Dumb Ways to Die - 3rd Seed Irish Nationals, 5th Overall
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MikeJS 678
Deck performed admirably on the day. In fact, I would argue that the only reason I lost any games with it was due to my horrendous Psi-game ability. I went 4-1 in Swiss (losing 2 The Future Perfect Psi games in 1 match). In top 8 I lost the only game I played to a Leela player who ultimately came 2nd in the tournament. Poor performance by my runner meant I ended up finishing 5th overall.
I'm happy to discuss this deck. I know PE isn't a popular choice considering Film Critic, and it certainly hampers The Future Perfect and to a slightly lesser extent Fetal AI.
This deck has so many ways to kill. Mushin Cerebral or Junebug and use the third click to advance. It signals to the runner that it's not a Snare! or Psychic Field, but it ups the ante considerably. Both these plays 100% won me games at nationals. I left a Hayley deck with 1 hand size on turn 1 after the mushin cerebral advance play and I killed an Andromeda flat out with the Quad Junebug later on. Didn't score out once all day, but the deck can happily do that considering Trick of Light that means a trap is never really wasted, it's just a fast advance tool for later.
This deck certainly has bad matchups. A credit denial deck running 2x Lampreys would wreck this, and needs to be dealt with immediately. If you're against Shaper, try to get Eli/Ichi on R&D and make it taxing. Score Gila Hands at every opportunity.
Seasoned PE players... I'd love some advice!
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8 Sep 2015
NicoleyMoley
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8 Sep 2015
herod1204
Ditch the grim, replace it with another komainu. Enables you to replace clone retirement with something a bit nastier, feasibly House of Knives, or another Chronus project and a fetal? That would give you another slot for a third ronin or a second psychic field. I just don't like bad publicity in Jinteki though! And yes, credit denial is hell. I actually started running Sealed Vault to deal with siphons, lampreys, vamps, etc. |
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8 Sep 2015
MikeJS
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8 Sep 2015
Genevaman616
Your agenda density seems really high compared to your ice count. I also see you haven't much in the way of EtR options. Do you find you're usually able to keep runners out of your centrals? Also, what's your usual answer to Account Siphon. For me I run two Lotus Fields just to have an extra bit of taxing EtR ice just to ensure I have something early game to shore up HQ. |
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8 Sep 2015
herod1204
Fair play to you then! I'd never really considered it, as I focus more on the ability of the agenda rather than ease of scoring. With regard to Chronus, I often find myself milling a runner down to 3 or 4 cards/emptying their deck, so Chronus is a wonderful card to stop siphon spam, MaXX and of course PrePaid Kate. A runner with a Levy has 90 hit points theoretically. If I can chronus out half of their initial stack, that reduces to less than 70. With them playing cards as well obviously, you can really start to worry a runner with it. My most recent version of PE, though I haven't really been using it too much recently: netrunnerdb.com |
My trap game is weak...slotting a Deus X into my Hayley because I'm too dumb to know what are traps and what are agendas :P
Seriously though this is a scary PE deck! I don't know how I would have fared had I not ran into that Overwriter, but I'll be interested to see how you get on in the future Film Critic-everywhere meta!