Biotic Labor is a crutch - Top 8 at Louisville Regional

Nothing at all exciting here. This is a very slightly modified version of the Foodcoats deck that @simonmoon runs. The thing that most struck me when starting to play this list was the lack of Biotic Labor. I have long thought that to you need the Biotic to force out the last agenda, but I've found that playing without the Biotic forces you to go for earlier scores and try to actively open scoring windows via the remote. Without the idea that Biotic Labor will save you in the late game, you have to be more pro-active about scoring, which is a good thing for the Corp player's mindset.

I took this deck to the Louisville Regional and wound up going 3-0 with it in Swiss (took an ID the last round) and finishing 5th after Swiss. I had to drop out of the cut, so could not test the deck there. On the day, I beat Haley (Sifr), Leela (Keyhole), and Alice Merchant. (My Runner was an equally boring Good Stuff Andy who went 2-1 and had a good chance to be 3-0 if I had understood my third opponent's deck better.)

A much better player than I am, @foilflaws, took a similar Foodcoats deck to 4th place at the Cleveland Regional.

This is not the best deck in the meta and has a couple match ups that are really, really tough, but it is never a terrible deck. The one lesson I've learned playing this deck is that sometimes you have to give up an agenda to score an agenda. I used to wait to score until I felt I almost certainly could keep a Runner out of my remote. That was almost always a recipe for failure. Once you have a remote ice, if you think there is a reasonable chance a Runner cannot easily get in, go for a score. If the Runner gets in, they might not have enough resources to get in for the next thing you jam in there. If they don't get in or don't try, you have some points and have put pressure on the Runner the next time you install a card there.

The deck will cease to be viable once Project Vitruvius rotates, but until then don't believe the rumors that Foodcoats is dead.