"Tempo" (Undefeated and King of Swiss at Fly to Emea 2)

Fly to EMEA 2

This is the deck that got me to top of Swiss at Fly to EMEA 2, going undefeated vs a Hoshiko and 2 Kits. Sadly I had to drop after Swiss, so no idea where it would have landed in the cut. See my runner here.

Thanks Atien for organizing the event and everyone for participating!

What is this deck?

Actually this is neither grinder nor shell game. This is just pure tempo. You install things until the runner can not keep up any more and dies.

But ... how?

Usually you win by killing the runner (not by them accidentally impaling themselves or guessing wrong or any of that nonsense). The combo normally involves some amount of Bladderwort and Reaper at the start of the turn, scoring a Sting! or Fuji of the table (with the support of Cohort or Wage Workers) and maybe a Blood in the Water from hand for the finishing touches.

That still does not explain how you get there?

Well, you simply start of by installing as much into new remotes as possible. Wage Workers is your best card early. Random Steals, Bladderwort trigger and Bring them Home help slow the runner down to keep spamming the board (and that Runner are usually wary to run vs PE and expect Grinder or something. That is wrong. Against this deck you have to run aggressively).

If you managed to stick Wage Workers and/or Cohorts (the latter is usually the highest icing priority, then centrals, and then maybe agendas), the next step is scoring some House of Knives or False Lead. Scoring those makes it much harder for the Runner to run savely, giving you even more room to assemble your combo.

What does Front Company do?

Two things: protecting archives from being flipped up, so that Cohort is online, and wasting runner clicks (eg running and trashing Front Company instead of the more valuable Assets). You might have the urge to ice centrals first before rezzing Front Company, but that is not necessary.

With False Lead scored, this becomes actually very effective and protecting the other remotes.

PS: Sometimes it is also useful to duck under 4c to fire off Bladder.

Are these actually the correct cards to play?

No, you should play 3 False Lead and 2 Hok. Also the VSAs should be Gatekeeper and Mindscaping should be PAD Campaigns. But it is close enough.

So is this deck actually good?

Yes. Just pretend Loup is not real and cant hurt you.

So is this deck fun?

Maybe? Probably?

PS:

Note to self: If you want to post something screenshot with "UnDEfeAted oN JneT!!", dont test the deck when playing against tuno <3