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This is interesting. I recommend that you read Dydra's discourse regarding why Wall of Thorns is bad ice in the Replicating Kills v1.0 (a guide how to play RP properly) deck.

With how many Power Shutdowns that you are running here, I think you might want to evaluate your Eli 1.0 against another instance of Reclamation Order. Jinteki has some might fine Sentries to replace Eli 1.0 with.

With the economy base here, I would evaluate Inazuma over Chum.

I'm not really sure about the efficiency of your Philotic Entanglement here without some Shi.Kyu support. With your ICE mixture, the most that Philotic Entanglement can inflict is 3 points at match point in the Runner's favor. With that kind of return, I'd look more towards Ronin built up by Tennin Institute for more control over when the damage is dealt.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll happily walk you through my thought process. Dydra is straight up wrong about Wall of Thorns, at least in this deck, which wants barriers that end the run. WoT punishes face checking, still taxes and ends the run. The upfront cost is high, yes, but I think worth it for this deck. I'm probably one of the people he's complaining about with WoT in winning RP decks, but I love it there too.

Chum is cheap taxing ice to help space out runs. Inazuma isn't as great in here because there are fewer punishing ice. Pretty much only Grim and WoT would be worth it, and Grim is usually sitting on Archives, where I'd rather have Inazuma/Chum in a scoring remote, or HQ/R&D depending upon what runner I'm facing.

Philotic Entanglement is only there as a better Braintrust. I'm happy to score it as my first agenda even, although the goal is to score Niseis.

You are very right that I'd like to have another Reclamation Order, but Eli is pretty important for creating taxing enough servers to generate scoring windows and Tennen advancements. I would take out a Power Shutdown for one but need to see them early and often. The other option would be to lose the Archer, since I'm usually not happy to have to sack a 2 pointer to rez it, but there's no denying that it can win the game in a number of situations. I think I will put together a version that drops the Elis for a second RO and see how it goes. I know I'll miss them stacked on centrals, but it could be worth it.

Thanks for taking the time to write about the deck.