Rebirth Val

This is the deck I took to low success for UK Nationals. Good stuff anarch, basically.

The main conundrum with being Val over just straight up [Whizzard: Master Gamer] is that you do get the power of Blackmail, you get the bad publicity to help the cost of some runs and the low trash cost of some common cards right now like Actor's Union and Banker's Group but you get the inconsistency of the 50 card deck.

Also, it's Netrunner 2016, who is even scoring our of a remote any more?

So, yeah, you could be Whizzard, drop the Blackmails, the 1inf Rebirth, drop a Faust because now you're on 45 deck limit, and add the 2 influence for 2x Employee Strike and probably fair a lot better (because now it's essentially Damonfork).

I lost to some CTM and beat some CTM. I find the match-up to be very dependent on getting the good money cards, a problem exacerbated by both not being Whizzard and a 50 card deck. Perhaps Dirty Laundry is a mistake, as you can only play it if you know you won't then get Hard Hitting News played on you the next turn, which for only a 3 credit gain, is doubtful. Often the plan is to just run and trash things and hope they don't have HHN yet, as it's often only a 2x include, and if you're shutting down Sensie it's a much tougher find.

I did very well probably only once, against a Palana Glacier that just folded under the ice destruction and Blackmail threat. Every other match was hard fought and could have gone either way, tbh.

And I got to play Tim Fowler and Calimsha, so a good experience none the less.

If I could change things in retrospect, I would have made more of a meta call on things like CTM and played less of a widely applicable deck, cutting some ICE destruction, and probably just straight up not playing Val or Rebirth. Also, I'm pretty sure I must have been playing this wrong, or slowly, or the meta is very fast or something as I only played Levy AR Lab Access once.

The deck went 3 wins, 3 loses, 1 timed win for 11 prestige to my 20 total, placing me 89 out of 157.