Levy University - 12/13/2013 - Mala Tempora Data Pack

I'm sure this has already been noted elsewhere on the internet, but I see snoop directly synergizing with invasion of privacy. When I'm not running on a criminal, sometimes I don't know if the cost of invasion of privacy is worth it, now I can know if it is worth it, and how much I can try to outspend them without wasting too many credits.

Two points for a couple of the cards that you may have over looked. Unorthodox Predicitions is fantastic for the new Jinteki "1000 Needles" decks that are starting to spring up, considering they run only Sentry ICE and you essentially tell the runner, "sorry, but to get into HQ or R&D this turn you can't break my Janis or Neural Katana. Feel free to take that damage to the face."

With Interns, it's also great to be able to pull a dumped agenda out of Archives and immediately install it in a well protected remote server. A little situational, but it saves your Jackson Howard from having to scoop it into R&D. I'm a bigger fan of the Archives portion of the install on this card because of all of the potential assests you can grab, like a used up Adonis or Eve Campaign, or Off the Grid that was trashed.

You said to share if we have a use for Hudson:

I think he's fantastic. For one, a STR 5 Code Gate is tougher to break than any other ICE subtype at that strength. With a rez cost of 3, he's pretty much an even trade when rezzed, or will have his effect. So the question becomes: how do you capitalize on his subs? One part of him is defense vs. Interfaces, that's true... but his real strength is when played with Upgrades. Don't believe me? Think about these real quick (and how the situation changes for the runner once he can choose to access/trash either this card or the agenda/asset in the server, but not both):

- Red Herrings
- SanSan
- Hokusai
- Akitaro
- Ash
- Bernice Mai

the list goes on, and there's virtually no upgrade that Hudson doesn't improve

Also, a word on Isabel - I think it'd be hilarious to use her to recycle Adonises and Eves right before they run out. With Eve you get a better deal, but even Adonis is decent. Also, a bad card possibly made better by her would be Server Diagnostics.

Interns - my favorite use is to bring back an annoying piece of ICE that just got parasited (like, a Pop-Up Window maybe) without paying the "layering ICE" penalty. That's GOTTA be annoying

You said to share if we have a use for Hudson:

I think he's fantastic. For one, a STR 5 Code Gate is tougher to break than any other ICE subtype at that strength. With a rez cost of 3, he's pretty much an even trade when rezzed, or will have his effect. So the question becomes: how do you capitalize on his subs? One part of him is defense vs. Interfaces, that's true... but his real strength is when played with Upgrades. Don't believe me? Think about these real quick (and how the situation changes for the runner once he can choose to access/trash either this card or the agenda/asset in the server, but not both

Oh sweet Jackson; that's incredible

Hudson on a remote with two cards in. The subroutines have fired. You rez Red Herrings and smile.

Bonus points if you have a Snare! or Edge of World in there.

Some notes I wanted to mention (My meta's been brainstorming hard on this pack)

- Power Shutdown for 0 cards. Scheherezade, Self-Mod, and Faerie just die. Especially on Scheherezade, that's powerful. Can even mill 1 card to get rid of Mem Chips, Clone Chips, etc. It's hard power comes in small mills.

- Isabelle McGuire SHUTS DOWN Reina for a turn or two - You can trash a Caissa without trashing an ICE. Also super strong in horizontal Eve Campaign builds. Oh, and bouncing Elizabeth Mills in and out of play /may/ be an idea in the future to infinitely get rid of bad pub.

- Accelerated Beta Test (And this theory is half-way a joke).
- First Click: Power Shutdown your entire deck into Archives
- Jackson Howard 3 Biotic Labors into R&D
- Second Click: Spend a total of 13 credits to Accelerated Diagnostics to gain a net 5 clicks
- Jackson again the exact same thing
- Vitruvius an AD into your hand
- Third Click: AD to gain another 5 clicks.
- Rinse/Repeat. Pop and Drop anything.
It made me lol

- Snoop auto-wins with two counters and a Scorched Earth or Private Security Force (3 counters on that)

- Yog.0 completely negates Ireress

- Raymon Flint can Expose mid run since it's a free paid ability(VERY nice against Jinteki, seeing how they rez ICE and potentially saving your ass)

- As stated above, Hudson does have a place in a bluffing, horizontal HB, or any upgrade heavy deck

- Woman in the Red Dress MIGHT get play in Criminal - Combos really well with HQ interfaces, and is a connection (For Hostage)

- Running Interference with False Echo.... Maybe??

- City Surveillance has some ideas with a Breaking News, Advance, AstroScript Counter, and Closed Accounts. Also shuts down Underworld Contacts/Hard at Work

- Knight is VERY efficient, situationally. It breaks Hadrian's for 4 credits, opposed to 7 on Corroder. Only time it really slow down is against ICE with very high strength, using up a lot of Datasucker tokens, or against ICE with 3+ subroutines (8 to break Archer, vs 12 Femme, and 10 on Ninja)

Think those are all the sporadic notes on Mala Tempora for now >< Feel free to criticize/add/fix

I think Hudson will see a lot of play, Code gates are devided into two categories strength<3 = meh and strength>3 = YEAH!. Good R&D defense.

Edit: After the Ireress part I get the feeling the Yog meta is not as hard as in my part.