The Walls of Babylon

Developing "NEXT Design" into a sound corp deck has been a fun rewarding challenge.

Following along the ID ability I have included 23 ICE carefully selected according to cost and strength. Since that is almost half of the deck, chances are high (~80%) to draw two ICE on the first attempt and close to certainty with 96% when including a mulligan. For three ICE the corresponding probabilities are 44% and 69%. Therefore I usually end up having installed two or three ICE and seen the first eight or nine cards of the deck before taking my first click.

On average that brings me on that turn to one of the economy cards, Melange Mining Corp, Hedge Fund or Subliminal Messaging in two out of three games. Do not underestimate the power of the latter in this corp deck!

The juicy parts of the deck however are the assets and upgrades together with the Interns and Reclamation Order: Edge of World can protect any of the upgrades on a remote server. Caprice in HQ is a good counter against pesky criminal intruders and Jackson Howard does what Jackson Howard does best :)

Also the agendas have valuable abilities that I want to use, especially the Accelerated Beta Test in such an ICE-heavy deck. Agenda counters on Project Vitruvius can be real gems for emergencies too.

I have found Bioroid Efficiency Research to be much more useful than Awakening Center, especially against Blackmail. Let me know if you were able to make that upgrade work for you.