Step Into My Parlor (1st- Store Championship Blakfyre Games)

Though very different, parts of this deck was influenced by https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/40277/in-corp-we-trust-1st-place-kay-jays-store-champs-melbourne-. This deck dropped 2 games in 4 rounds of swiss and a top 8 cut. There were 23 players in attendance.

Ahhh, core Weyland. This is a back to basics deck that outperformed my expectations on the day of the event, and signals to me that (if Terminal Directive shows the ol W some love) we should be seeing a Weyland resurgence in tournament play. It's extremely fast, fairly consistent, and will have the runner sweating bullets from word one.

I don't have much to say about how to run this deck, as its pretty much what you'd expect out of core weyland. The deck is packed with transactions, so you should come out of the gate swinging with money, while the runner has to set back their tempo by installing their economy and drawing for what they're missing. Once you have a credit lead, start jamming out agendas. Depending on the situation, I'd do this behind one piece of ice (Lotus, preferably, if the credit counts were close enough that they could sneak in a couple of sure gambles to catch up) or naked (If they went down so low they couldn't possibly catch up). Don't be afraid to do the first one before you have the midseasons in hand. It takes a runner with balls of steel to catch you, and most will let it go. Threaten the midseasons boom to score out. If they take you up on it, boom the hell out of them if you can. Don't give them time to breath, just roll the agendas one after the other until you've won or lost.

In general, it performed very well. Runners who had a particularly good economic start (Day job, liberated) could sometimes catch up if my start was a little slower. I had no trouble with the SIFR decks I encountered, just too slow. Obelus was more problematic, and both loses were to Val (One Keyhole, one Obelus medium).

Some specific card thoughts Global Food Initiative - Something I never thought I'd say, but I found myself repeatedly wishing these were high risk investments. I jammed them out as my first agenda repeatedly through the day, and almost never had a runner on 6 points (where the global saves you). The ability to keep the midseasons threat alive regardless of credit count would have been great.

IP Block - An inspired splash from the deck above, this thing was a monster against faust decks and actually did tons of work against everyone else too. Its a nasty set of subroutines for a kill deck, a taxing break for faust, and even a respectably cheap tax for paperclip (Three to break for two to rez). Highly Recommended.

Veritas - Solid. This little guy did work for me, though it was occasionally a liability. I put it on the level of Caeduceus, but not hosed by rabbit hole decks. It pays for itself often, is a punishing face check when they're poking your servers, and usually remains a reasonable tax. I had trouble with it against Val though, both of whom I dropped a ton of tags on before trying to find my Boom kill. Bad pub takes a lot of the bite out of letting it fire if they're medium running or doing keyhole, and I lost one game because it wasn't a strong enough stop. I might suggest going to 2 instead of 3.

Bryan Stinson - An absolute MVP, Stinson does a ton of work. You're pressuring the runners early, so its not uncommon for them to be gaining and reinvesting into economy for the first few turns, dropping things like daily casts, earthrise hotel, or their breaker suite. Nailing a restructure off a stinson rez feels amazing and puts you way, way ahead, allowing you to jam out agendas under the threat of annihilation. Even if the runner keeps their credits where you can't use him, don't underestimate his utility. Stinson sat on HQ for me a lot, masquerading as a crisium that hadn't yet shown up, and I'm certain he turned away a siphon or two. Additionally, he's enough of a threat that his five to trash happens a lot, even if the runner is flush with cash. He won't usually bail you out of a losing scenario, but he'll turn a close match into a win often enough to be worth it.

Other thoughts, Aaron wasn't much of a problem for this deck, because the midseasons isn't usually small enough to be aaroned out of, and the boom is frequently not on the same turn as the tags, making it hard to over draw. Classic plascrete stopped me once. Against Obelus I recommended trying to get the booms repeatedly if you can't actually kill them. Make them burn their deck and continuously draw instead of hammering you, if you can. Whizzard SIFR was no threat at all, setting up far too slowly and generally only able to parasite one or two ice, being forced by me to run before they're ready to, I was usually able to force out enough agendas while they were setting up to have an easy win.

A great night, and special thanks to the Blakfyre crew. A better group of players you will not find.