Legality (show more) |
---|
Standard Ban List 23.09 (latest) |
Standard Ban List 23.08 (active) |
Rotation |
---|
Pre-rotation decklist |
Tournaments | ||
---|---|---|
US National Championships @ Evergreen Tabletop Expo | #1 of 70 | JuneCuervo |
You can watch me go over the deck and card choices with Code Marvelous on his channel here
All credit goes to the entire SF team of players preparing for Nationals. We as a collective went through dozens of iterations of this deck, settling on a solid 43 cards with some flexibility. I valued speed over all else, which is reflected in this build. The 1x Game Day is my "crappy quality time" - you can store you hand on bookmark, then Gameday to draw 5 cards.
I played against Sol, NEH, Sync, ID, ID, ID, Sync, ETF, Sync to win US Nationals with a record of 6-0 with this runner deck. Boom decks with Quantum Predictive Model have a near 0 percent chance to score out within the 9 turn window it takes for this deck to win the game, and NACH prevents their BOOM! plan.
The general structure of games for this deck is:
-Early Econ in Casts/Gamble/Proco -Install Bookmark ASAP -Draw entire Deck, installing Hyperdrivers, Leprechaun, and Faust along the way. -While drawing entire deck, bookmark combo pieces.
COMBO TURN:
-Out of the Ashes to gain clicks on the combo turn (often the most critical and click-compressed turn) -Take Hyper Drivers -Play Rumor Mill to shut off important upgrades (as necessary) -Use Faust and the million cards on bookmark to run all 3 centrals -Play Exploit to Derez any rezzed Architects -Play Apocalypse -install Akshara Sareen (gaining the click back for installing it) -Play Encore 3x Times -Play 1x Notoriety (so you only need to steal three 2 pointers to win, rather than 4) -Install Equivocation
At this point, you have 19-25 clicks of R&D runs with Equivocation to win (depending on how many hate cards you had to play), which should be more than enough. Akshara Sareen gives each Encore turn +1 click, (15 clicks) and each Out of the Ashes gives you +1 click. You generally have spare clicks on the "big" combo turn, so each spare click is another R&D run.
Random Notes:
If you choose Laguna over proco, you are in essence choosing to play Armitage codebusting. The extra econ from proco is very good in this deck. It is also very hard to afford Quality Time in a Laguna deck, since Sure Gamble and Casts are your only econ.
This deck is extremely bad against many, many, MANY android: netrunner cards. I played this deck making a meta call that BOOM! decks, Moons, and ETF Glacier would be 100% of my opponents. I was correct, and thus won every game.
Cards you lose to:
Best Defense, Komainu, Anything that does net damage really, Salem's Hospitality, Hatchet Job, San San City Grid and 3/2 agendas, Biotic Labor spam, Crisium Grid.
Truthfully, lots of stuff "soft wins" against you (triple advanced hortum, though you can dean a chameleon to get through) This is an extremely fragile deck against strong players who understand your fundamental gameplan. Fortunately, many of my opponents did not. I can't really recommend this deck for these reasons, but I chose to play a combo runner and take a large gamble on a metagame read, which paid off.
If anyone has questions about the deck, I'll do my best to reply here! You can find me on the stimhack slack channel @joseki
-John
31 comments |
---|
5 Jun 2017
Noroo :D
|
5 Jun 2017
rotage
Nice list and congrats on the win. I had been playing something similar but was too concerned with Crisium Grids. Great call on Exploit I had never considered that before |
5 Jun 2017
TrungusWungus
Hey Joseki! Congrats on the win, I was screaming at the screen at the grand finals man! Awesome deck, my question is that why did you choose to play sareen over beth or in that case, why not both? Since Beth may give you money or an extra card aside from the obvious click benefit. |
5 Jun 2017
donmakaron
Have you considered Hayley as an ID for such build? It seems that it might save some clicks on installations. Of course Ayla speeds things up too, but in different way. |
5 Jun 2017
Scoogsy
Fantastic to see a shaper deck do so well at such a competitive level. Congrats on the wombo combo. |
5 Jun 2017
Mechanoise
You found a purpose for Akahara Sareen, that has my vote! While not a fan of large combo decks I admire the humility of the deck's many weaknesses, and admire more that your meta call played off. Although I won't be playing this myself, good job, well done on your win with such an interesting deck! |
5 Jun 2017
neuropantser
Can't wait to crack this one open with the boys. Congrats on the win! 10/10 would be baffled by on stream again. |
5 Jun 2017
ctz
I usually don't like playing combo decks but this is a gr8 one. Cracking cold ones baybee! |
6 Jun 2017
JuneCuervo
|
6 Jun 2017
JuneCuervo
1) Bookmark 2) Sure Gamble 3) Professional Contacts 4) Daily Casts 5) Astrolabe/NACH/Tech Card/etc It is good to be able to identify which cards are relevant in a given game. For example, I will often put NACH or Dean Lister on my NVRAM to "remove them from the game" so I have less bad draws in my deck. It is always better to draw a combo piece during the game than click it off your NVRAM, because clicking to draw through your deck is a more efficient path to drawing all your combo pieces regardless. |
7 Jun 2017
DockEllis
Just my favorite player casually killing the field with a couple combo decks, one of which was thought to be extinct. CONGRATS JOHN. Be seeing you soon. |
10 Jun 2017
nychuus
I like this deck. Having played against a lot of this archetype I already knew what to do agaist it (hmm... Bookmark, lemme guess: Leprechaun, Hyperdriver-Hyperdiver). I think a real hard meta call for this deck is necessary. |
Really cool deck! Congratulation!