[VSC3] Basic Jinteki

How to play

• Your ID ability will, if the Archives server is protected, feed you with a steady stream of supporting credits. This means that either you'll have a good amount of extra credits throughout the game (the Runner gave up on running Archives), or the Runner is forced to regularly run through various unpleasant ICE in front of Archives. If you end up getting some credits from your ID ability, then this will help with your rather expensive ICE.
• Your game plan is to score agendas. Other Jinteki decks might have the intention to either kill the Runner or grind their deck down through lots of net damage, but here the net damage is only there to support the plan of scoring. This means that you'll need to quickly try to set up a scoring server.
• If you manage to score a Nisei MK II, the safety of your servers increases significantly. A heavily defended agenda scoring server together with an agenda counter on Nisei MK II might lead the Runner to totally giving up on stealing agendas there.
• Mindscaping and Hansei Review are your main tools (beyond simply regular card drawing) for getting cards into archives, for activating your ID ability.
• Don't worry too much about showing your a large part of your hand (or all of it) with Celebrity Gift: you give a lot of information to the runner, but with this deck you should move fast and not care much about giving information. The ICE will be painful regardless of whether they know what ICE it is or not.
• Simulation Reset does a lot of things for you: put face down cards into Archives (for your ID ability), remove cards that you don't want in your hand (and then potentially getting them back into R&D), and also saving cards from Archives that you don't want there (agendas, or assets/upgrades you want to use again).
• Urtica Cipher is your main trap in the deck. Tricking the Runner into thinking it's an agenda can be difficult! Having this trap in the deck allows you to do such bluffs as putting out a card with little protection (or no protection at all!), doing Install-Advance-Advance, and then forcing the Runner to figure out if it's an agenda or a trap. Alternatively, you can try to advance it where you would score an agenda, but then you have to make it both accessible enough for the runner to do the run, and yet believable enough that you would risk advancing an agenda during those circumstances.
• Adrian Seis help with the protection of your servers, as the "psi game" will allow him to potentially invalidate a run (only giving access to him, instead of the rest of the cards in the server). Be careful however, as the Runner may deliberately drain the Corp on money, by always bidding 0 in a server where the Corp needs to bid at least 1 to protect the server.
• Anoetic Void should be saved for a server which needs maximum security, probably your agenda scoring remote.
• Front Company can both slow down the Runner somewhat and cause runs on archives more unpleasant (if you don't put ICE in front of it). Whether you want to protect it or not depends on whether you expect runs on Archives. Playing Front Company might make a run on both a central server and a remote server too much to handle.

About [VSC]

The [VSC] decks are versioned collections of decks that are all built for a particular physical card pool:

• 2 x System Gateway
• 2 x System Update 2021
• 2 x Parhelion
• 2 x The Automata Initiative

Full list of cards: NRDB search for the card pool

Therefore, each iteration of the [VSC] decks (this being the third iteration, first published) comes as a collection of decks, to ensure that one can actually build all the decks with the physical card pool.

This particular iteration of [VSC] was going to be used for a "Learn to play Netrunner" event. Therefore, some choices were made to have the decks be on the side of beginner friendliness, or at least avoiding NPE cards/combos. It was also fine if the decks were not tournament material. In fact, if the decks were a bit weaker, but showcase the character of a faction then that was actually better.