Virus Liberation Front (Brain Damage Faction) v2

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accelerandom 1

Virus heavy Noise/Shop deck with a few options for flexibility. Relies heavily on Djinn. Intended to do 3+ stimhacks in a game and resist damage through increased hand size. I'll swap in more cards as I get the expansions (e.g. Inject). Maybe too many different things going on at once? Too few icebreakers? New to the game so any advice would be appreciated.

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21 Oct 2014 ptwiddle

Does seem like a lot of different things going on, and that can sometimes lead to consistency issues, but it looks fun. A few thoughts:

There are very good noise decks that only run the three Crypsises, or maybe throw in a little D4v1d/knight/corroder, so you don't necessarily need a lot more breakers, especially because you have some many Djinns to fetch them with. But those decks tend to be ones that really spam the viruses, to mill plenty of cards into the archives to go fetch-- and you might be a bit light on that front.

In particular, when you get your Caches you're really going to want to put them in. So good in Noise with Aesop's.

Biggest questionable card I see is Ice Carver -- it is nice, but again, it gets more value when you're running a lot, and with Crypsis as your main breaker you're not going to be able to.

Also, between Wyldside, installing viruses, and loading Crypsis up, I don't know that you're going to have many clicks for Kati Jones; Daily Casts might be a better choice as it will your free up your clicks and it goes well with Aesop's: when they get down to 4, you can take 2 off, and then sack it to Aesop's, to get one extra money than you would, one turn earlier.

21 Oct 2014 accelerandom

Thanks for your insights! I did quite a lot of archive milling, didn't really feel like I ever was short on viruses, especially with Djinn/Deja Vu. But I've only played it a few times and I've made slight changes each time, so maybe my impressions are too random. Last game I did end up with two ice carvers in my hand and there was never the time/money/urgency to install them. I still had cash issues so Cache will definitely go in once I get it. I've been moving Scheherazade in and out of the deck and can't decide if it's worthwhile. Maybe combined with Cache and Aesop's it would be. I'll also try out Daily Casts, but previously it seemed like Kati Jones was my only reliable long term source of money. Clicks do seem like an issue though.