H.A.A.R.P.A.D. v1.0

Hostile Aggression Active Response and Protected Asset Division. No idea why no one has put this deck/name out yet!

This follows a lot of the original NEARPAD deck by Toomin, but shifted into Haarpsichord Studios. Why would we do this? We lose two influence and card draw ability every time we make a remote. On the other hand, we gain significant protection against multi-access (Medium digs lose a lot of power), and the ability to make plays such as installing two facedown agendas in the same turn. Is this enough? Time will tell.

The loss of influence means we have to drop the Eli and an Encryption Protocol. Pachinko can make up for Eli, since we have many ways of tagging the runner, and it's not even clickable! With luck, two EPs will be enough.

The deck still has a lot of tweaks, I think, that need playtesting to work out. Manhunt is included over the third City Surveillance due to both Hacktivist Meeting and the upcoming runner current that shuts off our ID ability. Ghost Branch is a card that would probably only work in Haarpsichord versions of this deck as opposed to NEH, but makes a delicious trap here - do they run it and not the unadvanced Astro next to it?

Explode-a-palooza may not be the optimal agenda here, though the 5 credits are usually quite nice, and it's far better than NAPD if it's the second agenda accessed.

Weaknesses include Imp and Whizzard, as before, but Keyhole is much less of a threat since they can't steal all the agendas in Archives at once. If the deck is working like it wants to, Film Critic should only be useful on the turn it's played, since you should have the tags to nuke it anyway.

The deck will likely change when D&D comes out - The All Seeing I would be a good include over the second Psychographics, for instance, and I'm sure there's some good ice that could be included (perhaps Archangel?).