Poetic Justice

Card draw simulator
Odds: 0% – 0% – 0% more
Repartition by Cost
Repartition by Strength
Derived from
None. Self-made deck here.
Inspiration for
Hyperspatial Express Route (4-0-1, 3rd @ Denver Megacity)
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Diogene 4844

Finish game by turn 10, overwhelm the runner by installing 4 cards per turn and punish them for being successful.

Game plan : Score out fast or flatline the runner. The deck allow 4 points to be scored usually by turn 6. Once at that point, Measured Response is a real threat.

Mulligan plan : Assets in hand. Yes, we install a lot of stuff before we protect ourselves.

Poetic Justice

The goal is to go fast. The runner might guess that we are light on ices and that we intend to spam assets and agendas on the board. This is where Measured Response come to life. The idea is that if the runner check everything, they cannot setup properly. If they don't check everything, we can score 4 points from the board. Then, as soon as the conditions allows, we can use Measured Response to flatline the runner. If the runner does not run, we can continue scoring. This deck can score out as soon as turn 7. Poétrï identity really help with going fast.

After multiple wins with the deck, I can say that it works. There are matchups that are more difficult. Azimat makes our life difficult, as we cannot tax the runner as much and Stoneship Chart Room is an amazing card against kill conditions. Which means that control shaper are more difficult to deal with. Anarchs and criminals are normal matchup. In general, MuslihaT had better games, because of the draw. Anarch being generally more poor made them easier to flatline, unless they trashed every Measured Response we have.

Fun combo to unlock :

The speed of the deck is not about just installing cards, it is about drawing as many cards as you install. There is something there to explore further.

I'm sure this deck can be improved. So far, I've rejected Big Deal, but if we let go of Measured Response for Your Digital Life and maybe replace Otto Campaign by Regolith Mining License, then it might be possible to go really fast. Or maybe Vulnerability Audit could be used? Maybe using the Djupstad Grid + Ontological Dependence package? There are other possibilities. I am certain other creative players will find ways to make the idea behind this deck even better.

Shoutout to ThanosPKC for discussing the deck with me, helping me refine this deck.

Cheers!

8 comments
24 May 2025 ThanosPKC

Nice to see you posting this one. Great writeup!

25 May 2025 Mancini

Just got back into Netrunner and I'm loving your deck. A couple questions though. Why Drafter? I've been running Bumi 1.0 instead as trojan hate (missed opportunity to have the bioroid be a horse) and it's helped a lot with getting rid of obnoxious Botuluses. I know that Drafter installs and whatnot but I feel like getting a potential core damage is more valuable. Yes, the runner can click, which brings me to my next point: why not Mr. Hendrik? I swapped the 3 Humanoid Resources (never really got any use out of it) for 3 Hendriks and they've been splendid with reducing runner hand size to 3 so a single Measured Response can finish the job. Finally, why Élivágar Bifurcation instead of Aggressive Trendsetting? Is the ability to fast advance that much more important than getting the slowdown from AT?

25 May 2025 Diogene

@ThanosPKC thanks!

@Mancini those are valid considerations. I went for going fast. I could see Aggressive Trendsetting as a good replacement. For Bumi 1.0, it is more of a meta consideration. If you face a lot of Anarch, then it is better than Drafter, but Drafter has a reasonable facecheck that really push our gameplan forward, but both would be good. Finally, in my trials, Humanoid Resources was great every time. But I can see your point about Mr. Hendrik. Personaly, I would rather take out Warm Reception.

As @ThanosPKC discussed with me earlier, the real test for this deck would be to play it as an open decklist. And I think that your changes would allow the deck to be used with an open decklist.

Thanks for the suggestions. Cheers!

25 May 2025 Council

If I showed you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

26 May 2025 Buppu2099

This looks great. Thanks for posting the list. I do believe Asset-Spam is the way forward for Poetri. I will experiment a bit with toxic additions like Bladderwort and Aggresive Trendsetting.

26 May 2025 Diogene

@Council Better yet, where your friends and 'em? I really wanna know you all

@Buppu2099 Bladderwort is an interesting proposition, it would reduce the number of Measured Response (take out one to get 2 Bladderwort), but it would slow the runner.

Recently, I've found that Nightmare Archive is fairly good at either extending the game or creating kill conditions. Food for thoughts?

Cheers!

27 May 2025 Buppu2099

@Diogene First of all, this deck works amazing. First trials of this deck I was able to squeeze out 2 wins in a row on casual j-net. For a monkey of my skill-level, this is massive.

Not sure about Bladderwort , I think it did a thing, put some pressure on the runner, but it does not advance the game plan that much. The Measured responses did not show up, or got trashed on sight.

I cooked up a few different versions, one with Gaslight to hook you up with the Measured responses when needed. It is also an asset, because this deck is hungry for more stuff to throw on the table.

Slots are tight, but Warm reception might be optional in favor of a triple Mr Hendrik. At least for me the Warm reception did not do much, except be an installable asset.

This could lead to an interesting prison-type build for Poetri.

Other cards to consider:

Active Policing. is a real good boy. Gives an install, goes nicely with Humanoid Resources, Mr Hendrik, puts pressure on the runner and sometimes works like a reverse fast advance, maybe?

Front office, for prison shenanigans.

Your digital life, because hand size sometimes explodes. But slots and influence are tight.

@Mancini I agree with you about the Aggresive trendsetting, it does a LOT of heavy lifting for this deck. Makes the runner consider twice about ruining your delicate farm of assets and sometimes leads to a 4 click turn. Win-win.

Question: How to handle runners that go all in on the centrals and pull a Deep Dive ? My only answer is to go faster, sometimes an insane turn of 7 installs do occur. That's pretty damn fast.

27 May 2025 Diogene

@Buppu2099 I think Mr. Hendrik is a good call. So far, it felt like my worse card was Otto Campaign. It is a trash on sight that at best gave me 2. Amazing when it fire, but unprotected, it is lost the turn after I rez it. This might be replaced.

I'll try replacing Red Level Clearance by Active Policing, it might be a good way to get an install and slow the runner.

For Deep Dive, I think Mr. Hendrik is a good tech, if you install it on a central server.

There is a path, we will find it! Cheers!