Prepaid Event Toolbox (V1.3 possibly FINAL)

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Trizzy613 142

OK, after further testing I came to add a few tweaks from the "1.2 version". -1 Lucky Find, -1 Satellite Uplink, -1 Garrote. These were changed into +1 The Maker's Eye, +1 Blackmail and +1 Alias. I found Garrote's install cost was a bit too steep and if need be you can always blast a Faerie into a remote. Blackmail was just as situational as Satellite Uplink but it's surprising how much it can help against certain IDs and otherwise can easily be a discard. Lastly I found that even though you can tutor easily for events just one more The Maker's Eye can really boost aggression and is always welcome since Ken is somewhat of a "criminal shaper" of sorts.

THE REST IS JUST WHAT I PREVIOUSLY WROTE WITH MINOR EDITING FROM 1.2:

Here's the main change: WAIT! NO Plascrete Carapace!? Damn right! Lawyer Up is a BEAST in this deck. I always found plascretes to be a clunky necessary evil but now it no longer matters. As a rule of thumb I often found myself using Account Siphon on maximum click 2 against NBN or Weyland and spending 4 of the credits I earned just removing tags. With Prepaid VoicePAD you can have your cake and eat it too! Also see Lawyer Up as a 2 click in-faction diesel if you have your prepaids and they're even actually Same Old Thing worthy after siphoning. Genreally at that point you'll have so much more money that midseasons and scorches won't touch you and you'll have a full hand to boot.

Your main players here are Prepaid VoicePAD, Planned Assault, Quality Time and Same Old Thing. These all work together to tutor fast for cheap and recurr what you want in a blink. Levy AR Lab Access is there as your backup or once your rig is established to bring those tutors back to spam events super cheap.

I find Public Terminal to actually really suck compared to Prepaid VoicePAD because they're too situational based on your draw and corp players are smart enough to know they must protect from the run events Inside Job, The Maker's Eye and Account Siphon.

Programs are simple, my friends know me as "that guy who loves Faerie" when playing criminal but they are a fantastic way to facecheck without major repercussions and most of the time whenever I have a Special Order without a good program rig and cards are unrezzed I'm left wishing I had one instead to just go aggro.

7 comments
4 Jun 2014 wswan

I had 3 Public Terminals and 3 Prepaid VoicePADs in my Tenma deck and that was pretty hysterical. I always seemed poor but I could actually do most things for free and that was amazing. It helped with floating tags for Closed Accounts. /brag

I definitely like what's going on here. I like your use of Faerie a lot but I personally might be too big of a baby to invest in recurring them as well.

4 Jun 2014 LongDarkNight

I'd go -1 Legwork but I'm not sure what would go in it's place.

4 Jun 2014 Trizzy613

@wswan Yeah I figured to keep the cut efficient at 45 and maximize on a high number of events it would need to be one or the other and Prepaid VoicePAD just seems to make a lot more sense with the overall package. It's to Ken like Cyberfeeder is to Noise ;)

@LongDarkNight I thought about doing -1 Legwork +1 Emergency Shutdown just to add to denial but it's working great so far from my tests.

5 Jun 2014 JackMade

First, i really like the "Express" and am playing him currently as well. I chose a different path with John Masanori, Datasucker and Security Testing, so that every run is really beneficial. I am not a huge fan of the central breakers anymore, because Caduceus and Viper for example are really expensive to break.

Do you encounter problems like this as well?

Also i wanted to know, how you deal with trashed ICE-Breakers. I went with Clone Chip which was always very good, even if i was not forced to use it. Faerie is just ridiculously good in my opinion and getting her back was always an option.

5 Jun 2014 Trizzy613

@JackMade I have also done that combo and you are right it truly is a thing of beauty but I find it works best with Andromeda: Dispossessed Ristie because you have a higher chance of having all the pieces you need up and early. I'm not a huge fan of central breakers either except for Passport because it's so damn cost efficient but since all my MVP run events focus on central aggression they mostly just serve as my back ups that are worthwile in the short to mid-game. Generally if anything gets trashed just using Levy AR Lab Access once has made it possible to bring them back in the stack and a lot of the cards focus on high draw and tutoring.

6 Jun 2014 Alsciende

I love it. Can't wait to test it! But I would play Datasucker too. @JackMade did you publish your Express deck?

6 Jun 2014 JackMade

@Alsciende I did. Here is the link: netrunnerdb.com