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You are pretty ballsy, not playing with Corps favourite Hero - Jackson Howard. If I were you, I'd swap the Will-o' with Jacksons. You even have the influence for it!

Besides, as most of your ICE has a pretty low strength, I would strongly consider Interns to fight back against those pesky Anarch runners (maybe -1 Successful Demonstration +1 Interns?).

Last but not least, have you considered Bifrost Array instead of Director Haas' Pet Project? Replicating an Accelerated Beta Test is pretty sweet in The Foundry: Refining the Process. (I suppose you are familiar with the ABT/Foundry interaction)

Happy Corp'ing!

Heya! Thanks for the advice. Really like a lot of that.

I don't run Jackson Howard because they've been in my girlfriend's decks since time immemorial. He's fantastic and everything, but I like keeping my girl in the game better. :D

J. Howard, Corp Saviour and Netrunner Spokesman since Opening Moves!

In that case, Interns and/or Archived Memories could help you replace him. An agenda flood is unlikely with only 9 of them in the deck, making him less of a necessity. If you play this deck Glacier-style, you may want to add Rework instead, to keep your hand free of agendas.

I've been playing around with Foundry since it came out, and agree that Interns can be really clutch, especially if your NEXT is getting eaten by parasites (which just shit all over this). Project Vitruvius can also be another Jackson alternative. If you're scoring 5/3s anyway, sneaking out an early over-advanced Vitruvius can really make the game either by pulling back trashed ICE or grabbing a Peak Efficiency late game to make it even more peak and blow open a scoring window with your Ash.

I also share my card collection with a girlfriend, so I sympathize about the need to ration Jackson. Until we got a second core recently we had to get especially creative with Hedge Funds and Sure Gambles--it's a great deck-building exercise that forces you to dig deeper into the card pool.

Try out Daily Business Show if you can't have Jackson Howard. Very powerful card that makes up for a lack of Jackson.

I think the Grail ice surprise factor is very much under-rated. Having program destruction hosted on a codegate/barrier in the early game can be brutal against early face checkers running with mimic/faerie (ie my standard MO)

With Merlin in the mix this can be a severe check on early runners, especially those without recursion.

In conclusion: Crims like me dislike facing Grail decks like this