Back into the Zone

Deck idea I had since New Normal came out. Played it on stream yesterday.

NEXT ICE + NEXT Level Clearance has a few drawbacks:

• Not drawing enough NEXT ICE
• Not getting an opportunity to rez it
• Them getting trashed and you losing access to them

Crunch Time + Foundry + AIZ circumvents these drawbacks. Shoutouts to Zailey for the Core idea of AIZ in Foundry, most likely the strongest Foundry there is which unfortunately got hit way too hard by the NLC nerf. But I think it's back.

Deck is very much a Work in Progress (as seen by 16 inf spent). Please play it, work on it and make it better. I would love there to be a Foundry with a ≥50% winrate.

General Gameplan:

• Rush 2 points behind ICE in a Remote
• Turtle*
• FA the remaining 5 points

*Mise helps turtleing with the ICE recycle to put remote ICE back on centrals. Install is free so you can build towers. Hopefully you also got the ICE refunded by AIZ on the remote. The recycle is also a Foundry trigger since it rezzes the ICE. Recycle is also a great way to save your NEXT Silver from Slow Parasites. Looking at the top 3 is also great for ABT, remember that in the foundry if there is just 1 ICE in the 2 cards you can shuffle the other card back into RnD due to Foundry triggering from the ICE rez.

Notes on this Iteration:

• Crunch Time can get Eli
• Cerev is actually goated. Tempo positive install. By this point I'm certain only ETF can actually afford to play Adonis Campaign in HB. Also for the Runner getting through an Eli just to trash Cerev costs them almost a full turn for a card you already got a credit from. Huge.
• Crunch Time can get Eli
• BLC or GLC? I have no idea. BLC is 1 credit more so it's better (?)
• Crunch Time can get Eli. This has 6 Elis. Cool for Ravana 1.0 but probably still to bad for Ravana? One can dream.
• If we don't play Ravana it's back to 3x Hudson 1.0 I think? But then you insta die to Eathole and similar Anarch stuff. Hudson and Ravana both don't help vs Siphon. Is Ravana flatout better? Am I coping?
• Crunch Time can get Eli. Actually 2 Elis because we're Foundrryyyyyyüüüargh
• Crunch Time Rush HB wants Guard over Rototurret. I'm pretty convinced of that. Facecheck is less scary if you show them the Tutor. Guard costs 1 less to rez and helps vs Inside Job
• Crunch Time can get Eli. Also back from the grave. More Parasite protection. Nice.
• This deck churns out ICE crazy fast. First time I really got to feel how Next ICE gets stronger with more rezzed copies.
• Crunch Time can get 2 Ravanas if you have the Eli already :OOO.
• I'm quite sure double NLC is correct. We want to FA a 5/3

Changes to think about:

• Maybe this wants Fast Track for the rush. Only the 3/2s that I want to score first.
• CVS is probably a must in the "final" version. Was hoping the Mise purge could replace it but poisoning Archives, getting a random Medium purge and anti-Clot tech is too much to miss out on.
• Zailey's original version had Crisium Grid. I don't know if we have slots, influence, money or even need for it. I might be very wrong about this.
• Agenda Suite is pretty much fixed. Only NAPD could be changed but imo there is nothing better. Very mayhaps there is a version with Effcom here. Also SSCG?
• Final version might like less Crunch times and/or Mise en places. That's a lot of slots right now for utility cards. I don't know. Mise felt cute but not super necessary? 1-2 Ices for Cerev are actually nice.