NEH- Grail (2nd in UK nationals)

Basically, this is the deck I came up with when it became clear I coudn't use any other corps at all and I'd just have to run my NEH deck face first into a bunch of shaper decks all packing clot at the nationals.

The basic plan is to force shaper decks to use up their SMC or clone chip to avoid getting hit by the Grail ICE, and once they've done so you can go back to fast advancing out your agendas without fear of instant clot. Doing this means bluffing out agendas as one of your many assets, but i also do it by putting out and advancing an NAPD, giving them a choice of using up a key card and spending 4 or letting me score.

The plan certainly didn't work perfectly. I went 6-3 with the deck in the swiss, and all three losses were to Kate decks with clot (By far the most prevalent deck at the tourney). Fortunately, my own Kate clot deck did well enough to drag me into the top 16. In the elim rounds I managed to beat another 3 shaper decks all packing clot, bringing me to 6-3 against that matchup over the tournament as I didn't face any others. I feel like a 66% record is pretty good given the level of the tournament, and against Criminal and Anarch the deck was undefeated. I find the grail is already very strong against these factions, since they usually have to wait a while to run and you can usually score an astro or two while they are doing so. As an added bonus, the deck packs 2 blacklist. I came up against 2 Maxx decks on the day, fortunately not piloted by any world champions, and against mere mortals that card is pretty devastating to Maxx.