Anaconda Vise v0.1

AKA Yet Another Geist Concept Deck.

The person behind the @ANRThoughts twitter account mentioned the idea of a Geist Headlock deck being potentially strong, and it set me to thinking. This is the result.

A big shout goes to SamRS Reina Headlock deck that can be found here (I couldn't find it on NRDB): http://forum.stimhack.com/t/reina-headlock-how-to-make-sure-your-opponent-doesnt-get-to-play-netrunner/3185

Anyway, those who know anything about WWE will know that being able to apply a sick headlock is the key to being the world heavyweight champion (see: CM Punk).

Account Siphon them until the money is gone, then Keyhole them to your heart's content. If they managed to rez ICE beforehand (ie: they're Blue Sun/responding to early aggression), you have the central breaker suite to get through as cheaply as possible in faction as sadly Eater was one influence too much. It's a hard knock life. To boost this you have both Emergency Shutdown and Crescentus, which is pretty much Geist's best friend. Trash the Crescentus, draw a card, Clone Chip it back out, draw a card, trash it again, etc.

The Clonescentus combo makes for great food for Faust as well, which is in to let you snipe agendas from remotes if you can't be sure they won't rez ICE, or there's some there that you just can't derez right now for some reason.

Aggressively Parasite ICE you might struggle to derez.

There are, as standard, 16 interactions with Geist's ability in here, so you should never be short on cards to trigger him with. If you use Clone Chip to bring back the Crescentuses and not dead breakers/Keyholes/Parasites, you can potentially have 19 Geistly draws, which should be plenty to keep your Box-E expanded hand size topped up.

If you do lose a central breaker it's better to Special Order for another than to wast a clone chip on bringing one back, hence the two ofs.

Potential Changes

You can change this up to suit your playstyle a bit. Shaft a Clone Chip and Faust to get Eater and Hades Shard, perhaps.

There are some cards in here I'm not sure about like Emergency Shutdown and Unscheduled Maintenance. You could happily take these out for more event econ or draw effects.

Box-E was chosen in order to benefit from both of its effects, but an aggressive Keyhole deck can always profit from Desperado. I'll try both.

I think this could be a valid style for Geist. It may suffer from a slow draw early for not being Andy, though. We shall see.