Reina - Double Up!

Ill admit. I'm not to happy with this deck. Its ... stretching even the idea of stretching the Meta.... but at least it makes us think.


Starlight Crusade was one of those cards I think that a lot of people went ... eh? And Honestly, until Double Time is released in a couple months (which is supposed to be all Double Events) it's probably not worth building a deck around. But why does that stop us?

Remember. These decks are not meant to be competitive. They are here to make you think. To approach things from a view point that most find untenable and see if something interesting can be sparked.

So I took a look at all the Double's spoiled so far - This includes through Double Time, so you'd have to proxy this deck to even try it. But given that the doubles most expensive influence ended up being between Criminal and Anarch, I choose to go with Anarch.

This is a concept - The Starlight Deck - That will undoubtedly get better with time. But ... this might actually be working here? The only doubles I didn't use (That we know for certain the entire text on at least) were Frame Job and Eureka. Frame Job was too situational (plus I'm playing around with that in a different deck, heh) And there wasn't really anything worth using Eureka for in an Anarch deck - and not without spending influence on things like Motivation, which didn't seem worth it.


Double Up!

Reina Roja: Freedom Fighter (Mala Tempora)

Event (12)
2x Hostage (Opening Moves) ••••
3x Lawyer Up (True Colors) •••
3x Queen's Gambit (Double Time)
1x Running Interference (Mala Tempora) ••••
3x Singularity (Double Time)

Hardware (4)
2x Dyson Mem Chip (Trace Amount)
2x Spinal Modem (What Lies Ahead)

Resource (14)
2x Access to Globalsec (Core Set)
2x Aesop's Pawnshop (Core Set) ••••
3x Daily Casts (Creation and Control)
2x John Masanori (Opening Moves)
3x Starlight Crusade Funding (True Colors)
2x Underworld Contact (A Study in Static)

Icebreaker (9)
3x Corroder (Core Set)
3x Mimic (Core Set)
3x Yog.0 (Core Set)

Program (6)
2x Datasucker (Core Set)
2x Djinn (Core Set)
2x Rook (Opening Moves)

Deck built on NetrunnerDB.


So here we have a few things. Queens Gambit and Singularity actually mesh really well together. But normally that's an entire turn plus whatever you have to spend to get into the server, so it's probably not worth it most times. But if Starlight is out...

Aesop's becomes important to have suddenly, because we want to be able to get rid of Starlight when we're done with it. Hostage is then useful, for finding Aesop.

And now we're running two resources that are important to the deck concept. So Tag Me is right out, meaning that Lawyer Up could become potentially useful.

We'll throw in the traditional Anarch breaker suite and add in a Rook to play off of Reina's base ability. Running Interference combines with that and can make that all important get me in there now run possible.

Since we are already running Aesops, Daily Casts becomes a decent economy card with selling it to Aesop (not amazing, but better than Liberated Accounts, especially cause we are already click starved)

Without a lot of Viruses or Caissa, Spinal Modem becomes the better console. Well now we're a little worried about Link Strength - and if we include some boost there (and Dyson is good  for the memory we'll need) then hey. Why not include Underworld Contacts. Since we're already Resource Heavy...

And finally John M. He's in because he provides card draw when we are loosing a click, meaning we still get something out of all 4 clicks, effectively.

What else can we do?

Medium is probably a good idea to put in here - being able to get RD lock would help a lot for a victory condition. Ive found without some sort of HQ or RD multi access you are in a lot of trouble. But thats if you want to actually make this ... competitive.

And once more Double Events come out this might actually become viable.

No idea if this is worth it. Will it work? Doubt it. Can it make you think? Maybe.