While everyone’s feeling “blue about blue” I’m trying to look positively at the Criminal’s first draft pick of the 2018 season! In the past 2 or 3 months I’ve tried to lead a revival of Netrunner in my metro area and we started on what has since been dubbed the Modded format and then jumped quickly into Cache Refresh where I really started liking Criminal and in particular Silhouette. I think “expose” effects are something that have been really ignored in card creation for this game and its something I’ve noticed really messes with how the Corp operates, especially when it costs them a credit.
How to Make 419 Effective:
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Keep the Corp poor
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Be able to punish the Corp with your insider knowledge
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And, most obviously, make use of cards that make use of expose “Aumakua” and “Zamba”
The prevailing archetype seems to be lists like this:
Crim Deck
419: Amoral Scammer (The Devil and the Dragon)
Event (23)
- 3x Career Fair (Breaker Bay)
- 2x Deuces Wild (23 Seconds) ●●
- 3x Dirty Laundry (Creation and Control)
- 2x Inside Job (Revised Core Set)
- 2x Legwork (Honor and Profit)
- 3x Mining Accident (Crimson Dust) ●●●●● ●
- 2x Special Order (Revised Core Set)
- 3x Sure Gamble (Revised Core Set)
Hardware (2)
- 2x Zamba (Sovereign Sight)
- 3x GPI Net Tap (23 Seconds)
Resource (15)
- 3x Daily Casts (Creation and Control)
- 3x Data Folding (Order and Chaos)
- 3x Earthrise Hotel (The Source)
- 2x Film Critic (Old Hollywood) ●●
- 2x Maxwell James (Terminal Directive)
- 2x The Turning Wheel (The Liberated Mind) ●●
Icebreaker (5)
- 1x Abagnale (Terminal Directive)
- 2x Aumakua (Crimson Dust)
- 1x Mongoose (Kala Ghoda)
- 1x Paperclip (Blood Money) ●●●
15 influence spent (max 15, available 0)
45 cards (min 45)
Cards up to The Devil and the Dragon
Deck built on NetrunnerDB.
I don’t think anybody is surprised that this archetype fits the mold with 419, it makes use of Aumakua, Zamba, Deuces Wild, and Falsified Credentials.
I’m excited to try this because I’ve been playing 419 in a completely different way. I’ve been working on some jank that totally ignores the bullet points of How to Make 419 Effective:
419 Power Wheel
419: Amoral Scammer (The Devil and the Dragon)
Event (19)
- 3x Career Fair (Breaker Bay)
- 3x Corporate “Grant” (Council of the Crest)
- 2x Credit Kiting (Down the White Nile)
- 1x Emergent Creativity (Down the White Nile) ●●●●●
- 3x Fisk Investment Seminar (The Universe of Tomorrow)
- 2x Inside Job (Revised Core Set)
- 1x Legwork (Honor and Profit)
- 1x Modded (Revised Core Set) ●●
- 3x Sure Gamble (Revised Core Set)
Hardware (2)
- 2x Security Nexus (Data and Destiny) ●●●●● ●
Resource (19)
- 1x Caldera (Crimson Dust)
- 2x Citadel Sanctuary (Intervention)
- 3x Daily Casts (Creation and Control)
- 3x Earthrise Hotel (The Source)
- 1x Film Critic (Old Hollywood)
● - 2x Maxwell James (Terminal Directive)
- 1x No One Home (Council of the Crest)
- 3x Power Tap (Upstalk)
- 2x Rogue Trading (The Devil and the Dragon)
- 1x The Turning Wheel (The Liberated Mind) ●
Icebreaker (5)
- 1x Abagnale (Terminal Directive)
- 2x Aumakua (Crimson Dust)
- 2x Femme Fatale (Revised Core Set)
Program (1)
- 1x Sneakdoor Beta (Revised Core Set)
15 influence spent (max 15, available 0)
46 cards (min 45)
Cards up to The Devil and the Dragon
Deck built on NetrunnerDB.
For those of you who don’t know me, Security Nexus is my favorite card/playstyle in all of Netrunner: play it safe and face-check any and all ice without a care in the world… (except Anansi 
). So I wanted to see how Rogue Trading with Citadel Sanctuary and Power Tap x3 worked.
It was okay… Its a deck that’s a lot of fun when it’s up and running but getting there can always be difficult. Well which side of the fence are you on Are you going classic value cards or are you in the jank tank? What are you trying with Criminals newest runner: 419?
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