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The 2017 Berkeley regional took place on May 13th and boasted a field of 48 competitive players from the west coast. This corp deck went undefeated throughout the tournament with 6 wins and 1 timed win. My runner deck was Poutine.
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This was the very first corp deck I designed after the new MWL was announced, and I had high hopes for it. The Spooky HB shell was already absurdly strong, only kept in check by the ultra-powerful Whizzard decks that dominated the meta... that is, until MWL 1.2 hit Temujin, Sifr, and Faust. And while losing the card draw of Sensie was a huge blow for asset spam, HB was conveniently about to receive an in-faction replacement. (Only time will tell whether Estelle Moon or Sensie Actors Union is the more busted card!)
The stars seemed to be aligned for horizontal HB to shine, so I hoped to keep it under wraps until regional season began. Unfortunately @thebigunit3000
, genius deckbuilder that he is, also recognized that Estelle is completely ridiculous and created a new and innovative horizontal HB deck to abuse it. Over the last month Mooninites has steadily gained refinement and popularity, to the point where many players recognized it as the strongest corp strategy. Runners were switching back to Whizzard and beginning to pack serious amounts of asset hate. By the week of the tournament, the surprise factor of HB asset spam had completely vanished.
In testing I also found Mooninites to be astonishingly difficult to defeat when it is piloted well, so I strongly considered switching either to that deck or to a completely different corp strategy. Ultimately, I decided to stick with my version of Spooky HB for several reasons:
Here's an abbreviated tournament recap.
@tzeentchling
on Whizzard. I cursed my luck at getting a bad matchup right off the bat, but my horror only deepened into the game as Kris revealed Slums, Maw, Hacktivist, and Rumor Mill. And somehow I still managed to grind him out and win fairly convincingly. Kris also had the misfortune of accessing a NAPD from HQ with only 3 credits, which is probably one of the worst feelings in all of Netrunner.@alexstevens
on Smoke; apparently the 2 of us flew up together just so we could play Netrunner with each other in the 2nd round. Alex pressured me very well early on, but he didn't draw an early Astrolabe so my board quickly outpaced his econ development.@dickoff
on Steve. Matt was running what looked like a cool mill deck, but giving free draws to an asset spam deck generally doesn't work out well for the runner.@segin
on Leela. Leela did her thing and bounced my HQ ice turn 1... luckily Winson didn't start with Account Siphon. I eventually stabilized and locked up my centrals well enough to secure the win.Round 5 against @westonodom
on Valencia. Wes turned out to be playing an Incubator combo deck. This could have been very dicey, but he made the crucial error of poking R&D and letting me rez an Enigma there. I accidentally cheated on the last turn by forgetting about the drawback on NAPD Contract until we had already began putting away our cards. Wes was gracious enough to concede anyway, as he had practically no outs to win at that point.
Cut round 2 against @crfluency
on Whizzard. This was by far the closest game of the day; Ran knew what was going on in my deck and had plenty of experience with Turtlebacks NEH. I fired a rather questionable 17-credit Hellion Beta Test to trash her Slums, but she still managed to destroy all of my assets. Time was called with me up 4-2, but I think that I was likely to lose eventually if we had played out the game.
