Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:09:42 -0700 Reply-To: rak@gene.COM Sender: Netrunner Discussion List From: Rob King Subject: Preying Mantis, Corporate Saboteur? I recently made a Lucidrine/Shell Traders deck, where the whole point is to put out many Shell Traders to get things out fast, and use Lucidrine to run and spend the bits taking counters off shelled things. I put in 2 Preying Mantises, because I figured with all the Militechs I had in there to maintain a working handsize, I could deal with the brain damage. 1 worked fine. I took the action only when I needed to. 2 though, evilbadbadevil. I'd take a Mantis action to Lucidrine, taking 2 brain on that action, then do it again. Ack! I vote Preying Mantis be reclassified as detrimental to one's health, subliminally addictive, and a plant for the Corp. Here's the deck: 5 Shell Traders 7 Lucidrine Booster Drug 6 R&D Interfaces 1 AI Boon 1 Cyphermaster 1 Dwarf 1 Pile Driver 1 Newsgroup Filter 5 Militech MRAM Chips 8 Bodyweight Synthetic Blood 1 JBBS 2 MIT West Tier 1 The Deck 3 Fall Guy 1 Preying Mantis 1 Arasaka Owns You (In the off chance the corp flatlines me)