Happy-Feet Wenbo-Renbo

Despite playing Netrunner since 2015 or something - admittedly with a close to 5 year gap after the game got discontinued by FFG - NBN almost never called to me. I tend to be a shell game / Jinteki player. Sometimes a combo just calls to you though...

San-San City grid is an amazing card, but I had just never really cared for it's play pattern. Kakurenbo is a weird card, and it just isn't Mushin no Shin, so let's forget about it. Near-Earth Hub loves to go wide, and card draw is good but why would I pick it when Controlling the message actually protects my wide boardstate?

But here we are in 2025 and Stoke the Embers is some real shit. Kakurenbo doesn't have the can't score text on it like all the other suddenly an advanced thing on the board? Sign me up! And NEH just lets us get more draw to find all our many combo pieces into hand.

In the Oregon District Championships this Corp went 2-1 losing only to a turn 4-5 deep dive that happened to hit a Degree Mill in hand AND a stoke off the top of R&D before the dive to score all 7 in a single turn. Sometimes the cards be like that. The wins were a bit closer to usual with most of the setup happening over the first few turns into drawing my agendas and comboing out with Kakurenbo + Stoke the Embers into my San-San Server, triggering Arella to pop another 3/2 in there with an advancement and the stoke advancement to keep on rolling.

While getting 4 points in a single scoring window with priority preventing Clot is good, the deck is able to score 7-8 points if the runner hasn't been able to deal with your scoring server and in the perfect circumstance only needs 9 credits at the start of the turn to get it done (just enough credits to rez San-San, Arella, and powers that be). Admittedly the stars really gotta align for that. But even in slightly more drawn out games, a well timed Ping into Self-Growth Program or even the cheeky Jua can really slow runners down too much to stop you.

Runner side only went 1-2 placing us in 7th at the tournament, but this silly corp deck made me smile ear to damn ear triggering all my silly when scored abilities.