Eternal Dedi Recoco CI - Can you do better?

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This is my current go to Eternal list. Heavily based on Recoco's Basilisk. I've probably made the deck a bit worse by dropping the Team Sponsorship angle, but I found it fairly unnecessary as we have more tools to score things, so most cards are about going forward.

Every game has finished in 6-9 turns, average was 7.8 turns (though mode was 9). And it's been 6-1 since switching to Vacherons.

The Pointed Cards:

3: Estelle Moon - This card is a huge draw engine and threat to force runners to pay attention to your centrals. That said, you don't really have enough ICE to reliably defend it (it's one of the big changes I want to explore), so often I get 2-3 triggers off of it, so it's sort of another VLC. Potentially other cards could do more for you, but it's really good.

2: CI - This deck really doesn't work outside of this ID. You could look at Asa maybe for tempo, but the construction of the list will be very different.

1: Spin Doctor - Some recursion and draw on an asset is basically everything you could ask for in a card. You might prefer Jackson Howard, but honestly Spin Doctor is generally better for this specific deck, and also we need one more point for....

1: Violet Level Clearance - This cards is probably better than Moons for this specific deck.

Some other notable cards

Red Level Clearance is really good, the first one is a cantrip, the others can be quite flexible.

Shipment from MirrorMorph makes the combo really flexible, and also empowers your Estelle turns.

Cyberdex Virus Suite - Don't cut this, Lock Hayley is really good.

Notable missing pieces:

Currents - Generally the only current you're worried about is Employee Strike. But typically by the time the runner finds it, you can score something. But I'll admit to not seeing a bunch of ES. Rumor Mill usually means you need to just pop your first Estelle without seeing any cards until you figure out the current. I would look at Enforced Curfew before playing Enhanced Login Protocol because credits can be pressured by correct runner play.

ICE - you really want 1-2 more pieces I think, but it's hard to find the cut. I tried the Mother Goddess + Loki suite, but you need a different (and I think slower) list, and also Faust/Aumakua/Mammon are pretty common.

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