Tacoma Regionals 2nd Place ETF

This is a variant of a deck that a buddy of mine and I have been working on for a few months. Originally it ran Director Haas, and you used Troubleshooter Architect/Crick to pull her into a mega server from archives in the late game, but I was losing 1/5 games to her getting sniped early, and killing my FA options.

This style of deck has a lot of options, and can be very resilient to a lot of play styles. I like HB over RP, because I feel like RP wants to play super glacier and wants to only score agendas in the last few turns of the game after their have their win server. HB has money, biotic, ash, and good ice. I can play glacier if I want, but I can also score out agendas when I need to.

• NEXT Suite was a lot better than I was expecting. Kate can recur parasites, but she can't run constant denial like some older meta decks. If you play quickly enough, it is hard for her to deal with.

• • NEXT Silver was amazing for taxing lady, it was probably my most valuable ICE, and I am super glad that I dropped 1 eli, 2 elis are still really good, especially if they need to lady your silvers.
• • I actually got 1 kill with NEXT Gold in a game, which was fun, but more importantly it is nice to have at least SOME damage threat in any corp deck. You would think that with Net Ready Mimic and Sharpshooter all over the place, GOLD isn't so fantastic, but Troubleshooter can handle everything except D4V1D. I still feel like Tollbooth did more work, but at least it was another big ICE to hit with ABT, and it boosts your other NEXT!

• Accelerated Beta Test did some serious work, netting me 29c of value at its best, and I think 6 at its worst. Crick gives a lot of confidence on ABT fires, especially if the runner threw a Jackson Howard away earlier in the game. Also, when you are playing NEXT, hitting a Mother Goddess or even a NEXT Bronze can be huge, boosting all your existing NEXT ICE significantly.

• Breaker bay was incredibly good as expected. Not only is it a huge money saver on a mega server with Ash/Cyberdex/Adonis, but also you can do some sneaky tricks. One game I got a last click Architect fire, leaving myself with 1 credit, installed a breaker bay off R&D onto my Adonis Server, and installing an agenda in a remote. At 2c, I was able to rez adonis, gain 3, and score out the agenda, a huge swing.

• Crick is a powerful meta call, there are not a lot of good options to it right now, and it denies so much for just 1 credit. In addition to the security testing/sneakdoor/dirty laundry/datasucker denial, it also allows you to fire ABT with more confidence.

• Troubleshooter was definitely a powerful include with the fixed breaker meta, potentially acquiring kills with Next Gold, or installs with architect. People often don't mind running architect last click when they think they can break it, and often a last click fire of Architect nets an agenda score.

• Chronos Project. What is there to say, both Anarchs and Shapers are loving their heaps right now, and a well timed Biotic or even just hard score can do serious work to a runner that dropped their sharpshooter or parasite in the Bin.

This deck ended up losing me 2 games in swiss, and 2 games in the bracket. I attribute most of those losses to my own play, and not the deck, but I acknowledge that it doesn't have the record to give it a claim to fame at this point. If I did another regional, I would absolutely bring this deck anyway. Thanks for reading!