Made 2nd place on 12 player tournament 24th Apr 2016 in Joensuu, Finland, with Titanama Papers . 12/16 Prestige, with one loss on both sides.

There are loads of different fluffy anecdotes and in-game stories that could be written of this version of MaxX. Instead of going all witty-like, I'll rather just give a bit of a write down of why I chose what I did.

A bit of history: More than a year ago I found myself obsessing over Anarch, and playing other runners was always more of a study of how to play against them, than to learn how to play them per se. Locally (Joensuu, Finland) we have very little going on during autumn seasons, but the spring turns into a Netrunner madhouse.

So, around christmas I started looking around the net for something interesting to play, and found this fun Wyldcakes + Faust MaxX I wanted to try out. Sorry to the author that I can't remember whose innovation it was! Anyway, I had a blast, but didn't have career fairs, so after a few test runs I opted for a more familiar route for myself: Prepaid voice pads.

And, after that inclusion, I soon dropped the Wyldsides as well, but decided to keep Faust. With Inject and MaxX's mandatory stim usage (peeps, that high is intense!) we can keep the skull chomping well enough.

WHY NO CAREER FAIR?

I don't think it combos with MaxX that well to be honest. More often than not MaxX decided that getting a job was too much of a drag during her withdrawal periods, and accounts became more and more hard to liberate.

WHY PREPAID?

I actually tried to drop them in favor of some more synergy with Apocalypse (Aesop's for example), and changed my money package into Queens Gambit and Day Job alone. Granted, it was really clunky, and I opted for the cells just before the tournament (12 players, finished 2nd, 24th Apr 2016). Jobs are boring. Just call your mates and get high instead.

IS THIS AN APOCALYPSE DECK?

No, it isn't. I thought it was, but it really isn't. It's there to help loads if (and when) your economy drops to the withdrawal effects and you can no longer keep with the pace of asset spams. But if you get to flip the table and burst a wee end of the world, it never hurts, and has won me games. Amped Up is there to help pull it off, and Chop Bot 3000 helps with clean up after the mess.

IS THIS FUN TO PLAY?

It's. Tons. Of. Fun!

Seriously, the deck is so obscure even you won't know what you're aiming at most of the time before it's time to do just - well, that. It might go through immense amounts of vicissitude, and end up as something else entirely than what you started with.

The most satisfying cards:

• Prepaid VoidePAD

• Nerve Agent (For days!! This baby will win you games)

• Hacktivist Meeting

• [to an extent] Apocalypse (this is more about the look on your opponent's face than the effect itself)

"R u sure bout that?" inclusions:

• Zuul Keymaster. Yeah, I like to have it, but rarely actually installed it after all. I wonder if there'd be better use for that influence... I remember craving after a Datasucker at the tournie.

• Wanton Destruction. It kinda won me a game, and it's always a severe threat. But getting a Nerve Agent running, and spamming Demolition Run serves as a more efficient HQ destruction device, even though it requires some setting up.

As a final anecdote:

”GAME OVER”

I'm a hacker, and damn good at my job.

It all began months… a week ago, maybe. I don’t know, time’s such a b*tch to keep track of.

During this one sweet stimtrip my and my partner were running this server. Then the suits came.

With one fatal blow, they hit my partner. The currents a blur through my high.

I could tell he was dead straight off.

Before I could jack out, I was hit by lightning and bitten by a cybercobra.

I blacked out. And saw images of ancient Shaolin temples and monks, mastering the art of Hack-Fu.

There was an ancient prophecy, about a new form of Hack-Fu so powerful, only one runner could master it.

The chosen one.

When I woke up, I saw my rig smoking and felt the withdrawal effects in my brain.

I could feel my body mutate into some sort of withdrawal freak of nature.

I needed a fix, so I called my partner. But remembered he was dead. But then at the news the suits informed they’d captured some hacker, and raided my partner’s stash. So, they weren’t dead. But the suits had my fix.

Okay, so that got me real pissed off. I remembered I forgot to return a sweet set of a console from Ji I borrowed once (he’ll be so pissed), so I set them on, dropped the bass and started dialing – I had friends, they had my partner and his stash, and what’s more:

There’s no way I’d start off a day without a killer dose.

Then I wiped the f*king internet clean with explosions. They made a movie about me. Go watch it. I showed them some hell of Hack-Fu.

I’m MaxX-Fury.