PPvP...Whizzard? (3rd Seed/3rd Place, Portland Regionals)

WizardOfWinter 24

Eater and Prepaid VoicePAD? What is this sorcery? Apparently, 3rd seed and 3rd place in the Portland Regionals at Rainy Day Games on 06/07/2015.

I like Prepaid Kate. I like Eater/Keyhole shennanigans. And I was curious if the two played well together. They did...until those precious Prepaid credits were taxed out with Asset trashing. Switching to Whizzard: Master Gamer made everything click. Your central pressure with Account Siphon, Wanton Destruction, Keyhole and "free" asset trashing means the Corp's ice gets spread thin quickly (and that's before Parasite comes along). Aggressively Inject to find the rest of your econ and pressure. After locking down the game, pop the Hades Shard for the delicious Archives points. And if you make it to the point where you Levy AR Lab Access, the game's all but won. Inject for Sure Gamble, Lucky Find, Wanton Destruction, and a credit, anyone?

Though Eater's your main breaker, there's an answer for the AI-hate ICE in Corroder, Mimic, and D4v1d. Turing on a central is tough, but Parasite answers it well enough. I thought Vigil and Wanton Destruction might conflict at first, but instead it usually made sure the 2 or 3 trashes were more likely to be cards the Corp wanted to keep safe. Account Siphon used to be a Diesel and a Clone Chip, but after how often it unexpectedly turned a game, I was always glad to see it.

I'm not sure it's better than the Looking 4 Job variant of Whizzard: Master Gamer, but for surprise factor, it wasn't beat.

3 comments
3 Jul 2015 us0rman

with 3 Injects and no clone chip, don't u trash your own programms without efficient ways to get it back ?

4 Jul 2015 WizardOfWinter

@us0rman I played around with several recursion options. First was Retrieval Run, which was almost always disappointing--no program costs more than 4! I switched to 2 Clone Chip, and almost never wanted to see my second. That became 1 Clone Chip and 1 Diesel, and that build worked pretty well, but my meta was heavily NEH, and I needed more HQ pressure. I slotted Account Siphon, and that card did work. I tried to make up for it with a second Déjà Vu, but personal tastes may vary. I'm not afraid of losing a Corroder if I can get to my econ faster.

4 Jul 2015 us0rman

Very interesting , thanks for the reply. Never thought Inject without Clone Chip could work. I guess ur low programm density makes up for this. Very nice!