Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 21:53:16 -0800 Reply-To: Netrunner Discussion List Sender: Netrunner Discussion List From: Micheal Keane Subject: The All-Rare corp deck Well, some of you may have heard about my facination with making a 100% rare corp deck just for the hell of it. So here is what I've got for a first draft. It's a modification of the Loop deck I previously posted about. Using the loop scheme simplifed things a great deal. 1st, it takesup 40% of the deck. 2nd, it doesn't require non-rare advancement cards. All the agenda are 3 and only get easier. I couldn't think of a bit gaining scheme... until I thought of a under-utilized card and how well it'd work with this type of deck: Corporate Negotiating Centers. LOTS of CNCs. The New galvestons are to make them less easily trashed in HQ and R&D. Once you get sufficient numbers of them out, you're free to do other things. Plus, since there are so many agendas in your hand, you'll be getting gobs of bits easily at the start of each turn. I doubt the runner will bother to trash them since they cost 3 to do so. There isn't very much cheap and weak rare ice so I just decided to go with the big boys. They could be easily substituted with cheaper stuff. 6 Genetics Visionary Aquisitions 6 Artificial Security Directors 6 Executive Extractions 15 Corporate Negotiation Centers 3 New Galveston City Grids 3 Colonel Failures 3 Haunting Aquisitions 3 Shotgun Wires 45 cards It's actually quite hard to make a deck with all-rares. I think the CNC scheme is the only viable all-rare bit gaining mechanism for the corp. The only other bit gaining corp card is Tokyo-Chiba Infighting. *Maybe* exectuive boot camp, but you don't get to keep those bits permanently. Runner decks that it would suck to go up against: Precision bribery/Time to Collect Highlighter R&D attacks Pirate Broadcasts An all-rare runner stack will probably be *much* easier to build. Bartmoss, Joan, Viral Pipeline, Code Viral Cache, Time to Collect, Top Runner's Conferences, misc.for-sale, Organ Donor, etc. Throw in some Pirate Broadcasts maybe to make things easier... It'd all be extremely cheap too.