Game Depot Store Championships Top 8

This is the corp deck that I took to my local store championships, it made top 8 out of the 32 participants. This is pretty much just a NEARPAD variant with a couple of changes because of my local meta / card preference.

1. Hostile Infrastructure - This card was an MVP, and I won every game that it hit the table (3: 2 MaxX and 1 Quetzal ). The reasoning for 2 HI over 3 encryption protocol and 1 Eli 1.0 was that I really wanted a hard counter to keyhole, wanton destruction, and to a lesser extent Imp. This worked excellently and made the runner less likely to trash assets than encryption protocol did in my testing.

2. 3x Data Raven- This card was stupid good all tournament and I still don't know why Toomin had only 1, I know that once the runner starts to float tags, it can be ignored, but early game the runner will avoid the server(s) that it is protecting like the plague until they find a plascrete. And due to 1x of both psychographics and closed accounts you can gain huge momentum against the runner and potentially win if they give up on tag removal.

3. Barrier Choices - Yeah, no. Even I know that wraparound should be here, but the fear and loathing data pack that I ordered didn't arrive in time for the tournament, so I just made due with what I had. One thing that I really found surprising was that the taxing from wall of static and bastion proved surprisingly helpful. Still, Eater is huge and I would replace these with 3x wraparound in the future.

Anyways, I really enjoyed this deck and it is ALOT of fun to play. It beat every anarch deck that it faced, which is what I aimed to do. The only loss was to Leela and that was really close and after a terrible mulligan as well, we were both at 6 points and he ran HQ on his last click when I had 3 cards in hand and sealed the match by finding the only agenda TGTBT (next turn I would have won by psycho-ing it out.

Feel free to test the deck and tell me your thoughts on it below!