Rio Reiser * Operations o 3x Edgerunner, Inc., Temp o 3x Day Shift o 1x Off-site Backups * Upgrades o 4x Dr. Dreff o 3x Rio de Janeiro City Grid o 4x Olivia Salazar o 1x Chesters Mix o 1x Jenny Jett o 1x Obfuscated Fortress * Nodes o 4x Siren * Agenda o 2x Tycho Extensions o 2x Corporate War o 1x Marine Arcology o 2x Viral Breeding Ground * Ice o 1x Coyote o 4x Misleading Access Menus o 2x Snowbank o 1x Washed-Up Solo Construct o 3x Quandary o 1x Roadblock o 1x Vacuum Link o 1x Fatal Attractor o 2x Haunting Inquisition o 1x Wall of Ice o 2x Colonel Failure Deck of the Week by Felix Borchers Overview How to build a efficient Rio Deck? This way! We only build one subsidiary data fort where a Siren will be installed later and of course a Rio de Janeiro City Grid. If we take (mainly) Misleading Access Menus or Snowbanks we only have to pay for installing them. as you will see, only Rio will be a real "stopper" for the Runner, so many of the Ices have to be outside of this one data fort. Nasty effects and cards As above mentioned I use Snowbank and other payback Ices to get as many bits as possible. I install Olivia Salazar to rez a Ice at the half rezzing cost, which means just zero, and derez it at the end of the run. So every time you use this ability with a payback Ice you gain [3]. Amazing, isn't it? Now some words about the "1 on a six-sided dice" players. That happens, even if there are more than 5 Ices installed on this data fort. If the runner comes through all Ices outside, he has to encounter a really big Ice provided by Dr. Dreff. I use the really nasty Ices, like Colonal Failure, Wall of Ice or Hauting Inquisition. Sometimes even a simple "End the run" Ice will do. How to play This deck is not easy to play. You have been warned. With more than 50 games against different players I now know how to play this deck against various themes and players :). Phase 1 is the most difficult playing phase. You have only [5] and not many "End the run" Ices. Now it's on you to decide how fast you have to build THE ONE Siren/ Rio fort. You can install a Ice on HQ and one on R&D just to keep the runner away in the beginning (If you are lucky these are Quandarys). Be careful not to waste your Ices. If the runner knows your deck, you also can install Dr. Dreff without a Ice to protect your central data forts. If he runs anyway you let him run into a Haunting Inquisition. Try your various openings out to get your feeling for this deck. Another opening is to draw cards with or without Day Shift and install a three card subsidiary data fort in the last action. Your decision should depend on your asessment of the runner. If he know you play with Dr. Dreff he proably will not run without any breakers. Or if he runs on a datafort with Olivia Salazar and Snowbank you will get money, twice if he runs the second time! If you have an Siren, install it only if you have enough bits. That means ONLY 1 bit have to left in your bit pool, if you have Olivia Salazar and a payback Ice installed. So if the runner is misdirected rez the payback Ice with Olivia Salazar and get [3]... Don't make the mistake to rez a "End the run" Ice as the first Ice on the datafort. The runner will run again and you can, if you like, pay [1] again. Yes, thats a loop the runner will win!! End phase If the runner does not use a Clown deck, you have a very high chance to win if your datafort has many Ices. Now install Agendas in a new subsidary datafort (hope there is no Precision Bribery on the table) and score them. Only redirect the nasty runner to your Rio/ Siren fort. Physiological effects of this deck Don't play it to often. It demoralize the runner. He runs and the corp gaining bits for this ("That's not fair"). And the runner can have as many bits he want, there is no way out if the corp rolles a 1 with Rio. Another demoralize effect is Dr. Dreff. The runner which knows you are playing with Dr. Dreff (not everyone ) fear the run into a big nasty Ice. If something went wrong ... You also can install Agendas in the beginning of the game in your "Rio/ Siren" fort (without the Siren of course). If the runner is not willing to run on this fort and you have no Siren ... (It's a funny method of playing, if the runner build and build and you are scoring an Agenda in your "Rio/ Siren" fort. The runner would say: "Hey I thought this was an upgrade."). The Clown deck problem: You have to build up a really larg datafort to make the chance of rolling a 1 higher. This time only the Rio de Janeiro City Grid may help you. Or install a Viral Beeding Ground in the right time and hope the runner plays with deamons. Let him liberate your once or twice advanced Viral Breeding Ground to see his face... (let him take Joan of Arc in his hand and hope he has no more of this nasty card installed, then let him take the "first" deamon to his hand; and all programms inside this deamons will be trashed!). Of course this only works if the runner runs on this Agenda. If not score it and win !! The cards in particular Off-Side Any essential card which was trashed. Even Backup: Agendas in the Archives... (This is a very important card) Jenny Jett: If the runner comes through all Ices, install another Ice to roll again with Rio. With Dr. Dreff you don't install a Ice and so you cannot roll a die. Edgerunner: Just to install the Rio and/ or some Ices and/ or upgrades at the same time Day Shift: Get the upgrades and Ices fast. Haunting An strengh six Ice with an cool subroutine. To Iquisition: use with Dr. Dreff. Vacuum Link: Funny card. Let the runner goes back and you roll a die more often... Fatal (Very) Nasty. Install it outside a Snowbank and Attractor: the runner have to break the Fatal subroutine or the Snowbank subroutine, if he is not willing to take damage. Useful at the beginning of the game. Obfuscated In the endgame the finisher. The runner will Fortress: probably want to be sure that he can deal with Dr. Dreff's Ice. And if Rio... Agendas: The Agendas are choosen by "best fit" with less agendas. You may change the Agendas if you find an equaly number of cards with over 20 agendapoints. Countermeasurement Restrictive Netzoning on the subsidiary. But not to early!! Wilson, the Weeflerunner to make many runs at the beginning. No more against this deck. Not from me, try it yourself... Two words; the cards are very balanced in this deck. It takes a lot of games to make the deck running. That's why the removal of even one card can destroy this deck. This deck contains 50 cards. This is very important for a long game. With 45 cards you get timeproblems to score the Agendas. 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