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Took this deck to the 16-person SC at Stratagem Games in Perth, Western Australia and went undefeated to win the entire tournament!
Late last year I'd been trying out batty in AoT for a laugh and remembered how much fun Batty actually is. I kinda put it aside to focus on playing Sync and Friends FA HB for a while, until our good friend Aaron Marrow was released. That, coupled with FiHP made me consider trying Batty out of HB again, that and it helped that Rumor Mill wasn't as prevalent. At first I tried just slotting batty into my Friends HB deck but wasn't having amazing luck with it, and deck slots felt way too tight.
Then lo and behold it turns out @BeNNyBiLL had already had some success with this sort of deck the other week (https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/40332/batty-s-vindaloo-special-1st-place-wrexham-chester-sc-s). The AAL > Hedge Fund idea was a big epiphany for me and I was suddenly able to cut some card slots and refine the deck down a bit while also fitting in the tech cards I needed to deal with the current Anarch archetypes.
The deck went undefeated the entire day, beating Reina, Null, Ken and Whizzard in swiss and then Noise in the top 4.
Probably the biggest thing I enjoyed about the deck is that every card pulled its weight (sans one) and I felt like I was in some sort of harmony with the deck all day. The only regret was the CVS, which I think I only used once to reset a parasite ticking down on a FC3. It probably should've been Eve or BBG number 3, or maybe an Archived Memories.
2 Batty and 3 Architects turned out to be the perfect choice on the day, as I got enormous amounts of value out of the untrashable ice that costs 3 to break with MKUltra. ELP helped make FC3 a hard ETR in the early game and Ark Lockdown was an integral part of my "Sifr decks will run out of parasites eventually" strategy.
Full props to @BeNNyBiLL because without their deck being published I probably wouldn't have refined my own attempt down as effectively!
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30 Jan 2017
Netrunnerunner
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30 Jan 2017
Anzekay
I got to juke a Temujin with it though (dropped a second piece of ice on an archives the runner could get into already with yog and denied the whole temu), and there were other times I found it super useful. Also dropping it onto a BBG and then popping a campaign onto it during the runner's turn is pretty great. but I think I will test the deck with Hedge instead if I plan on playing it again in the future. |
30 Jan 2017
Netrunnerunner
Oh, AAL is definitely an amazing card in the deck; I wouldn't recommend cutting all of them. But I didn't know if you might want to cut something else for Hedge Funds (Hellion Beta Test, the Cyberdex) for some Hedge Funds to make your econ a little more robust to trashing/Employee Strike. You might also cut those two cards and go to three Hedge Fund, two AAL. |
30 Jan 2017
Anzekay
I wouldn't cut the Hellion Beta Test, it's absolutely a big deal card. I fired in once in every game on the day, and twice in one match. Against Sifr it's always relevant, and its flexibility to take out other key runner pieces is pretty potent. I wasn't so sure when I first tried it out, but it's really very good! If I did try to squeeze hedge funds in I'd be tempted to drop the CVS and one AAL for two of them. Maybe, dunno, perhaps the third BBG is still just better. |
31 Jan 2017
BeNNyBiLL
In my opinion, I think dropping a Batty has diluted the potency of your build if your expecting a Rumor Mill free environment. Getting 1 Batty installed is strong, getting 2 and the odds of winning the game have swung heavily in your favour. For the non-believers, AAL > HF has a lot more to it. CONS
PROS
I think its undeniable that AAL > HF in this deck by a rather large margin! |
1 Feb 2017
Anzekay
@beNNyBiLL You could be right about cutting the 1 batty being a dilution, but on the day I found the 3x architect so invaluable that is was absolutely worth doing so. At least several times I got to fetch a batty from R&D or back from archives, too! I think 3 of the anarch decks I played were running at least one rumor mill, but none of them were able to keep one up before I got to fire a batty. Sometimes you just gotta save the ELP for them, or sneak out an ABT :D |
Congratulations! Without Hedge Fund, it seems like this deck might have a hard time establishing economy against Whizzard decks that are really insistent on trashing your Campaigns (especially those with Slums), especially since they might be able to hit the AALs out of centrals before you draw them. Did you ever run into any problems with that in testing?