Surprise! It's a KeyhoLeela!

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This is the Leela deck I made and played with today. It had some pretty reasonable success against both Blue Sun and NEH, but fell kinda short against a classic EtF glacier. The goal is really to set up relatively quickly, make selective runs, and take advantage of a Corp's scoring to generate your own scoring window.

In a perfect world the Corp will score while you have Logos and they have one unrezzed ice over R&D, and you get to search for Keyhole and use it 2-3x on your next turn. If not a free shot at R&D, at least make it cheap ICE! Emergency Shutdown and Crescentus attempt to help keep the ICE that you need down stay down. Otherwise it's a pretty vanilla Crim deck.

Bank Job was popular at Worlds and works incredibly well against a number of decks. I use HQ Interface here instead of Legwork because I feel as though this deck relies more on run events to get in. If a server has 2 unrezzed ICE then you can bounce one and Inside Job into the other, which doesn't leave room for Legwork. It also works with Sneakdoor. Gordian and Corroder are just fantastic all-around breakers for making the selective runs you need. Because you're able to tutor out everything you need and shuffle your deck with Special Order and Logos, Mr. Li is tremendous in letting you draw your important events while leaving tutorable cards in the deck.

Overall I found that I wasn't using Crescentus terribly much. It's nice, but I was thinking about taking it out for something else. Maybe some more money? I might use it more if I find a way to get Autoscripter into the deck. Stimhack is also very, very nice when you need it (also goes well with Crescentus!), but I was considering replacing that, too, with either Hades or Utopia Shard. I'd love to hear thoughts?

I think the influence is spent just about perfectly in this deck. The rest is whittling down the Crim structure around it. I made a change while playing it (-2 Kati Jones, -2 Mr. Li, +3 Hostage, +1 The Supplier). The Supplier is nice, but I don't think there's enough here to justify him. I think that setup would be more compelling if I was ever able to work in Autoscripter for this deck, which would be nice when getting a program at the end of the Corp's turn with Logos. Maybe -2 Bank Job, -1 Account Siphon, +3 Autoscripter, with the above changes included?

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