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Standard Ban List 23.09 (latest) |
Standard Ban List 23.08 (active) |
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Deck valid after Fifth Rotation |
Mainly publishing these for ABR purposes - this is the Runner that I took to the Warwick Circuit Opener and UK Nationals. I think this went 1-3 at Warwick and 0-7 at Nats, so was easily the worse of my two decks. In hindsight, after seeing its performance at Warwick I should have swapped it for a different one, but that's how it goes sometimes!
My Corp was notably better, but not good enough to save my overall record in both tournaments. (Hey you should check out my UK Nats startup decks though, they did very well!)
This deck exists for two reasons. First it exists because I have Sanjay's alt-arts for Creative Commission and Maw, and wanted to play them. I mean, look at them:
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This was the main reason that the deck exists. (If you're reading this Sanjay - thank you for creating such fun alt-arts! Admittedly after playing this deck I found out that you had more alt-arts than I own, so I'll have to acquire them and make a Sanjay Alt-Art Showcase 2 at some point.)
The slightly more competitive reason that this deck exists is that I thought Maw was a good choice right now for three reasons:
Unfortunately, it has a slightly important set of flaws:
The rest of the deck is built around making Maw work. Here's some highlights:
I think the conclusion is pretty simple - the setup cost on Maw, even in a smaller deck, is probably too much right now. The Overclock + Self-modifying Code package is definitely good and allowed me to challenge early remotes, but I was then struggling to keep up after that early game. By the end of UK Nats I wasn't installing Maw unless I really felt able to. It probably doesn't help that Self-Growth Program on a Maw is very effective, and I do not have the economy to keep up with that.
But maybe a better deckbuilder than me will have a cool idea how to make the idea work! For now though, I think this is an idea I'll be shelving - it was fun to tweak, but it is probably slightly too slow. I expect in future if I'm looking for win conditions I'll reach for Maw, smile at him, and then gently put him back in the box and grab a Stargate or similar.
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