Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 14:37:31 -0800 Reply-To: Netrunner Discussion List Sender: Netrunner Discussion List From: Jim McCoy Subject: A nasty omni foundation deck In-Reply-To: <199611042115.NAA16584@oracle.wizards.com> Foolkiller writes: [Card of the Day] > >Omniscience Foundation >Node - Gray >Rez Cost: 0 >Trash Cost: 1 > Give runner a tag at the end of each turn > during which runner received a tag. >Uncommon > >Here it is; the key to solving the Loan From Chiba engine. Omniscience >Foundation is an excellent card which serves a purpose in any Corp >deck which seeks to tag the Runner. Sunday I played a rather cheesy tag n' bag against Frisco (85 card deck, very little ice, all agenda except two were Marked Accounts) and we found that the only time I could get a tag to stick was when I had an Omniscience Foundation or two in play. After the game (I lost both of them, that particular deck needs to find a theme and stick to it...) we started talking about a potentially evil Corp deck one could build around OF. Imagine a deck which consisted of the folowing: Agenda: 1 Political Overthrow 6 Marked Accounts Ice: None Operations: 3 Edgerunner Temps 4 Systematic Layoffs 8 Data Sifters Nodes: 5 BBS Whispering Campaign 4 Schlaghund 14 Omniscience Foundation The corp's only goal is to drag the runner in to trash a node or hit a Marked Accounts. Once a node is trashed on the following turn you rez the remaining OFs and then play Data Sifters. The runner may end up with six or seven tags depending on how many OFs you have out. The runner will then spend a turn getting rid of the tags (and if they have Total Genetic Retrofit, et al. just repeat the process), eventually the runner will have four or five tags during the Corp turn and at that point you rez the Schlaghund and the runner prays for AOY or Identity Donor. The agenda are even better than a "node hit" because the runner gets the OF tags at the start of the Corp turn so there is no chance to avoid them. jim