Well, with that agenda suite, they already need to steal 4. But yes, when you can make it so they only have 6 options for stealable agendas, that gets difficult. Add a second or third news team? fugheddaboudit.
why not? assuming you really can’t put together a GFI score (it’s not so hard, actually, but yes, sometimes it can get tough) just draw until you find one, then fast track the third.
to each their own, of course, I don’t pretend to have any kind of definitive knowledge (and midseasons is a great way to punish people for not running filc critic…). I was just mentioning that a less vulnerable suite is often preferable to one that’s “easier” to score (and that beale’s text box should be considered irrelevant with GFI and QPM padding you points differential)
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I personally feel like going too hard on GFI when you can’t set up a scoring remote means you’re setting yourself up for a lock out. You probably win a solid number of games, but you have a no win scenario in your deck and I don’t think I’ll ever play a deck like that.
I don’t understand why people think huge strength resistors are good. The ICE gets significantly worse the instant it enters D4V1D range and since it’s not a hard ETR, runners will just not break and beat the trace at Midseasons-level strengths.
I toyed with a Mushin-Beale-GFI SYNC list recently, with Project Junebug and Ghost Branch such that you always Mushin-advance to threaten either death, floating at least one tag, or a 4pt Beale. The deck was super fun but I am going to give up on it. Every game came down to R&D lock versus silly remote bluffing shenanigans. Still the best NBN deck I can come up with that lacks Astro 
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@gumOnShoe What do you mean by a no-win?
Worst case the runner has 3 news team, 2 food, an astro, a QPM and the beale. That’s still only 11pts out of the deck, with 7 left for you to score (2 from QPMs, 1 from 15 minutes, and 4 from astros). I guess if you have 3 food, and the runner gets them all, then you can’t win.
No win is the runner gets 2 astros and you have to score a GFI to win without a remote while they hold a clot.
That’s an oddly specific definition.
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Its not, though, really; IF you’re playing fastro, you can still use SanSan to win off of a combination of beale and never advance; but this deck, if you lose 2 astros, you probably lose the game. That’s a no win scenario, and it will happen. I feel like with every other deck I’ve played, my deck doesn’t have an internal flaw that causes me to lose the game.
I won a game yesterday where the runner had two Astros, I had a 4pt Beale and gfi. Not going to happen every time, but it’s not impossible.
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This deck plays a pretty good never- / single-advance remote game against Clot with Data Raven and gear-checks.
Single-advance could be GFI / Beale (which you Biotic for 3 points next turn) or 15 Minutes / QPM, and no-advance could be News Team / Jackson / Astro / Beale. You just have to drag them through a Raven as many times as possible.
I have been having super good luck with an influence package of 3 Traffic Accidents, 1 Scorch, and 2 Shi Kyus.
I like the kill option as well as scoring out with never advance astro trains.
I have been playing this on Jinteki a lot and with 3 of the best players in my country (Northern Ireland)
I am looking for some feed back. Do people think I am just getting lucky or is this solid.
It has game in all the ways you can imagine, you can just NBN for the win with the Astro train.
You can Scorch a player out.
You can score a large Beale.
With the addition of Big Brother you can tag you opponent with minimal money, and if they feel the need to just remove the tags it will be a massive drain on thei econ and you will get a good opportunity to draw up for the win.
24/7 Psycho Scorch
SYNC: Everything, Everywhere (Data and Destiny)
Agenda (11)
3x AstroScript Pilot Program (Core Set)
3x Breaking News (Core Set)
1x Explode-a-palooza (Old Hollywood)
3x Project Beale (Future Proof)
1x 15 Minutes (Data and Destiny)
Asset (8)
3x Jackson Howard (Opening Moves)
2x Lily Lockwell (Data and Destiny)
3x News Team (Data and Destiny)
Operation (16)
3x Big Brother (Trace Amount)
1x Closed Accounts (Core Set)
1x Green Level Clearance (A Study in Static) •
2x Psychographics (Core Set)
1x Reclamation Order (Double Time) ••
3x Scorched Earth (Core Set) ••••• ••••• ••
3x Sweeps Week (True Colors)
2x 24/7 News Cycle (Data and Destiny)
Barrier (1)
1x Wraparound (Fear and Loathing)
Code Gate (5)
2x Archangel (Data and Destiny)
3x Pop-up Window (Cyber Exodus)
Sentry (3)
1x Data Raven (Core Set)
1x Gutenberg (Breaker Bay)
1x Turnpike (Data and Destiny)
15 influence spent (max 15)
18 agenda points (between 18 and 19)
44 cards (min 40)
Cards up to Data and Destiny
Deck built on NetrunnerDB.
How do you tag them? 24/7?
24/7, Gutenburg, DataRaven, Turnpike. but usually 24/7 into Big Brother.
The fact that tags cost 3 to remove is a great incentive not to get them but once they have them they stick.
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I would add a Data Raven swapping a Big Brother.
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I would love to say that would work but Data Raven very rarely gives the runner a tag. Gutenberg is just better at forcing a tag. The cost difference from 0 to 4 is also a big deal. this deck runs low to the ground with it credit total. The ability to Reclamation Order back 2 or 3 Big Brother from Archives is really god for setting up Pscycho or Scorch.
TL;DR the cost difference I feel is prohibitive. but Gutenberg I could get behind
I can see 24/7 giving tags, because they can’t prevent that. But honestly, how often does the runner end their turn with tags that they got from running? Most fairly competent runners will leave clicks left for removing tags at the end of their turn, especially against IDs whose entire purpose revolves around tagging the runner.
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That’s still a win for you as corp with Sync, though I would add SanSan City Grid to provide an alternate win condition.
Yes the runner spending 3 money to remove a tag during their turn is great but I would love them to not so I can end the game faster.
This would be nice but what do you suggest comes out to be replaced with the SanSan
It is just the best way to tag the runner, SEA Source and Mid Seasons needs far too much money to pull off.