My mighty Fist

MephistophelesX 1

This is a Hayley Deck I have been playing, testing and modifying since Faust came out and that i think has become quite good. The Idea is to get as rich as possible and controll the Corporation by denying their Asset Economy, and Vamping them should they get money otherwise, running made extremly efficient by not spending credits on a run.

Game Plan

In the first rotation through your Deck (Yes the first, you will see the Deck many time), you want to spend nearly all you have on getting enough Money to install your Hardware and Ressources. This is your weakest phase, where you need to get set up, before everything starts working your way.Diesel and Quality Time are your friends here, as well as Hayleys ability, with it and Comet you will have effectivly 6 to spend (1 from bonus event, 1 from bonus install). Get the Combo set up (Adjusted Chronotype. Beach Party, Starlight Crusade Funding and Gene Conditioning Shoppe). Optimally 3 times Public Sympathy, and you have a Limit of 16 Hand Cards. Game Day will now be Powerful. If the Corp trys to Score on you in this phase you can use your Hyperdriver for an extremly powerful turn. At the end of this, you use all your Same Old Thing before you Levy for maximum value, if you can, have a Game Day on your Bookmark. It will be easier to get to 16 Cards after Levy AR Lab Access. Although this is in an experimental phase, but i expect it to be quite good, as bookmark allows you to save any card for "After Levy".

The second, third and fourth Go-Through. This is were you start pressuring R&D. You can see 3 to 5 Cards with makers Eye, no Agenda there? Legwork, or Vamp, believe me your Economy is stronger than theirs from here on it is just a "normal" runner, with a big Hand Size. You can break through a server now with Faust and Femme Fatale (One game i ended up actually using her to break Sentries with her ability, but you have a strong economy in certain times this can be helpful.). After you spend all you Cards on Faust a simple Game Day will literally draw half your deck.

Card Choices

The Ressources: Adjusted Chronotype. Beach Party, Starlight Crusade Funding and Gene Conditioning Shoppe. A lot stands and falls with you having or not having this combo in the course of the game. 5 hand cards and for your 9 double events the Crusade.

New Angeles City Hall i think will be needed with Data and Destiny out and Film Critic will help you protect this Card. But this is needed, since the trashing of Adjusted Chronotype will leave you with just 2 and The All-Seeing I will practically reset you. I am aware, that with your multi access the City Hall may be trashed, but you will get it back with a Levy AR in time. You will have to play careful while this is not on the field

The Economy Package: Holy Moly I have started Loving Power Nap, have no Credits at all? Here Click for 2, in the worst case scenario. in the best case you can get up to 10 with this, 9 if you host one Game Day on the bookmark. The rest is pretty standard Lucky Find and Sure Gamble, i took out some Dirty Laundrys as I was extremly overkilling it with the money and needed the Deck Space.

Scavenge: If you are Lucky this will be used for Faust most of the time. But you need it for these two things: Something BIG on a server you need to run with Femme or Faust getting trashed. In that case swap a Hyperdriver or if you have to, your Femme for Faust.

Indexing good in Early Game, later you will access 5 Cards anyways, but it has it's uses if you got no The Maker's Eye at the moment, or fear to access Snares or a lot of Agedas at once, wich will trash your City Hall.

Stuff not Included:

e3 Feedback Implants: I want those soooo bad, but i can't. I need my Influence where it is, if you want to play this here are some thoughts: 1st option: get rid of the double events, this frees up a LOT of your deck. 2nd: Get rid of 2 Influence and Femme and use a Shaper sentry breaker.

Theophilius Bagbiter, I like my variation more, but this is up to a personal choice and i am thinking about rebuilding and trying this in the future.

Corporations

Here i will adress a few types of Corps you will face:

Fast Advance: Sadly i do not have 2 things: 1st: A lot of experience against fast advance, since it is hated in my meta, 2nd: Deck space for a Clot or The Source. This will be a hard match up, draw like hell and try to get set up, if you can get to the R&D-Lock you desire you have a chance.

Tag'n'Bag: Have you seen the size of your Hand? Also New Angeles City Hall.

Glacier: Value Runs. Run R&D with Maker's Eye and SOT when you don't know what is on top of it anymore, try to hinder them with Vamp, they need money to rez ICE, also use Femme Fatale not only for going around that one ICE, but maybe break an Architect (4 Credits), or another weak Sentry with the Femme, not Faust. Scavenge will be important.

A last few words: I thank you for reading this, if you still have questions, or even better suggestions: please comment. I apologise for weak english or writing mistakes, not a native speaker.

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