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River 27

This is the decklist that I plan on taking to my first Store Championship at the end of Febuary. Hopefully I will have refined it enough to make it even more annoying to play against, without being your typical NEH rubbish that everyone netdecks.

Basic idea behind the deck is to drag it out and make scoring as frustrating as possible for the Runner.

There are plenty of combo's that can be set up. Defensive ones are Pachinko + Data Raven with a possible Tollbooth in front if I really feel the need to Glacier up, a rarity with this deck. QPM behind a DR or hosted on a Casting Call (provided they're not running Film Critic), makes for a secure Agenda to score at my leisure. Tollbooth and Turnpike just tax the Runner if they try hitting R&D / HQ.

Econ isn't a problem and I'm considering ditching my Melange in favour of another SEA Source or All Seeing I. AS and GB are there as either traps or economy. Win / win for me either way. If they're running Drive By, I'll pre-rez after the first one.

I'm still unsure about News Team, it does slow them down, but all they need is a Data Dealer and boom, free money for the Runner.

I think you can all see what I'm trying to do here.

What are your thoughts and advice on how this deck could possibly be refined furher?

For reference, my cardpool consists of:

1 Core Set, Order and Chaos, Creation and Control, Data and Destiny. Upstalk, The Source, Chrome City, The Underway, Old Hollywood, The Universe of Tomorrow.

2 comments
16 Jan 2016 MasterPrudent

For starters I'd get rid of the scorched. As soon as people see your ID they're going to assume you're deck is 24/7 murder and plan accordingly. Of course they'll figure it out eventually but (a) many runners play unfamiliar yellow decks carefully anyway and (b) a single scorch is going to kill very, very infrequently and given that you've only got one card and one more card to tutor for it - and the second is conditional - it's not all that likely to show up when you do want it.

Your econ seems very vulnerable to me - it's mostly in operations and you have no way to get those operations back. If the game goes long - which you seem to want it to - or you get milled you could run dry. I'd consider adding a something to at least to recycle some, or some more or put in some long term assets.

Also bare in mind that there lots of ways to get around DR's on encounter ability: Femme, Inside Job, Hunting Grounds, Forger, the increasingly common New Angeles City Hall and ice destruction in general are just some. Also Casting Call does not work with Quantum Predictive model: see Lucas' ruling here: twitter.com

16 Jan 2016 esutter479

If I were you, River, I'd find a way to fit at least 2 Mushins in there...seeing as Back Channels is a big source of econ. If you don't need your Melange, then maybe -1 Scorch, -1 Melange is the way to go for +2 Mushins. If AggNeg is no longer required either at that point, then -1 AggNeg and -1 Food for +1 Market Research and +1 Mushin. Now you have Channel fodder AND bonus tag punishment, provided you're able to build a glacier to score behind.