corporal punishment (2-1+bye, Lexington SC, 2nd place)

Based on Memes Come True, but with some changes based on jamming some games a couple days before my SC. From Frost's writeup:

The core of the deck consists of:

• The 6-agenda package with Echo Chambers and Preemptive
• The Punitive + ConVis package
• The neutral assets and econ cards.

You must not change these.

The core of the ice suite are the IP Blocks, Slot Machines, and Surveyors. Efficient. Taxing. Humane.

This is about 34/44 cards and leaves you 3 influence to play with. Frost used their influence on an Afshar and Crisium Grid, which seemed fine enough for me. I also kept the Tollbooth, Jua, and Endless EULA from their iteration, as it seemed fine enough. Swapped Vanilla for a Rime because I had visions of messing with Surveyor math by making them odd strengths.

However, Frost had a package of 1 Waiver, 1 Peeping Tom, and 2 Standard Procedure that ostensibly worked together. I kept encountering one of two problems during practice, though:

• A terrible inability to remember what cards were in people's hands, or
• Runners who just ignored the Azmari ability and instead of sitting on their events or resources, would just play them freely and try to get a money advantage in other ways

As you can imagine, the first one's bad for Standard Procedure - I was regularly SP'ing for 0-2 credits, and that's a real feel bad moment. Peeping Tom with 2 subs is a lot less impressive too, and eventually runners figure out they can probably just take the tags. I don't have anything against Waiver, it just gets a lot worse if you're bad at the other two parts.

So I replaced them with:

• A Hydra, which is just a big generically taxing ice even outside of Acme, and seemed like something a lot of the runners on the day might have issues with
• A TL;DR, which is absolutely just a meme waiting to happen
• Two Daily Quest - I thought for a little while that this might be fighting with NGO Front for the same slots and server, but then I reasoned that the only thing better than 3 assets that gave you money was 5 assets that gave you money. I'm glad I did, too - Daily Quest makes Punitive a lot easier to land, and you don't need much out of this deck to protect it (I think in both games that it was relevant, I had an opening hand of Daily Quest + Slot Machine to start my remote).

On the day, this deck went 2-1. It lost to a Smoke on the last possible turn (I had both the win in a fairly difficult remote next turn and a double punitive in hand if he only managed to pull 3 points out of my R&D, but instead it coughed up 6) and beat a goodstuff Leela and a variant of BPM Ken, both with the punitive kill.