Majulah! (2nd APAC)

headmoths here, cursing monde right now!! In all seriousness this is a fantastic deck, you piloted it very very well (install engolo + overclock with exactly enough credits to steal my double-advanced atlas behind an archer?), and it was very cool to see you + Tao make the final; I was rooting for you at the end!

also fwiw a single legwork would have obliterated me much more quickly than you already did in that second game

Sup Jai.

Congrats on the excellent placement - particularly hyped to see a Spicy shaper build in the finals.

I'm wondering about the triple simulchip here. Without clot, or any real way to abuse it out side of maybe a slap vandel re-install I'm unsure what they are doing other that Rig shooter protection and reinstalling SMC (as much as I love being able to throw programmes and simulchip them for a discount)

You just need to half your placement again next year. I believe.

Love this deck and congratulations! Also, regarding Tāo, never forget:

The design of this card is so egregious that it made me log into an account I haven't accessed in years. I was fairly intrigued looking at some of the reworked Core Set cards in the System Gateway set, as they often seemed to grok the ways in which the original cards were either too efficient or overbalanced. This card, on the other hand, abuses a disruptive technique that ANR made prohibitively expensive with good reason. It's almost difficult to describe the magnitude of how game breaking this ID is, because designing it requires a fundamental lack of knowledge of how Corp functions in regards to ICE. This attacks multiple pieces of ICE, often times in multiple servers, at the control of the runner, and is triggered by either player directly interacting with their win condition. The amount of time and resources it will take the Corp to mitigate the damage done by this ability text is potentially insurmountable. I'm in genuine awe that any amount of play-testing would allow this ID to survive with the text it currently has. At best, this card is an abberation of design philosophy that somehow escaped correction in testing. At worst it is a warning against once again getting emotionally invested in a game that remains dead.

seeing tāo get so far is so exciting, and it warms my heart to hear that we could give you the energy to keep going, even if your resulting performace against multiple QTMmies has my membership's future uncertain.

I knew you were a good player just from casting with you, and I was rooting so hard for you in the finals. I'm sure someone's told you, but Vladisibirsk City Grid would be hella in this deck.

and if you're ever feeling like you can't keep playing, just remember that it's all for the love of the game and sometimes the numbers Just Work Out, so... have some fun and keep a smile on your face! ;)

obviously I meant that the corp card I said should go in the deck, should go in the corp deck and in fact not go in this deck

Hermes Tao. Love it.

Thanks for kind and nice words friendos, appreciate it.

@Baa Ram Wu: For sure, I had literally seconds to submit my version of the deck, the most cuttable cards in a Clotless deck are the Slap Vandal (sadly) and the 3rd Simulchip. The deck is also mildly MU-hungry pre-Hermes install, so maybe a DZMZ here wouldn't be amiss.

@emilyjoh and @nbkelly: Thanks again, your support means a great deal.

@mondegreensleeves: if you somehow find another way to slip another reference to that cursed card in a community cast i swear to god

Could you consider using World Tree to reduce the number of copies of Hermes?

@Jai congrats on the 2nd! It was a great time playing you and quite the powerful deck! I look forward to seeing you at intercontinentals!

One question: how valuable was the No One Home for you? Valuable while digging against Jinteki and Snare!? Just wondering if repurposing the inf to a Contaminate for post purge would be good, since this is pretty inf starved already.