I had build that used 2 sage but I slotted it for a david and a darwin so I didn’t have to run mem strips
Here’s the list I took to a GNK last night and went 3-0 with.
The supplier is the star of this deck, you can get a lot of value out of it as you can install something off it basically every turn or you can use it to empty your hand to fire SF.
Adam: Compulsive Hacker
Event (9)
3x Dirty Laundry
1x Independent Thinking
3x Sure Gamble
2x The Maker’s Eye ••••
Hardware (9)
3x Brain Chip
2x e3 Feedback Implants ••••
2x Plascrete Carapace
1x R&D Interface ••
Resource (23)
3x Armitage Codebusting
3x Daily Casts
3x Data Folding
3x Dr. Lovegood
2x Drug Dealer ••
3x Earthrise Hotel
3x Public Sympathy
3x The Supplier ••••• •
Icebreaker (4)
3x Faust ••••• •
1x Inti •
1x Overmind
25 influence spent (max 25)
45 cards (min 45)
Cards up to Data and Destiny
Deck built on http://netrunnerdb.com.
This is what I’ve been running recently, and I’ve only dropped one game in the last few weeks, and that was my fault, not the deck (I forgot that Fetal AI was a thing 
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Corroder (2 inf)
Shrike (2 inf)
Gordian Blade (3 inf)
SMC x2 (6 inf)
Multithreader x3
Clone Chip x2 (4 inf)
Brain Chip x3
R&D Interface x2 (4 inf)
Public Sympathy x3
Kati Jones x2
Data Folding x3
Dr Lovegood x3
Armitage x3
Same Old Thing x3
Independent Thinking
Sure Gamble x3
Daily Casts x3
Dirty Laundry x3
Stimhack x3 (3 inf)
Adam is always going to end up with a backlog of cards that he needs to include as multiples (to see quickly), but only needs one or two of. Katie Jones, Dr Lovegood, Public Sympathy, Brain Chip, etc.
Any good Adam deck is going to need to find a way to turn that backlog of useless duplicates into an advantage. Some people are using Faust. I’m using recurring Stimhacks. Other people could use it to install cybernetics, etc (Anarch Rig, Suckers, NRE anyone?). However, I’m fairly certain that if your deck doesn’t have a way to use these cards it is suboptimal.
I’ve got 1 influence remaining, but I can’t find anything that I want to cut to make room for a 1 influence card. When I eventually drop R&D Interface x2 for The Turning Wheel x3, I’ll probably fit the 3rd clone chip or something.
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Play a 4th stimhack. You get 3 in the core set, everyone has multiple core sets.
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I’ve decided that 3x stimhack is the only way to play Adam. Even when you’re on Faust. My biggest problem is sentries though, since mimic is amazing in nearly all cases.
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Everyone has that problem.
Mimic is awesome until it isn’t, and everything else sucks by comparison but is ultimately necessary. Shrike has been the best of a bad bunch.
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Tried, NRE is way too slow and suckers get around the common issues with the anarch rig. If lotus makes a comeback in force (unlikely imho) it might be worth considering, but even then it’d probably have to be a 2 of.
I despise Ichi now. Basically a dead stop against any HB deck (on top of architect which sucks to faceplant) and some wayland builds. Shrike might be an ok answer to this but i feel like it compounds the money problems (which admittedly stimhacks solve nicely, but suckers are an option as well).
How have you guys actually liked RDI? I always found it terribly slow and it wrecks my tempo. Once wheel comes out though completely agree get rid of everything else.
Yea I’m not really feeling that Datasucker Support as much lately, between CVS and just late game wipes.
I think going with all money breakers makes the Multithreaders better as well.
They definitely do, but the problem with sentries in particular is your ability to go get your breaker off an SMC on a random facecheck (because you’re adam and sometimes you just have to) on a surprise komainu or architect or the upcoming brainstorm. Shrike’s install cost makes my stomach hurt. I had the same problem with YOG but code gates are far less scary and it pays for itself extremely fast.
I’ve always been 100% on TME
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Plus when you are already running SoT for stimhack life feels great 
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So a lot of games lately I haven’t even bothered to install the doctor. Thinking of just taking him out, and accepting my robot nature.
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FTFY
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Drop to 1 or 2, unless you’re running IT, cause I know there are times I don’t want to be running into some ice.
I like R&D Interface (for now) for two reasons.
First, I don’t actually need or want it early. What my build wants to do in the early game is threaten remotes while building up economy and my rig. I’ll poke at R&D if I can get in cheaply enough, but otherwise I leave it alone. NAT can be crippling with a bad access.
Second, once we reach the late game, R&DI plays beautifully with Stimhack/Same Old Thing in a way that Maker’s Eye just can’t. Between Multithreader, my drip economy, and Stimhack, it is very, very hard to keep me from running every second turn or so and locking the corp out of agendas.
Maker’s Eye is great early on, when getting into R&D is cheap, but it’s less useful when it costs 10-14 credits per run.
Shrike is typically the first breaker I fetch against anything running dangerous sentries. I’ll happily Stimhack archives just to play it out because, as you say, cards like Ichi or Archer are just too strong to risk hitting unprepared.
Every time I hit R&D and don’t have to trash Eve Campaign (or whatever) the doctor pays for himself. Every time I don’t need to spend my first click faceplanting Pup/Enigma/Ichi/Komainu, the doctor pays for himself.
There will be a lot of turns when you don’t use him. But I find his inclusion very, very valuable on the turns when you do use him.
Your list looks pretty sharp. Have you considered Brain Cage instead of one of your Public Sympathy? Cards are usually easier to come by than creds. Also, ditching your hand so you get draws from safety first is also great.
If influence was less starved (I have 7 In faction cards in my build) I’d seriously consider Titanium Ribs.
There are two issues with Brain Cage.
The first, and most obvious, issue is that I might hit something that I don’t want to lose when I suffer the brain damage. To a certain extent I think that can be dealt with through careful play, but I don’t want to have to make the choice between increasing my hand size and losing a key card before I’m ready to play it. Adam already makes enough tough choices.
The second, and less obvious, issue is that I often blow up Public Sympathy in the late game when I have enough agendas scored that I no longer need it. Killing ABR, Public Sympathy and a nearly empty Armitage with Independent Thinking, for example, is a nice late game card/economy boost. Because Brain Cage leaves a lasting Brain Damage, I think I would be far less able to make that kind of play if I was running Brain Cage.
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That makes sense. I disagree, but it makes sense.
I lost to a friend’s Adam deck with non-food HB over the weekend at aGNK tourney! Notable includes: Drug Dealer with Dr Lovegood, Data Folding, Faust, Public Sympathy, Datasucker. Also interesting, it seems that just like Edward Kim, running Archives turns off NAT if there’s a card with a trash cost in there. This makes Datasucker a great choice and pressures them to ice Archives, and makes your HQ accesses less punishing to you. All in all it was the most functional Adam deck I’ve seen yet!
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It’s almost to the point where I’d prefer to use a Scrubber instead to take the sting out of NAT, instead of Lovegood. As for ABR’s downside, in most games, I want to be running at least once a turn. I only don’t want to be running that aggressively against things like RP or Foodcoats.
I’m liking the Doctor less and less, the more I play with Adam. All of his directives are, on balance, good for you. There just happen to be corner cases where they aren’t. (ABR: RP. NAT: NEH. SF: Scorched Earth.)
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