New deck. First play in years. Went 6/2.

So, here's the story. I haven't played Netrunner in several years. I quit playing in the middle of the Lunar Cycle before Order and Chaos was released. I ended up buying the rest of that cycle and a few of the San San cards, but I never played any of them. I hadn't even really thought about the game in a long time other than just looking at it on my game shelf and wishing I had someone to play it. Last week, I found out that there were some Netrunner players getting together at the local game shop to play. Nothing official, just some gaming. I ended up going 6/2 as the runner. It was a good day.

I got there an hour early, brought my box with my collection, opened it up... and then I realized that at some point, I had deconstructed all of my decks. With no decks to play, I had to speed build something, and I didn't have any of the latest and greatest cards. Another guy was there early, who happened to have a printed copy of the NAPD MWL, which I had never heard of before that day...

Anyway, I decided to play an identity I'd never played before and built a fun deck around it. Flipping through my Anarach cards, I found Data Leak Reversal and Off-Campus Apartment, both of which I wanted to use but were kind of hard to use at the same time. Quickly looking through things, I stumbled across Paparazzi and Wireless Net Pavilion, making the deck possible.

The deck runs TagMe and laughs at taking as many tags as necessary. It's also almost entirely Resources. Wireless Net Pavilion then acts as a pseudo economy card, forcing the corp to generally spend 4 creds to trash a Resource that was cheap or free for me to install, and Fall Guy makes that an uncertain thing, which also doubles as card draw when dumped in an Apartment. The deck builds up a few rounds while walking through early server defenses, then it just kind of stands there flaunting the fact that you're basically untouchable without dumping too many resources. Unfortunately, this deck is a bit less viable than we played it, because no one caught that WNP was errataed to be unique until I started putting this list together on here. So, no requiring 8 creds to trash Resources... sadness

Personal Workshop ended up being my main econ card, dumping whatever breakers I drew onto it. I could then drip install them or hit their scoring server with a Stimhack, install the needed breakers, and walk right in. A very old trick, but a good one. I very rarely had more than 3 or 4 credits at a time, and I often was able to walk through ice with 0 in my pool. I also typically ended every game with 3 or more brain damage...

This deck really screwed with the local meta, because almost every single corp deck ran tag and frag with Scorched Earth or Punitive Counterstrike or whatever, and Paparazzi made this entire tactic useless. You want to tag me? Sure, go ahead. In fact, here, I'll tag myself for you. I also played up the whole "Are you really going to nuke me on camera? Yeah, right," thing to screw with the other players a bit. Also, preventing all meat damage makes Net-Ready Eyes free to install.

Ultimately, I only lost my first and third games of the day. The first was because I was just really rusty and made really bad decisions, screwing myself over. The second was to a Weyland deck that had some unpreventable Resource destruction cards I'd never seen and was unprepared for, but I did manage 5 points off of him before I got flatlined. Jinteki was a bit of a problem at times, because I had no net damage protection, but with a large hand and good card draw, that ended up working out.

If I keep this deck around, I'll probably switch out Wyldside for Earthrise Hotel, but I'm worried that the increased cost and fewer draws will make the deck grind to a halt. I'll probably also dump Hard at Work, because I never once installed it the entire day. Any suggestions on how to improve and/or streamline this deck would be awesome though, especially if it makes it harder for the corp to trash my Resources.