Misdirection Hosh (Undefeated Shaper Card!!!) - 4th at AMT

Shoutouts to @Dapperatchik for finally getting me to put Bankhar in my Hoshiko. And to @Santa for the original Hosh list I have been using to iterate.

Though this deck is significantly different than both of those lists. Notably, neither of them have the best shaper card, though the eventual winner of the AMT @jan tuno did also have it in their list, independently of my brewing.

The influence is admittedly stretched very thin to fit the misdirection, and I think Unity was a bad meta call, I was expecting a lot more Thimblerig than ended up showing up, which makes an absolute mockery of your binbreakers. In retrospect turtle is just as good at breaking thimbles and is one less influence, which would let me play the very important second copy of pinhole.

I do personally much prefer using boomerang as a way to combat the sadness one gets when they run out of stack with hoshiko. And I also find boomerang very important for making sure corps aren't too comfortable behind a magnet (if your corp decks aren't playing magnets you should probably run to put them in quick). Though I also added 3 cards to really stick it to PE (and totally not because I ran out of time and couldnt figure out what to cut).

You can see my corp deck here though that one I have much less to say about because it was a last minute change.

If you want to see some of these and other AMT games analyzed live, see aksu's Youtube channel tomorrow

Tournament Report

Game 1: win against @ReinaMorada's azmari.

The corp spent the whole game trying to give me tags, and just when they thought they had me, i played a green card and was suddenly completely fine. I count this as irrefutable proof that the card is OP.

Game 2: win against @xou's acme.

Acme decks vary in their inclusion of hhn, and xou wasn't on it (or all of their copies were in the bottom 10 of their deck), so here misdirection did honest work breaking subroutines. This is the matchup were your really miss the 3rd copy of hippo. The game was very close, thanks to Maw putting in so much work, to the point that no one can convince me to return to Keiko.

Game 3: win against @b4ralai's punitive counterstrike azmari.

An azmari deck that doesnt run hhn is an interesting novelty, best green card tm was so scary that it caused the corp to take tags out of their deck preemptively.

I caught on very early that it was a punitive list because of weird plays like planograming for cash instead of cards when they were at 20+ creds already, and it took a lot of work from the film critic at home combo to steal all of the necessary points in one turn and prevent the counterstrike.

Game 4: win against @Camilla's PE.

PE making it to top tables in a field of big hosh is another big novely. Massive props to @Camilla who managed to make it to the finals, though there she sadly lost again to a different misdirection.

This was admitedly not much of a game, agendas just kept coming and coming from central servers and i was on 5 points by turn 5 with basically all of my deck left.

One interesting point of the game was a point where I could have used light the fire on a nasty double warroid prana server, but the core damage seemed unwise to take. I ended up not doing it because i only had 1 installed card anyway and could afford to loose it (and since i didnt use it there I ended up trashing it to net damage, as happens to cards in games against PE). That and the fact that the other matchup you want [molotovs]((https://www.netrunnerdb.com/en/card/33009) for is pizza sports which is on ontologicals anyway, means that the card is most definitely getting the axe for my next iteration of this deck.

(deck links will be updated in when available in abr)