Keyhole Andy

This is the runner deck I've been playing throughout the stimhack league, and it's done well for me so far, good enough at least to get me into the top 8! (and to sweep several local store champs with as well.)

This list is hyper-optimized to beat NBN. The rig has very few moving parts, which frees up a bunch of slots to run a whopping 14 dedicated economy cards (17 if you count siphon). There's no special trick like scrubber to make trashing sansans easier; you just pay for it out of pocket, use mr. li to find more money, keep running, and eventually close out the game with keyhole. I've found that, as long as you're able to keep jackson off the table, keyhole is consistently able to race the astrotrain.

With the advent of Blue Sun, runners are stretched thinner than ever, needing to combat both astrobiotics and big-ice glacier. I believe Mr. Li will be a mandatory 3-of for criminals in the upcoming meta. Against NBN, he lets you set up your rig extremely quickly and then ensures you draw nothing but sure gambles into the mid- and end-game. Against Weyland he lets you find your 1-of silver bullets so you can play more of a controlling role.

The flex slots are the 1 emergency shutdown, the 1 plascrete, the 2nd copy of bank job, the 2nd lucky find, the 3rd daily casts, and maaaaaaybe the 3rd special order. I'd slot 1 parasite instead of a lucky find when I'm afraid of HB/RP glacier, and maybe also pack a security testing (but I wouldn't want those against blue sun). However, under no circumstances should you cut the 2nd corroder.

In the past I've tried PPVP, hostage, 1-of professional contacts (back during H&P when RP was big), and even logos (it was originally based on an Iain deck). But running desperados, pure money cards, and 3 mr. li is way better.

The deck is weak to eli 1.0 on R&D, double eli 1.0 on R&D, NEXT silver builds, hard ETR sentries (especially tsurugi), and power shutdown. RP glacier is a bad matchup; you have to keep them off-balance in the early game or things will slip out of control.

Playing the deck against NBN, I almost never kill their economy assets, don't kill face-down sansan unless I feel like I'm behind, and have to strategically plan ahead to ensure that jackson isn't on the board, and elis are placed elsewhere, by the time keyhole appears.

Incidentally, this deck also eats cambridge jinteki for breakfast, where a normal R&D interface build would fail. :P