Taxing Together v1.2

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Stronger Together taxing deck with econ imported to try and make it get off the ground.

This is a deck I started working on when I got bored with EtF and its standard form of play. I don't think it's better than EtF by any means (part of the reason it's more fun is that it feels more swingy and risky, going from harmless with no credits to beastly when you get some burst econ in), but I'm hoping to make a deck that can be piloted to wins against fast and hard runners, even if it doesn't win as often.

The play style is to get ICE down as quickly as possible over all threatened servers. There's a good chance of getting some cheap ICE early to cover basic defenses, then build out from there. Bioroid Efficiency Research gives a boost to turn Heimdall 2.0 into early game ICE, which should keep them out of a central server for a few turns while you build up (don't try it on a remote protecting an agenda; they can and should just take the brain damage and lose 2 clicks to steal one of the 3 pointers in the deck). Once the early game has passed and accesses aren't coming as fast and furious, focus on moneying up and ICEing up to create expensive runs and frequent scoring windows.

This deck is weak in a couple respects. First, it's dirt poor. Most of the influence is spent on money in terms of Beanstalk Royalties and Celebrity Gift. If I had Green Level Clearance I'd run it. Second, the ICE, while taxing, is porous. The runner will usually be able to enter when they want to, but not as often as they want to. To that end, Ash 2X3ZB9CY is basically a requirement in the scoring server to enable it to survive the first assault. Heinlein Grid would be wonderful here to turn off the ability to click bioroids to save money, but I don't have that card yet.

Any advice? I feel like the first card that should be dropped for something better is Bioroid Efficiency Research, since it doesn't work late game (having someone run through a Heimdall 2.0 and break it on the first run on a remote and then follow it up and not have to break it at all because you're too poor is a bad plan), but I'm not sure what to drop it for.

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