SL Snare (7th out of 9 Store Champs GamesHub Edinburgh)

This deck was built around the idea that Enhanced Login Protocols triggers Seidr Laborities’ ability. I wanted something that would dissuade a runner from running on R&D simply by taking a Snare out of archives, putting it on top of R&D and looking my opponent in the eye and saying: “Do you wish to continue?”.

It wasn’t till I sat down across from first opponent of a local store championship (GamesHub Edinburgh 28/05/17), we both looked at my identity and he said “Oh Seidr Laborities? I’m curious to see how this works.” Smugly I replied, “Yeah it really stings when Enhanced Login protocols is out.” To which, a nearby spectator chimed in: “Yeah, that doesn’t work…”

sigh

The only sting that day was the amount of losses I racked up. I later double checked the FAQs and saw the following clarification on Heinlein Grid:

“Q: If the Corp has an active Enhanced Login Protocol, does it trigger the ability on a Heinlein Grid?

A: No. The additional click is spent to initiate the run, and is not spent during the run.”

Without the constant ability to recur operations/snares/good stuff this deck becomes a rather mediocre glacier with a blank identity card. I ended up limping through with 2 wins corp side and (both of which was by the skin of my and some lucky snares), it was like playing with one hand tied behind my back. I finished 7th out of 9...

So, this deck isn’t out there for anyone else to try, I don’t expect any one to ever look at this deck. But for one brief moment I thought I really had something that might be competitive deck.

7/10 would play again.