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Took this deck and Dan D'Argenio's Foodcoats to the Malaysian 2015 Nationals and ended up 1st seed after Swiss, and 5th place overall.

Results for Sunny after 5 rounds of Swiss were 3 wins, 1 loss and 1 draw. The wins were against Spark Agency, Jinteki: PE and HB: EtF. The loss and the draw were both against HB: EtF as well.

This deck is essentially "Sunny Taps Out" originally from @CodeMarvelous, with a few changes:

-1 Kati Jones -1 Security Nexus -1 GS Striker M1 -2 Medium

+1 ZU.13 Key Master +2 Plascrete Carapace +2 R&D Interface

During playtesting, I found out that Kati wasn't necessary, as I preferred to spend the clicks to draw up, and the drip economy was enough to tide me over while I built up my rig,

I dropped a Security Nexus as I didn't want to install it until after I got the Rabbit Holes installed, and they were just dead draws for me until then.

As much as I like the Mediums, I dropped them to save influence to replace the Striker with a ZU. Yes, that actually leaves me with 1 unused MU, but I had no idea what to fill it with, maybe an Overmind?

Plascrete Carapaces were needed as there were a few players packing kills decks around. Feel free to replace them with whatever you like to fit your local meta.

Game plan with Sunny is pretty straightforward: get as much drip econ and link setup ASAP, then drop in Security Nexus. Once you are at 6 link, Corps will be reluctant to boost the trace on Nexus. If you have Jak Sinclair and a couple of Power Taps down, you've got the equivalent of a free Security Testing + card access each turn. Use this to exploit weak servers.

Break for cheap with Security Chip and Datasucker tokens. Let traces on Ichi 1.0, Caduceus and even Ash fire off since you'll get more creds from the trace they can't/won't pump. Eventually, you'll be able to lock R&D for the win.

9 comments
30 Nov 2015 AsteriskCGY

I've also swapped space for a Zul in most of my borrowed Sunny decks and it does wonders often enough. Course, kill decks were something I didn't think to check about. I like your Kati argument, as going through her deck is critical to start running, and just pumping Kati doesn't help that game.

1 Dec 2015 str4atman

Yea, Kati is great for many decks, just not this one. The times I had the clicks to cash in/out from her were when I was already set up and was already getting 4 - 6 creds passively.

Once Turning Wheel is released, I'll try them out in place of R&D Interface. Then the influence can go to another ZU. I'll also be trying out Lucky Find in place of Modded, as a bad mulligan into 2 Jak, 2 Modded and a Security Chip cost me a game in the Top 8.

1 Dec 2015 AsteriskCGY

Yea, I find most of her lists don't have a great way to get from 0 to money as easily as other decks. The Fairs and Modded combo great, but it's still a combo.

4 Dec 2015 AsteriskCGY

Been trying Finds, and they've done great. It makes Drug Dealer less of a hassle to deal with from what I can tell, but I still feel weird about playing it too early.

4 Dec 2015 Salindurthas

Can you attest that Power Tap is worth it?
How often is it relevant?

4 Dec 2015 str4atman

@AsteriskCGY That's great to hear! I'm also considering Symmetrical Visage in place of Drug Dealer, although I'm thinking that might increase variance even more.

@Salindurthas It's worth it for me. If I didn't get my career fair or modded, it helped recover my econ after installing Security Nexus. Also good for the R&D or remote lock especially if they have Assassin or Ichi. I wouldn't have been able to continuously run an 8 ICE R&D for the win if not for the Power Taps.

If you find yourself maintaining econ advantage when you're set up, then the Power Taps can be something else. I did have one of the top local players test it and he felt it was overkill. :)

4 Dec 2015 AsteriskCGY

@str4atman``@Salindurthas I can agree with that. Tap does not help early unless you have something like a Resistor to run into until you get the Nexus. I think the argument for Dealer is with Sunny's setup your clicks are best spent either running or installing, either more drip econ, breakers, or security chips. But with everything so expensive its hard to argue for it without the econ to back it up.

4 Dec 2015 str4atman

@AsteriskCGY Yea. More clickless draws and econ is what Sunny needs at the moment. Drug Dealer works great actually, but there's some times when I only have one Underground Contact installed, and I'm loath to install Dealer cause I. Really. Need. That. Credit.

4 Dec 2015 AsteriskCGY

@str4atmanYea Drug Dealer only makes sense when you have 2-3 drip going, or a bank of credits, because each card is going to be worth more than clicking for a single credit. But at the start without it you're just trading clicks.