Michael Miliken Memorial
 
Programs
1 x AI Boon
1 x Cyfermaster
1 x Piledriver
1 x Microtech AI Interface
1 x R&D Protocol Files
1 x Emergency Self Construct

Preps
11 x Bodyweight Synthetic Blood
8 x misc. for sale
3 x MIT West Tier
2 x Mantis Fixer At Large

Resources
3 x Quest for Cattekin
18 x Loan From Chiba

Hardware
4 x Militech MRAM Chip
1 x Bodyweight Data Creche
1 x Wutech Mem Chip


For those of you not familiar with recent U.S. financial history, Michael Miliken was a junk bond trader who, together with Ivan Boesky, was arrested for insider trading some 10 years ago. As this deck depends on leveraging yourself to the gills with bad debt (Loan From Chiba) and then re-selling it (misc. for sale) before the debt comes due (which, roughly speaking, is what dealing in junk bonds is), it seemed fitting to name the deck after him. The idea here is to install 3 Loan From Chiba (LFC) and then trash them with misc.for sale (mfs) on your last action. At the beginning of the game, this is slightly better than Newsgoup Filter. However, once you are able to gain extra actions with Quest for Cattekin (QFC), you will be able to make your bits per turn (turn being defined here as 4 actions) skyrocket. With 4 LFC you can make 20 bits by Trashing them on your 5th action. Subtract 2 bits for the Bodyweight Synthetic Blood, plus 1 for drawing it and that is still 17 bits per turn, which is over 4 bits per action. I have had games with 10 actions per turn and normally average 7. Yes, QFC hurts you sometimes, but it also seems to be one of those resources the Corp never bothers to Trash, perhaps for that very reason. If you pull a Program, try to install it before you install any QFCs. If that isn't possible, fill up you hand as much as you can just in case you *do* take damage from the QFC. Once you have things installed, you can start pillaging R&D with the R&D Protocol Files and Microtech AI Interface. A tip here is to use you Bodyweight Data Creche action for the Microtech AI Interface run. This deck tends to be very good or very bad. Obviously, Psycho Tyco and other speed Corps may well be able to out quick this deck to the finish line, it depends on your QFCs. However, slower decks which require the Runner to have a lot of bits usually don't fare too well against this.