Nobody Beats The Wiz (Eudemonia SC 1st, 21 Players, NoFaust)

Murphy 1416

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Being The Master Gamer

I have been playing a version of this deck since June of 2015. It started as Noise and evolved into Whizzard after Worlds.

Let's get this out of the way: Whizzard is good right now. Real good.

Faust/Wyldside/Chronotype are also very, very good. This deck does not run those cards. And I am not just being stubborn.

The response to Faust in my meta has been strong. A lot of the usual counters exist but some interesting developments have taken place such as 2 Ice IG decks and Medtech Rush. These decks are very successful right now.

Cards (put cards in your deck, they are good)

Much of the deck is pretty straight forward so I will focus on a few interesting things here.

Clot is VERY important right now. Glacier builds are hurting right now vs Faust which makes NBN strong. There is certainly less play than you have in Shaper with SMC but Street Peddler helps A LOT here. It is a constant threat to a FA player and I often have a way to go get it (Peddler->Clone Chip->Clot or Peddler->Peddler->Clot).

Street Peddler is nuts. I would love to play more events but I just can't give it up. Like with Clot, they have to wonder if you have a D4v1d hanging out on the Peddler before they rez Little Engine.

Atman is a big player here. It isn't super easy to find but you can build up to big plays with the strong econ this deck has and Atman. Most of these plays involve a remote server or Medium.

The Baby has been in every runner deck I have played since it was released. I REALLY like a diverse, smooth economy in my decks. I have The Baby for slow drip, Daily Casts, Kati Jones, and Sure Gamble for mid level econ, and then Liberated Account for when my econ is built up enough. This package really works for my play style and the Corps I am facing.

Surge was Plascrete Carapace until the night before the tournament. Mostly due to Wyldside draw, I just wasn't seeing kill decks in the cut at recent Store Championships. This was a great call. Surge killed a Data Raven in Swiss and got me a turn 1 score after Medium->Run->Surge->Run. I'm not sure this slot wouldn't be better as something else (especially with Street Peddler making me want to lower my Event density) but it did the job.

Simplicity

Overall this is a very moderate deck. Nothing too exciting or flashy. Just the kind of deck I love playing. It is very fluid and has no real weaknesses. It also won't win games for you. It is a dumb tool box.

Over 3 Store Championships with this deck, I went undefeated in Swiss and lost 2 games in the cut. You don't need Faust. Faust is a fad.

15 comments
7 Mar 2016 gammanet

so, code gates, do people in youre meta just not like em? I realize big codes fold to d4v1d, and tiny code gates to parasite, but str 3 and 4s seem problematic, which while atman can deal with one of em, IQ, Viktors, and enigma seem like sometime you will spend a fair amount of time waiting to die. esspecially IQ.

then again the meta is yellow, where codegates are all 5+str or quandry/enigma.

8 Mar 2016 phette23

Surge! Nice. Congrats on the win, Brian.

8 Mar 2016 Murphy

Code gates can be annoying but only for a turn or two.

There is a hypothetical deck out there running a lot of code gates but in practice I haven't seen it. I was building for the cut where worst case is Enigma. Code gates are too expensive to actually break.

I haven't ran a decoder for almost a year. It just isn't a big problem right with all the other tools.

8 Mar 2016 Murphy

Thanks Eric. I got Surge from Cortez. He was playing 2 or 3 at another SC. Lots of potential with that card.

9 Mar 2016 ctz

CTZ_SURGE

9 Mar 2016 Murphy

@thesenorcortez Turn 1 Surge is OP FFG plz add to MWL but only on turn 1 thx.

9 Mar 2016 Sotomatic

This deck appears to straight up fold to Lotus Field.

9 Mar 2016 Sotomatic

If your Atman gets Trashed.

9 Mar 2016 ctz

And the two clone chips are gone.

10 Mar 2016 Murphy

I am prepared to admit this deck folds to Lotus Field assuming my Atman gets trashed, my two Clone Chips get taken out by net damage, and they rez Lotus Field on HQ, R&D and the remote.

11 Mar 2016 nobo

This deck appears to be unplayable

11 Mar 2016 nobo

Oh wait I missed something, it's fine

11 Mar 2016 Murphy

@Nobo715 Easy mistake to make. It is jarring to not see Faust in a runner list but luckily Lukas made a few breakers that use credits for us Johnny players.

15 Mar 2016 Echo_Chaser

@MurphyEver consider adding in some Gene Conditioning Shoppe? I've ran them in a few decks with Symmetrical Visage and it's pretty awesome.

16 Mar 2016 Murphy

@Echo_Chaser I had not. Interesting.

I can see the benefit but I don't think it is the right fit for me mostly because of the order dependence, setup time, and I tend to only want to draw 1 card a turn ideally.

In any case, I had forgotten Symmetrical Visage was a Genetics card, haha. Thanks for the idea!