March Madness - 1st @ American Online District

This is the deck I brought to the American Online District where it carried me and won the whole thing with a record of 5W-1L.

As others have echoed before, corp is not doing great right now with all the high-powered options runners have. Preparing for this event was a real struggle as I was testing numerous decks and I wasn’t feeling good about any of them. A majority of corp decks performing well are what I like to call “solitaire decks” where if you draw the cards in the correct order you most likely win, but if you don’t, you’re just sitting there watching the runner set up to eventually steal your agendas (PD, Sports, 40 card Azmari, BCP Azmari). While these decks are strong, I gravitate to decks that force runners into bad situations and ask them to analyze and disarm my board state.

That’s when I found The King’s Asa that included Malia and Cohort, and I knew something devious could occur. Asa in general is a very strong ID and it allows you to set up multiple different board states with key assets and annoying ICE. With the extra install, this gives you a lot of flexibility and allows you to react to what the runner is doing. Malia is also a very clutch card and can ruin any runner’s day as every faction runs high-powered resources that they don't want to be blanked (Bankhar, Crew, DJ, Aesop’s, Enviro Testing, Class Act, Earthrise, and many more!).

The King already did a great job explaining the deck in his previous write-up, but I just wanted to give a few tips about playing the deck.

• Typically you want to mull for a Cohort/Nico/Rashida, a gearcheck ICE, and another ICE for HQ. Getting your early econ + draw is important as you want to spend most of your clicks installing more ICEd servers to threaten multiple scoring lines as well as making your Fully Ops better.
• Be very aware of how your opponent is playing. Are they running centrals a lot? Are they aggressively checking assets? Are they sitting back and setting up? Corps only get about 10 turns to win in this meta so make sure you’re not wasting ICE or upgrades where they aren’t needed.
• Lastly, always play to your outs. This deck has all the tools to score the last agenda, you just need to set up the board state to make it happen.

One last note, the decklist is the same list that The King posted but I needed to shorten the title to make it fit. Happy selection Sunday!

Huge shoutout to my testing group The Future Perfect (Chromatically, rip netrunner, Wikignometry, & Sokka) for cheering me on throughout the day! And special thanks to The King for going over lines & practicing the deck with me before the event!

Also a huge shoutout to the TO’s, judges, players, and NSG for such a great event!

I will post the replays from the event as I get permission but if you have any questions please feel free to comment or hit me up on Discord :D

Round 3 vs l0velace on Crew Hosh: https://www.jinteki.net/replay/90036248-a494-44cb-8e79-17b34f31b025

Round 5 vs CatWithAnAt on Az: https://www.jinteki.net/replay/23881d15-c509-4664-911a-71b77b747f9d

Round 7 vs nervousnightjar on Esa: https://www.jinteki.net/replay/9759d1f6-4f8c-4746-b7ef-407d450ac046

Semifinals vs AlPi on Swift Lat: https://www.jinteki.net/replay/c7556cef-71fe-43dd-9797-57226048efa1

Finals vs l0velace on Crew Hosh: https://www.jinteki.net/replay/c1b828a2-0eb4-4254-95cc-ad01509a1ff6