Skorp Smash! - 1st Vancouver Store Champs

Midseasonpsycho 163

This deck won me the Vancouver store champs. Winning against Smoke, Hayley, Chaos Theory and dropping a game Ayla. After the cut I beat the same Ayla by locking them out and lost to an Adam deck as they stole Graft early (hate Graft!!)

My Runner was Wu - https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/48772/c-r-e-a-m-1st-vancouver-store-champs.

Agendas are standard, Graft is fine if you score it but would prefer not to need it! Scoring it is easier now NGO is out but I'm still not a fan.

I thought a few people would be playing Adam (1 especially, Keith!!) so Battlement went in instead of ice wall for Always be Running and Kongamato. Also Turtle is a real issue so Conundrum went in which did some work, even if they can pick which breaker to remove from the game its still never a nice choice.

Breach Dome and Snare are always good. Best play was breach dome got trashed then Wake up Call'ed a Film Critic. In another game they hit snare in hand and had already seen the Wake Up Call so did not trash the snare, that was really nice!!

Ark Lockdown got me an Atman to complete the lockout in one game but did no other work. Still need it in the deck though.

Cortex Lock did not do much work on the day but it is still a solid piece of ice and great in many other games.

I would like more Wake Up Calls and was worried going down to 1 Audacity was a mistake but it did not matter on the day.

Overall I am really enjoying Skorp and the fact that Weyland is getting good.

Thank you to everyone who played at the Tournament and for making my last Vancouver Tournament so much fun. Also thanks to @Thike for your deck changes suggestions!!

3 comments
21 Feb 2018 nutritionalzero

Couple of questions:

  1. Have you ever advanced an Ice Wall? I just started putting 3x Meru Mati in my Skorpios decks because getting a Meru Mati on HQ is worth the risk of paying 2 for the other two 1-strength barriers in the deck.
  2. I've never seen anyone play Conundrum. How did it do?
  3. No Batty? No Fast Track? Heresy!
21 Feb 2018 Midseasonpsycho

@nutritionalzero, whoops I didnt update the list! I actually changed ice wall to Battlement! It being 2 subs means it cant be walked through with Always be running. Meri Mati is fine on HQ but suffers from the same single sub issue! I would never advance an ice wall and its free to get through once they have a bad pub from Hostle so I would agree to cut it!

Conundrum is actually really good, 3 subs is annoying for all breakers and 7 strength if they have an AI out is great! Also means that all 3 types of ice can trash a program!

Batty is good but if it misses or they have Sac con its not great and breach dome can also pick programs off the top of the stack which is even better. I would go 3 breach dome if I could. No space for Fast Track but it would be a nice include!

23 Feb 2018 zmb

If you don't like Graft you could change them out with SSL Endorsement ! Once your Snare! is trashed, what targets are there for Wake Up Call? This could maybe be a Best Defense for more Adam: Compulsive Hacker hate? Gratz on the win! :)