Leela Patel and The Inside Job

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shazzner 836

This is my Leela deck that focuses on run events with Public Terminal to fund them.

Leela hits hardest in the early game when you can bounce critical one/two iced servers to chain into more agenda stealing and bounces. I've iterated through this deck a few times and I believe this is the one I've most happy with. Previous versions only had central breakers, tried out Stealth, and PPVP.

I've tried to synergize economy with run events as much as possible, which is why I'm not running Sure Gambles and PrePaid Voice Pads. Public terminals let your immediately gain that credit back.

This deck tries to avoid dead draws as much as possible, which is why some cards are singletons. The only real painful ones are the Desperados, but that's really unavoidable with how critical a card it is.

The Icebreakers are all over the place, so you can special order the right breaker. Breach can be more effective than Corroder against Blue Sun for instance.

Any comments or suggestion? Let me know!

2 comments
23 Dec 2014 beyoken

@shazzner Solid deck... breaker redundancy + heavy early assault + incredible consistency + good economy, good stuff! I love that Public Terminal actually feels very effective in this deck - most people won't think of playing it outside of Ken, but this is the perfect place to slot them in! My questions regarding this deck are rather minor:

  1. With 1x Mr Li as the only card draw, do you want 1x Masanori, since it goes well with your 'run often' mindset? Or is the tag/install cost too much of a tempo hit?

  2. How are your Blue Sun matchups? You can't tutor for the 1x Emergency Shutdown in your deck to derez the big ICE (particularly Archer - your best solution to that seems to be Femme bypass); you can't tutor Kati for runless economy; you don't have Plascrete to avoid Punitives and Scorches.

23 Dec 2014 shazzner

@bewnt thanks for your compliments! :)

Masanori is honestly something I hadn't thought of but I think would fit well. In the past, my biggest issue is with drawing things I don't need and I hated drawing a second Mr. Li during a critical moment. I think I might remove Li & Kati and replace them with Masanori or just add more run events. Good idea!

Blue Sun is a tough matchup and I've admittedly haven't had much experience against it as my local meta mainly plays HB/NBN. The few games I've played, the saving grace has been shallow servers I could Inside Job into and Breach is pretty good against Curtain Wall. I'm sure more defensive options would better suit the deck in that matchup.