Something Old Something Blue

This is the most current version of a deck I have been playing for the last couple of months ever since the dark age of Netrunner (read:IG alliance decks) reared its ugly head.

My original concept for the deck was just to make a template for a historically solid deck archtype and swap in hard meta counters as i felt they were needed. I also use this to experiment with lesser played and usually under rated cards, in order to come to a better understanding of how the criminal card pool can best be applied to the current meta.

The frame is of course the andy sucker-run economy list that has been remarkably successful in the past for quite sometime. So some of the staple cards we won't cover here as they have been talked about quite a bit already. The only additions to that template are 3x Temujin Contract, 1x Political Operative, and 6x Exclusive party. Currently I am testing the deck without Sure Gamble as lately I really don't feel its added anything significant to the econ since TC has come into existence.

The meta slots are 2x NACH, 2x Fall guy, 1x Employee strike, 2x Film Critic. Tags are extremely dangerous as tag punishment and tagging mechanisms have become really powerful. Generally the deck will start extremely fast and aggressive but against Controlling the Message, SYNC and other tag storm decks, I have been finding that starting hands with these cards, or playing towards the mid-long game have been best. Because NACH is in the deck I also feel safer running John Masanori for obvious reasons. Because of traces and killing coming into fashion I also find having 2x Sports Hopper a good include as well.

Multi Access is slim but I have 1x The turning wheel and 1x Legwork as well as SOT. This is something that I am currently solving for.

This current build is also experimenting with a new breaker suite. With how fast decks are becoming I am attempting to double down on efficiency as well as combat glacier decks that also exist in the meta. Shrike and Striker allow for greater flexibility against low strength high sub barriers such as Spider Web or NEXT Bronze, and with datasuckers and pheromones the cost can be reduces. Also because they are cloud if I have a sports hopper I can install 2 more of either program. This also has the added effect of creating incentive for purges from the corp which can slow them down a bit. Golden we are merely attempting to see how it works against the field. typically i only use its derez ability against higher cost sentries such as assassin, archer, Sherlock 2.0 etc.

Overall the deck has won me quite a few games, which is not suprising the hardest part comes in changing around the meta slots as the metagame changes.

I would also like to bring back in some of the fringe cards that have been surprisingly good int he past. Cards like enhanced vision, three-steps. I am anticipating that CBI raid may be useful in the future and would like to test it out in here as well...

Thanks for reading and I apologize for the lack of obligatory pic...I'll try better when I update the deck in the future...