Mythic Rush (6-0) 1st Florida Regional

Jinteki Rush is still good! Aginfusion is the id that I have been waiting for since people started playing whizzard and I had to shelve RP Rush almost permanently. Aginfusion gives you all of the click compression and excalibur shenanigans without the reliance on assets to bolster your economy. While this list may not seem incredibly rushy, the main crux of the list lies in its use of Mother Goddess and its 14 economy cards. With these two deck building decisions, the deck can score niseis very quickly and proceed to close a game out with incredible speed and consistency. Additionally, going rush helps alleviate some of aginfusions weaknesses such as employee strike and sifr. But, if their is one thing that this decklist has taught me, its that mother goddess is incredible in aginfusion. Seriously, if you play aginfusion, you should run mother goddess, you would be surprised how useful it is.

Tournament Report:

Round 1: Ayla Dheghedeer Sage breakers (WIN): Rushed out a nisei behind an excalibur and a face down card and proceeded to rush out to 7. My opponent didn't really have a chance to do anything due to how powerful my start was. (1-0)

Round 2: Maw Whizzard (WIN): This match I played against Ve, a staple of the Florida Netrunner community and a brilliant deck builder. Check out her podcast the source! Anyways, I probably should have lost this game due to a bbig mistake on my part. I spent the entire game thinking that Ve was on Sifr and iced up my servers with that in mind. Because of this, the Maw drop was absolutely devastating and she burst up to 5 points with it. However, a bit of artful play on my part with a lot of HQ access luck allowed me to turn my early nisei into a win due to the absolute power of excalibur. (2-0)

Round 3: Study Guide Andy (WIN): I got off to a good start as I was able to push out a nisei but my opponent was able to recover as well as get out their entire breaker suite including a mammon to break excalibur. I was constantly baffled by my opponents deck choices which put me on the back-foot but eventually I recovered and was able to force another score. Ultimately, the need to get 4 different breakers out to deal with aginfusion put too much of a strain on his economy and he wasn't able to win the final game deciding psi-game. (3-0)

Round 4: Smoke (WIN): This was one of the dumbest games of netrunner I ever played. I mulliganed a 2 agenda 1 ice hand into a no ice hand with no agendas and a lot of econ. I drew an obokata and no ice so I moneyed up and passed. My opponent indexed into RnD and found 4 economy cards and a crisium grid. Eventually I had more money than god and was able to score out a nisei, a future perfect, and an obokata behind a mother goddess without the need to protect my central servers. 8-agenda is pretty great. (4-0)

Cut Round 1: Silhouette (WIN): This was also a pretty weird game as it was decided on turn 3. I moneyed up hard and my opponent face-checked a chiyashi and then a DNA tracker back to back. I respect the aggression but he got very unlucky. (5-0)

Cut Final Smoke (WIN): Same smoke deck but a pretty different game. My opponent also ran into a chiyashi early game which trashed his barrier breaker in hand, Blackcat. The rest of the game was pretty rough for my opponent as I locked down both RnD and HQ with a chiyashi and I was able to build an excalibur remote. At 5 points and a future perfect in hand, my opponent conceded only having gotten his blackcat back the turn prior. (6-0)

I feel that this deck is very powerful but is not quite finished. I would like to find room for another fast track and I feel that the fairchild could be exchanged for a more well rounded ice suite. However, the deck felt solid throughout the tournament.

Finally, I want to thank Gamesville Tabletop and specifically Sean and Callie for putting on such an amazing tournament in such a lovely shop. It's always a pleasure to play their even during the weekly meet-up.