Why Waste Time Programming? - 3rd Place - Store Championship

"You know, I bought it at a pawnshop. At first I used it for side jobs, then I realized you could mod it. It's fast, easy to use, and, best of all, discreet. Your code is impossible to find if it looks like a machine wrote it; especially if a machine did write it."

The idea of the deck is pretty simple utilize the concept of the Autoscripter and Savoir-faire combo to pound servers mid-game. Use Mr. Li to find what you need and put it in your grip. The burst econ is for getting through servers and installing big programs to surprise the corp. Force the corp to spend money on worthless ice you can break, meanwhile gaining a click in the process.

I built this deck on a whim using about half the total card-pool. (Long story short, my friend and I share cards). There's only one Desperado due to this and cards like Legwork were left out since my friend was running Andy. Cards that didn't need to be put in there were Doppelgänger and John Masanori.

It does worse against more taxing ice decks but surprisingly well against RP since you gain the extra clicks and Doppelgänger. The stars of the deck were my influenced events. Indexing was a huge surprise from criminal and I saw a turn one no ice R+D indexing that tournament which scored me 3 points (one of those being Clone Retirement). The Maker's Eye gave me a late game win against so many decks, I can't even count. Though, it failed me in the loser-bracket semis when I used it 3 times and saw nothing. R&D Interface would have been a good addition. I don't think I installed Cerberus "Rex" H2 all tournament, but I could have used it in conjunction with Stimhack to get into remotes if I ever needed to.

Losses: this is my favorite section. It only lost twice all tournament, both to Weyland. Surprisingly not to meat damage. First, it lost to Blue Sun in a bad series of draws to Blue Sun's amazing draws. I wished I had drawn well this game because I still think I would have lost. I think Blue Sun is a bad matchup and a strong deck vs this one. Especially if it runs scorched. Gabe had a rough time here, especially when Ice Wall was keeping him out of R&D all game. He played it well making sure I had absolutely no chance. He ended up in top 8 as well, and I'm glad I didn't see him again because I know I would've lost.

Next loss was to Titan. Earlier I said The Maker's Eye failed me? Yep. I saw 14 cards off R+D from card effects this game and found a single geothermal fracking from the indexing. I had actually beaten his Titan twice earlier in the tournament so I knew I had a fighting chance, but each game was really close. I'm not gonna say I lost off of bad accesses though. While unfortunate, his space ice (i.e. Asteroid Belt, Orion, Wormhole) made it so keeping him poor did almost nothing. Once he drew a Project Atlas, he was able to train them out with Trick of Light and recursion. It was an extremely close game, but he played it well and deserved the win. Especially after our first game where he was flooded with agendas and no ice.

Wins: I'm not gonna detail these, but it beat one PE, Titan 2 times, NBN: TWIY once and HB:EtF once. The star of most of those were Stimhack.

Well, there you have it. It's a fun deck that plays in a way people don't expect. When they have to read one of your cards in the top 8, you know you have a fun, solid deck.