R&D Steamroller v0.1

Any and all critique welcomed. Please tell me how to make this better!

First deck I'm publishing here and I've avoided deckbuilding for a while now. I seem to find it stressful and inevitably disappointing when the deck is crap, but the lowly underdog of Order & Chaos, Mr Edward Kim: Humanity's Hammer, has encouraged me to come out of retirement and give it another go.

So the deck is kind of a hybrid between a traditional breakers and credits set-up and the Noise mill/solitaire archetype. Get some decent breakers on the table, then make many joyous Medium runs, trashing stuff with wild abandon, supported by Kim's ability, Imp and a loaded Hivemind.

Having used Mr Li in a Ken "Express" Tenma: Disappeared Clone deck recently, I am now officially in love with him and have asked him to help out here with the lacklustre in-faction card draw of Anarch. To save influence I subbed one for an Earthrise Hotel. Either way, we're mulliganing to see one of these cards in our opening hand.

Next pieces to look for are Grimoire, [Progenitor](/en/card/07043, Virus Breeding Ground, Djinn and then breakers as necessary. Obviously Djinncan be used to tutor for any viruses, including Medium, Hivemind and Parasite.

As Eddie's ability is useful when running both R&D and HQ, I've included a Nerve Agent too. I played around with the idea of HQ Interface, but decided that R&D was a safe place for digging for cards (three ambushes in hand and the odds of the corp forcing some damage on you are against you) and so dropped them. The Nerve Agent is there instead, though I wonder if I'd be better including a second Medium and doubling up the R&D threat...

The seemingly random inclusion of Q-Coherence Chip is there in the event of Power Shutdown. Losing a Progenitor hosted Hivemind would be seriously annoying, and best avoided if possible.

Couple of parasites are there to one-shot annoying ICE when Hivemind is at significant tumescence. Deja Vu obviously for enjoying all over again.

Things that didn't make the cut:

Sneakdoor Beta A second Imp A third Progenitor Datasucker - Mainly as this deck is alredy quite program heavy Net Shield (although this was really because at one point I had a single point of influence to spend and started imagining horrible PE builds ruining my day) Scrubber to further support trashing in Medium digs and Scrubbed, mainly just to have a current to cancel ELP type nonsense, but would also help with efficiency of runs (useful if Cerberus "Cuj.0" H3 is doing the breaking).

Finally, no idea if the economy here is adequate. I didn't fancy Daily Casts as Eddie is better off with larger bursts of economy to support devastating R&D runs when Medium is heavily stacked.

Cheers for reading!