Legality (show more) |
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Standard Ban List 23.09 (latest) |
Standard Ban List 23.08 (active) |
Rotation |
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Deck valid after Fifth Rotation |
Packs |
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Blood Money |
Escalation |
Station One |
Down the White Nile |
The Devil and the Dragon |
Whispers in Nalubaale |
Kampala Ascendent |
Reign and Reverie |
Downfall |
Uprising |
System Gateway |
System Update 2021 |
Card draw simulator |
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Derived from |
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None. Self-made deck here. |
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icecoldjazz' Tag Me v2 (3-1-2 for 9th @ Circuit Breaker) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tagme Zahya (2022-10-23) - 2nd @ Czech Nationals 2022 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
tap me Zahya | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Hot pursuit is the best econ card in standard (don't @ me).
I really did not test or prepare for worlds in any meaningful fashion so I decided to stick to my roots and play what I know: PE and tag-me criminal. Zahya's ability is functionally a desperado and this deck plays similarly to old school Andysucker. Like the best criminal decks it has extremely strong fundamentals, it's great at applying pressure early, and you can often win off of single accesses throughout the game. This deck is the spiritual successor to my 2018 worlds top 16 deck.
This decks is pretty much an auto-win versus any HB, most jinteki, and weyland without kill. If they do have boom then you just need to mulligan for your console and you'll be fine. Market forces is the one card you absolutely cannot win against so just go all out on centrals and hope for a damn i'm good win.
Counter surveillance is of course very good and usually just wins you the game when you play it. Note that it says you can run any server - this is where the 🌶 spicy 🌶 secret 🌶 tech 🌶 comes in. You can counter surveillance a remote, break one ice, then sliiiideeee over into R&D for the win.
This also means the corp doesn't have the opportunity to rez ice they have stacked on R&D and so it fills lucky charm's role of stopping border control if you play it right. It's also better than lucky charm because it has substantial utility outside of just stopping the border control; one of my games was won when I was a turn behind on econ and couldn't contest the remote so I slipstreamed into HQ for 2 accesses and got there. It can bypass all ice stacked on a server which can be the final few accesses you need to close out a game.
I ran into Whiteblade111 on Thursday night and told him about this deck and the 🌶 spicy 🌶 secret 🌶 tech 🌶 and he ended up switching to it for worlds. He found me during swiss and thanked me because had just slipstreamed past 4 ice on R&D for the win. He was on the same deck as me -2 embezzle, +1 lucky charm, +1 aumakua and ended up in 6th place.
Turtle did not feel great during testing; it's consistently the worst of your breakers and so I cut it. Aumakua is a temporary solution to a permanent problem. It's also often a trap because you will waste time running for turtle counters to get in somewhere when you could otherwise just be drawing for your real breaker or pressuring the servers you can already get into. I never once felt like I needed it. #noturtle
I knew I didn't want turtle or lucky charm and so I added 2 embezzle as a cheeky include to destroy ice against the terrible Aginfusion deck that's going around. I ended up not playing Ag all weekend and I didn't really use the embezzles so moving forward I am going to try out 1 inside job and a third bravado instead.
The highlight of the weekend was during a crown of servers game in which I counter surveillanced for a total of 18 accesses and whiffed (still ended up winning though!). Ironically I never ended up installing counter surveillance even once during the main event.
For corp I was playing @MrBuggles's degenerate PE deck which went undefeated in swiss.
All in all I ended up 14th which isn't so bad for little practice and even less sleep, and 1 place better than the last worlds I played in (2018), so I'm satisfied with the result. As we all know, however, the true prize from worlds is nrdb decklist of the week...
As always, GL, HF, DD. Good Luck, Have Fun, and Don't Die.
31 comments |
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10 Oct 2022
spags
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10 Oct 2022
Diogene
I knew Slipstream was good! Amazing combo! I can now see it in Sable Deep Dive decks also. You are a genius. Congratulation on your well deserved wins. Cheers! |
11 Oct 2022
bing005
Nice win! great include on slipstream! Nbkelly explored slipstream use cases really well in his APAC deck a while back - good summary here netrunnerdb.com |
11 Oct 2022
Orbital Tangent
This deck rules. Salute, Mr. President. Glad we didn't have the controversy of you winning your organization's own event. lol |
11 Oct 2022
icecoldjazz
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11 Oct 2022
icecoldjazz
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15 Oct 2022
gilesdavis
The fact you got to the same conclusion and also placed so high with it is definitely rad, great minds indeed and congrats! |
15 Oct 2022
izzy
Slipstream is a heck of a card I'd never read until now! I was informed that Tagme Zahya would be a "bold meta call" going in to Worlds, so of course I played it anyways, and I'm glad that better players than myself were able to prove that it was me that was the problem and not the deck! |
16 Oct 2022
meta4
Wouldn't Retribution be a pretty hard counter to this deck seeing as you have no recursion and only 3 permanent breakers? I guess it just isn't played that much? |
17 Oct 2022
chunx
I'm a new player so apologies for the silly question... when going tag-me, what's to stop your resources getting trashed, especially The Class Act? When using Rogue Trading, do you do install, hit it, clear tag the first time so you can then double click it the following turn? Or do you just install, hit it, and not care if they then trash it? Thanks in advance for todays Netrunner lesson :) |
17 Oct 2022
icecoldjazz
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17 Oct 2022
icecoldjazz
I have never played or played against Retribution so I would not worry about it. If a key breaker is trashed, the usual play is to save up for a counter surveillance run with mayfly and/or slipstream and hope to win off that. |
17 Oct 2022
chunx
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23 Oct 2022
m4trix87
NBN Drago R+ (3 Forces and all 5-3s) (like this one) with teching in 2 Psychogs (in this example, replacing the one-off La Costa and one of three Self-Growths) could be good to counter this deck. |
23 Oct 2022
m4trix87
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RIP Liza