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The face that launched a thousand chips | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Congress anti-Jinteki | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Congressional Mandate | 6 | 5 | 2 |
Just Rob's Doppelgänger is Kate | 1 | 0 | 0 |
K Street | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Post D&D Congress ProCo | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Congress v.2.0 | 28 | 18 | 10 |
Kate for darwin | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Sifr Congress Kate - 2nd Place 3 Trolls Games MA | 14 | 5 | 4 |
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This has been my tournament deck for most of this season and I want to publish it here in case anyone is looking for a good runner deck for nationals (which I'm not attending). In my opinion, this is the best deck I've ever built by a wide margin.
I call this deck Congress because the goal is to get paid an ungodly sum of money for doing absolutely nothing. You work hard to get elected and then nobody expects you do to a damned thing.
The goal of the deck is fairly straight forward: get a 6-credit-per-turn drip economy up as soon as possible and use that to counter any problem the corp tries to create. Use SMC + stimhack to be aggressive early, but only if you need to. This deck is so demoralizingly powerful in mid- and late-game that you can afford to let the corp get an agenda or two without too much worry that you'll lose the game. Even an astro scored early isn't a problem as long as you are doing ok on getting set up properly (clot will prevent them from using that counter anyway).
Draw like a mad person early game. With 3 modded and 3 career fair you can afford to quality time on click 2 or diesel on click 3 and be fairly certain you won't be trashing or wasting cards. Additionally, drawing often makes the corp mistakenly think that you're struggling (even while you're looking at an SMC and stimhack in hand) and they'll feed you an agenda you can easily steal.
This deck has grown to 48 cards because of the utility I threw on top (sacrificial construct and 2 feedback filters). The second game I lost with this deck at a regional was to a PE deck and my local meta was starting to fill up with Batty kill decks and occasional jank Cybernetics decks so I made the change and have been very happy. I very commonly end up drawing and installing the last card of the deck, so the fact that I'm over the minimum deck size hasn't been a problem for me. Having 3 or 4 of my drip economy cards at the bottom of my pile sometimes happens, but this deck loses so infrequently that it hasn't been a problem I have felt needs addressing.
The easiest way to lose with this deck is by being too aggressive. People will think this deck is an aggro PPVP Kate (struggling to find its voice pads) and will realize too late that it's a hard control deck. While I didn't win any regionals I played in with this deck (missed top 8 by a strength of schedule cut because my 1st round opponent won the scorched earth prize and my corps did poorly every time), I did beat loads of good players with it including the eventual tournament champion in St. Louis.
The key is to know your match ups and change your play style accordingly. Rely on clot against fastrobiotics (sac con can save it from a cyberdex purge), keep 4 cards in hand against butcher shop and run on any server with 2 cards in it (so they can't San San an installed Breaking News into a double scorch), and make Weyland score 7 points against you rather than letting them SEA Source you. Just breathe and have confidence that every long game is yours. While 2 of my losses were to NBN, they also represented an absolute majority of my 16 wins as well. The matchup is a favorable one.
I've tried dozens of permutations to this deck and there are lots of ways to adjust the archetype to your personal style. I've had worse works almost as well as inject but gives some damage protection. I've experimented with a few day jobs and have loved them early game. Gordian blade works if you're not expecting many code gates (though study guide is surprisingly awesome. I'd highly highly recommend keeping it). I've even tried the supplier rather than career fair to some success (though I felt it was a bit too slow, even for this slower archetype).
As always, questions and criticisms are welcome.
44 comments |
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20 Jul 2015
sruman
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20 Jul 2015
Bigguyforyou518
Assuming the Corp doesn't misplay (assuming your deck is something that it's not, for example), what do you see as the strongest matchup against this? |
20 Jul 2015
Daine
Raw speed can be a problem if I can't get my SMCs or a stimhack. Also, tag storm causes serious problems for me. If I suspect a mid seasons in hand I won't run. |
20 Jul 2015
dodgepong
Very interesting deck, nice to see some Kate variety. I'm curious as to the Femme as killer of choice...did you ever run into issues with high strength sentries like Susanoo or Archer, if you weren't able to target them with Femme? And assuming Atman is at 4, paying 4 for Architect sucks... |
20 Jul 2015
Vanadium
I...REALLY like this deck. Might give it a try, with some customization. It's got a lot of similarities to my Andy deck I was running in St Louis: netrunnerdb.com I'm still glad the pairings got screwed up and we didn't end up playing each other round 3. But it would have been interesting to see our drip econ decks against one another. |
20 Jul 2015
Vanadium
Out of curiosity, what would you do with a very middling opening hand, such as 2x Data Folding, Feedback Filter, Stimhack, and Dyson Mem Chip. Draw, and assuming nothing helpful, click for a credit and install 2 data foldings? |
21 Jul 2015
Daine
As far as your hypothetical middling hand, I don't see that as middling at all. Draw, click for a credit and install 2 foldings sounds awesome to me, especially since I have a dyson and a stimhack for later. Turn 2 is probably draw 3 cards and install the dyson or whatever I found, but you've got a foundation for a great game with that hand. There are certainly better hands to be had, but if corp took a mulligan I would absolutely keep that one. If they kept theirs I'd throw mine back and look for something speedier. |
21 Jul 2015
Daine
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21 Jul 2015
gumonshoe
