Paycheck Omar (SC Winner, 1st in Swiss)

This deck is functionally almost the same as the one much of Colorado took to Worlds, performing pitifully. I felt obligated to defend my creation.

Maw has been getting a lot of guff lately, but for what it does I think it's excellent. The problem is just that runner economy is in the bin right now. The solution to that is Magnum Opus, which this deck does everything in its power to get out turn 1. And there's very little (other than Tapwrm) a runner can do turn after turn that feels better than pounding Opus and triggering Maw. Hence the original name: Take Six Maw You.

In a certain sense, then, the deck often feels closer in style to Shaper than Anarch - you exert implicit pressure with your bonkers economy while your pokes dismantle them. (Bhagat is a big help in that way - many games end with you fishing a pile of agendas out of Archives, Noise-style.)

I'm a strong proponent for Omar in the deck, which was one of the critical points of contention for the team in the lead-up to Worlds. When you're on the "run only once per turn" plan, Omar's stock goes way up, as he makes all three centrals equally critical, from early on in the game. The more ice they need to Rez, the slower they move to stack up impregnable servers and the more pokes you get with Maw etc. Since your goal is to force the corp into the late game where you're favored with Opus, delaying them by forcing big ice blocks on all three centrals is excellent.

At Worlds many of us played Aumakua as our AI, but I've soured on it since - your clicks are so much more valuable with Opus that loading up Aumakua quickly can hurt your tempo severely, not to mention that if you don't also play Femme, Aumakua can get locked out by Loki-Excalibur-MoGo. Atman gives you the flexibility to keep punching through. It also addresses certain ice strengths where MKUltra and Black Orchestra falter.

At the SC, it went 3-1 in the Swiss, beating PU, CTM, and Asa Group and losing to a Titan that rushed behind a MoGo when I couldn't find Atman. In the split, it beat CTM twice. (In the finals I didn't get an Opus until something like turn 10 and got HHNed twice and still won handily. This deck is heavily favored vs CTM.)

Footage from the tournament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SlgIOt-Yec (I'm easily identifiable from my watch and leather jacket, and also being the only Omar and Biotech)