Fore! - Toronto HT Regionals 2014 (3rd Place) Corp

HB trap deck that helped take me to 3rd place at our recent regionals. It was surprisingly effective at flatlining people as it catches people off guard. It plays like a cross between redcoats and a jinteki deck, with the major advantage that your opponents don't know at first that they are playing against a jinteki deck.

41 Person Tournament, Winner's report on bgg

Record in Swiss: 4-2

• 2 scorch kills
  • 1 from last click snare
  • 1 from siphon tags after a glory run turn into a cerebral overwriter.
• 1 edge of world flatline

Record in Elims: 2-1

• 1 scorch kill off siphon tags
• 1 snare in a remote flatline

I play this deck slow and steady, especially against criminal, build up reasonable central defence, hopefully get some asset Econ going, then build an annoying but not impenetrable remote. Once all of that is in place you can start cycling through traps, assets, agendas in that remote. If you get to that point it can become quite taxing and/or impossible for the runner to check everything in your remote and if they do check everything they probably take some damage and maybe end up tagged at some point.

The Adonis and Eve campaigns can be played in the open, but only get rezzed when the runner can't immediately trash them, or if they are trashing everything then you have to give them some defence. An early Gila's Hands is amazing, if you slip one through early you are set, it's way better than scoring one of the 3 for 2 agendas.

Most of the time you play things never advance style, which is why the 3-2 agendas instead of the sentinel defence agenda, however if you install advance advance it could either be the Wotan or a cerebral so sometimes you can push the runner into making a match point situation if you already have 4 points.

The ice performed pretty well, its a mix of etr and taxing, but I think it could probably be improved. I avoided any illicit ice, because in a long game the bad publicity can be killer. Also, the ice is quite vanilla, so as not to tip the runner off that something other than a taxing hb build is going on.

The deck is actually a revisit to an old deck I made to use Isabel McGuire when she was released, and last minute I decided to play a revised version since I thought it would catch people out. Unfortunately for Izzy, she isn't very good so she got cut and replaced with archived memories. This supported the other major difference from that list, which was replacing a ronin with a scorched earth, so now I could potentially double scorch. Dropping ronin for scorch seemed to be a really good idea as the deck went from ok, to actually being dangerous. The idea actually wasn't to build an hb scorch deck, I was just annoyed by people indiscriminately going tag me against HB and found closed accounts wasn't quite cutting it as tag punishment, since I only get 1 or 2 of them and they can have 6 or more siphons.

Not sure how well it will work if people know what you are up to, but as a change-up pitch it can definitely catch people out.