Laurazmari - 1st and undefeated at Reading CO

aka corrupted pigeon aka they're slipping again

Card choices

Similar to Pigeon Fighter, this deck plays 8 agendas with 3 Bellona and synergy with Seamless Launch. The agenda suite is incredibly resilient. Half the points are gated by a steep credit tax which is tricky to handle if Artificial Cryptocrash gets scored. Tomorrow's Headline gives a tag on steal which helps the tag plan. 15 Minutes is most often worth 0 for the runner unless they can win the same turn as they steal it. A key omission is Offworld Office but follows one of the premises of the deck: a poor runner is better than a rich corp.

To ensure runners stay poor, we use the full set of Economic Warfare and all our ice taxes credits. Or gives tags but that is even better. There are only 2 tag punishment cards with a single BOOM! and a single Market Forces. With 44 cards and 2 Gaslight this doesn't feel like a problem in practice. Once the runner is buried in tags, you should find BOOM! asap to win. Market Forces helps making sure that the runner doesn't recover, providing the corp with both scoring windows and time to find BOOM! I'm not sure this deck has an out vs Misdirection though but shapers are rare at the moment.

How to play

This deck is very similar to JuniperTheory's New Angeles Sol deck. Their write up is a worthwhile read. You want to be jamming cards in your remote and force the runner to interact. If they don't, they risk losing 7 credits or giving corps the acceleration needed; if they do, they risk Hard-Hitting News. And keep the premise in mind: a poor runner is better than a rich corp.

Tournament report

• R1 win vs J0n4ld's Hoshiko Shiro: Untold Protagonist. They ran, ended up poor, took a bunch of tags and then a missile.
• R2 win vs Swiftie's Hoshiko Shiro: Untold Protagonist. They ran, ended up poor, took a bunch of tags and then conceded.
• R3 win vs Max's Esâ Afontov: Eco-Insurrectionist. They ran, ended up poor, took a bunch of tags and then a missile.
• R4: ID
• R5: ID
• TC1: win vs Hyperbolic's Nyusha "Sable" Sintashta: Symphonic Prodigy. They ran, ended up poor, took a bunch of tags and then a missile.
• TC2: Runner game
• TC3: win vs xccam's Esâ Afontov: Eco-Insurrectionist. They ran, ended up poor, took a bunch of tags and then a missile.

I would like to thank everyone who attended Reading CO and ExtraC for making it a fun event. I would also like to give a shout out to Laura for coming up with the origin of this deck.