Spaginfusion (1st @ Apex of the Midwest, Undefeated)

This is the AgInfusion list I piloted to 1st place in the ANRPC Apex of the Midwest tournament in Madison, WI. It went undefeated on the day, 4-0 in Swiss (beating Liberated Chela Hayley, Adam, Hayley Lock, and Run-based Andromeda) and winning its only game in the cut (against Run-based Andromeda).

The goal of the deck is to make the Runner hit your giant, scary ice as many times as possible. You play a lot of ice that sucks to break and sucks even more to facecheck, and once you get a meaningful piece of ice rezzed on a central, you can start throwing them into that ice as many times as you want. Chiyashi is obviously best for this, but Fairchild 3.0 and DNA Trackers work just as well. All of the other ice in the deck is tech for various matchups (Macrophage wrecks Reg Anarch, Swordsman hoses AI). If those ice aren’t good in the particular matchup, you can still trash them to bounce the Runner elsewhere. All ice is equal in AgInfusion’s eyes.

Being that you’re on so much big ice, you also want all the money in the world. The addition of IPO is crucial here, giving you what amounts to three extra Restructures that you can fire for less initial credits. Subliminal Messaging does a ton of work in this thing once you get an ice rezzed, I routinely fired Subliminal over 10 times a game.

Eventually you get a scoring server set up and score behind scary ice and a Caprice. Generally you want the big ice on the outside of the scoring server with tech ice on the inside you can trash for your ID ability. That way, you can force the Runner to break the big outside ice, then send them elsewhere and make them break it again on the second trip in.

You’d think this deck loses to Strike and Rumor Mill, but you can deal with both cards. Strike shuts down your tricks, but you still play giant ice that the Runner has to pay for, so your servers stay taxing. Rumor Mill blanks Caprice/Batty, but you get to keep the ID ability so you can still make the Runner run your scoring server multiple times.

Some shout-outs to various individuals:

Theo Clifford, Jonas Wilson, Chris Hinkes: For various builds and suggestions regarding this list. Without them, it wouldn’t have been built.

Spags: For giving me the decklist and naming the deck. Without him, I wouldn’t have played it and would still be playing RP Glacier like a chump.

Dan Cook and Beth Zarden-Benson: For hosting the Apex of the Midwest tournament. Despite a smaller turnout, it was still one of the best events I’ve been to in a while.

Lucas Burgan: For having to break the same Chiyashi at least 5 times with Faust and whiffing on 4 full-value Deep Data Minings. Netrunner is hard.

(PS: There's no 2017 ANRPC option in NetrunnerDB, so I tagged it 2016 ANRPC. I swear I'm not a time traveler.)