Lanri 2.0 (SoCal regional 1st place)

Congratulations on your victory, it's nice to see Blue Sun taking the top place in a relatively high level competition despite many people saying it's weak now. Contract Killer ftw. Just out of interest, how often do you manage to overadvance your Atlases?

On a side note, what do you think about the government takeover variant of blue sun?

Nice job man. I've been working on my newest Keystone, very similar thoughts and card choices to yours. I really like your idea of a TA over a 3rd scorch though, well done. See you at worlds!

Nice! I've been eyeing going back to Midseasons recently, as Bootcamp has been a little lackluster. Between that and Noise, it's my Worlds 2014 setup all over again. :P

• Why not Posted Bounty over HT? The traceless Tag is so big.
• Did you consider 1x Ice Wall => Meru Mati? Seems like a straight upgrade.

@IonFox Scoring an overadvanced Atlas is hugely important since it really enables the Midseason kill. Searching up Hostile for the 7th point is also quite common. I probably manage it in 40-50% of games.

I haven't played the 6-agenda kill version but it seems quite intimidating to face! I do worry that it's too cumbersome to score out, so a runner who sniffs out your plan has lots of time to build up and make precision runs. The difficulty of scoring Government Takeover is especially troubling, since it's likely that a runner will hit it eventually in a long game and probably just win on the spot.

@ItJustGotRielle Thanks man! I'd love to see your version too!

@Thike Worlds 2014 was the good old days ;-)

• HT is mostly in the deck for Atlas to search up a 7th point to finish a tight game. Sometimes I score it to turn on Archer when that card seems particularly scary for the runner. The situations where Posted Bounty wins the game are pretty rare these days, especially when I cut down to 2 Scorches in the deck.
• I tried out Meru Mati right after it came out and I wasn't too impressed. The lower cost on Ice Wall is actually pretty relevant. Having a moderate tax on HQ rarely matters for this deck, and against Kate your barriers need to first go on R&D and the remote. Occasionally it's even nice to advance Ice Wall in order to guard against an end-of-turn Clone Chip -> Parasite.

Excellent. This is IMO best Weyland.

Love this take on the older deck, great updates. I'm looking at the Lotus Fields though and wondering if there'd be any better ice to use the influence on now Faust is seeing a lot of play. How did it work for you on the day?

I'm considering trying it with Wraparounds to force Faust-based Anarchs to find their Corroder/D4v1d while taxing Lady counters more, or maybe a second Tollbooth and an Enigma/Datapike for the gear check? Any thoughts?

Lotus Field did some good work for me, but I almost certainly would have lost my game against Noise if he had had Faust to break it. Gear checking for Faust is still not the worst but the card has certainly become weaker than before. Tollbooth/Enigma would be a fine alternative to try; but Noise with Faust is quite scary and it's likely that even more changes would have to be made to combat it effectively.

This is a really well-tuned deck, congratulations on your big win. I started playing with this and it feels like playing the corp version of reg Maxx. Like I have a big decision for every click.

Have you used liz mills in this deck at all? Does power shutdown always live in the bottom 10 cards of the stack?

Thanks @chill84! Your comparison to MaxX is an apt one, as Blue Sun really demands a lot more tactical thinking than most corps.

It's always a lovely surprise when Power Shutdown actually shows up at an opportune time. And I never tried Elizabeth Mills because she seemed too narrow for this deck. I think she has an important role in a different build with more HT/Archer/Grim, Executive Boot Camps and Blacklist, and probably Meru Matis to defend HQ while you durdle with Mills. Finding the cuts necessary to implement this plan is an exercise for the reader. :-P

Thanks for the response, thinking about it today I realized the anarch matchups arent improved more with mills than other matchups are with ck.

Do you feel your noise matches are harder than kate matches, and are there any plays that seemed good to you but after practice you realized were bad?

Hard question, I know, but using PriCo seems like one of those things, on paper you can durdle race for credits, in practice you probably should have given up the midseasons plan instead.

The new Noise is almost certainly a harder matchup than Kate. Not being able to simply lean on Lotus Field really hurts, and the deck probably needs some retooling to better fight Noise.

Against Siphon Whizzard I dumped a bunch of credits into Taurus in order to duck the first Siphon. In retrospect, he was already so rich that it would have been better to let him Siphon-Same Old Siphon me and hope to kill him before he dropped the tags.

Private Contracts is great for getting the initial credit boost you need to safely score, but I rarely use it for more than one full cycle. Midseason should almost never be the main plan; it's just a powerful tool that happens to open up lots of scoring windows.

@tmoiynmwg Congrats on the win! I'm going to give this list a spin tomorrow.

I have a lot of questions, some of which were answered above. My biggest one now is: why no Executive Boot Camps? Seems like you could swap either the Private Contracts or a Contract Killer for one, and it'd help you get the Adonis engine going more consistently. I'm sure you tried it out, and I'm curious to hear why it didn't work for you.

Also, would you consider running the new 3/1 agenda that tutors a card when you score it in place of the Hostile Takeover?

• The problem with relying on a single Adonis Campaign for asset economy is that it will get trashed sometimes. Bootcamp Glacier solves that problem by using Interns to recur it, but there's no room for that card in this list.
• I did originally include 1 Bootcamp over a Contract Killer, but it's awkward to tutor for that card since then the runner will know what's up. I decided that I wanted access to Contract Killer more consistently, so I went up to 2 copies.
• The Future is Now seems powerful enough to be worth trying out. But HT's entire purpose in the deck is to be very easy to score, so my instinct is that it would not be a great replacement.

Love it. Looks like a nice variant of what I played at regionals... and with Oaktown and contract killer, delivering some additional nastiness!

Great deck- figuring out how to answer Foise is the big challenge right now for many decks.

Just thought I'd share an anecdote of two games I played last night with this deck- though I lost, the deck really impressed me.

The first game agaist kate I saw only Taurus for ice- 22 cards into the deck! The crazy thing is I got ahead on money, so the scorch threat was actually live right up until the end of the game when he top decked 6 points. One less point and i'd have flatlined him with only Taurus out!

Second game I mulliganed 8 points only to draw 8 more (followed by 5 more in the first 4 turns).-a nightmare draw, but even worse against leela! I finally got on my feet by PSing both zu and Corroder , but I was still dangerously light on ice. Femme+inside job nabbed point 7 for him.

My point was, it was crazy both times how close this deck came to winning despite a one-in-ten-thousand bad draw. The decks has a lot of outs even in the quest situations, and is definitely tons of fun to play to boot! Thanks!

Your experiences mesh well with mine, though I have tended to be much luckier. ;-) The incredible number of comeback options is a big part of why I love the deck. Thanks for sharing!

Are you guys considering Film Critic and the impact it has on the agenda suite (it seems NAPD's less appealing, esp with our proclivity to bad pub at some point) and Midseasons. I know it's not the main winning line, but are we heading back to triple scorch / ss ?

That's likely the way to go if IHW continues to fall out of favor. As the deck stands, I think trying to assassinate the Film Critic is a reasonable plan.