New and Improved Andy (3-0 at GNK)

BizTheDad 213

This is my Andy deck that I've tweaked for what seems like forever now. I recently piloted it to my first ever GNK win.

I can't imagine will surprise too many people. However, I've included a couple cards that you'll find in traditional criminal decks I think help against some of the more popular corp decks right now.

I almost always play Emergency Shutdown. It helps against so many nasty pieces of ICE: DNA Tracker, Chiyashi, Fairchild 3.0, Tollbooth, etc. Sometimes I'll use it against four and five cost ICE after I Siphon just to make the credit swing that much bigger. On the Lam is one of the most versatile cards I've used since I started playing Netrunner. I almost always use it. Wanna run a Mushin'ed card but scared of taking the brain damage? On the Lam to the rescue! Wanna Siphon on click three? On the Lam to the rescue! Have Aaron installed with counters but scared of getting 24/7 Shutdown BOOM!'ed? On the Lam to the rescue! Worried about that potential Ronin on the board? On the Lam to the Rescue! In short, I'm a fan if you couldn't tell.

Regarding my decision on the connections, I decided to go two Hostage's instead of more copies of Aaron (such a stupidly powerful card) because I think it makes the deck better against a wider range of match-ups. Kati helps so much against glacier match-ups while Johnny helps so much against kill decks and asset spam match-ups. With two Hostage's in the deck it felts like I have three of each of those connections. It only sucks when one of them gets trashed because I play stupid.

I included Corroder instead of Paperclip because I needed the influence. I included Breach because program redundancy in Criminal does a body good.

If you decide to give it a go and it doesn't work out for you, then one of my friends designed this deck and I just stole it from him. Enjoy!

2 comments
4 Feb 2017 DarkMite2

Congrats on 1st win. =) I'll definitely try your deck. Could 1x of Rebirth be swapped of 1x of Employee Strike? Or is Employee Strikethat solid? It's the choice of you getting to change your ID permanently or the Corp temporarily. Thoughts?

4 Feb 2017 BizTheDad

I played with Rebirth for a long time. I stopped playing with it because I couldn't consistently find it and even when I did I never thought it made that much of an impact. I found myself wanting to see EStrike more consistently as that helps with so many matchups. However, Rebirth is still a strong card.