DLeelaR (1st Place @ Total Escape Games Summer)

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CrimsonWraith 3638

Just posting for posterity. This remains a very experimental build that I'm attempting to learn the ins and outs of. I'd only played the deck twice prior to winning yesterday's tournament with it, but I figured my DLR Hayley and DLR Val experience would carry over.

I'm not sure Plascrete deserves a slot, the idea was to give me another layer of protection in the event that Paparazzi goes down after I've gone tag-me. Despite an installed Plascrete, I still died to Punitive and Scorch following a Government Takeover steal against Blue Sun - my only loss with this deck on the day.

I elected for pure burst card draw, taking Diesel, Fisk Investment Seminar, and Earthrise over Drug Dealers. Just an experiment after frequently emptying my 50-card Valencia deck w/Drug Dealers and Street Peddlers. I still have mixed feelings over both.

On the pure jank side of things, we have Activist Support and a single Blackmail. Activist Support was a rash decision influenced by All Seeing I absolutely destroying me in one of the first two games I played with this archetype. It didn't get installed a single time over the course of the tournament and they (Supports + Blackmail) were an absolute waste of four influence and three card slots.

While I ultimately installed DLR in every game I played, there was really only one game that I even used it more than a handful of times. Interestingly enough, as soon as I installed Fall Guy, everyone correctly guessed I was playing the DLR suite of resources. This made players attempt to play faster and rush agendas out, which resulted in more traditional Leela snowball victories. A standard Desperado Leela deck with influence spent on multi-access cards would have been much more effective than the DLR suite in this tournament; although the Corps would have played more cautiously had they not seen the DLR suite, so who knows.

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2 Nov 2015 Dothanite

Very interesting build of DLR Leela. I've been piloting my version based off of Greyfield's original list for a month now to great success.

I understand your gripe about Fisk Investment Seminar vs Drug Dealer. I took my FIS out and replaced it with 2 DD and 1 Gang Sign (my original list didn't have a Gang Sign in it). Better against FA/rush decks, which is why I made the change. Diesels and Earthrise Hotels will always stay in my deck as they have proven their worth time and time again.

I agree with the Activist Support splash being a waste of influence. By the time you have it set up the board has been built.

How often did you install your central breakers? why did you choose to take out Alias? I install mine once every five games or so.

Congrats on the win! I split top two in a 15-man GNK two weeks ago. It was a fun list losing once against PE.

5 Nov 2015 CrimsonWraith

Tough to judge by a single tournament, but my breakers did absolutely nothing for me on this particular day. Nobody iced Archives, so I never had to install stuff to get DLR on the table. Once people saw DLR, they rushed out agendas with single ice remotes, which I abused with Inside Job in a couple games (which was lucky, needs to be more than one copy in the deck). Gang Sign(s) grabbed me an agenda in every game I won.

More than once, I got the snowball effect where the Corp scored an agenda to trigger Gang Sign, which gave me an agenda, which resulted in two Leela bounces and completely clearing out a server of my choosing, (because nobody stacked more than 2 ice on a server against me) which led to me pulling another agenda out of the central server w/no ice, which let me bounce another ice... You get the idea. I profited off some ridiculous snowballs in multiple games.

You can blame the Corps for not icing their servers deeply. You can credit me for using FIS to draw them a ton of cards before they had the credits to do something with them. You can blame the RNG for some silly agenda floods. You can credit DLR for making the Corp feel like they had to rush agendas out before they were properly set-up to counter Leela's ability. It's like Leela disappeared from the meta for a couple months and folks forgot how to play against her. Whatever the case, I didn't need a single breaker all day.

That said, I think I'll stick with the current breaker suite... The bulk of your accesses are strictly for getting Siphons off, and Eater is all you need for that. Breach is there almost solely to drop Wraparounds to 0 strength. Alias could be useful if more folks here played Swordsman, but I haven't seen it with this build yet.