King Arthur's Feast (SHL 3 winner)

Congratulations on your win! Did you end up having to score 4 agendas much? To increase the odds of not having this issue, would you recommend Clones or running a third GFI over Fetal?

@BanduraThanks! I do end up having to score 4 agendas quite often (I'd estimate once every 3-4 games I win with this deck). Both options you mentioned are good. I'd be leaning towards Clones as some damage to punish running through Komainu is really nice and sometimes wins games.

I would change a Mother Goddess for a Swordsman here Besides of that, good deck :)

Excellent; Happy to see Grail back in action, and Palana might be the one ID in Jinteki that can truly afford it. Interesting to see Ashigaru, given you have so much casual pain - No belief in Wall of Thorns for one credit less, a little less keepout in Subroutines but +1 str, +2 damage?

Suppose it depends how 'spiky' you intend to be.

Slight other question: Why a pair of CVS? You don't have the tech/agendas to FA, so it is just a fierce hatred of Parasucker?

Played this today in a small tournament. It did well, going undefeated. I went -1 Swordsman, -1 CVS, -1 Ashigaru; +2 Mumbad City Grid, +1 Clones Ain't Dudes

It pulled out a few wins that I didn't necessarily deserve with my play, so that was nice. I even got a Fetal kill. The Mumbads were alright, definitely added a bit more tax when they were used and were a lot of fun - but also would probably be my first things cut.

re: @shockeh's comments: both of those decisions (Ashigaru over Wall of Thorns, 2x CVS) make the list a lot better against Anarch. WoT is pretty easy to D4v1d through while Ashigaru taxes Faust heavily. One strength of the ICE suite is it largely invalidates D4v1d, with the exception of Crick over Archives. CVS is a necessity against all the good viruses, not just Clot or Datasucker.

I love the look of this list but I'm worried about Employee Strike damaging the economy a lot with so much expensive ICE. I wonder if swapping "Clones are not People" or Cerebral Static for a couple ICE is the move.

What made you decide against the inclusion of mumbad city grid? Seems like it would be pretty gound with the grail ICE and komainu.

Cool deck. How do you usually use Celebrity Gift when you may often have Grail ice in hand? Do you more commonly show them a hand full of them as a deterrent to run, hold some back for a surprise during a run, or to bluff an agenda in HQ? Obviously dependent on the situation of the moment, but definitely some VERY interesting choices with the use of that card.

@Spaceman_SpiffCongrats! @phette23 You are on point with the answer. Employee Strike is annoying and is going to cost a few credits, but isn't the worst thing that can happen to you. I wouldn't bother slotting a current just to deal with it. Cerebral Static costs 2 and a card slot itself. Clones are not People are a better choice if you can land it as both current switch and a point, but you can survive ES without your own current.@MaëligMCG is extremely good on paper and does really well in proper core set style Netrunner games, where you rez ICE and people pay to break it. Generally the more solid the server the better MCG is. With so much ICE destruction around, especially against top players I often find myself trying to put together a reasonable server from whatever I have and MCG becomes awkward then. Not saying it's a bad card, I just realized that if I have good enough servers to benefit from it, I'm in good shape anyway. @OuterCrowGreat question, I feel people underestimate the downside of Celebrity Gift and play it too automatically. I try to avoid playing it turn 1 and will often play something along the lines of draw-ICE-ICE. People will know you're on Grail very fast, but it helps a lot to keep them in fear of Komainu. Also if they are not on AI, they will not know, which Grail I installed. I will also sometimes not play CG later on in the game if I don't need the money or I am flooded and the runner didn't see CG (if he did and I'm not playing CG for money despite being desperate for it, he is likely to add 2 and 2 anyway). I don't see much point in not showing a full hand if I can, there is nothing extremely surprising in the list and runner will just be super cautious.

What would you take out to fit a Snare! or two in? Maybe a Swordsman and a Komainu?

@tzeentchlingI'm facing a lot of Faust Anarchs recently and both Swordsman and Komainu are amazing in the machup. Komainu is very good against other factions as well so in my meta I would keep a set of those 2. Crick would probably be the first thing I would cut, but I still think it deserves the slot more than Snare!. If you want the deck to have more teeth, switching a Sales Team for a Fetal is also an option.

With MWL2 and the assumed downfall of Faust and instant Parasites, what changes would you do to the deck? Also, would you add Voter Intimidation?

Any chance Sandburg might be worth a spot in this deck? I can't quite figure out how to reengineer this deck for that card, but I feel like it is there somewhere.