We Live in Pathetic Temporal Urgency

When i saw tzeentch rocking this deck at worlds I fell in love immediately. I have not been playing competetive Netrunner since Bergamo (unless grinding identity crisis counts) and so felt kind of awash and overwhelmed. But the expressiveness of Asa and this deck just stuck with me.

In testing i always felt the need to have a second PtB just because of the aggressive lines it allows us to take. An offhand comment by Baa about Gaslight gave me an idea and here we are.

The deck gave me only two wins on the day, part of it was weird draws (hello how would you like drawing 10 Assets in a row? Not so much? What about just ice?) Anyway, I got one really messed up turn 6-ish win against MotionBlur, where i used PtB to just chain all my scores while he was busy tending his wounds from hardcasting a Lobisomem and trashing all my MCA from RD.

Feeling really defeated on the day, I only went on stream because I didn't want to let down Baa, who was seemingly struggling to find interesting matchups; and I really didn't: This deck had a perfect game, highroll into highroll, good econ and just purrrrrrrring along. I knew I'd have the game, when Bart trashed my Cohort - having just accessed the Active Policing.

It's wild: When this deck wins, there's so many lines it's unlikely the runner can neutralise all of the threats unless they nuke the agenda. Which we sometimes can keep them from doing by a simple trick called click MCA, trash MCA rezzing another MCA, click other MCA, Active Policing the agenda. Kids, always overdvance your Vitruvius to the absolute max

Looking on this list now, I think it lacks some consistent econ tools and the easiest swap is -1 Tatu, -1 Tranq Grid, +1 Cohort, +1 Ablative.
I know it is swapping one piece of econ for another, but we cannot fire Tranq Grid as consistently as others as we're trying to set up a board of consistent permanent assets, so the 2nd Cohort means we find it more consistently and it fixes bad starts. It's also just very useful to discard Ikawahs as the runners aren't likely to constest archives before the first score and we usually have an installed SpinDr.

I will continue playing this deck for a while as it's just a very enjoable archetype. Thank you Logic Bomb <3

This weekend was just so amazing, I shed some tears on the bus to Heathrow. Thanks to all the lovely people who made it possible. Thanks to all the lovely opponents I had over the weekend - I cherish these games! I cherish this community.

You're gonna carry that weight.