Weyland GRNDL - Image Control

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lolpaca 1247

This is my first deck, so be gentle :) Basically I built it around the concept of gaining and removing bad publicity, with Off the Grids to make agendas untouchable and a couple of Aggressive Negotiations to tutor up the puzzle pieces.

Haven't playtested yet, so it quite possibly sucks, but I'd appreciate some advice on how it could be improved! I had no idea what I was doing with the ice really, I just threw in ones that fit the theme. Not sure about Executive Retreat either, but I wanted to keep agenda density down and the hand refresh seems kinda useful.

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19 Mar 2014 bubo

This deck screams big money at me, which make me wonder the appropriateness of low cost ICE such as Fenris, Datapike, and Chimera. I would be looking at either more utility out of my low cost ICE (such as RSVP), or going bigger and better (such as Tollbooth). Speaking of utility, I'm surprised that Ireress is not part of your mix considering how much bad publicity you are expecting to be rolling around in. While Ireress is dependant on bad publicity for it's pain, it takes credits out of both the bad publicity and general credit pool for the Runner. It's a nasty surprise to have the bad publicity pool retroactively taken away in the middle of a run. I doubt that enough influence can be scraped together for it, but this deck would really enjoy a Wotan as well.

This deck screams "I'm doing bad things and must hide them!" with all of the bad publicity in it. I see the Elizabeth Mills and Restoring Face combo that you have built into it, but I'm left wondering if it's a too little, too late scenario to get that combo out. Rather than spend precious card slots on removing that bad publicity, this deck feels like it should just revel in it. I would test this build against a similar build switching all Executive Retreat and Veterans Program for 3 Corporate Warfare, Elizabeth Mills and Restoring Face for Corporate Troubleshooter and Successful Demonstration (you will likely have to replace Fenris or Jackson Howard to fit those), and increasing the number of 10+ cost ICE. Bad Publicity only helps the runner during a run, so make the runs as expensive as possible for the Runner.

19 Mar 2014 bubo

I almost forgot, Curtain Wall and Hadrian's Wall are very similar in full strength at the same credit expenditure, with Curtain Wall adding a variable strength factor in exchange for 3 clicks on Hadrian's Wall. I personally would spend 3 clicks to lose the variance in Curtain Wall, and would either switch a Curtain out for another Hadrian's or just cut Curtain entirely to add a high strength code gate.

19 Mar 2014 lolpaca

Hey hey, thanks for the reply - I'll try those things out. Upping the quality of the ice definitely sounds like a plan.