Skorp Rush - Worlds Top Weyland 2017

Highest placed Weyland at Worlds 2017 at 37th place, which went undefeated on day one and was one win away in day two from making the top 16 cut. Played alongside my Trash Man Omar deck. It wins by either rushing out early agendas and then fast advancing (scoring out of hand in a single turn) for the win, or locking the Runner out by removing their breakers from the game with Hunter Seeker and/or Marcus Batty fires on Roto Turret/Tithonium/Archer.

It runs three Best Defenses to take out Sacrificial Constructs, which prevent program trashes, but they can also take out Self-Modifying Code, Inti, Same Old Thing, Street Peddler, Always Be Running, and basically anything against Counter Surveillance Anarchs. Sac Con is top priority and you generally want to save your Best Defenses for Sac Con against Shapers even if there are other targets, because most Shapers are playing Sac Con right now, but if you have agendas to rush out behind Ice early on, then you can use it on SMC to try to rush it out. Don't use Best Defense on Tapwrm; econ usually isn't the deciding factor in winning/losing games, and if the Runner is playing Tapwrm, then they're playing Sac Con too, which is much more important to trash. It's usually not even worth it to purge to trash a Tapwrm because your clicks can likely be better spent, and if the Runner is any good, then they're not gonna use a Sac Con for a Tapwrm against Skorp. Against Counter Surveillance, use it on God of War or Black Orchestra, depending on how many tags the Runner has and how many Hortums you've drawn; if you take out their Black Orchestra (which is almost always a 1-of in Counter Surveillance decks), then you can lock them out of a server with a triple-advanced Hortum.

Batty is usually used for trashing programs, but there are other edge cases: Tithonium's last subroutine of Trash a Resource and End the Run is a great Batty target. If the Runner has a Sac Con installed, then you can Batty Tithonium to trash the Sac Con and also end the run. It's also great for taking out The Turning Wheel if the runner is just bouncing off of centrals to build up counters for a big R&D dig. Batty can also be used on a regular End the Run subroutine in the rare case that you're scoring our your last agenda for the game win and the runner is too poor to break all of your Ice again, which happened once during the Icebrearker side event.

The three Wraparounds are because of Aumakua. Ice Wall over Vanilla because Aumakua can't break Ice Wall at zero counters. Rototurret is in because it has both a program trash and an ETR. Yes, Aumakua can break it with no counters, but that's what Batty is for. You want to have Rotos (or Archer or Tithonium) as the innermost Ice if you're able, but don't delay rushing an agenda behind a Wraparoud just to get Roto as the innermost Ice. You want Tithonium on R&D if possible so you can Batty trash Turning Wheels if you need to, but again, don't put it there just to put it there if you need Ice on other servers.

Also remember to be smart about using your "remove from game" ability. Unless you're RFG'ing a breaker, then you generally shouldn't use it against Anarchs; the last thing you want is for an Anarch to Inject a breaker into Archives and be unable to RFG it. RFG Maker's Eyes, Legworks, and Indexings if you can't trash/RFG any breakers during the run and aren't scoring out an agenda behind a Batty. If the Runner is on Clone Chip, SMC can be a nice RFG target as well