Sadly its Lat (4-1, 2nd at EMEA Online Megacity)

coldlava 471

I wanted this deck to be in Magdalene Keino-Chemutai: Cryptarchitect but after playing it, sadly the correct answer is for it to be in Lat. 46 Cards don't @me. Fine you can, its the Harmony AR Therapy, I didn't play it once on the weekend though I did use it plenty of times as I tested the deck, most often against corps like LEO Construction: Labor Solutions who can eventually grind you out of resources otherwise.

This deck falls into the camp of advice I'd often heard from @DeeR and @Wenjong to play the deck you know. In my opinion, runners are far enough ahead of corps right now the most important thing is to find a deck you know well and stick to it. I've been playing this deck with very minor changes on and off since nearly the second or third week since elevation came out. Last week this madani lat by OF15-15 came out which looks very good as well and found room for more tech relevant to the current meta, I took a look and contemplated taking some ideas but decided to stick with what I've been playing.

The goal of this deck i very much a control shaper. once you get setup you can print so much money and you have so many tools at your disposal it can be very difficult for the corp to keep you out of the remote. Nothing special for opening hands, draw and money like a reg runner. If that draw and money is a “Knickknack” O’Brian and a Coalescence you can probably get the engine setup fast. Get the Madani down and you'll often take a turn where you double click Dr. Nuka Vrolyckand host nearly everything you draw on the madani. When hosting on madani as great as it is to get click-efficiency you also need draw to fuel it, so consider what will actually be useful in the next 2-3 turns and host those but if you can keep some thing in hand to match the corp's hand size and get a Lat draw it's usually worth it. Those saved cards can be hosted in the next batch.

I'll add replays a bit later but you can see one game of it on round 2 of the stream vs mortivor on a version of mitra Ob. This is probably one of the decks best matchups in the current meta since Hush, Physarum Entangler, and Cupellation answer so many of the problems that deck presents you. I played 3 mitra Obs between swiss and the cut and they all played out pretty similar to the one in the cut.

Thanks Aksu and everyone else at NSG for running the tournament. Thank you TAIB and all my friends in NJ who've helped me improve as a player and improve these lists.

Replays:

Round 2 vs Mitra Ob

Round 3 vs Phat/Bladder Ob

Round 6 vs AuCo

Cut Round 1 vs AuCo

Cut Round 2 vs Mitra Ob

2 comments
29 Jun 2025 Wenjong

Yay it’s Lat!! ☺️

Congrats on the W ❤️

30 Jun 2025 coldlava

Not quite W but thanks! I guess we gotta show all the Magdaline players what a TRUE value ID looks like.