[Neo] Hoshiko Goes Fast and Breaks Things

zoey 20

Hello, all!

This is a deck made for the Neo format. It's a community run format that can be succinctly described as "all the Startups with a banlist". So it's ashes, sg, su, borealis. And the banlist is endurance, rezeki, k2cp, and cyberdex.

With that out of the way, here's one of the decks I've been running a lot to see how well runners can perform with the significant nerfs to their cardpool. The answer? Still really well. This deck goes real fast and runs a lot and trashes the few good ice corps get to play. You always mulligan to find dreamnet or poemu. Mantle to charge twinning during corp turn. That's all really.

It struggles against PD because it goes just as fast so it's a bit of a luck of the draw matchup. It's far too rich to really be worried about cayambe grid or gamenet and if those corp decks turn out too hard to deal with simply ltf their server.

It should maybe run Raindrops Cut and Bankhar. Such modifications are left as an exercise to the reader.

I hope people enjoy this format the way I have, we got together as a community to make it happen out of love for Startup and NSG.

3 comments
3 May 2023 Satoshi

Interesting that your banlist bans endurance, and rezeki, and k2cp, but not Nanisivik grid? And gold farmer and engram flush are in play?

It sounds pretty corp favored to me

3 May 2023 zoey

@Satoshi The banlist was an open vote on the GLC discord! Anyone could join, but primarily the voters were fans of Startup.

3 May 2023 zoey

And for what it's worth I don't feel like it's corp favored. Runner has plenty of great tools still and while corp has some really strong ice there's very few strong ice and anything the corp can do the runner can answer with cards like pinhole.