Hail Mary [Startup]

Ytang 164

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20 Mar 2024 beenbeen2

Widest deck in the west, 10/10 would lose against again.

21 Mar 2024 Ytang

Inspired by and modified from this list: netrunnerdb.com

Thesis: Hail Mary goes LOOOONG, like the pass in American Football--all the way down the field. Hail Mary passes run on a prayer that such a long pass will get caught, and this deck operates on prayer that some of the blind remote checks won't hit agendas we've tried to get out of our hand.

Gameplan: Go long. Lay down lots of remotes. Break their econ by encouraging trashing assets (like our 3x Nico Campaign and 3x Marilyn Campaign) and removing tags from Ping and Funhouse. Working Prototype is the replacement for the above list's Bladderwort and fills a similar role. It's big econ and threatens to waste runner clicks and credits redrawing and playing a resource.

Only 9 ice means a lot goes unprotected, but letting them see our tag payoffs or the threat of Oppo Research, Psychographics, and even Behold! when we reveal with Balanced Coverage can make runners think twice. Balanced Coverage routine hits while running without knowledge from Federal Fundraising: Just guess Asset--there's 20 of them!

Federal Fundraising is the real engine of the deck, though, because topdeck manipulation of R&D keeps runs on it whiffing or wasting credits to trash things that can be recovered with Spin Doctor. Corp ID punishes them trashing all our stuff, and we can score out quickly once their tags build up or we get SanSan City Grid and/or the newly powerful The Holo Man down (which I swapped in place of the 3rd Oppo Research).