Urban Hinky (1st: Game Kastle Santa Clara SC)

Kill 'em dead. A variation of Dan's old Hinky IG. Full disclosure: 6 players in the tournament, and it was awesomely janktastic.

Genotyping is amazing in Industrial Genomics: Growing Solutions. Both parts of it. Urban Renewal isn't as great as it seems, but still good, especially with a surprise Chairman Hiro rez if they decide to tank the damage.

90% of the time you ice Archives first. You don't really care if they steal agendas, and you only score to do damage or to clear Hacktivist Meeting.

It runs poor, very poor. You pay for: Snare!, one or two Ice, Whampoa Reclamation, a Psi game or two, and a couple credits for other assets (Hostile Infrastructure should be paired with Breaker Bay Grid if at all possible.) Often the runner gives you all the credits you need with Peace in Our Time.

Many games end with Dedication Ceremony onto Ronin after taking their hand down to 2 or less (takes 2 credits to fire.)

Expect to do a lot of drawing. Overdrawing is the easiest way to fill Archives, but over-installs work too. Sadly there aren't very many good draw cards for Corps nowadays. No Jackson, no Sensie. On the other hand, the runner loses out on a lot that they had back then, too. Much worse econ, no Whizzard, no Siphon, no Medium, and no Wyldside.

Rough overview of the 3 games I played:

Game 1: Versus Sunny, which is a pretty great matchup for this deck. I start the game with a brutal Scarcity of Resources. I proceed to overwhelm her with a multitude of assets. I end the game with Ronin + Dedication Ceremony.

Game 2: Versus Quetzal Fear the Masses combo. I gamble that an early Scarcity of Resources will mess up his setup, risking a counter-current of Hacktivist Meeting, and it pays off (turns out he isn't running Hacktivist). Net damage disruption messes up his ability to assemble a combo, and I end the game with Ronin + Dedication Ceremony once he drops below 3 cards.

Game 3: Versus MaxX God of War/Counter-Surveillance/By Any Means/Recursion/Duggars/Severnius Implants/Levy. I try to stick Hostile Infrastructures as much as possible; he tries to keep up. Costs him too much tempo and money, and Genetics Pavilion makes Duggars real sad until trashed. He ends up running out of a stack and misjudges his Levy recursion, making death inevitable.

Meanwhile my Apex deck (slight variation on the old DotW) went 2-1.

I would consider -1 Snare! just because I hate paying 4 credits, but you need to keep at least one to punish overaggressive running with a small hand. Trading out an Urban Renewal or two is fine if you add a Dedication Ceremony, as it's very often the win condition (alongside Ronin.) Urban Renewal just adds a high-threat trash, essentially Bio-Ethics Association #4-5. The Houses of Knives proved inconsequential, so cutting them for more space could work. Going -3 Braintrust, -3 House of Knives, +3 Bacterial Programming would be nice once it's released. Just beware Hacktivist, which is brutal.