Canonical Scottish R+ (10-2 & 6th @ UK Nats 24)

JonnyDL 15

This list is heavily cribbed from https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/f6c4f91a-2f9d-4f57-8539-ca7031131b47/exposition-universelle-1st-undefeated-fly-to-emea-2 . I actually ended up playing this list against davz131 in the cut without realising it was his list I'd brazenly stolen.

Degree Mill is obviously worse than Bellona, but the deck still works like a charm.

The ice took the brunt of the changes.

10 Ice feels much better than 9, so an asset had to be cut.

Mestnichestvo is too expensive to rez early, and not taxing enough late. Enigma is a great cheap gearcheck early. Starlit Knight is one of your win conditions if the runner goes tagme, so we take another.

Funhouse combos very well with B1001 - it can either go on a central to stuff Deep Dive, or a very difficult remote to break in to.

Phoneutria was suggested to me as a joke on thursday night by MikeP. Incredibly ChrisFerg had brought a playset with him, so I put one in as a sort of funhouse with a facecheck. It worked really well.

This decks plays very aggressively - your first ice should nearly always be on a remote. You want to protect some combination of

  • Rashida
  • ARES
  • Holo Man
  • Lady Liberty

depending on point in the game.

Warm Reception is excellent. Derez Spin Doctor to net 2 cards for 1 credit. Derez Marilyn to keep it ticking longer. Derez anything to give you more Working prototype triggers. Derez ping to turn the facecheck back on. Derez lady liberty to score a 3 pointer the turn after you've just scored a 3 pointer.

Just watch out that the install part of Warm Reception is a bit of a nonbo with The Holo Man if you're planning to score that turn.

The deck did very well at the weekend, going 4-0 in the team event, 3-2 in the swiss and 3-0 in the cut. I had some bad luck in the games I lost, but I was pretty fortunate in some of the games I won, so I'll call it even.

Thanks for an excellent weekend to everyone I met & played. Looking forward to playing R+ again next year.

1 comments
20 Nov 2024 davz131

Congrats on the finish! I did think the deck looked kind of familiar... Love seeing this version do well in general, very sad about the lack of Self-Growth though