Learning archetypes: NBN horizontal

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Asset Spam

A deck focused on demonstrating aspects of the game, not on balance, power, etc...

This is a class of decks that attempts to build many unprotected remote servers, and eventually overwhelm the runner with the value gained.

Rule & Play Notes

A few things that might not be super-obvious:

  • The game plan is roughly to 1. generate a ton of servers (more than the runner can check while still building board state), 2. sneak out AR-Enhanced Security scores which makes it unreasonable to check and trash all servers, 3. create a server to either use for bait, or to score, 4. make a huge amount of s which makes it impractical for the runner to keep trashing servers without being hit by a Hard-Hitting News for tags they cannot remove, and 5. score out the final points with Psychographics on a Bellona or a "super-Project Beale" worth many points. If the runner is patient and strategic, it can be hard to win.
  • This deck is simply better with NBN: Controlling the Message, but is too hard to play against for beginners.
  • Jeeves Model Bioroids can be used to install many cards, draw up, score an agenda that wouldn't normally have enough advancements on it (i.e. a single-advanced Bellona), or even to just take 3, then Hard-Hitting News.
  • Marilyn Campaign is never ever protected as it self-recurs, and is often free to rez with Mumba Temples.
  • If you're going to protect an agenda early, you might consider the Mumba Temples as they have a lot of long-term value. Mumbad Virtual Tours can be used as an additional server, as a bluff, or to protect an asset.
  • Advanced Assembly Lines is very good in Near-Earth Hub: Broadcast Center as it can draw you a card when played (NEH ability), and draw you a card on the runner's turn (as NEH is a "once per-turn" ability).
  • If you can "stick" a Commercial Bankers Group early game, you'll likely win. Sometimes it is worth throwing down a Commercial Bankers Group, then Hard-Hitting Newsing the runner to give them a hard choice.
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