Update: Tyrant.

After much huffing and puffing and google-searching, I have come to a conclusion:

There is no one deck that is typically successful on every mission in the campaign.

Rather, making faction-hate decks (anti-raider and anti-xeno, for instance) is 100% more effective.

Furthermore, purchasing packs is a good idea, and I figure saving up for the "elite" service is worthwhile.

I'm running Xeno hate, Raider hate, Imperial Mono, Bloodthirsty Rush, and Xeno muscle decks at the moment.

I've made it to mission 40ish, and have moved on to farming mission 34 (much more profitable than missions previous to 20).

Also: I've been working more with my f509 tablet, and I'm now starting to put more content up on visceralnadir. What say you?

Stuff I like: You have to burn the rope!

[ http://www.kongregate.com/games/Mazapan/you-have-to-burn-the-rope ].

Fairly straightforward. Burn the rope, win the game!

(For bonus points, listen to the credits after the game...)

Lowbrow: Sites I like.

Short and to the point:

[ http://www.newgrounds.com/ ]: probably the first big-name Flash gaming site I'd ever seen. Pretty classy, insofar as the interface is concerned. Good graphic design, good content rating system. A fair amount of regularly-generated everything. The huge quantity of free music is also a plus. The rather large quantity of shit that gets posted is typically dealt with quickly.

[ http://kongregate.com/ ]: I found this one much later than any of the others, but it seems to regularly turn out good, quality content. The community here is mostly friendly, and all of the interface is very clean-cut. The achievements and badges here are quite addictive.

[ http://armorgames.com/ ]: I got linked to this site from both newgrounds and kongregate. They're kinda like a huge development behemoth of a company, but they feel very friendly and turn out top-notch content.

Where do you play your (free) online games?