Knights of Mumbad - Russian Nationals Winner (7-0)

Lady Caprice Nisei abandoned Castle Remote and left us in despair. But sir Marcus Batty, chosen by sword, took charge over loyal knights of Mumbad and is leading them to glory.

Tournament record

7-0. Win against Opus Jesminder, Opus CT, 3 x Stealth Smoke, Baba Yaga Smoke and Null.

Cards

Agendas

Global Food Initiative over Obokata Protocol. Good runners are always ready to take 4 net damage and Film Critic was the most popular restricted choice during testing. The Future Perfect + Fast Track over 2 x Corporate Sales Team is agenda density issue and one more way to find Nisei MK II.

Assets/Upgrades

Playset of Batty, two of Mumbad City Grid due to limit 1 per server. Always play at least one Snare!, it'll make you a champion one day.

Operations

Standard econ suite, plus hard commitment to Scarcity of Resources to disrupt resource economy.

ICE

• Full grail suite, which I will address later.
• Kakugo - a great taxing and ETR option, IP Block for single influence point. Wish it was another Fairchild 2.0.
• Mirāju is MVP. Helps you counter Indexing / Spy Camera campers and to control agenda density in hand. You want a copy for both R&D and HQ.
• Komainu and Swordsman are both meta cards that can be swapped for anything else.
• Excalibur is a mandatory ICE for scoring remote. Second one can be kept in hand for the additional grail subroutines.

Gameplan

This deck sticks with the classic playstyle, shining in midgame. The first 10-15 turns, when all servers are iced up and the runner doesn't have full rig or econ engine running. Build scoring remote fast and toss first agenda in, probably with upgrade. In most cases the runner will attempt to face check. This is generally a bad idea because any Grail can bite. Moreover, you want opponent to know about grails as fast as possible. It means 3 ICE deep scoring remote can be impregnable castle, unless runner finds all rig pieces, but even if it isn’t - good players rarely take the risk of losing MOpus to facecheck. When the opponent finally assembles full rig you can fire Batty for the last moment ETR or to trash key breaker. Taking runner to roller coaster of Mumbad City Grid is also an option, even turtle will have issues with 7 subroutines on a single piece of ICE. Speaking of AI, if runner doesn't have such breaker game ends pretty fast with double Nisei into 3/5 under protection of Excalibur. If he does - let Batty do the job, he is pretty good at swords! And the last piece is Scarcity of Resources which wrecks every economy engine except for MOpus. So general tips are:

• Install Grails on remote, and all other ices centrals.
• Excalibur + Nisei lock is a win condition.

Thanks

To @ParasitePromo for training and keeping calm up until the last minutes.. To @RubbishyUsername and @MrBuggles discussion of this deck https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/46010/palana-frosties-post-rotation-top-tier-deck. And again to the whole Netrunner community and especially Russian division for being so cool.