It's Buy-back Time

This deck puts aside our Kitsune-based jank dreams and plays Haarpsichord as a rush deck that pivots into a quasi-glacier as soon as the runner starts thinking they might be winning.

Basic strategy, protect your centrals with cheap, taxing tracers early game and rush out any two pointers you might draw into early on behind gearchecks or by playing cheeky Haarp shell-games. Once the runner starts getting set up settle in for the long game. Fortify your centrals and start trying to score out 1 pointers. You'll probably fail, nbd. Once the runner's score area is nicely cluttered with trash like 15 Minutes and News Teams you use Stock Buy-Back repeatedly to recover from tempo loss caused by trying to score out or from the runner's siphon-lock antics. The longer the game goes on, the more likely it is that you'll be able to build a strong credit lead over the runner and force them to respect the threat of midseasons. You're running 1 pointers and News Team, so the runner is going to have to steal a lot of agendas to win. It's not unusual for the runner to have 6 or 7 "agendas" in their score area with only 3 points to their name.

This runs lots of one-pointers to get the most value out of Stock Buy-Back. Astro and Beale to score out. Breaking News and 15 Minutes can be scored out of hand to creep you closer to a win and feed Archer or used as bait or a meatshield for your 2 pointers. Special mention for Improved Tracers which actually does surprisingly good work in this deck. Against many match-ups scoring one can push the strength of many ice into annoying territories for popular breakers like MKUltra which don't follow the optimal 1 = 1 strength model. The rare treat of scoring all 3 basically guarantees all but the scummiest Power Tap abuser will be paying through the nose to pass your tracers.

Your roughest matchups are Leela and any sort of Power Tap deck, though if you can sneak out a score lead early it is absolutely possible to play around their frustrating antics.

Probably not massively competitive but much better than it has any right to be with the bonus of creating very entertaining games that often run very close (but which you win anyway)