Tracing down Doors

During a store championship I took 5th place, unfortunately the player who took 4th was unable to finish the tournament so I was put in the top 4 cut. After some grueling matches I landed 2nd place.

This deck lands to tag the runner but is near impossible to kill with it. The intent of the deck is to drain the runner so agendas can be easily scored behind weak ice.

Three cards that make this deck work:

-Aryabhata Tech - Door to Door - Macrophage

Ideally turn one will have Door to Door played with ice on HQ and R&D. or Door to Door with econ and 1 ice in an appropriate place. Turn two would have Aryabhata Tech behind ice or with upgrade to protect it. Sometimes in a rush I would throw down Door to Door and Aryabhata Tech turn one and using it to drain the runner. With NBN: Making News this can easily lead to runner starting their first turn with 2 credits or 4 credits and a tag.

Macrophage is incredibly powerful with Aryabhata Tech, cheap to play for how much it taxes the runner. Consulting Visit was normally used pull out Door to Door whenever it was shut down, but if the runner decides to float tags it can also pull out a surprise The All-Seeing I or Closed Accounts. Media Blitz has a special spot if the runner steals Restructured Datapool or Net Quarantine early on in the game.

I designed this deck to drain not to kill, and it does that pretty well.

Cards not in this deck: Psychographics - While powerful in huge tag decks much of the time this deck wouldn't land more than 2 tags and it doesn't feel like it is consistently good even with Consulting Visit. Observe and Destroy - I was going to test this more instead of Enforcing Loyalty, right now its a bit of a toss up because both have pros and cons in this deck. Corporate Sales Team - While the drip econ is nice its not really needed, I preferred Net Quarantine over this because I could use Media Blitz to punish the runner still. Data Raven - I like this card but if the runner decides to float tags then it becomes 4 wasted credits.

I overheard someone describe this deck perfectly while playing "A lot of those cards are awful, they shouldn't be working that well together". I am curious to know what everyone thinks and encourage them to try this themselves. Not sure if there are already variations of this deck already but would be curious to see them.