Revenge of the Sil (Regional Winner RPC Cologne)

This is not my Deck. It's by Jaro aka MonkeyML. I'm posting it with Jaro's permission. Jaro piloted this deck winning a small Regional (17 Players) at the RPC Convention in Cologne. It won 2 out of 4 games. The two losses were against the same player.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.
- Rihanna

There has been an awakening, have you felt it?

Sil decks are starting to place surprisingly high in the European scene. As the cardpool for ice becomes more varied and face-checking becomed more dangerous the value of expose rises. The current rise of Horizontal decks creates a favorable environment for runners who can put a lot of pressure on centrals quickly. This specific deck focuses on a handful of surprising and powerful deck-building choices to catch the corp off-guard and push them into making bad choices.

On Expose

Enter Silhouette. Her expose effect can secure an an HQ access 1st turn. Her ability is the counter to the Steven Wooley defense. Run on HQ. If corp rezzes an ETR ice, Special Order for a solution, install and get in anyway. If they don't rez the ice, expose it, Special Order for a solution, install and keep running. Generally, the expose effect is a lot more powerful on ice than on cards in servers. It allows Sil to stay ahead of the corp game by getting only the tools she needs and making calculated runs. If corp defends HQ too much you can shift the pressure to archives with Sneakdoor Beta or make money on less protected remotes with Bank Job or Security Testing.

It's worth noting that this Sil build does not feature Account Siphon but corps will think it's coming.

Blackmail is the new Inside Job

The deck features a Corporate Scandal + Blackmail combo. This gives Sil free access to remote servers. Because of the HQ pressure, corp will be inclined to get their Agendas out of HQ as soon as possible into scoring servers. Sil can identify the agendas with expose and grab them with Blackmail. This is a similar idea to the Notorious Daily Quester but one that requires less clicks and less runs on centrals to work. It's also a huge surprise for players not familiar with the deck. You prepare for Blackmail against Val, but not against Sil.

In addition, Bad Pub compliments Desperado greatly. A singe Bad Pub turns Sil into a small Whizzard - giving her 2 net credits every run. The deck features Investigative Journalism to make the Bad Pub stick beyond the lifetime of the Current and allowing her to go to up to 5 Bad Pub max.

Panchatantra + Gingerbread

The breaker suite is unorthodox. We have a typical Corroder, Mongoose and Passport. But we also have a Gingerbread and a Panchatantra. This combo is basically our AI breaker. With those two installed we should get past any single ice we want. In many cases Gingerbread will actually work alone as it covers a majority of currently played Sentries. With Panchatantra it also covers our inability to get past Code Gates on remotes in cases where we won't be Blackmailing. There breaker suite is old school with each ice type being potentially covered by at least two breakers. Due to Levy AR Lab Access it's also robust and not as vulnerable to Markus Batty as other recent Criminal builds.

The Power of Jank

Jaro is a well known Meta-Agnostic among the runners from Cologne and this deck is the culmination of an art he perfected. The decks features a lot of weird and unusual choices that have the potential to surprise the corp and catch them completely off-guard.

• The ID
• Corporate Scandal + Blackmail
• Panchatantra + Gingerbread
• Lack of Account Siphon
• Stimhack
• Data Dealer

This results in a deck that can be difficult to play against. It's a match-up people are completely unfamiliar with. By the time they figure it out it may be too late.