Trixie Firecracker - 8th Place Brussels Regionals

The original decklist was completely self-built. After I initially put it together, @Slowriffs pointed out the similarity to @tmoiynmwg 's Credit Clicker 3000 (https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/34785/credit-clicker-3000-vegas-regional-1st-place-) and I did end up incorporating several ideas from him, so shout out to Timmy!

This deck has a lot of outs and can pull off some surprise wins. It's not a contender for Worlds or anything, but it is a heck of a lot of fun to play. The main strategy is supressing the corp's early game using Account Siphon. You can use Planned Assault to get one down and you can recur it using Déjà Vu. Together with the siphon-spam, you want to man up and face check ice, making them rez it and controlling the tempo by keeping their econ low. Once you know what the ice is you can deal with it with cutlery and Parasite.

The next thing you want to do is get Faust online and combine it with Datasucker and/or Medium. This lets you pressure any server and makes trashing ice with cutlery and Immolation Script a breeze. I'd like to take a quick second to emphasize how amazing Immolation Script is. I think I used it in every game and it's simply brutal. I wish I had more deckslots for more of them. Anyway. Considering you're constantly siphoning and trashing their ice, cards tend to pile up in HQ and this allows Vigil to fire quite often. e3 Feedback Implants is in the deck to help with glacier-style decks and is especially effective against HB decks. You can go full tag-me with this deck considering the only resources in the deck are 3x DDoS, which you play out of hand anyway. Economy is pretty light (3x Day Job, 3x Sure Gamble and the odd Inject credit or two), so you'll often be forced to click for credits.

Problems that you may encounter are Swordsman if you can't find your Mimic fast enough or Turing. On a central server you can Parasite it, on a remote you'll have to use Femme Fatale to get through it. A neat trick you can do is pumping Faust at the end of the corp's turn to trash Femme from hand, and then next turn install it for 3 instead of 9 using Retrieval Run. Femme is also very useful for things like Tollbooth. Retrieval Run also recurs your singleton D4v1d. The other card that is an absolute nightmare for this deck is Closed Accounts, considering you're generally going to let the tags stick. There's no way to deal with it except click back up.

Quetzal: Free Spirit is a bit of a fringe ID, but I've been playing her since I started Netrunner and I absolutely love her. I'm very proud to have made the cut playing her. I suppose she'll always be sort of a meta call, but the abundance of NBN fast advance decks makes her quite effective against things like Wraparound, Wall of Static, Vanilla, Resistor, Eli, etc. Especially with 2x Knifed in the deck.

Changes I have made since the Brussels Regional:

-3 Day Job, +3 Queen's Gambit

Passing an entire turn is a pain and a huge tempo hit. So yeah.

-1 e3 Feedback Implants, +1 Legwork

This can go either way, depending on what's being played. If your meta plays a lot of ETF or Blue Sun, stick with the e3. I never used it once on the day, and found myself wanting for multi-access on HQ.

-2 Making an Entrance, +1 Inject

I know Timmy is a huge proponent of MAA, but it's just not for me. I prefer the speed of Inject and didn't find myself getting a huge bonus out of it. But then, maybe I'm just bad. And that also puts the deck at 45 cards. If I were to put a 46th card, it would be an additional Immolation Script or D4v1d.

So how did it do on the day? I ended up going 3-1 in swiss, and together with my corp (standard NEH fast advance) it netted me 6th place before the cut out of 22 players.

Round 1: WIN vs NEH fast advance

Round 2: LOSS vs NEH fast advance

Round 3: WIN vs NEH fast advance

Round 4: WIN vs EOI Sync

After the cut I lost to a very skilled player piloting a (yet again) NEH fast advance deck. But that was partly my own fault as the in the euphoria of making the cut for the first time ever I'd had a few beers and my focus wasn't what it should have been.