inversificator kit (1st @ NANPC philly)

Pittsburgh player and TO Marcus invented this deck last year and we've been keeping it close to our chests for a while now. Imagine our surprise when we show up to Fite Club with it and face TAI in the first and second round both times with identical builds. We think it was convergent evolution.

If there's one thing that must be said about this deck, it's that rearranging the corp's ice is probably the most unfair thing you can be doing as runner right now. Surfing into the remote with only 1 breaker installed is obviously good, but what's less obvious is the pressure this creates on the corp to not ice their centrals, for fear that you'll just move their best remote ice there and then ignore it forever. This in turn makes DJ steve and your R&D multiaccess much, much better. Even when lobi kit has both breakers installed, she doesn't have that effect.

Before RWR, this used to be on Maw + Aeneas + Conduit -- the inversificator dealt with "fair" (ice-based) corp strategies, and the maw dealt with "unfair" (slow grindy asset kill) strategies, notably NEH and Thule. We also played 3 stoneship because EOTL was the main kill threat.

Then burner came out, and I was like, wow, we can get ALL of our influence back.

The main kill threats now are djupstad + reeducation, against which stoneship does close to nothing (it just makes them have sudden + planogram), and punitive, against which aniccam is sufficient, so stoneship is also out, making room for RWR's 6 ridiculous events.

My matchups this weekend were against a tuno ob, a teia, another tuno ob, MAD ob, djupstad azmari (the only loss), and the same azmari again. We debated for a while whether to play the 3rd bravado, which would have been super swag, but went with the other blue influence because we're afraid of PD. The pinhole is obvious; the boomerang is there because you are often tempoed out of actually installing your nanotk (or breaking bran, piranhas, pharos, etc). In retrospect I'm still not sure which build is better, but what I would definitely change is getting the 2nd overclock back in -- without which, my remote-busting power against azmari was noticeably worse (because trick shot eats your kit trigger).

One great example of the inversificator effect came in the azmari games, where Brandon/The King has only 5 ice in his deck that he can actually install (piranhas and tsarevna), everything else being a liability to get swapped/surfed on the remote. In the first game, he assembled exodia (as he put it) quickly enough to fork me and kill me; in the second, he didn't, costing him a free 3-point burner, then bluffed having exodia for a while, which only lasted long enough for me to thin out R&D and eventually win with cataloguer. They were both really great games of netrunner and Brandon is such a delight to play against, big shout outs to him.

In ancient netrunner history there used to be a shitty mspaint kit alt that said "first thing of ice gets cold gate." I haven't been able to find it. Anyone who still has this image will be my hero.

Corp list here.