Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Android Netrunner: Deck Tech - Whizzard

"Whizzard - Kick em while they are down"
 

This deck is more than Kickin' the Corp while their down, its also getting them to go down in the first place. This Anarch comes with the 3 creds a turn he needs to trash all their assets. The goal is to trash any of their economy before they get a chance to reap a benefit and then clear out their accounts with vamps. I make it sound simple but there is a finesse required to pilot this glass cannon which includes only one ice breaker: CRYPSIS. 

Identity:
Whizzard: Master Gamer (What Lies Ahead)



Total Cards: (45)
Event (15)
Stimhack (Core #4) x3
Vamp (Trace Amount #21) x3
Sure Gamble (Core #50) x3
Diesel (Core #34) x3
Forged Activation Orders (Core #20) x3

Hardware (5)
Cyberfeeder (Core #5) x3
Spinal Modem (What Lies Ahead #2) x2

Program (14)
Datasucker (Core #8) x3
Djinn (Core #9) x3
Imp (What Lies Ahead #3) x3
Medium (Core #10) x1
Nerve Agent (Cyber Exodus #41) x1
Crypsis (Core #51) x3

Resource (11)
Ice Carver (Core #15) x1
Joshua B. (Cyber Exodus #42) x2
Liberated Account (Trace Amount #22) x2
Wyldside (Core #16) x2
Armitage Codebusting (Core #53) x3
Aesop's Pawnshop (Core #47) x1


Influence Values Totals -
 Anarch: 58
 Criminal: 6
 Shaper: 8


The start is simple, build your Rig, you're trying to get a djinn out and get your economy going. Any unprotected assets that are out need to be hit with a run and trashed. Keep the heat on any trashable assests and build your rig and economy up as availible by the draw. Get the Crypsis out and keep a virus token on it equal to the number of ice protecting a server particularly the central. If there is not any corp economy assets out and you have the chance, go ahead and vamp. At this point the Corp should be down and then the kicking can commence. Forged activation order anything and watch it be trashed. Dig out a medium or nerve agent and start running allover their central or rnd. If you have an Imp, feel free to trash any cards like scorched earth or ice that they could get out in a turn or two. Drop a parasite on their rezzed ICE and feel free to kill it off with some data suckers. Mostly this will allow you free reign to dig out those sweet sweet agendas. 

 A couple bits of strategy for this: It is important to bluff the corp at times, if they have enough creds to rez only 1 piece of Ice. Run on a server that isn't interesting to you, they will rez it and you can drop a medium and run on their RnD instead. The extra amount of resources that are included insure the options are available to get what you need but don't be afraid to trash them to aesops for the extra creds. 

Some of these cards could be swapped out but I am still playtesting it out. 

Build it up and try it out and let me know what you think. 

 -ryan

2 comments:

  1. Hey! I was browsing the web for some ideas with Whizzard and I came across your post. I really enjoy playing netrunner but I haven't had much luck finding active play groups in the cincinnati area.

    Do you still play? Where do you play normally?

    Thanks in advance, assuming you still keep up on your blog.

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    1. The game is still going strong. I don't know exactly when other stores play, but I think they do Netrunner every Tuesday at Art of War Gaming and Miniatures. I know there have been tournaments at Eastside Gaming as well, but I don't know what night of the week. Hopefully the original author of this article will see this and write you back.

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