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This is the Runner Deck that took me to 3rd at the 13 man Realms of Gaming Store Championships today. The deck went 3-2 on the day over the course of swiss and the cut. I agonized a lot over which runner deck to take today. For most of my competitive career in netrunner, I have favored shaper. I like having access to what I need when I need it. I have managed to pilot Anarch decks with some small success though, and I was seriously considering taking it this time as well, with Sifr having just been released. I tried 3 varieties of Whizzard and a Valencia deck, all running Sifr, and all seemed strong. However, they were all missing one crucial element, I wasn't having fun playing them! I had always wanted to try Smoke but hadn't gotten around to it yet. So I threw this together a few days before the tournament and had a blast with it online. I decided to go with what I enjoyed and it payed off.
As far as the deck itself, it is pretty standard for Smoke, apart from Legwork. I was a big fan of Prepaid Kate back in the day, and one of my favorite things about that deck was having legwork for hq pressure when needed. Notably, I also elected to include no silver bullets in my deck (plascrete, film critic, etc.) other than clot. This is because I expected most of the field to be HB with Friends in High Places, with most of the CTM players scared of by the threat of Aaron Marron. Though I was correct in my CTM assessment, I ended up not facing any HB that day.
I was pretty pleased with my performance and with this deck as a whole. Most importantly I had fun playing today, and as a bonus made the cut for the first time at a store championship.
Here were the matchups:
R1 vs Sync w/Boom: There wasn't much hope for this game when by turn 3 there were 2 scored Breaking News and I had accessed 24/7 in hand already. I made it a fight and got to 5 points before I died a fiery death.
R2 vs Butchershop NEH: I was starting to regret not having Plascrete in my deck at this point. However, I managed to avoid dieing to a Psychic Field/Prisec server (yay for accessing Prisec first randomly!), snipe some random naked installed Beales, and use a timely legwork to close this one out for a win.
R3 vs Potential Unleashed: The matchup I didn't want. Not only did I know that I wasn't favored in this one, but I also knew that this was piloted by my wife, who is REALLY good at Cambridge style net damage decks, which this was (she made top 8 at a regional a year or so ago with a PE deck that went undefeated in swiss). I was lucky in this one, playing it really careful and getting a good read on what was safe to run and what wasn't. A good indexing helped me narrowly walk away from this one.
R4 vs Palana: At this point, my opponent and I were both on the bubble for top 4 with the same record, and he has already beaten my corp. I know I need a win here to have a shot, and since its Palana I think I can pull it off. Things start to look grim when he scores an early Nisei Mk II while I am setting up. I also fail to get the philotic from his hand with legwork after he fast tracks for it and that gets scored too. Fortunately for me, his R&D is kind and through a combination of Indexing and lucky random accesses over a few turns, I put this one away. I ended up 3rd in Swiss and he ended up 5th, just missing the spot.
Cut vs Potential Unleashed: After winning one and losing one as corp, I find myself running against a different Potential Unleashed deck piloted by a friend of mine. This one is focused on Batty shenanigans to disrupt the board and Ark Lockdown to eliminate threats from the heap. I get super unlucky on random accesses as my deck whittles away, and eventually lose my Dagger to a random mill followed by Ark Lockdown. With that gone, there is nothing to protect against things like Cobra and Cortex Lock and I die a slow painful death, ending my Store Championship at third.
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