Temusmokeboyz! (King of Swiss, London Store Champ)

tomdidiot 574

This is a deck designed to make the full use of smoke's ability to be lean, mean and set up very quickly. The plan, like with all shapers is to remote Lock while you set up, then move into full r and d lock mode when you have your 3 R and D interfaces out. This deck went 4-1 at the Dark Sphere Store Championship in January 2017 and helped me king of Swiss (it was partnered with the British CTM list that we built that won worlds) before I dropped to run the cut (I already won a bye somewhere else). It beat 3 CTMs and an RP, losing to a Sol deck when it couldn't draw breakers.

The card choices are probably fairly standard - Temujins is nuts in any non tag me runner deck, and that obviously does a lot to limit what else you can run influence wise. Net Mercur is a Desperado that doesn't take up a console slot. Clot/clone chip is essential to make cTM slow down otherwise you're just a shitty temuwhizz.

Breakerwise the deck is heavily constrained by inf, hence the traditional Corroder over the far superior Clippy. Influence concerns was also one of the reasons for Dagger over Switchblade, particularly for early aggression as it requires 1 stealth Cred to run rather than 2 - and you don't want to be gearchecked by needing to find a cloak or ghost runner. In the same vein, Houdini over refractor because it enables better early aggression - you can safely facecheck an archangel orDNA tracker with just houdini but not with Refractor.

The rest of the inf is spent on money and hate. Career fairs are gorgeous because they are money you can bank in hand to recover fro being closed accountsed without having to Make runs and therefore be vulnerable to another HHN. Networking makes CTM sad and SYNC very sad.

Playing this involves setting up a money engine and use the remote lock/clot lock threat to score while setting up for your late game r and d I deep digs. Pressure their hand with single accesses while you can, and against on CTM deck run! You have free creds every turn; spend them!

Credit goes to Seamus for suggesting the Patron. Patron Temujin is sick beats.

2 comments
18 Jan 2017 Katsushika

Looks really good :) Nice work. How much did you miss SMC#3?

22 Jan 2017 tomdidiot

@KatsushikaMostly when I played Sam Burdock and couldn't draw breakers..... For 40 cards, 2 SMCs is usually alright.