www: Whale, Wolf, Wheels

Most of my previous deck writeup Kit, Whale, Wolf still applies. There are some minor changes to the economy package but most notably is 3x Deep Dive, which I firmly believe is better than Cataloguer.

Also, I added a Hannah "Wheels" Pilintra instead of the second Miss Bones, thanks to cmur2 to let you steal Ikawah Project from Deep Dive. In theory Hannah would help you against asset spam, but I never ended up playing her against asset decks in testing and it didn't come up in the tournament.

Overclock - I often use Trick Shot as an Overclock to run a remote server. I still think Trick Shot is better, but YMMV.

Flip Switch - I've been running into a lot of NBN trap / tagging decks on jnet casual. Might be a good include, since we don't have any anti-tag tech.

In testing, I tried Gebrselassie as a cheaper, worse K2CP Turbine that you don't risk Spark-ing, but it's just such a slow card and so situational. The breakers are already so efficient that this is only really useful in glacier matchups and only marginally - not quite worth the deck slots.

The Tournament

Out of the three games, I made one minor misplay in each of the first two games, and one major misplay in the last game where I drew Orca on the click before I planned to Spark with 1/25 odds, and then I proceeded to hard cast it. There were also some atrocious Deep Dives, but that's all just netrunner.

Game 2 vs kitsuragi on fast Asa - I felt good about this one, until I didn't. I made a misplay when I was one credit short to break a Gatekeeper on HQ, but I was already being taxed out really heavily by Manegarms and a beefy remote, and I just couldn't put together a turn to lay down a Deep Dive. I found an Ikawah in HQ once and was able to squeak through into the remote to see another on the penultimate turn, but I couldn't pay to steal either time. The agenda suite on the PD / Asa (2 Ikawah + all 2-pointers) is really strong - you have to either steal FOUR agendas, or 2 agendas and an Ikawah. Brutal! kitsuragi also did a clever and bold move to not rez ice in the early game until my Trickster Taka trashed itself, which I'm also sure was great for her econ. Here, I should have pivoted to the Deep Dive play with a DJ Fenris significantly sooner, hopefully before kitsuragi drew the second Ikawah.

Game 3 vs Nopius on fast PD - I fired three Deep Dives here against . First one stole an ADT and saw no other agendas. Good so far. Second (bolstered by a trashed Hannah saw another ADT and no other agendas. A bit of a bummer, but you win some and you lose some. Third one saw two Ikawah which I was unable to steal. Ouch! And then the remote was 5 ICE deep, with at least one Border Control and Manegarm Skunkworks and Anoetic Void. I made a run against a double iced remote, letting Nopius fire a Drafter to grab an Anoetic Void and kick me out. That was a misplay. Miss Bones is critical in these matchups when you're paying 4 cred to trash Tranquility Home Grids and Wage Workers and 3 cred for Manegarm Skunkworks. I was a turn or two behind, and Nopius scored Ikawah out with two Border Controls and three Seamless Launch in hand. I was rich enough to contest one Border Control, but not two, and I thought I might have one more turn after that. I'm pretty happy with the lines I took here, but I wish the second and third Deep Dives were reversed. That's netrunner, baby! These two matches do make me think that I might need more tech to let Deep Dive steal Ikawahs or two agendas - maybe cut a Trickster Taka and add another Hannah and a third Pinhole, since economy felt ok to me but I really needed ways to kill Skunks and Voids - I got lucky on my 50/50 guesses when Pinhole-ing two facedown cards in the remote.

Game 5 vs Stwyde on Timely Public Release A Teia - The first few runs were done manually because of some jnet weirdness with not giving me run prompts, which cleared up after we both left and rejoined. I made a misplay here where I facechecked an Anansi after already using Kit's code gate ability on another ICE earlier in that turn, so I couldn't break with Lobi. I was feeling pretty rich at 13 cred or so at the time, so losing 3 econ cards wasn't the worst, but still. Oops. The first Deep Dive: no agendas. Then, I had Spark in hand and Aniccam, and I thought, I'll play Aniccam, then Spark my Orca, then draw. But then I thought, why don't I draw first and see if anything good happens. The worst possible thing happened, and I drew my Orca. FML! I hard cast Orca because I needed my killer pronto and didn't have time to discard it and Compile + Spark. I think I made the right choice, but it was still bad odds (1/25). I was poor from then on, and couldn't contest the remote. I did grab a nice Bacterial Programming off my second Deep Dive, though. I think my early aggression was better than getting 20+ credits and having nowhere to put them. I think hard-casting Orca was premature and took all my money and cost me the game - I should have dug for my second and third Deep Dives while hammering lightly defended centrals, and cast Orca if I really needed to. Maybe I would have drawn a Compile to challenge the remote and set up the second Spark. But how can I be angry? My dear Orca was just too excited to see me and couldn't wait a moment longer. :')

My corp was Regenesis Sisyphus with a minor Cloud Eater + Mindscaping kill threat. It went 2-1, the wins due to no virtue I possessed and the loss through no fault of my own. Thanks Droid for running a smooth online tournament!