Leela Only Loses to Sol (2nd & 3rd place SoCal SCs)

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This deck took 2nd in an Orange County SC, earning me a bye as I was defeated by SoCal's threepeat champion @raphaeln and his NRDB deck of the week Sol Glacier (https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/41050/sol-glacier-1st-place-at-shuffle-cut-sc-la-habra-ca). Before that, we carpooled down to San Diego and I took third place, with Leela only losing to another Sol deck, @phette23 's (https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/40864/how-i-met-your-midseasons). Though it's worth noting that in San Diego, I also kicked that Sol's butt in Swiss :P. In OC, I did not get a chance to run against Raphael again as I had to corp against him twice in the cut.

Leela is my favorite ID, and I think she's actually a valid choice over Andy given that she shores up your weakest matchup (glacier), while hurting you against a matchup you should win anyway (CtM). Aaron Marron made Leela even better, because now if you steal an agenda in the 2nd or 3rd click and bounce the ice on HQ, you can still siphon on the last click and clear tags. The SoCal meta is very competitive, so I'm quite happy with how well this deck did - I was eliminated as corp in all of my SC cuts!

With Daedalus Complex out, I think Mad Dash is definitely worth including, and Exploit may be, but I'm not 100% sure what cards to cut for them.

5 comments
6 Mar 2017 phette23

deck acronym is LOLs, just pointing that out

also can testify to this deck being a beast, & I think the win over my Sol was like 8-0

6 Mar 2017 moistloaf

Only here to point out the acronym as well

7 Mar 2017 scd

lol2sol

11 Mar 2017 Cyberzack

Cool deck! I agree that Leela is right on par with Andy right now. One thing i find interesting is both medium and tapwrm together. In an andy deck that I was playing i was thinking that wrm isn't as good because they will probably be purging the medium regardless - but now that I think about it, if your position is dominant enough that they are purging your medium out - you probably dont need the wrms to stick around and are starting to want that M.U. back anyway.

12 Mar 2017 Ebrey

@CyberzackI used to run 1 Tapwrm, but it's so good I upped it to 2. Most of the time the corp either immediately purged, giving me a free turn, or I got 20+ credits from it. Obviously don't install it if you have a Medium with counters on it already, but since Medium is a one of, I often didn't install it until late game after the Tapwrms had done there work and helped me set up.