@sirris
on Whizzard. SoCal's #Tony car really crushed it this tournament! Jon opened up with heavy HQ pressure with Nerve Agent and eventually Maw, but NAPD was the only agenda in my hand. Then Jon made a critical mistake by playing Temujin while I had a rezzed AAL on the board, so I used it to block his Temujin; this tempo hit meant that he never had enough credits to make serious headway against my assets or break my ice.Props to:
@yeoda
for publishing the original deck@sirris
for beating me with it at a store championship, and for getting top 4 at NorCal regionals four years in a row ( ⚆ _ ⚆ )@beyoken
for helping me test different versions of HB spam, losing much of his sanity in the process@alexstevens
for taking this crazy mini-vacation with me, and for making his first regional top 8 in a truly stacked tournament. Mega congrats dude!41 comments |
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15 May 2017
Zo3 (TR1S)
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15 May 2017
ANRguybrush
Estelle Moon is ridiculously busted and will end up on mwl tier 3, calling it out now. Still needs a good deckbuilder and pilot to use her full potential, so congratz. |
15 May 2017
FightingWalloon
Could you explain your ice choices a little? I'm just curious how you arrived at this particular mix. |
15 May 2017
tzeentchling
The third Clone Suffrage Movement was crucial in our matchup, and the NAPD definitely put me on tilt. I was playing and expecting the established Moonites list and didn't mentally readjust in time; in retrospect, seeing the Turtlebacks should have made me stop and think a bit harder! Great game though. |
15 May 2017
tmoiynmwg
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15 May 2017
tmoiynmwg
Thanks for the great games |
15 May 2017
Segin
How did you know who I was!? Thanks for the game and I will forever regret not playing Andromeda for this tournament just for better opening hands hahaha. |
15 May 2017
crfluency
congrats Timmy! This match up is so hard that I took a long time to think, I never thought there will be a game where I had to say to you 'sorry I have to take a bit longer to think' lol |
15 May 2017
crfluency
omg Timmy I definitely didn't know what's going on in your deck. ONE AAL, ONE ARCHITECT, TWO FRIENDS, this is insane |
15 May 2017
tmoiynmwg
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16 May 2017
Segin
"You don't need to think that hard on your first turn. It's only Leela! What's the worse that can happen?" Turn 1 click 1 run R&D and steals Global Food Initiative "Whelp it happened." |
16 May 2017
ZiNOS
On another note, really solid choices, Ronald Five and Encryption Protocol paired with Friends in High Places is a match made in Hell! P.S. You know that you have a degenerate deck when you see Mumba Temple in the list :(. P.P.S. |
17 May 2017
Zo3 (TR1S)
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18 May 2017
BobAloVskI
Is the deckname a My Little Pony reference? My, ummm, daughter wants to know. |
18 May 2017
Cyberzack
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19 May 2017
kevo31415
I sleeved this up and played a few matches with this thing and it is absolute poison in the most beautiful way possible. So many lines and options at all times once you get built up. Person I was playing against gave up on my Estelle Moons and recurring FIHP/CSM bullshit and I cashed her in for 19 cards and 38 credits during their turn, rezzed Smartfabrics and 5 other things, showed them GFI out of HQ and gg. |
20 May 2017
WhyohWhy
There is something very wrong when Whizzard can't keep up with asset spam. What chance does any other runner have? FiHP is extremely broken, probably Estelle Moon too. I guess in a tournament, you play to win. But casually on Jinteki.net, I wish people would stop playing decks they know are broken. |
20 May 2017
ChairmanHiro
Everyone is running slums to counter asset spam decks. But this one in particular may call for a long-forgotten card to deal with it..........Archives Interface. Some of the biggest threats (FiHP, BioLab, AAL, Moon) are either not assets or can be used during a run and are thus immune to slums/whiz. The deck runs paper-thin ice, so getting into archives regularly isn't a problem. Granted slums/whiz/hacktivist/rumormill SHOULD be able to destroy this deck, the fact that it can't is basically 100% proof the deck is 100% degenerate and broken. BUT imagine this matchup when you only get to use AAL or moon or FiHP or BioLab ONCE and then they are gone forever. This also removes the threat of Clone Sufferage movement without actually bothering to trash the card itself. It also removes Login Protocol from the equation AND gets around Hellion Beta Test because you aren't actually trashing the cards in archives. It's probably worth testing out, especially if this deck ends up like CtM was a worlds last year (nothing but 1 asset spam deck and nothing but whizzard in the hopes of countering it). |
