Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 15:54:21 -0600 Reply-To: Netrunner Discussion List Sender: Netrunner Discussion List From: Brad Becker Subject: Deck of the Week: "Rent To Own" OK, when Proteus first came out, Rent To Own bowled me over. I immediately started working on ideas for a "bitless Corp." deck. I tried to keep it secret until I could perfect it and then take some tourny by storm, but since I haven't been within miles of a tourny in quite a while, I thought I'd let my cat out of the bag for public consumption. The deck could still use some more play and tweaking. I also have a Rent To Kill deck that tries to flatline the runner. Rent To Own (50) Corporation Agenda 1 Corporate Downsizing 6 Corporate War Ice 5 Colonel Failure 2 Data Wall 2 Fetch 4.0.1 6 Filter 1 Haunting Inquisition 2 Liche 1 Shock.r 2 Toughonium(TM) Wall 1 Wall of Ice Node 2 BBS Whispering Campaign 1 City Surveillance 1 Department of Truth Enhancement 1 Fortress Architects Operation 4 Night Shift 1 Off-Site Backups 1 Planning Consultants 8 Rent-to-Own Contract Upgrade 2 Herman Revista (Exported from DeckWorks for Netrunner) The basic strategy is to 2-turn score Corporate Wars starting each turn with no bits: 1. Draw a card 2. Install Corp War 3. Take a bit 4. Advance CW 5. Draw a card 6. Get 2 bits (BBS, Night Shift, Dpt. Truth) 7. Advance CW 8. Advance CW The Corporate Downsizing is there in case you end up with three agendas too early. The first turn move depends on your opponent. Against an SDF-eating, PB/TTC deck, the ideal situation is to drop a piece of ice on a new SDF and then double-ice HQ with two pieces of cheap ice. This keeps them from Inside Jobbing HQ and then Worming the SDF out of existance and following with the PB/TTC lock. This deck does NOT like that combo and it's often worth leaving R&D open for a turn to prevent that from happening. The idea behind the deck is to quickly ice everything up with a mixture of both teensy-tiny and impossibly huge ice of all types, forcing the runner to gather huge sums of bits and/or use all three types of breakers. Colonel Failure is particularly peachy for this because even with the best breaker for the job, BFG, it costs 6 bits to break. And if they're using BFG as their only sentry killer, it's going to cost them 6 bits for the teeny sentries also. Herman Revista is there to combat Inside Jobs or to rearrange ice to avoid bad publicity from black ice. There's quite a bit more strategy to playing this deck but I won't bore you with it now.