Eli needed to come off the list. Barriers are underwhelming with the prevalence of paperclip, most barriers that decks run are just vanilla and the occasional Wraparound or resistor.
I don’t think Faust is as big a problem as Sensie or Sifr/DDoS . -3 inf? Harsh.
While the Faust inclusion seems harsh, I rather like the idea that I won’t have to worry about my opponent being at 10 credits and 10 tags with Counter Surveillance, knowing that their installed Faust and Obelus allows them to just access 10 cards off R&D whenever they so choose. With Mars for Martians coming, isn’t Counter Surveillance way too good in a Faust deck with a DLR shell?
I think this is going to be everyone’s biggest concern, but I’m not sure that Aaron is a problem for dedicated tag decks anymore with MCA Informant out. Not that I think it doesn’t deserve to go on the list (I’d probably put it at the normal tier 1), but I think I’d rather see Friends on there than Aaron right now.
Hmm. Not bad, but I’m not sure I like Power Shutdown errata. That IS a functional errata. And I love CI decks, even if I can’t pilot them well and/or beat them consistently.
Yeah, but you can just install it on Aaron to probably get rid of him for good. The runner is considered tagged, so you can simply trash Aaron if the Runner does not get rid of the MCA Informant. And the only way to get rid of him is to trash the host connection. Either way: Aaron is gone.
I played with MCA Informant vs Aaron the other day… I actually just let him keep his Aaron as long as he wanted to stay tagged. All I actually care about is that you’re tagged. If you want to keep that state true, that’s perfectly ok with me. I don’t care about him drawing cards, I care about him being able to shut down BN plays to trash Temujin/Exchange/Closed Accounts. So if you keep your tagged state, you can have him. It means I don’t have to make the BN play.
MCA Informant definitely counters Aaron.
Aaron feels fair again. He’s actually just Card Draw now, which is Fine for Criminal. He’ll also save you against certain kill combos, but not all of them. (Boom/Traffic Accident can’t get you, but you’re very very Scorchable.)
While it definitely counters Aaron, I’m going to note that there is some counterplay so to speak. The normal trashing is fine, but if you’re running 2-3 Aarons, you can just trash Aaron to play Aaron and you’re back to square one. I can’t imagine more than 2 MCA Informants in a deck, so you could, in theory, get screwed by that line of play for a time, which allows the runner a period of safety against BN.
But hey, they also have to draw and not discard Aaron #2, so that sort of counter play isn’t really reliable
Yeah; for my part I held onto MCA Informant until I had stuck an HHN and trashed the first Aaron. When the second came down, immediately put an Informant on it.
Have you tested out one copy of MCA? How reliable have it feeled? I wonder, how you could slot two copies in. Seems too many situational operations then. (it was CTM i suppose)