Criminally Minded (Top 8 Australian Nationals)

I played this deck and made top eight at Australian Nationals, so I guess I should post it? Nothing new really. Mostly a meta call, I expected to see a lot of CTM and Sync and when I did, this deck performed. I feel like this deck has a decent match up against the current flavour of yellow, while it can still deal with glacier. NEXT ice is a problem but if you put your thinking hat on, you can find solutions.

Took a lot of inspiration from @hasuprotoss. Extremely similar to @Stephenball's list. Extremely similar to every Andysucker out there. Why not.

• Passport

Crucial for problematic ice on centrals. A well timed purge can shut you out without this lil guy. Also fun to drop this to encourage the corp to rez a bunch of low strength code gates that you then invalidate with your Yog.0.

• Rebirth

This card can have crazy impact, but I'd rather have this influence point go to a Turning Wheel. The obvious rebirth is Leela. Leela bounce is scary and disruptive but I feel like the strongest Leela plays are not always the strongest Andromeda plays. Temujin pressure means you want to be facechecking aggressively to make corp over commit to rezzing ice, which messes with Leela's gameplan. You really want to set up stuff like Sneakdoor turns after bounces, which is awkward with a Sucker/Medium rig.

• Yog.0

I feel like you need to have a cheap answer to Tollbooth right now. If you get a strong economic start against a CTM deck, you can easily contest the assets all day making taxing you out through slamming stuff in the remote one of their only outs. Two sucker tokens and three credits is a good way to make checking the remote for the potential Breaking News\SanSan less annoying. Paying through it with a Gordian or Zu over and over again adds up.

• Femme Fatale

Femme the goddamn tollbooth. Woo!

• Networking

Does so much work against CTM/Sync. If you see this in your opening hand against Sync with a decent amount of econ - keep it. This card has easily saved me over 20 credits in some games. Throws off Hard-Hitting News calculations, so you can often bait the corp into landing a trace that will break them, but will only cost your four clicks and credits. In a less tag-heavy meta, these probably become an Emergency Shutdown and a Same Old Thing.

• Sports Hopper

Useful against IG, useful against CTM. Sometimes going tag-me against CTM is the right play, especially if you can deny econ, have a medium out and RnD ice is mostly tagging sentries. Hopper makes paying the Resistor trace less painful, not to mention finding even just one of these makes the CTM trace laughable. Expensive, but a lot of power and utility.

• Medium

Medium/Temujin/Sec Testing is disgusting. Gain tempo while you RnD lock. Continue to threaten the remote while you see a million cards, eventually forcing the purge. Amazing.

• Temujin Contract

If you see a turn 1 Temujin and RnD and Archives are open, I'd still consider targeting Archives. The archives pressure is massively disruptive and is worth more than the one free access you will see off RnD. Making Corp rez ice on Archives before they can build a remote or comfortably rez ice on other centrals is huge. This is not only a way to get rich, it's a way to mess with the corp's ice spread. Obviously a bonkers card.

Just some thoughts. Fun to pilot!