Not in your deck XD I made some adjustments since I’ve been seeing some serious tag me lately. I’ve found psycho to be one of the best adds to all NBN FA capable decks/Never Advance decks.
I think archangel is better because it can, reasonably, protect you from medium before you install it, which lets you be more aggressive on remotes.
I can see that; Also, feel free to pm me a link to your adjustments. Always interested in variants.
Basically its assassin for arch, 1 sansan for psycho. Strictly meta though, because everyone is running scrubber, imp or stimhack…and lots of people are hanging tags, whether they want to or not, so getting another, cheaper (if even situational), semi-tutorable, FA card seemed better (and it 100% doesn’t hurt your RnD thickness unless the runner has Imp). The only drawback is it not forcing a run. That said power drawing with jackson and lily has found me plenty of Sansans, I often discarded 1 over the course of the game.
Last night I did get a chance to bluff Sansan as an ash on RnD on the runner’s last turn, coaxing him into pounding an empty HQ. So its probably very close either way.
lol, R&D SanSan
If its stupid but works…
I don’t think I’ve ever thought to make that play; I’ll add it to my repetoire
Don’t do it turn1
Unless it’s against Adam, because that’s cute.
As someone who plays adam, theres 0 chance I’m running against NBN with an asset/upgrade without playing dirty laundry or TME first.
I favor putting Product Placement or Ash early for that reason, they’re generally trashable and hurt the dirty/TM play. Pretty good chance to jackson them back too.
Great review (I about peed my pants at that screenshot of scribbled sol puns).
One thing I think you missed about targeted marketing is that it very easily serves as a hard counter to DLR deck. It also pull extra weight after a cut (when you are likely to know some key cards in your opponents deck) and against annoying high-variance decks at the low tables. Last off, there are some situations (maybe just one?)in which you absolutely know it will trigger: name LARLA vs. a MaxX deck that’s out of cards, as the one example I can think of…
for real though, paywall is the star; when you’re not in a very specific situation TM still acts as a decent placeholder.
Wait, how is it a hard counter? Don’t most just run siphon? You call DLR, I’ll do siphon + same old siphon/Deja. Thanks for having 10 credits for me to steal…
You could name Wireless Net Pavilion and have TM pay you to trash their resources once it’s all set up.
It counteracts the main point of siphon (denying the corp money).
Always name siphon vs DLR
Think so? I wouldn’t say it’s so clear. DLR doesn’t need your money; it needs you to be poor. DLR absolutely does need WNP. I personally think WNP is a better Marketing call than Siphon.
Perfect set up can still make this move expensive for you if they avoid tags long enough, but that ultimately means they’re also not progressing the game state in their favor. WNP is one of the best calls vs DLR. Because otherwise you can trash their stuff and you have enough lee way to win the game. WNP is what ultimately made DLR playable and not just a fun gimmick deck.
And if you’re trying to figure out what to name vs a deck, figure out which card made that deck actually playable. Its a pretty simple rule:
Noise : Cache
DLR : Wireless Net Pavilion
Nexus Kate : Consider Rabbit Hole or Opus
Prepaid Kate : Either a key breaker or voice pad; larla at the divide
Reg Anarach : Parasite is easily the best card that they plan to play multiple times, but D4v1d is also a pretty easy call under the right circumstances.
However, TM should only be used over paywall if the payout or deterent is strong enough to cause a game win. Paywall is often just better.
The DLR decks I’ve played against seem to be siphon spam decks with weak remote play hoping to crush Corp economy as a way to gain access to agendas in remotes. Naming siphon crushes that plan.
So does putting enough ice on HQ that they can’t get in. The best DLR decks don’t need siphon. While this will work in 80% of cases, it won’t work vs top players. You can control their resources with a “weak” economy if they don’t install WNP. This may be more effective vs MinMaxX due to them already losing pieces to the bin.
So what do you do once they have eater installed? Naming WNP will gain you 10 credits maybe once that they immediately siphon away.