperience dealing with it from my opponents. Chronos is less dominating, but can be much more frustrating and requires no upkeep from you. PPVP Kate not getting 2-3 Lucky Finds and 2-3 Gambles back HURTS.
I only fired the Chronos once in the entire event, sadly. I just didnât draw it, which is the case with a 1 off. I like it in here, and like it being scouted. That plus the Atlas means that any facedown could be an agenda, and the fact that it affects so many decks is amazing. There was a huge 6+ turn window vs. Max where if I had it, or drew it, I would have scored it and wrecked him. Itâs just a solid, solid card.
I love Blacklist, but I really liked 18 effective Ice and 1 Taurus for utility. In retrospect the Lotus field could have been a blacklist too. I just felt that the word was out on Blacklist, @spags had done such a masterful job of winning games with it a few weeks earlier at the Wausau Regional that people would be targeting it, and had already started to change their builds (i.e. less Kate / CyberCipher and a ton of Blades - which I saw). I think the ITD is much easier to get a game winning lock with when looking at the deck, and I was able to prove it at the event, thankfully. I remember thinking people are going to sleep on ITD and starting to forget about it.
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Would someone kindly explain the proper ITD conditions/usage in the Oaktown build? Does it go into the scoring remote after the first score while durdling for ice to make a second remote? I played a few games with this build, and found myself using it mostly in a modest second server as a tax to open a window, since it terrifies the runner. While it worked, I wasnât sure if it was correct.
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@ModusPwnens - It all depends on the game. I typically operated the deck with two taxing remotes. I opened scoring windows with ITD a few times, forcing the runner to pay thru the nose to get to and trash it before I had invested heavily into it. But protecting it and making everything nearly iron clad is even better. Use a server with an outside ice that taxes the runner for probing runs is the best, i.e. Datapike or Tollbooth, if you can. That way if they are trying to draw out counters they pay 3 or 2 credits to do so.
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@sighence I scored Chronos Project twice with effect and once for the point. It wrecked Reina pretty hard (nuked 2 parasites and 2 lampreys) and really messed up Andromeda that used a clone chip to recur Rex and Femme.
When it hits, it hits hard. And if youâve gone the slow route and scored 6 points, itâs a cheeky way to sneak out an agenda (as the runner usually expects IA for a NAPD). Hostile Takeover could have been good, but I like the utility of Chronos.
I just started testing @aandries version with ITD, and boooyoboy. Iâm a little jealous that I spent so much time refining this type of deck and never came up with this combo. Itâs perfect. Normally D4V1D is ITDâs weakness, but you donât mind it here. Youâre already hyper aware of taxing out Ladies and D4V1Ds, so this just becomes an additional level of that strategy.
Iâm in love with an ITD deck and I feel dirty.
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Yeah, I agree. ITD the card in previous builds had the weaknesses of David and Parasite out of Anarch, and that you kind of went all in on the ITD gameplan, forcing you to play slow games and sometimes ITDless games that your deck wasnât designed for. The 1 ITD in this list can be tutored for with the EBCs you were playing anyway, (which are sometimes kind of shitty if you have the Adonis already), and being Blue Sun you can drain Davids and are resilient to Parasite, especially without Grimoire/Sucker. It gives you a lot of inevitability power against runners that camp your remote and trash Ashes, which you sometimes had an issue with in Bootcamp. You play the annoying-to-facecheck ICE anyway as well. Also, you get to cut Blacklist, which is great because fuck that card.
Pretty sick move @aandries.
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Itâs not perfect yet. You have to durdle for several blue sun activations to get your ice ordered in the right way so they canât just drain your counters by face checking hive; and caduceus only works as a âdatapike 1st subroutineâ on the very outside but doesnât actually count as an extra piece of ice for getting more mileage out of IT dept counters. As always, weyland needs better ice. But it definitely has some synergies that the ETF build lacks.
I admit when I wrote the original article I just expected for some short commentary about tweaking the ice suite and then for the thread to die, but this and also the chronos projects have been pretty serious innovations. Good job team 
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Can I take credit?!?!!
If it makes you feel good but actually it was @SamRS who ran the idea by me before the article even went up.
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Of course it took off! Youâre championing a strong deck with a fun ID when everyone is looking for something that isnât RP.
The new agenda distribution has been the single best upgrade IMO. The number of games itâs saved me from losing to three steals is absurd. I wish I could find room to put the Restructures back to smooth out the econ curve a bit, but I feel like it needs every bit of tech itâs got, and that very Shaperness/flexibility is key. Also, Power Shutdowns would be fantastic for opening scoring windows against any Net-Ready Yogs.
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Thanks man, appreciate it.
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fist bump
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