From:	Tony Rabiola <rabiola@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: Introduction and stuff
Date:	Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:50:56 -0500

>On to Shadowrun.
>This game has taken Amsterdam by STORM!
>After two days it was sold out, and in the local gameshop everyone
plays
>Shadowrun.
>I hope this isn't just a fad, and from what I've seen this game is
here to
>stay.
>Everyone likes the game, I haven't seen this kind of excitement since
Magic.
>To be honest, being a retired MTG-er myself, I have some of the same
>feelings I had back in 94, and I've seen the same in other long-time
retired
>MTG-ers.
>

Nice to hear it is doing well over there. I know cards are selling
well here, stores are having trouble keeping them in stock locally.

>
>Has anybody found any real effective strategies yet?
>I myself play Rigger/Big Mean Guys, and that works very well indeed.
>Does anyone have any suggestions for my second deck, which would
>be a Decker-oriented deck?
>

I haven't had a chance to playtest a Decker deck (???), but my gut
feeling is that it would be a bit weak for some Challenges/Objectives.


I have tried an Elven deck and found that it was too hard to gear up
for all the different Runner types, and that Elves in general were on
the weak side for a Shadowrun.

My Mage deck works fairly well, and a St. Sam deck is able to just
bulldoze through things fairly well. I am assembling an Ork and a
Troll deck to see how they play, and with Locations they should be
workable; same goes for Dwarven or Human.

I'm looking forward to the next expansion for more Gang and Criminal
cards to try those.

Argent