Axe to Grind

I've been using Casting Call my similar deck. It's amazing. You tell the runner, "Here's the agenda. It's going tag you twice and cost you cred & clicks to remove and set me up for Midseasons OR give me the points." I prefer to use Explode-a-Plooza these days as over NAPD, so the runner can't refuse to steal and I still get a cred advantage.

I run TGTBT, over Breaking News, but that's a personal preference.

Casting Call looks like it's going to be good for sure!

Nice thought re Explode-a-Palooza. I decided I'd rather keep the Beales as scoring out with Astro chain still happens plenty, but I didn't think about swapping the NAPDs. I think that does make a lot of sense, as the runner checking the single-advanced agenda and then leaving the NAPD can be undesirable.

I feel like Breaking News is an absolute must - I'm even running three! Because of the mad econ, on turn ~5 you're installing and advancing something. BN turns that into a huge threat.

In this deck, it might not be bad to also drop a Beale in favor of a TGTBT if you're going 3x Breaking News anyhow (which I think is always good to do). Since they can only score 1 agenda per turn, there are times where you can fool them into taking the shitty agenda that gives them a tag as opposed the the astro that you actually want to score. Plus, since Plan A isn't to score out anyhow, you get the same number of agendas in the deck without a higher point total, which can matter a lot when the runner goes on the final hail marry runs before you kill them.