拷問 (Gōmon)

noun

拷問

torture, rack, third degree

Not to be mistaken with Goemon, which is a different weird-ass Japanese thing.

This deck 4-0'd in the Atomic Empire SC (unfortunately my runner deck was a dumpster fire so I didn't make the cut) and has killed everyone I've played online with it, including plenty of Dumbleforks. It can kill fast like PE or do the slow grindy game that everyone hates IG for. That said, I've never had a game longer than about half an hour with it and it typically wins very fast. My rounds were consistently the quickest at the SC.

Win conditions/Gameplay:

Ronin is the best. Rez Ronin if they end on two cards, Neural-Ronin if they have 3, Rez Hiro-Neural-Ronin if they don't check all your remotes, double Ronin if you're nasty. It was responsible for all of my flatlines during the SC.

Against careless runners, Snare and Fetal do as much work as always. Ditto Overwriter and Junebug. The best play is Mushin/Advance to make every Mushin terrifying.

Hide the agendas. Toss them in archives and shuffle them in with museum when the time is right. Otherwise recycle snares and econ. Hold one or two in your hand, ideally Fetals. You can pretty much leave a TFP in archives once you make it spiky enough with Shocks/Shi Kyus if you feel confident in PSI games.

Regarding archives: draw a bunch early and only play a card if you think the matchup warrants it (IE Sealed Vault vs Criminal). Otherwise dump a bunch of cards in the bin. An opening hand/first draw with Jackson is perfect. No one wants to pay 7 to trash him early. Never pay more than 1 for Shi Kyu, you just want it to be another source of needles. If they take more than 1 as a negative point and don't have a way to pawn it off the game gets way easier to win.

Conclusion:

It's basically a PE deck that replaces the agenda cuts with inevitability. You can't deck IG with Museums without getting incredibly lucky/rich. If you can play PE you can play this, and you'll probably like it.

Have fun, no one else will.