After enkoder whooped my Divide and Conquer Mercury deck at Worlds Showdown in Swiss and again in round 1 of the top cut, I stole his decklist and gave it a few runs on jnet. It felt really solid, so I decided to swap three Fly on the Wall for AR-Enhanced Security and bring it to Worlds Crown of Servers, where it did really well!

The deck's game plan is to keep credits up and always be creating remote servers until a kill line opens up, then end the game. NEH with Federal Fundraising has enough card draw that I was trying not to draw cards for most of the time I was playing this deck. Running no ICE in this deck also makes dead cards out of a good tenth to third of the runner deck, and can severely mess with Kit LobiOrca decks or bypass Mercury decks (two of my favorite decks to play...)

Card notes

AR-Enhanced Security over Fly on the Wall: in my testing, Fly on the Wall just didn't do as much as I wanted to, and ARES is so so oppressive to play against as an early score in this deck and an extra bonus if you score two. Really important online, but didn't really matter in person since runners are so reluctant to check remotes.

Degree Mill: A lot of the time, I installed this card turn 1 because I would be installing 2 other cards, and I felt it was safer in a facedown remote than in a 2-3 card HQ. And it is. Generally, it's totally safe to install naked agendas as one of your six to ten remote servers. In person, runners are really reluctant to check naked remotes, and oftentimes you can get away with 3 agendas installed facedown at a time and leaving agendas installed facedown from the beginning to the end of the game. However, if you ever have a Degree Mill installed facedown (possibly also goes for Orbital Superiority) and a Holo Man and 8+ credits, just use your turn to score it. Don't try to be cute and hold out for a kill combo. This deck can definitely score out, and getting points helps advance the game timer and close the game sooner, one way or another.

Orbital Superiority: Did the runner float a tag? Surprise them with a Holo Man / Wage Workers + Orbital score. Otherwise, provides either a tag or meat damage for your kill combo.

Chekist Scion: I'd consider cutting these. I never found the time to install + advance these.

Federal Fundraising: Pretty critical to this deck to help you go through your deck faster and find installables and parts of your kill combo. It's great if you have it, but you can win without it. The runner rarely trashes this. I think runners also assume that R&D is safe if you're using this card every turn, even though you might draw 2 or 3 cards on your turn with the Federal Fundraising draw + mandatory + NEH draw. I draw a card with Federal Fundraising about 50% of the time. Drawing agendas into hand, then installing them is a great way to keep them safe.

Gaslight: I like the consistency that 2x Gaslight provides. If the runner hits HQ with a Burner and bottoms End of the Line, Gaslights let you get them back. But, there are really only two, maybe three operations you can fetch with Gaslight: End of the Line, Mindscaping, and Oppo Research, in that order.

Malia Z0L0K4: Just a useful 1x card. It's fine to hit their Daily Casts, Miss Bones, or anything else with it. Whatever you think will hurt most :). Also good to leave facedown until a good target presents itself.

Reaper Function: Another core card. Sometimes, you'll have 2 facedown and 6 credits, and that'll be enough to kill. Sometimes, the runner isn't doing a good job checking your remotes, and you'll have 3x of these installed facedown and 9 credits. Just like threatening Holo Man with 7 or 8 credits, so much of this deck relies on getting pieces of your kill combo installed, then getting to have enough creds to execute it.

Regolith Mining License: Great card. Definitely load bearing in this deck. I usually install it, then rez it the turn after and click three times so you get back in the black and it's no longer a tempting target for the runner to trash. Oftentimes, just leaving a Regolith lying around with 6 credits on it can give you the boost you need on your kill turn.

Vera Ivanovna Shuyskaya: I was a bit mixed on this card going in, but she's just useful in general. Really helpful for an extra "net damage" if you're scoring an agenda for the kill, or even to rez defensively if the runner is going to connect with a Trick Shot or is running the right remote.

Wage Workers: another critical card. The extra 4th click really rewards you for triple installing, and also lets you never-advance score Orbital Superiority, or get money from Regolith Mining License then do something else with the extra click. Note that if you have two different Regolith Mining License, you have to click the SAME one 3 times for that to be the "same action".

Attitude Adjustment: It's fine. I was usually installing agendas facedown instead of discarding them into archives, but this card does what you need.

Mindscaping: a pretty key part of the kill combo, actually. Really unpleasant if the runner has more than one tag.

Oppo Research: you know how to use this. Never let two sit in your hand. When you draw a second one, play the first one, even if you're not on threat or you don't want to pay the extra 5 cred. Even if you're not going for the kill, it's a great tempo play. Great to play on a 4th Wage Workers click.

Your Digital Life: Does the job. Don't be afraid to overdraw a little to fuel it with Spin Doctor. You also can install before playing it, since NEH will refund your first new remote server.

The Holo Man: Love this guy. He needs no introduction. :P

Notable excludes, runner cards

Amani Senai and Self-Growth Program - you don't want these cards since they make the runner harder to kill.

Hijacked Router: This is the main tech card against this deck and it makes this deck miserable to play. Note that you can still create servers if you're broke at 0 creds - it's not an additional cost to create a new remote.

Paricia, Miss Bones: not as much of a problem as I expected. Even taxing the runner's clicks by forcing them to run your nine remotes is totally fine. All the while, you're making more remotes.

Lat: Ethical Freelancer: Playing this matchup is easy. Just always be on 2-3 cards in hand. You're installing most of your cards anyways, and you just need to hold an End of the Line, Mindscaping, and Oppo Research.

Shoutout to Micah, who was on tags Az and won the only game that day against this deck. It was super satisfying when I surprise never-advanced an Orbital Superiority when the runner floated a tag for 4 meat damage out of nowhere. I should have pivoted to scoring once I saw a Networking instead of walking the middle path between kill and scoring.

The Tournament

My runner was Rosetta Ayla, which lost every game. I hoped that bad draws wouldn't be a problem, but they were, and I didn't draw Rosetta 2.0 in 3 out of my 5 games. Thanks to my teammates Stephen / grendelX (startup world champion!!) and Tom W, and to the whole NSG team (and especially the people volunteering on Friday) - it was great judging on Saturday and Sunday with y'all.