How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BOOM!

This deck is a direct rip from this deck: https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/40867/better-weyland. My changes were adding News Hound.

I took this deck to the FFG store championship on 2/25/17 and placed 2nd. Having played in a couple store championships before I knew I'd face a lot of regular Criminal and Anarch and that's exactly what happened. I think this deck excels at getting past matchups with runners that either run poor or depend on run economy.

On the day I went 6-3 with this deck with two of the losses being ID's. All the wins were kills. Here's a rundown of the matchups:

• Round 1 I face an Andy. I score a PriReq behind a double News Hound remote. The scoring attempt was nothing more than an attempt to get him to dip low on credits. He does just that. Enter Bryan and I go up to a million credits. Eventually he gets another agenda and I Midseason him and kill him.

• Round 2 I face another Andy. Round two he dips below six credits. Enter Bryan and I go up a million credits. He's VERY scared to run at that point which lets me score a Restructured Datapool. Having a million credits I can simply start tagging him. After two turns he gets three tags and I kill him

After round 2 I'm 4-0 and my opponents and I simply want to ID to get into the top 8 cut.

Top 8 1st Game: I kill a Hate Bear Whizzard player who goes tag me early by simply BOOM!'ing him.

Top 8 2nd Game: I kill a Sifr Kate player by getting a TM out early and calling Magnum. He gives me the ten credits which allows me to score a Restructured Datapool early. He knows he's on a clock at this point so he hail Mary's on R&D getting him one agenda. I Midseason and kill him after that.

Top 8 3rd Game: I play runner and beat the CTM player that I eventually play in the finals.

In the finals I'm playing against TheBigBoy's Whizzard and CTM.

Finals Game 1: I lose with my runner against his CTM.

Finals Game 2: I get up on money early. He loses a bit of tempo putting down Wyldside/Pancakes. I play out a naked agenda and he steals it. I play Hedge Fund and Midseason him for 6 tags leaving him at zero credits. I can't find Bryan, BOOM! or Consulting Visit to save my life. Meanwhile he's starting to claw his way back up and gets down to one tag and 8 credits. On my turn I Reversed Accounts him down to zero and I HHN him given he made a run. Now he's back down to zero and has five tags. Still can't find all the cards built around taking advantage of that exact situation though... I have one credit left and he's on 3 points. He runs R&D knowing he's on clock. I only have an unrezzed Data Raven on R&D and he steals one and then another for the win. I was pretty crushed.

Thanks to all the people I played against on the day. As always all the people were great. And thanks to everyone for all the complements on the deck. I need to give all the credit to Erik_Twice on that.

Here's some changes I would make: - I'm going to ditch the Sub Boost as it did pretty much nothing on the day. I'm simply going to add in another Sweeps. - I think 2 Data Wards might be a bit much. I might remove one of those for the third News Hound.