I lost to this deck in Madison, WI; At top tables to a 4 deep R&D dig machine. I took too much time setting up with RP as suggested and couldn't deal with the cash available. This was pre-batty. Set up up to face against @spags who swept me with excellent play. Happy to finally see the deck list. I'm a bit surprised at the win rate, but I guess it makes some sense. Having played against it I'm not sure what you do to beat it other than rushing early. GL if you face this and its in skilled hands. |
21 Jul 2015
Craloaa
How often do you find yourself losing out on a credit because you are modding something that costs 3 in Kate. |
21 Jul 2015
Daine
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21 Jul 2015
hi_impact
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21 Jul 2015
Daine
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23 Jul 2015
slakker
Great to see this deck posted. Having lost to it at the chicago regional I can say it was surprisingly one of the most powerful decks I faced all day. |
23 Jul 2015
Wookiee
How different does the Hayley version look? Dysons become 2 CyberSolutions Mem Chip and 2 Rabbit Hole maybe? |
23 Jul 2015
Daine
The heart of the Congress archetype is to get your drip economy going as soon as possible and with as much consistency as can be mustered. While I haven't tested Hayley much, I'd say that you should add 3 of each link and memory card and cut some of the ancillary cards to make up for it. |
24 Jul 2015
Spaceman_Spiff
Proud to be one of the few to win against this deck, but it required an ungodly number of purges and a hefty dose of luck! |
26 Jul 2015
Linger
Clot is a good meta against fast decks in this deck. However the lack of breakers make this deck hard to pilot. How you will deal with different strength of code gates? (Nigma, Quandry, Lotus?). How to break the architect or ichi 1.0 with femme? this ices is quite popular in the HB decks. Sure atman could do the trick! but good corp with diversified ice will smash this deck. |
27 Jul 2015
Vanadium
Code gates are handled by the Study Guide, easily pumped by Stimhack, or just the boatload of cash you'll have. Architect is only 4 to femme, which isn't much. Ichi is a bit pricey, but you can pay it, or just click through the first 2 subroutines and let the trace fire (corps will never bump the trace when you have 2-4 link). |
27 Jul 2015
Vanadium
Daine, I ran this today at Cinci ANRPC. It did ok for me - I didn't do amazing overall, but it wasn't the deck's fault. But at one point I got double Marcus Batty'd in front of an Ichi 1.0 and got rig wiped. Not terrible, as I still had my clone chips. Especially since I had 5 or 6 points and money. Except he had a Chronos Project too, that I couldn't stop on the next turn. Ouch. |
27 Jul 2015
Daine
But exactly zero archetypes--whether they vary their ice strength or not--has been able to consistently smash this deck over the last few months. If you find a way to do so, please let me know. |
27 Jul 2015
Vanadium
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27 Jul 2015
jflans
Thanks for sharing! |
28 Jul 2015
Thiamine
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28 Jul 2015
Daine
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1 Aug 2015
Daine
Nationals update: I managed to swing a ticket and go last-minute. Congress went 5-2 (so did my corp). I lost to a perfect kill start from a butchershop round one and a chronos protocol that destroyed my atman and femme. I beat 3 NEH, a core Weyland, and an HB. I saw a few people playing the deck and heard stories of lots of others, so thanks to everybody who used it. Any suggestions from your play are appreciated. The only change I made was -1 feedback filter, -1 inject, +2 day job. I loved the changes. |
17 Aug 2015
Vanadium
I'm going to try and make it to Chicago for ChiLo/LastChance + the GLC invitational (I qualified as an alternate). Will probably be bringing Congress with me. Thanks for the amazing deck! |
17 Aug 2015
Daine
I'll be hosting that tournament and not playing in it, so I'm glad you'll be representing Congress when I can't. Come introduce yourself if you do make it. |
17 Aug 2015
Vanadium
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17 Aug 2015
Daine
Of course! Brian! Now that read the previous comments I should have known that. I think I registered it and then forgot. Congrats on the 4th place GLC. I had a similar run with Congress winning everything and my corp losing almost every game. I'd recommend NEH. It's easy mode. |
21 Aug 2015
Vanadium
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21 Aug 2015
NerdimusPrime
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1 Sep 2015
stoppableforce
However, with Data & Destiny on the horizon, I'm wondering if there's a place for this deck archetype in Sunny Lebeau. Advantages as I see it include having the ability to turn on Underworld Contacts from the word 'go,' as well as leveraging her natural link with Security Nexus and, if using cloud breakers, Security Chip. Disadvantages being a lot more manual drawing and the need to pay influence for both Modded and Career Fair. Thoughts? |
10 Sep 2015
Daine
Sunny will still likely boast all the end game power that a Congress-style deck can bring, and Sunny may prove to be better than Kate at it. But unless there's a patch that can give threats early, I'll still stick with my trusty Kate, at least for tournaments. |
21 Sep 2015
flowerscandrink
I play a deck kind of similar to this and I have to say that All Seeing I and 24/7 is a nightmare. If they land one, and they probably will because the deck is slow, it's really hard to recover. I'm not sure what or if there is a solution to that other than maybe turntable which I doubt makes sense. |
22 Sep 2015
Daine
New Angeles City Hall will be slotted in shortly to handle the new tag storm meta. |
22 Sep 2015
flowerscandrink
Good point I keep turning my nose at NACH because of it's drawback but it's one of those cards that you only need in certain match ups and in those match ups you will be needing to use Film Critic anyways. I'll give it a shot. |
1 Jan 2016
podoboyz99
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2 Jan 2016
Daine
This deck has needed lots of changes to keep up with the meta. I think I've found some good answers though. |
With career fairs, wouldn't Earthrise be a natural substitution for quality time? With EH there are only 6 full value CF targets which is probably enough but seems low.