Wait, no neural's?! 1st Manchester gnk

lilelia 323

Took this and a Sunny to Manchester gnk, going 3-1 in Swiss and 1-0 in cut with this, beating off-campus geist (1 levy), reaver geist (2 levies), leela (didn't see their restricted card), and Sunny (employee strike), and losing to hayley (clone chip). 2 of my wins were to decking, 2 to my opponent being unable to steal obokata, though I swear blind neither of those is the point of the deck. 1 of my wins would have been a loss if my opponent hadn't graciously let me take back a really silly mistake.

The deck came about as me trying to work out how to do glacier jinteki now that my go-to rp was gone. I decided that pu might be the way to go. You can take annoying to break ice like Mausolus and Aiki and actually get the runner to break them because they don't want to take damage. You can make them spend 3 on their filter/caldera after passing Kakugo. You can score unexpected Niseis with Shipment from Tennin because they think it's a trap and don't run. You can rush early using their fear against them then build horrible servers late game. The deck works largely because people didn't know how to play against it. In a previous tournament an Alice beat it just by ignoring my bluffs, eating all the net damage on ice, and good ol' fashioned anarch pressuring me.

2 comments
11 Dec 2017 Sunyavadin

Do not like seeing my Employee Strikes and Power Taps hit the bin. Not in Sunny. Well deserved 1st though. Our first game after the cut was super hard for me the whole way through.

11 Dec 2017 lilelia

Hard for you?! I was facing a 50 card deck with filter, nexus, and shedloads of drip :P