1st Place Quinns' Tourney - Treacle Cutter

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trustworthym 1382

What I like most about this deck is how much it doesn't crap a damn about Replicating Perfection.

RP is the deck we love to hate right now. It's incredibly strong and running on anything feels like wading through treacle. Ice like Komainu & Tsurugi are damn expensive to break for even super efficient ice breakers, so they're perfect to put on centrals. Runners despair at paying 4+ credits just for a shot at running your Sundew, and if you've got Encryption or Enhanced Login protocols then everything suddenly becomes just gross as heck.

This deck slices clean through all that garbage with ridiculously efficient runs. Tsurugi is two recurring credits, and you've got 9 sources of them in the deck. I regularly found myself using Switchblade to break Pup for free and when you're set up to do that then there ain't much can hurt you. Of course, if they really stack ice deep enough, you might be in trouble - but considering you're likely to have 2 cloaks, 3 silencers and a Ghost Runner or two on the table by that point, there's not much as can stop you getting into that remote when you need to.

The Rex is largely because I lose two Refractors to Power Shutdown in a casual game, so it's a useful backup. Mimic is largely a spare and I could probably cut it, but I can see it being useful it someone is stacking Architects. I usually mulligan for parts of my econ combo (Desperado, Security Testing, Masanori), because if you can consistently get three credits and a card for one click - more with Dirty Laundry! - it's almost impossible to slow you down.

If you're playing against Blue Sun or something scorchy, make sure you're fully set up with your econ engine before you start making runs - I know it feels awful, but it is actually possible to not run as a Criminal. It's scary to know they can pull back ice to mess with your scorch maths, but if you can get them to rez enough of it, they'll still be poor. Don't be afraid to go broke trashing an OAI Curtain Wall, but if you do, jack out before accessing - don't give them to SEA Source setup.

This is important: if someone rezzes an Archer, do remember to apologise after breaking it for free. That is hecked up as hell, friend, and you ought to feel bad for doing it.

Netrunner is good as heck in 2015, friends!

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21 Feb 2015 sruman

Thanks for posting the deck. There doesn't seem to be any type of R&D pressure, did you miss it during any of the games or is pressuring the remotes and forcing things to jam up in HQ enough?

22 Feb 2015 trustworthym

@sruman It's definitely conspicuous by its absence, and the deck suffers a little for it. That said, the ability to consistently see one card off R&D and 2-4 cards in HQ gives you enough pressure to keep them on the backfoot, especially with enough siphons to keep them out of Biotic / SanSan / other sneaky BS range. Sometimes the siphons are a dead draw, but they're a pretty workable delaying tactic against FA in the early game, which is sometimes all you need to get HQ full of agendas.

I will say I didn't play against any NEH on the day - it was a more casual tournament for the O&C release, y'know - so I'm not sure how it'd fare against that type of thing. From testing on Octgn against NEH, I think it's a fair match, which is saying something - this deck is Powerfully Hateful to a lot of regular decks, so for it to be a pretty close matchup is no joke.

I'd love to put some R&D pressure in, but the only influence I can really drop is Mimic and there's not much to trade it for, so yeah.