Breaker Bay has been an incredible pack for Shapers, opening up a new identity and a couple of new build around me options that have been getting a lot of attention. I’ve been messing around a lot with the two new locations Shapers received in the pack- Tyson Observatory and London Library.

Tyson Observatory is a really fascinating card to work with. It’s extremely powerful, cheap and recurring tutoring that has all the hidden power of magnum opus in that you’re not needing to draw to keep it going. If you want to go all in it also lets you dig for a Replicator which further accelerates hardware you have multiples of like Clone Chips, LLDS processors or Lockpicks. Still, I feel where it really shines is letting you play a hardware toolbox, saving influence on consoles and synergy central hardware like E3 Feedback Implants or Autoscripter which, funnily enough, are both fantastic with the other location from the pack.

London Library is a wonderful tool for decks that are already running Test Run and Scavenge. It makes both cards significantly stronger, allowing you to Test Run a Femme Fatale and then let it go back to your deck rather than demanding you have a Scavenge ready to get good value. it turns scavenge into essentially an ‘install any program for free’ card. In return both Test Run and Scavenge also allow you to commit something to the library without bringing it back in a pinch and then retrieve it later. All the while being awesome with limited use programs like Overmind and D4v1d. As mentioned, both autoscripter and E3 feedback implants are great with these two in particular.

With this in mind I set out trying to build a deck using both of these, I tried both Kate and Exile with Overmind/D4vid centric builds before settling on Kit. Of all the shapers Kit works best with Magnum Opus thanks to her one-program rig, and there are just so many angles through which you can get your opus running efficiently here. test run scavenge, hard install, modded install, library scavenge. All of these cards are also really good with your other tools, which means pretty much your whole deck is filled with playmaking power.







Identity: Shaper: Rielle “Kit” Peddler: Transhuman

Cards: 45 / 45

Influence: 10 / 10

Event (16)

3x Diesel

1x Escher

3x Modded

3x Scavenge

3x Test Run

3x The Maker’s Eye

Hardware (11)

1x Autoscripter ●●●

1x Box-E ●

3x Clone Chip

1x HQ Interface ●●

1x Lemuria Codecracker ●

3x Lockpick

1x Plascrete Carapace

Program (8)

1x Crescentus ●

2x Femme Fatale ●●

3x Magnum Opus

1x Omega

1x Torch

Resource (10)

2x London Library

3x Same Old Thing

2x Symmetrical Visage

3x Tyson Observatory

Decklist Courtesy of Little Chiba

This is a deck with two distinct phases. It has the traditional kit aggressive phase, albeit slightly slower since you need to first establish your Magnum Opus and then get your Torch out, which is probably going to take a turn or so longer than Kit builds based around a smaller breaker. You can then use Femme Fatale to aggressively bypass two deep servers and continue to get value from Kit’s ID each turn. It’s not going to be big value, but it’ll be enough to keep the corp’s credits low.

As the board begins to clog up a bit, you can lay down a Tyson Observatory and bring your lategame plan online. Dig out your BOX-E (or if you want to get really clever, drop a Femme Fatale and bring Turntable to really bring the bounce), Autoscripter, HQ interface and more. If your opponent is icing deep you can bring an Omega to the party to force them to install even more. Crescentus can be summoned by a spare test run and then recurred with Clone Chips to tax the corp for setting up robust defenses and finally Escher can completely blank a scoring server by stacking all the opponent’s code gates on it. The result is a quite powerfully controlling late game that isn’t just about getting in but can heavily punish a corp for bad decisions in their defensive choices while really demanding that they make them. Between Test Run, London Library and Scavenge, you should be able to keep your Femmes bouncing around to wherever they are needed!

Lemuria Codecracker is there to let you put on more HQ pressure, mapping out servers against conventional opponents and shutting down Cambridge Jinteki or other similar bluff-centric styles. It’s a great little tool in Kit that lets her get way more value out of her single run per turn than she would normally for a measly 1 influence.

While Magnum Opus is the core economy of the deck, Lockpicks and Modded both synergize well, giving their benefits in a way that doesn’t interfere with clicking for credits. While there aren’t a whole heap of targets for Modded in the deck (beyond the obvious and completely absurd first turn modded-opus), Tyson Observatory can summon a suitable one up on demand, so modded is unlikely to get stuck in your hand as it sometimes does. Lockpicks meanwhile are pretty much a credit that keeps on giving. They can also be pulled out of your deck with an early Tyson observatory and add up for massive savings over the course of the game if you think it’s going to go long (against Replicating Perfection or Blue Sun for example). Symmetrical Visage lets you get a bit more out of drawing steadily and Diesel is a no-brainer for a deck that wants to see a bunch of cards quickly in the first few turns and save as many clicks for using Opus as possible.

Hope you have fun with it, get those breakers bouncing!