SHTR’s NEVER BEEN MORE FULL! (1st @APAC Districts, 5-0)

It's wet because blood, Margo, so much blood.

Here we go again, third time's a charm. This is the final form of my PE from Canadian Nationals and is the exact same list as its 4-0 performance at the recent Americas CBI.

This deck went undefeated in the online APAC Districts on March 28-29th, with a 5-0 record. It's easily in the Top 3 most successful corp decks of my Netrunner career, right up there with my 2021 Worlds CTM and 2020 Worlds Titan, with a 74-11 Jnet record (87% winrate), plus many in-person games with similar results.

All wins this tournament (and last) were by flatline:

Round 1 - Tao - Turn 4 - Seamless advance, Fuji score into Neurospike kill.

Round 3 - Hoshiko - Turn 4 - Gaslight into Punitive kill after a Fuji steal.

Round 5 - Sable - Turn 8 - Reaper Function, score Blood in the Water, Neurospike kill.

Cut Round 1 (on stream) - Hoshiko - Turn 9 - Punitive Counterstrike, Blood in the Water install/kill.

Cut Round 3 (Finals on stream) - Tao - Turn 6 - See How They Run score, Neurospike, Blood in the Water install/kill.

See previously published versions above for kill line descriptions and tips for playing the deck, but the TL;DR is that you can do murder in a proliferation of ways (I've only scored out with this list like three times, all other wins by flatline) by forking the runner into categorical double-binds. Reaper Function is your best friend, along with the gang of End of the Line/SHTR, Fuji/Neurospike, good old Snare!, Anemone, Punitive Counterstrike, and as happened twice in the cut, Blood in the Water, the ultimate MVP. Seamless, La Costa, and Gaslight can often help you to surprise the runner with an unforeseeable kill.

I had to make the opening gif fit the running Christmas Vacation theme of my previous two iterations of the deck, but here's another more succinct representation of the list, from my favorite entertainer of all-time:

I don't think there are any other major tournaments for me before PE's rotation next month, so it was thrilling to take a big event with this beloved/behated pet deck I've been working on all year. :)

I'd like to thank Kror and the other APAC tournament organizers for putting on a butter-smooth tournament yesterday, and the steamers/commentators for their service. Thanks to each of my lovely opponents, great players and folks all!

My runner deck from event is here.