This is the next big thing.

This is the deck to watch out for.

This is the Russian NEH.

Originally made by gozik, this is the updated version to work with the new MWL. It's still stupidly fast. It's still amazing. And it still can have the win secured by turn 7.

I have been playing this deck exclusively for the past ten days and I'm here to tell you how to play it, how to play against it and what to watch out for.

Economy:

Now as you probably have noticed, this deck doesn't pack Hedge Fund or Sweeps Week - one might say staple economy cards in yellow decks. The reason is - they are way too slow for the Russian NEH.

This deck's economy is fueled by three cards: Team Sponsorship, Advanced Assembly Lines and Mumba Temple. What's most important is, the Russian NEH makes money by scoring agendas. Each time you score an agenda, you get clickless installs from Team Sponsorships and Advanced Assembly Lines. This way you literally have 5 click turns without having to do anything. At some point you will literally not have stuff to install in the new remotes. And that's fine.

Agenda suite:

Because of the derailing of the Astrotrain, the agenda suite had to be changed around quite a bit. Let's go over all of them individually.

First, we are packing all four 2/1s. The reason is simple - they can make money in one turn. Scoring out a 2/1 is not a tempo hit for this deck at all. The reason is, once you get set up and have a Mumba Temple and a Team Sponsorship out and a copy or two of the Advanced Assembly Lines in the bin, you come out neutral in terms of credits when scoring a 2/1m you get a free click to install something from your hand - usually another asset like Team Sponsorship, Sensie Actors Union, SanSan City Grid or Jeeves AND you get a card from NEH if you do it at the beginning of the Runner's turn.

Next, we have all four 3/2s. They are the main way of scoring for us - usually by the end of the game you'll have a couple Beales or Astros in hand and you will be able to fast advance them out of hand with SanSan or Jeeves.

Then we have the Explode-a-palooza - it's a good economy engine in the early game. The Runner will likely try to access all of our assets, thinking that they can keep up in tempo with the Russian NEH. That's an easy mistake. Getting them to steal an Explode-a gets you a huge tempo boost in the form of 5 credits. And if they don't check it, you can just leave it never advanced on the table and score it for your last point with Jeeves.

Finally, two License Acquisitions have been added. They have a built-in Team Sponsorship which is incredibly useful to quickly retrieve something from the bin if they trashed it. It's a way to get out a SanSan on the table for free, a Jeeves or anything else that's necessary at the moment.

Assets:

Now, since this is an asset spam deck, here are the assets we use to help with actually winning the game.

Jeeves Model Bioroids - the first fast advance engine of the Russian NEH. If you have this rezzed and you have the Subliminal Messaging and Shipment from SanSan on hand, you can score out any 3/X agenda from hand. This is why you should never randomly ditch Subliminals unless you're 100% sure you can't keep them over the other stuff you have in hand. Also, Jeeves is inexpensive to rez and costly to trash, so it's an amazing thing to keep the runner's tempo down.

SanSan City Grid - this is the second fast advance engine. There used to be a Biotic Labor here as well, but it was ditched due to influence. SanSan on the table allows you to score out any agenda from hand as long as you have money.

Sensie Actors Union - possibly one of the best assets in the game and a must have (or a must trash if you play this deck) tempo boost for the Russian NEH. Sensie gives you cards to install with AAL after you score agendas, it gives you agendas to score if you don't have any on hand, it is an overall amazing card that you should be mulling for usually.

Jackson Howard - in the rare cases we get flooded or just to speed up draw.

The ICE suite is mostly "good stuff NBN" - cheapest gearchecks and ETRs to protect centrals while we're setting up. Once we are, there's no point in trying to keep the Runner out as we can win before they can set up anything bad.

Matchups:

Over the ~50 games I played with this deck, I mostly lost against Whizzard. If you'r e playing against him, you need to maintain the constant tempo of installing at least two very expensive assets per turn (like Team Sponsorship, SanSan or Jeeves). Other than him, I dropped games only to bad draws against otherwise pretty strong decks (like Minh MaxX or Panopticon Hayley). Also dropped one game to a Stealth Kit who got 4 agendas in 5 accesses on R&D - happens.

Shapers are non-issue because they are too slow to set up. If they get proco out first turn, they don't have nearly enough tempo to stop you. Same with Criminals although I would watch out for siphon turn 1.

Siphon overall is not a very devastating card for this deck simply because you hardly ever rely on real credits. You need your assets rezzed (so offshoring is quite easy) and more often than not you want Mumba credits or Shipment From SanSan credits to fast advance.

Minh MaxX is another difficult matchup for this deck and the only advice I have for you here is - go fast. You need to score out before she can set up her entire milling rig. It's not difficult to do, but sometimes bad draws can screw you over.

And that's it, ladies and gentlemen. The Russian NEH. It's fast. It's ridiculously fast. It's literally like speedrunning Netrunner. It feels unfair. It uses unintended glitches in the Matrix.

But it works. And it wins games.