"Today Venice, tomorrow the World!"

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Project Venice (2.1) 
Agenda-Asset
For every three advancement counters over Project Venice's difficulty
that are on Project Venice when you score it, gain an action during
each of your turns.
4/2
Mark Tedin
Common

     Project Venice is an agenda that is looked at by many potential
Corporations but then disregarded as not being that good.  Needing 4
advancement counters to just score 2 agenda points is not worth it
when compared to other agendas that give the Corporation some bonus
for that amount of work.  The 7 advancement counters needed to get
the action bonus often appears too difficult to perform reliably.
     Extra actions are almost always worth it, especially if they are
not limited in what they can do.  Edgerunner, Inc., Temps and Valu-Pak
Software bundle are popular cards and the actions they provide are
very narrow.  Any time one player gets an extra action every turn, it
starts to put a strain on the opponent.  Actions are the very basis of
play, and the more you have, the faster you can implement your plans.
     The flexibility of Project Venice is where it shines.  In an
agenda plan comprised solely of Project Venice, if the Corporation can
gain two extra actions from the first few Projects scored, the 
remaining ones can be scored out of hand in one turn without the aid
of other cards.
     There are two main strategies to go about getting those two extra
actions for the plan.  The first is to advance one Project Venice 10
times and get the two needed actions.  The other method is two
advance two separate Projects 7 times each.  Both strategies require
either a lot of bits poured into fast advancement to score them in
one turn or a plan to hold the agendas long enough to advance them.
     The idea now is to build a deck that can execute of those plans.
Here, not too much effort is required as another crafty R&D can provide
the skeleton we need.  This deck is Frisco's World Domination deck.  Some
changes obviously are needed as the agenda setup requires 9 cards instead
of 6, but here I present the current version of my R&D.

Agendas (9)
9 Project Venice

These are the basis for this whole plan.  Scoring one Venice with 10
advancement counters gives the Corp a very strong position from
which to score the remaining agenda.  So while its not the game winner
than World Domination is, the flexibility in going to 7 or 10 for the
extra actions helps to make up for it.  It is also a lot easier to
acquire the 9 cards.

Ice (14)
2 Data Wall 2.0
3 Crystal Wall
2 Quandary
3 Scramble
2 Shock.r
1 Too Many Doors
1 Marionette

The ice seletion is pretty much the same here.  The idea is the same,
cheap ice that will pretty much always require the Runner to pay at
least 1* or 2* to pass each piece of ice.  The Marionette is an
experiment but so far hasn't shown its worth.

Upgrades (3)
2 Red Herrings
1 Chester Mix

Here some cuts were made to make room for the agendas.  The agendas
don't need to be protected for quite as long so can survive with the
lesser amount of Upgrade based protection.

Nodes (3)
1 BBS Whispering Campaign
2 Euromarket Consortium

Not including the Virus Test Site was a style decision.  It should have
the same mass damage potential that it does in the Domination deck.  The
extra Euromarket Consortium is included to make sure one is drawn.  The
deck sometimes needs a while to dig up the 3rd and 4th agendas, especially
if the Runner steals a few, and these greatly speed up the process.

Operations (16)
7 Accounts Recievable
2 Effiency Experts
2 Silver Lining Recovery Protocol

Here, one Protocol is replaced with one Accounts as a steadier bit supply
is needed to score the extra Projects, not the big surge of bits the
Domination deck needs to score just the one agenda in one turn.

3 Project Consultants
1 Overtime Incentives

These may not be optimal for this deck but they have performed ok so far.
Like the Domination deck, there are many bit/card combinations for
scoring the agendas.

1 Edgerunner, Inc., Temps

Well, thats my deck plan as it stands now.  Based on the Domination
plan, it is fairly solid itself.  It has something of an advantage by
looking so much like a Domination deck early on.  The Runner might
wait till the Corp is in striking range of 12 advancement counters when
the Corp suddenly springs out the 2 extra actions from only going
to 10.  If the Corp does not have access to the plans to rule the
World, it can always start with Venice.

Any comments or suggestions are appreciated.

-Ben