[PAWNSHOP] ten years in the making (1st@First Pawnshop)

This was my Corp deck for the inaugural Pawnshop event. It went undefeated, beating GermApple (Akiko) and Nephralite (Los). My runner, Jesminder, also went undefeated so I won the tournament! Why are all of my best tournament performances during tournaments in non-standard formats....

For those of you unfamiliar with Pawnshop, it is a soon to be rotated Shaper card a format in which only the bottom 50% of cards according to Trash of Busto are legal. This takes out most of the cards you might be familiar with and leaves us with a pile of... interesting options from the history of Netrunner.

Luckily for me, I played during the FFG era and made some absolutely [censored as this is a family-friendly website] questionable decks! Like this old Because We Built It deck I built ten years ago! Wait that looks kind of similar to this deck hang on a minute have you played this kind of trash before Bee

This deck was made as an actual meta choice rather than just because I'd built it in the past, however. With the top 50% of cards gone, a lot of powerful economy options and early break tools (Tsakhia "Bankhar" Gantulga, Boomerang, Inside Job) were all off the table and runners had to break early ice. The space ice would normally be very weak to those alternative break options, but here they work as especially good end the runs. They also work well with a few of the big economy options left in the format: Commercialization and The Root.

I chose to play Weyland Consortium: Because We Built It rather than SSO Industries: Fueling Innovation because I need my hipster cred I expected games to go long. This also meant I could score agendas other than Hollywood Renovation early - I would rather get consistent advancements rather than rare burst advancements. In every game I used the ID credit on nearly every turn, excluding those where I triple-advanced an agenda. It also works as a mediocre impression of Charlotte Caçador + La Costa Grid when combined with API-S Keeper Isobel.

Space Camp is our other big advancement tech. Highlights included it giving me a free Orion through multiple Archives runs and advancing an unadvanced Geothermal Fracking so I could score it next turn. Card's funny.

There are a few cards in here which felt close to mandatory in this format. Special Report + Distract the Masses is the closest you get to Spin Doctor. Paper Trail shuts down most of the remaining economy options in the format (Tri-maf Contact, The Artist, Armitage Codebusting).

Finally, I put Aggressive Secretary in at the last minute because it's funny. It single-handedly won me a game.

Anyway, thanks to Cobalt for creating and running a format which is slightly bewildering but fun to dig into, and to my opponents for the fun games! The decks shown off at the event were very creative and I'm looking forward to seeing future decks created for the format.