Run Leela Run - Mead Hall League Night (20 players)

Prox 171

Won my first league night! Went 2-1 with this deck in 3 rounds of Swiss (3-0 with corp). Only loss was to HB Stronger Together, where I scored 6 points, but then whiffed on multiple Indexing runs and many, many three-card HQ accesses.

Build up econ and get Logos out early. You generally want to let the corp score the first agenda, and then capitalize by bouncing ICE where they are weaker and pulling the appropriate card to capitalize with Logos – Keyhole for R&D, Sneakdoor + HQI for Archives, and Account Syphon and Emergency Shutdown for HQ. I even pulled Plascrete against a Blue Sun deck that I was having a hard time keeping entirely broke. It kept me safe while I worked to Keyhole away other Scorch tech.

Leela plays a bit like Anarch in this respect. You want to be able to put quick and brutally heavy pressure on a single weak target, and milk that until it's no longer viable.

In contrast to other Leela decks, I've moved away from the Security Testing or run-dependent econ route (save for Account Syphon), largely because I want Archives open when I fetch Sneakdoor. You also don't want to give the corp a reason to rez ICE unnecessarily, which these cards tend to do.

Open to suggestions! I feel like Leela is going to be very strong for a while, as corps learn to play around her...and even then she has the benefit of warping how they want to play.

8 comments
21 Nov 2014 siahofmars

how do u get Zu back if u lose it? (example, power shutdown)

21 Nov 2014 Prox

@siahofmars Hmmm...yeah, I try to keep a Faerie on the board, but I might want to shore that weakness up. I don't see much Power Shutdown in my meta, but I'll try finding room for a second one (or Passport at least)

21 Nov 2014 Prox

@siahofmars Hmmm...yeah, I try to keep a Faerie on the board, but I might want to shore that weakness up. I don't see much Power Shutdown in my meta, but I'll try finding room for a second one (or Passport at least)

21 Nov 2014 Prox

@siahofmars Hmmm...yeah, I try to keep a Faerie on the board, but I might want to shore that weakness up. I don't see much Power Shutdown in my meta, but I'll try finding room for a second one (or Passport at least)

21 Nov 2014 siahofmars

yeah , most def, only thing is if u have 1 zu 1 passport, and u want to get in a central and then want to get in a remote and both have codegates, u are using up 2 MU to have both installed and don't have enough then for the other programs keyhole + corroder+faerie+zu alone is all your MU, to fit in a femme and passport will be harder in game without some memory chips

21 Nov 2014 Prox

I think passport would just be my backup in case Zu dies. I wouldnt ever install both at the same time.

Rex might also be an ok backup?

22 Nov 2014 Dydra

You have 3 Hostage to fetch TWO connections in total? wtf? how does that work?

22 Nov 2014 Prox

Two decks posted, two unconstructive, dickhead posts from @Dydra.

You've played this game before, right? Sometimes you run 3 cards because you want to see one pretty early. Ideally I would find my connections in the first few draws, but if I dont I will see a hostage.

I also know that the decks not perfect. Have you tried it or anything similar? If you have thoughts on a better way to get Kati and Mr Li quickly, feel free to share.

But I have a sense that you're uninterested in that. -1 Hostage +1 Troll