20 May 2017
ChairmanHiro
Archives interface even gets around ronald 5 and best of all isn't limited to once a turn like slums. You can drop it then run archives 3 times and permanently remove 3 major threats in one turn without having to pay ANY money other that getting into archives. |
20 May 2017
tonybluehose
Also, happy to see 48 players at the regional. Hopefully we can get similiar numbers down here in Georgia. Good stuff, NorCal! |
20 May 2017
spags
Lovely deck, Timmy. I have one issue: where's the bloody MLP:FIM pic in the description?!? |
21 May 2017
tmoiynmwg
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23 May 2017
Gargulec
The name is disturbingly appropriate. Great deck, 10/10, would not play against again. |
25 May 2017
erasurehead
Hi, beginner here. Could somebody plz do a write up about the essentials as to how to pilot this deck? Thx! |
25 May 2017
kevo31415
That's a really basic writeup of the main goal of the deck. I'm sure the author can articulate it better than me, tho. |
25 May 2017
erasurehead
I took this deck for a spin a few times this morning on jnet...had a couple crashes and then a good win. On that last game I couldn't believe how the combo of Clone Sufferage Movement + Diversified Portfolio was netting me 10-15 Credits per turn. It ended spectacularly 7-6 with a suprise Architect + Sandburg rez (financially unbreakable for runner because of Sandburg + ~50 credits after CSM+DP) ->Agenda install on Runner's last click, then an AAL->Jeeves install + Biotic Labor enabling the advancing and scoring of GFI on one turn. First game had no ice even after a mulligan and the runner dug with Maker's eye, scoring two agendas and got a third out of HQ in the second turn. I still scored four agenda point before he got the seventh, tho. In the second game the econ just didn't come till too late. People talk about this deck (and others) going undefeated. I agree asset spams are monsters once they get going, but don't know what you do if you can't get some early econ and ice going, which seems to happen to me not too seldomly. You can only mulligan once. If you don't get an ice on the mulligan and recurring criminal siphons you after each of your three clicks for three credits to try to get back in the game, seems like you're finished...at least I am, when it happens to me. If anybody could point out the details of piloting this deck, combos to think about, main targets for friends, etc. I would love to hear it. Thx! |
25 May 2017
erasurehead
Other questions I have would be: what are the main cards to mulligan for and what to do when playing against slums, hacktivist & rumor mill (only 2 ELPs against ~4 RM+Hacktivist and no Lizzy for slums, so...)? |
26 May 2017
tmoiynmwg
The mulligan is matchup-dependent, but like most corps you're generally looking for economy assets (Estelle, Temple, Turtlebacks), ice, and not too many agendas. Try to be ready to score or play ELP at almost all times so that you can clear a runner current. You can either simply outpace Slums, or trash it with Hellion Beta Test if you can provoke the runner into trashing a second card during their turn. The sheer number of options available here make it very difficult for me to give a detailed strategy guide. Your goal should be to maximize the efficiency of every click while playing around possible threats from the runner and devising a plan to win the game. If you enjoy the deck, I can only recommend playing it as often as you can without upsetting your opponents, and discovering all the fun tricks yourself! |
2 Jun 2017
solknar
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24 Jun 2017
Skandrino
There is very little ice so it seems the only way to score is FA with Biotic Labor and retrieving it. But there's only one and what if it's on the bottom of your deck? Is it possible to win then? |
24 Jun 2017
erasurehead
How do the Experts weigh in on this? |
24 Jun 2017
Skandrino
Thanks! One more question, how do you score GFI? Even with Biotic Labor and Jeeves, install + score is 6 clicks and you only have 5. |
25 Jun 2017
erasurehead
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25 Aug 2017
Bigboss017
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25 Aug 2017
tmoiynmwg
I would definitely try to fit in MCA Austerity Policy, that card seems bonkers strong. Other recent options you could look at are Warroid Tracker and Bioroid Work Crew. Cut whatever cards you find least helpful. |
27 Aug 2017
BobAloVskI
I would recommend Bioroid Work Crew. If your opponent is on Rumor Mill it can be hard to score an agenda without it being on the table. With Bioroid Work Crew (and it not being unique) you can score a 3/2 or 4/2 from hand after playing a Biotic Labor. |
10/10 deck name.