Phat Tempo Au Co (1-2, 12th SF Elevation CTK)

A lot of the new Elevation IDs promote tempo-forward, regular netrunner. And some promote asset spam. It's cool how the new IDs for each faction (at least for Jinteki and NBN) can be used for both, which is great design work on the part of NSG.

This AU Co is a flexible, adaptable deck that aims to play rushy / reg Netrunner with a strong economy advantage and a side of net damage to tax the runner and gain tempo, using the id ability to power card draw. You can also start with an asset spam-y opening to fake out the runner if you don't draw your ice and you can sometimes sneak out 1-2 agendas this way with Seamless Launch.

You can go deep or you can go wide. I'm usually creating 2-3 remote servers, depending on how much the runner is interacting with remotes. One with Charlotte Caçador + La Costa Grid (often heavily defended), one with Cohort Guidance Program with one taxing/annoying piece of ice in front of it, and one lightly defended one that I can put Phật Gioan Baotixita in. Sometimes, I put an agenda in a medium-heavily defended server, sometimes I over-install into the Charlotte server. Installing 2 facedown cards into remotes is a great way to split the runner's attention and squeak out an agenda.

Most of the cards here advance your game plan, and there's plenty of ice to defend your tempo assets. It's no big deal if the runner trashes your assets, as long as you're taxing them to do it. I basically never install assets other than Spin Doctor naked.

It seems like this deck draws really really fast. Once you start scoring agendas, don't stop. Use Sericulture + Seamless to keep the momentum and try to score from 0-8 in 3-4 turns. The weakness of this deck is that agendas tend to build up in HQ. A well-timed Longevity Serum can help with that.

Originally, this deck was on 3x YDL and 3x Seamless and 0x Measured, but since it seemed like YDLs were mostly being played as Hedge Funds, I replaced them with the more-trashable Petty Cash and 2x Measured Response probably makes the win percentage go up more.

Card notes

Anemones are to try to snipe Deep Dives. Anoetics can be used to stuff Deep Dives. 1x Anemone on two centrals gives you a lot of options if you suspect a runner might be trying to Deep Dive, and it's probably the best defense against that.

Boto, Vampyronassa, Saisentan - these are our main taxing ice. Botos go on the remote, Vampys go on the remote or the most targeted central, Saisentan is great for guarding Phat or a Cohort.

Semak-samun is a sometimes food. You can use it for security theater on Archives (though Anemone might be better). If the runner is playing Shaper or has a fracter, I'm trashing these out of HQ. Annoying AF against Matryoshka and Audrey v2, though.

Tatu-Bola - once the Curupira hits the table, I'm trashing these. Boto is our only major tax and runner-stopping ice, and we don't want to feed Tatus to Curupira so the runner can bypass Boto.

I think that playing as many Measured Responses as you can as the corp is a strong move. Runners aren't really respecting it, and the tempo gain is worth it even if they pay 8c, since you probably just dragged them through 1-2 taxing remote servers. I would love if we could play 3x Seamless Launch, though.

Phật Gioan Baotixita - it's great if he fires, but he's mostly a fun guy who likes to cause trouble and make the runner run a taxing server to trash him. Great rez to trash cost and a huge threat.

I'm considering adding in a Byte! or Urtica, since we're often cooking 2 econ assets at the same time, and it's a little obvious when we install + advance a new facedown that it's an agenda.

Can also consider Moon Pool, since we often have 2-3 agendas in HQ by the time we want to start scoring. Superconducting Hub could help here too.

I'm not sure how I feel about Sericulture Expansion. The extra counters come in handy so infrequently. You don't need them to score 3/2s, since you're better off never-advancing those. I still think it's nice to have to score out a last 5/3, and Sericulture Expansion as a blank 3/2 is probably good enough most of the time.

Thanks millenomi for running the SF Elevation CTK!

This deck also went 1-4 in the Summer Showdown 2025 and came in 127th. I think this deck is flexible and strong and I still like it quite a bit, though it might work a bit better out of PT Untaian: Life's Building Blocks

I learned not to overcommit ice to remote servers - HQ needs 2 ice against Seb to defend against Transfer of Wealth - and 1-2x ice in your scoring / economy remote is good enough. It's not the end of the world if a runner steals an agenda out of your remote if you're taxing them enough. I also made a grievous misplay in round 9 by not installing a Spin Doctor and installing something else for no reason, and the runner stealing 5 points out of Archives. Ouch.