Gang Sign Noise (draft)

This is a Joseki cube draft deck I made at Kingdom Con in San Diego. You draft the whole card pool as 3-ofs (if you get a card, no one else does, & you can play 1-per-deck cards as 3-ofs). You draft IDs but don't obey influence limitations.

I first-picked Noise in the ID draft & never looked back. I've always wanted to try out Noise in a legacy environment with the new viruses & I suspected corps wouldn't have the recursion to protect against his ability.

My first two picks were Cache & Aesop's, literally the two cards I wanted most, so I was already golden. Timmy Wong was passing to me & had gifted me Geist in the ID draft, then worried about giving me Spy Cams & other Geist fuel, but I never considered that ID. After those two first picks, I was freed up to focus on value picks like Diesel, the baby, & Harbinger.

I tried to get a greedy wheel on Yusuf which I really wanted but it failed, definitely a mistake. Gustavo Garcia was on my other side & passed me Parasite, Déjà Vu, & Grimoire in three consecutive packs, which blew my mind. He was busy taking Medium & Knobkierie for himself. Figuring I was already a "stall out & avoid real Netrunner" deck, I grabbed the Gang Sign/HQI combo as further central pressure & also landed remote pressure in Run Amok & a great card in eXer. People haven't played enough against eXer apparently because no one even bothered to purge it off the board.

Noise is hard to pull off in draft & I was ecstatic to do it this well. The deck was so strong I actually cut the baseline 2x Sure Gamble 1x Armitage Codebusting we started with, which felt great. I still somehow managed to lose a close game to @WestonOdom where I discarded my first Grimoire because of an awkward draw & then couldn't insta-Parasite Komainu to get the accesses I needed later.