Flood the Zone (3rd at Summer Showdown)

The "flood the zone" strategy, often used in politics, refers to overwhelming opponents or the media with a barrage of information, policies, and announcements at a rapid pace, aiming to make it difficult for them to respond or properly scrutinize the actions.

If you've played any Netrunner since the release of Elevation you've probably noticed that Corporations are in a strange spot. A wide range of runner strategies seem to be performing quite well. Corporations however have struggled to find much success using typical play patterns. The pressure exerted by a strong and varied runner side of the field has made it difficult for anyone to find a Corporation that actually feels good.

When most of my Corps were getting run over by Seb, DD Sable, and Magdalene all at once I knew it was time to go back to the drawing board. I started thinking about playing Measured Response in every non-Weyland faction with the rationale that Corp was bad and cheesing wins off of unsuspecting runners may actually be one of the most reliable paths to victory. Shoutouts to the Pravdivost players in the cut who also seem to have reached a similar conclusion and followed it to a different outcome.

Suddenly it all clicked. Thule. Measured Response. Core Damage.

The goal here is to move the game to the remote servers as quickly as possible. Ideal cards to have in an opening hand include: Wage Workers, Bladderwort, Warm Reception, Working Prototype and Spin Doctor.

Most of your early turns should be installing as many new remotes as you can, crippling the runner economically should they try to trash everything or making them pay the price for ignoring it if they choose to build their own board.

Use Warm Reception to derez a Spin Doctor at the start of every turn while installing more cards. Drawing 2 each time you rerez the Spin Doctor fuels repeat installs.

By midgame you usually reach a state where you and the runner are both broke and you can start spamming agendas on the table naked. If the runner takes them and pays the Thule tax they likely can't stop your assets from snowballing and we want them on Threat 4 anyways.

If they don't run your Ingatan, advance it 4 times with Wage Workers and then reinstall a Bladderwort at the end of the turn that your opponent trashed earlier. They often succumb to learned helplessness and just let them tick away.

The Suffering is the Point

After being successful with this list and looking at other high performing Corp decks in the cut, it's clear things are being pushed in a pretty degenerate direction. I'm not sure what the answer is but I'm already anxiously awaiting a ban list update.