HB Traps

NatShido 1

I've been trying to make the deck work for a little while. Playtested it on Jinteki some, but I'd like some input from outside my playgroup.

Effectively you play a bunch of overscoring cards and put a bunch of advancement counters on them, then get cool effects.

-Project Ares: Kills your opponents breaker suite when you overscore it, but give you a bad pub if you don't. Probably the weakest overscoring card in the deck, but does its job.

-Project Vitruvius: Is on theme; check. Is a 3/2; check. Has upside for overscoring with no downside; check. Easy auto-include three-of.

-Haas Arcology AI: Works with the deck, and makes it so I can score ABT out of hand.

-Project Junebug: Solely because the wins out of nowhere are awesome. The alpha version of the deck ran 3 of these, 3 Cerebral Overwriter and a few Aggressive Secretary, and gave the deck its namesake. However most have been cut, which I'll explain why later.

-Reversed Accounts: It's the latest inclusion and I'm still testing if I like it.

-Thomas Haas: Literally just money. Money for days. And he carries weigh in the deck, netting upwards of 16 cred when run on.

Simone Diego has been a complicated inclusion, since she's off-faction, but she turns Thomas Haas into a powerhouse, effectively turning clicks into free money. She makes Reversed Accounts hilarious, and makes your advancing agendas cost little to nothing. I like her, and I don't normally have issues with her being clunky.

As for the "Trap" Assets I was running, early tests of the deck put me in a weird place, where I'd have to advance my traps then leave them, or keep pumping money into them and hope eventually the runner would make a game-losing mistake. Most of the time though, I'd need to free up the server they were in by trashing them since they were taking up space and the runner had already guessed what was installed, wasting tons of time and cred. I opted for more proactive overscoring cards instead that get me resource or hurt the runner over just waiting to win the game.

Everything else in the deck is pretty run-of-the-mill HB Corp. Adonis makes money, Bioroid ICE, Ash 2X3ZB9CY. I'm considering cutting Utopia Fragment(and Gila Hands) for some other x/2 agendas(probably NAPD Contract), since Utopia fragment feels a little win-more. Howler is also something I've been playing around with and it can be amazing or it can be a dead draw, but it'll most likely get cut in the future for more relevant ICE.

Thanks for reading and any comments you might have!

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