@mendax introduced me to this build and to the lockout potential of old school Shutdown PE, and i think with blacklist now this could have serious legs. Maybe t1.5, maybe not event that? Looks serious fun either way.
At the very least, you want more Lotus Fields (especially once NREd Yog becomes the new standard) - Shutdown hoses it pretty hard. The third Cortex Lock feels like an easy cut for it.
Also, the MHCs feel kinda shifty without Sweeps or Komainu, as does the conspicuous absence of Subliminal Messaging.
Mental Health Clinic is the wrong kind of card for this deck, even 1 bad pub makes it easy to trash and you get no benefit from increased runner hand size (Komainu and Sweeps Week).
Weirdly enough i think Kate would be OK. Her killers are mimic and sharpshooter. With sharpie in the bin and blacklist out you could get a lot of mileage. Probably not enough to see competitive play with it though.
I threw this together. I have played damage Jinteki only a little so I don’t really know how good the economy is, etc. Might want to put some Neural EMPs just to get those snipes more often. I hope I don’t get too off-topic.
Chronos Protocol: Selective Mind-mapping
Agenda (10)
1x Chronos Project
2x Clone Retirement
3x Fetal AI
1x Philotic Entanglement
3x The Future Perfect
Asset (8)
2x Blacklist ••
3x Jackson Howard •••
3x Shock!
Upgrade (3)
3x Caprice Nisei
Operation (11)
3x Celebrity Gift
3x Hedge Fund
1x Interns
3x Power Shutdown ••••• •
1x Subliminal Messaging
I think 2 archer is correct, you want breakers in the bin for blacklist to do stuff. I think cortex lock works a lot better in PE with fetal AI than nisei, although nisei is a great agenda i think being able to trash breakers on the field and from their hand is strong.
@Razalhague is right about Blacklist’s interaction with Chronos Protocol, which is neat but annoying. What other 3/1 to slot in there?
I will never understand the use of Clones in those decks. @Calimsha and I had our biggest argument over polish Tenin (on R4G), and he was rigth but there, I think the statements I used then are totally valid.
They were about the probability tree of Clones doing less harm than good. They are not making good there.
This is my main concern : no they wouldn’t. Nothing prevent you from being R&D locked before Archer.
You risk getting BP with 3 / more cards in your decks (grim + clones) vs loosing BP with only 2 card, and you run Caprice on top. I would not build like this.
Its a risk yes, not a certainty. Iv scored clone retirement out of hand pretty successfully quite a lot. Iv gotten archers online quite rapidly as well. Nothing prevents these plays happening either, even though there is nothing preventing a lock before you can pull this off.
Its not a bad point of view I quite like the inazuma include. Rototurrent dies if you say the word parasite out loud though. Also thats also a two card combo, just like CR and archer. Hell, Nisei with its tokens spent can be used to feed archer in a pinch.
I think lists like these can make a cool dent in the right meta, maybe not upper tier as there are some shaky matchups, but meta’s where the only killers are mimic or sharpshooter i think shutdown PE/RP with blacklist will have a field day. Probably be a sad panda outside of that.
I quite like the inazuma include. Rototurrent dies if you say the word parasite out loud though. Also thats also a two card combo, just like CR and archer. Hell, Nisei with its tokens spent can be used to feed archer in a pinch.