Calling the Oracle

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rumirumirumirumi 244

This is the decklist for our FLGS's first Netrunner tournament in late September. It's an Event May deck (get out Oracle May and call "Event" as the card type) without Motivation. Beyond that, the strategy is simply to play the cards in hand as effectively as possible to maintain pressure and make rewarding runs (installing efficient breakers when necessary or as they come available). Levy is there to reset the deck if you end up going through it before scoring the necessary points.

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8 Nov 2014 Elstyr

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8 Nov 2014 rumirumirumirumi

@Elstyr Thanks for the decklist. There's a couple things I notice about your deck that make me think there is a lot of potential for variety in this kind of deck. I notice for instance that you have even fewer non-event cards, which I can attest can add an order of magnitude to the consistency of Oracle May. I found Same Old Thing to be indispensable in this deck, especially with Levy and Indexing, and that PPVP helped leverage the big number of credits I end up having by the mid-game (plus it synergizes well with Ken's ability to off-set the costs of run events).

There's also a bit of different between how these two deck bring trashed cards from the heap with methods that more closely matches the kinds of cards that will be lost there. Test Run and Retrival Run are very good additions if the only cards that are going into the heap from May are programs because they give you free installs (plus Test Run will key you into the program at the top of your deck). I included Retrival run in earlier versions of the deck, but I didn't find myself using it very often (I can see why you would get more utility out of it though, since you don't have Lawyer Up or Express Delivery for card draw to supplement May and keep from trashing non-event cards, which is more of an issue for my deck than for yours anyway). Same Old Thing takes advantage of the fact that most of the heap will be event cards and that having a clutch play will just as likely be a surprise Legwork, Indexing, or Inside Job just as often as it will be having a surprise Garrote.

I like your deck quite a bit and I want to test it out a bit if you don't mind (for instance, I hadn't thought of Bagbiter in this deck, but it makes for some serious SE defense, which is a problem I faced often with this deck (the Decoy is actually an open non-event slot that I've tooled around with Feedback Filters or Networking for SE defense, so I might try Bagbiter in there).

8 Nov 2014 Elstyr

Sure, feel free to test it. I'm happy to hear about your experiences with it. I was quite surprised of how good it was. The key to Theophilius Bagbiter is to load up Kati before you install it or at least to have some money events like Infiltration and Easy Mark that don't cost anything to play.