So there have been a couple of Jinteki builds that have been popular of late, though maybe not the most competitive. There is Bad Publicity's Jamesteki build - a true 1000 cuts. With little to no ice and the rest being traps and 1 point agenda's, or the typical trap shell game of kills and Project Junebugs.
Now again - these decks that I am posting are not necessarily going to be competitive. Remember that. Don't make comments of 'Well such and such will destroy this' Of course it will. These are deck lists designed to make you think. Challenges to use cards that otherwise aren't popular.
So. What does Jinteki have that doesn't get used? Trap Ice. Sure people will throw a Chum in there, or a Datamine, but how many Cell Portal or Whirlpools do you really see? And how many decks do you really see that make use of it? Add to that your opponent will have to go through ice to get to you, means you are certain they are going to encounter your combos.
Whats the main problem? well of course paying for all this. Jinteki economy has gotten much better of late, so that is less of a problem, and there are cards like Braintrust (who really over advances that?) and Akitaro Watanabe keep that low.
And the second problem? Positional ice. it only works if it keeps the right order. If you can't get that order right, you just wont get anything done. well Sunset helps with that. Levy University might also help - but possibly give up too much surprises? Who knows.
So.
Onto the deck list
Jinteki Ice Labrynth
Jinteki: Replicating Perfection (Trace Amount)
Agenda (11)
3x Braintrust (What Lies Ahead)
3x Fetal AI (Trace Amount)
3x Nisei MK II (Core Set)
2x Unorthodox Predictions (Mala Tempora)
Asset (4)
2x Levy University (Creation and Control)
2x Sundew (Mala Tempora)
Upgrade (3)
2x Akitaro Watanabe (Core Set)
1x Off the Grid (Second Thoughts) •••
Operation (9)
2x Celebrity Gift (Opening Moves)
2x Hedge Fund (Core Set)
2x Restructure (Second Thoughts)
3x Sunset (Cyber Exodus)
Barrier (5)
2x Himitsu-Bako (Opening Moves)
1x Paper Wall (Mala Tempora)
2x Wall of Thorns (Core Set)
Code Gate (11)
3x Cell Portal (Core Set)
2x Chum (Core Set)
2x Enigma (Core Set)
1x Sensei (Trace Amount)
2x Tollbooth (Core Set) ••••
1x Viktor 2.0 (Creation and Control) •••
Sentry (4)
1x Grim (Opening Moves)
1x Ichi 1.0 (Core Set) ••
2x Neural Katana (Core Set)
ICE (2)
2x Whirlpool (Humanity's Shadow)
Deck built on NetrunnerDB.
So what is the goal here? Replicating Perfection will help in securing you time to build this ice trap. You'll want two remote servers - One you are slowly setting up into your trap. Cell portal first. Trap style ice, like Chum into Katana and Whirlpool on the outside. Then you can rez an Akitaro with a couple of Brain trust counters to keep them in an infinite loop till they run out of credits to break the Katana and die. Levy isn't that bad in setting this up, just search for the ice and hold it for a turn or two shuffling your hand.
Off the Grid is a nice little trick - rez it /after/ they've run on your central to get back at them. Score in the other Remote you've set up while waiting for your Cellportal Whirlpool trick to come off. And cards like Wall of Thorns and Toolbooth are there as stoppers, to ice your centrals and just be a pain in the butt.
And if they see your setup with expose? What are they going to do? Unless they are running Escher theyll have to run it. You just make sure when you put your agenda in that server you are ready to pay the costs to make the infinite loop happen. Whirlpool > Katana > Cell Portal with Akitaro rezed and a triple over advanced Braintrust....
Ahaha... Okay that's a one in a million game that will never happen. But even if you only have the credits to rez Cell Portal a couple of times, if they don't have the creds to pay for breaking Katana every time
Does it Work? Doubt it. Does it make you think of something a little differently? I certainly hope so.
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