[Reina] Headlock: How to Make Sure Your Opponent Doesn't Get to Play Netrunner

I sleeved up a version close to this one to good effect.

Suied Reina (45 cards)

Reina Roja: Freedom Fighter

Event (13)
1 Emergency Shutdown
3 I’ve Had Worse
1 Knifed
2 Lucky Find
1 Queen’s Gambit
3 Sure Gamble
2 Vamp

Hardware (5)
3 Clone Chip
2 Vigil

Resource (11)
3 Daily Casts
2 Earthrise Hotel
2 Kati Jones
1 Liberated Account
1 Scrubber
2 Xanadu

Icebreaker (4)
3 Eater
1 Knight

Program (12)
3 Crescentus
1 D4v1d
2 Keyhole
3 Lamprey
3 Parasite

The shutdown is a flex slot. Honestly, the 3rd Lucky could easily be the best thing. There also might be too much draw. Vigil is an insane powerhouse in this deck. If you were to do 3 Lucky and cut the Earthrises for another Knight or David or even the 3rd Vigil, it would probably be more consistent. I am not sure the Knifed is necessary, but cheap Eli destruction is always nice, and with the 2nd David, you could knock out an annoying Wraparound.

Did I mention Vigil? This is the sort of deck that could easily run without a console, but this card is so damn good here. Your ID encourages the corp to play slow and click for a ton of credits, use Jackson to overdraw agendas as they try to gain an economic foothold, punishes them for paying install costs when they want to get ICE out of their hand, and in the end, forces purges, which almost always mean a hit off Vigil. Once you have them locked down, you draw literally every turn, making it that much easier to bury them.

I am 50-50 on the Scrubber. On the one hand, it’s an awesome econ card vs NEH, but I don’t really want to install it unless against HB or NBN, and you don’t often need to trash SanSans because your deck is much better suited to keeping the corp too poor to use it to good effect. I think if you were playing the 3rd Lucky Find, it could be dropped. You could also play an Imp, which is more generally useful, (though Imping HQ works against Vigil).

@SamRS I really like this deck. Thank you.

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