Magic Mob

Oh my word, this deck looks like amazing fun! I've been looking for a reason to unsleeve Whizzard again. Retrieval Run is a card I've been meaning to test for ages, it often completely blindsides the corp (or me as corp, anyway!). Torch is just such a crazy splash, though, I'm afraid discarding it will highlight to everyone what I'm about to do!

Regardless I'm going to sleeve this up tonight and give it some table time next week.

Oh, and Utopia Shard I think is probably my favourite of the Shards. It's a card that really needs to be respected. Unlike the other two Shards, it's always going to at least mildly inconvenience the corp, and can be used to help you steal extra agendas or hit Combo pieces from hand (at a tournament last week, the Foundry had searched up a Janus 1.0 and I saw an Oversight AI on RnD... I popped my Utopia shard to try and hit one of the other!).

Honestly this deck looks like it could work with any Anarch ID aside from Noise (retrieval run and lack of viruses). I'd definitely recommend giving this style a go with Reina Roja: Freedom Fighter, Quetzal: Free Spirit, and Edward Kim: Humanity's Hammer when he is released!

The deck is very flexible true... But Whizzard's ability makes it better against Astrobiotic & RP Glacier IMO

Wow. This looks fun. Have you considered Edward Kim as an alternative once he's released?

@unitled: Yes! Utopia Shard has proven to be quite good, I can't think of a better way to spend that point of influence currently. The best part about Inject is that you don't even have to purposefully discard your breakers. I have only overdrawn/Quality Time turn 3 or 4 a few times and then discarded breakers. Inject and Retrieval Run same turn is the real combo early.

@PaxCecilia: Initially when working on this I couldn't decide between Reina Roja: Freedom Fighter and Whizzard: Master Gamer. I have always been a big fan of Reina myself, and while the link is great, and the tax each turn that they rez ICE is great, because of the overwhelming popularity of asset based card draw/economy it just seems like Whizzard has the upper hand currently. That being said, I think Edward Kim: Humanity's Hammer will definitely have his place.

@locusshifter: Definitely considered! I think with Weyland coming back into the spotlight the operation combos will be on the rise, and having the ability to eliminate those pieces from hand or R&D will be huge. The link for traces doesn't hurt either! If you can keep trashing their draw and econ assets, Ed might even be slightly better than Whizzard against NEH Fastrobiotics BS with the ability to dump those Fast Track/Shipment from SanSan/Biotic Labor cards, as well as their burst economy.

Kudos to anyone that making a winning Anarch deck without account siphons!

I totally get how this deck would be a major headache for anyone relying on asset economy, like NEH and RP. But I feel like deck is pretty hard countered by Blue Sun. It has no answers to an early OAI->Curtain Wall, since you need to have built up 5 suckers and installed your Morning Star to deal with that. And every run through a hard-rezzed Curtain Wall is going to require several turns to rebuild. Femme is a one-shot answer which is quickly responded to by Blue Sun's ability, with Retrieval Run as the only way of getting the Femme back online (and that's a lot harder to achieve than it is for Blue Sun to switch it off again.) I think D4v1d is required somewhere in this deck as if you can kill that first Curtain Wall, your rig will walk over the rest of their ice.

@Circadia: Completely agree, Blue Sun is probably the worst matchup for this deck currently. I've been considering using a Corroder for one Morning Star or dumping one copy of Medium/SoT. I really like D4v1d as a breaker, but especially against Blue Sun you are going to need to be recurring it a lot, which makes having the influence for Clone Chip look really good.

Any thoughts about running this deck with Quetzal? Maybe dropping 2xQuality Time for an e3? Quetzal ability+e3 means you can walk all over Curtain Walls and other barriers (not to mention Bioroids).

@Kroen That's a really good point, Curtain Wall and Hadrian's Wall are two bits of ice this deck just doesn't have an answer for at the moment, aside from a whole heap of Datasucker tokens. And they are two bits of ice that are dirt cheap to get through as Quetzal with E3!

It's a shame, as Whizzard is undeniably strong against NEH and horizontal asset economy.

Imp? Granted, MU's a problem. Q-Coherence Chip maybe? no Parasites or Caissas means it's pretty safe.

Here's a revised decklist I made just now: netrunnerdb.com

As far as I can tell, Q Coherence Chip doesn't work with Inject, so it would be trashed straight away.

Your list does look good though @kroen, I'm definitely going to give them both a try.

@Kroen: I like it! I just worry about only 2 e3 Feedback Implants for consistency, because you really need to have two installed to make those Curtain Walls easy to break, and you need to have them out quickly. Losing some card draw dumping the QTs might hurt that ability. What makes the Inject/QT so good is the speed, but maybe I'm wrong! I do think Blue Sun is a problem, and maybe Quetzal: Free Spirit is the answer :-)

You never need more than one e3 installed. Breaking a subroutine with e3 triggers itself.

Good point, sorry it's late. I think @Kroen is on the right track.

Okay, here is my new version: netrunnerdb.com

Requires O&C but that is next week.