Chip Loop - 3-0 Pittsburgh Megacities (4th)

Loup that I brought to Pittsburgh Megacities. Put this together a little bit before the tournament, it tested quite well online, did well on the day of as well. Wins against scoring/traps PT Untaian, BtL, and iceless Thule (same deck that I brought). Never got to play it in the cut as I got corp both times and runners had a 100% win rate at the top tables (both swiss and cut, SBT save us...)

Deck philosophy is like Whizzard; let your ID handle assets, build the deck to handle everything else. Econ is primarily the Keiko Paladin package, Loup triggers in asset matchups, and fermenter. Depending on the pace of the game and whether you want to goad the corp into purging you can decide whether to cook fermenter to 6, 8, or rarely 10. It largely comes down to how many barriers you'll need to break with Rising Tide (which is there to make sure you don't get shut out by semaks and logjams on the inside).

Install and charge twinning early while using Loup and Gourmand to pressure the board. Hardest part of each game is determining where you're going to use your chips. Derezzing 1-2 big ice over the game is backbreaking for poor corps right now, especially Weyland. Plan on using your Buffer Drive to recycle a Simulchip, Pinhole, or Finality depending on the matchup. You have enough gas to win basically all but the grindiest matchups, but you don't have more than that, so playing the deck is an exercise in rapidly drawing through your deck, converting the cards to quality runs with lots of multiaccess and cheap gourmand trashes/steals on remotes, and gauging how much longer you have before you tank goes empty.

If you want to go to 40 you can probably cut a Raindrops Cut Stone. That said, it's common to go through all of the available gas in your deck, ending with 0 cards in deck and 0-4 cards in hand.

Deck should theoretically struggle into red glacier, especially if they swap ice around with Mitra and other Jinteki tricks. However most of their econ is trashable and a lot of ice goes into protecting the remote so closing with big multiaccess should be very doable. This deck might be better than Reg Hosh in some metas, and I think we might be in that kind of meta given that green decks vulnerable to tranquilizer and very trashable Au Co decks, and multiaccess weak Nebula decks are the strongest things corps can put up right now. Honestly it feels like you can play anything runner side and do fine right now with solid fundamentals. Corps desperately needs wincons.