"Tournament Deck": Cheap Thrills - Argus Supermodernism

So I took a try at my first ANR tournament (Dragon's Lair Stockholm Store Championship, 2015-03-01). I had tried an experimental build out a few times, and it had some fun tricks I wanted to try out as an unknown contender, before people knew about my love for flatlining.

The deck is (afaik) a Supermodernism deck that score agendas under the threat of a kill (or kill under the threat of scoring agendas as I prefer to see it).

It is heavily geared towards scoring fast and setting up potential kills from turn 1. Anything that deal lethal damage for as few credits as possible goes. Every server should pose a potential kill threat, and every agenda steal should force the runner to recover for the rest of the round. At least.

Notable synergies and card choices

Snare! + Dedicated Response Team. Nothing new I guess but offers a potential turn one kill or hand discard and can add up with other damage sources later on.

Neural Katana + The Twins. How this deck originated. Another potential turn 1 kill together with click/Beanstalk/Hedge for cash. It's not that likely to happen, but the threat of it is sometimes almost as good.

Actually, The Twins in general is pretty fun. Neural Katana for 6 damage is crazy fun, but also a second trace with Hunter can be a game winner if False Lead is scored and though Checkpoint won't kill the runner it often will be enough for the runner to jack out. Not saying it's a great card - just fun.

1x Project Junebug. The Last influence spent. Really wanted a trap to be able to make advanced agendas pose some sort of threat to players that had already seen the deck.

Also, fk Jackson. I hate this guy always stealing 3 influence. Not this time. I don't intend the game to go on for too long anyway and I don't need too many cards setup to start scoring. (Yes, yes, I'm bad.)

ICE

ICE is just cheap ETR to actually protect something early, or something that rough runners up. In threes of course for Twins. 1x Archer is nothing new I suppose - can really turn a game around.

Checkpoint was really unsure about this one for a long time, but so far I like it. Scares many runners of and is tough as hell to break. The bad pub is a bummer, but hopefully game ends fast enough for it not to matter. Also, if a Cleaners is scored (Checkpoint can actually protect Cleaners quite well with the fear of Cleaners being a Junebug or for a Dedicated Response Team being ready in another server to kill the runner if it is an agenda), its damage really start being brutal.

Agendas

Project Atlas is a 3/2. Incredibly important for fast scoring. I just wish there were more of those. Occasionally good for finding a SEA Source or Scorched Earth to, you know, kill runners.

The Cleaners if there ever is a window to score one of these - do it. Makes the Identity so much more powerful and many other cards in the deck as well. Also it's 3 points. Able to score it surprisingly often early actually since my runners tend to be careful early (well, not based on a ton of games).

NAPD Contract is just a way to slow down a runner trying to rush me. Not splendid due to lots of bad pub in deck.

False Lead Actually, this Agenda is super-solid in this deck. One of these scored, and the runner will have to think very carefully before doing just about anything on click 2 and forward since a single tag potentially means ending the turn with a tag. Against Scorched.

Hostile Takeover Early cash or quick finisher. Love it.

Last words

It's fun. Probably bad. Went 3-2 in the tournament, which doesn't say much - but I'm fine with that since at least 2 kills were flatlines. Also it's fast, which is good to avoid tournament fatigue.

What this deck would really need is probably another 3/2 Agenda to keep up speed. Having to score 3/1s usually come with some neat tricks, but it doesn't always put enough pressure on the runner.

Thanks for reading. All feedback welcome :)