Magician in Exoskeleton (1st at Summer meeting - GNK in Brno

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke

As modern magician you have a lot of tricks in your repertoar. Combination of Sneakdoor Beta, Dockland Pass and Imp can lock HQ and get rid of punishment from corp like Punitive Counterstrike. Combination of Conduit and Khusyuk can get deep in R&D and through breakers and your id magic you can get into any server you want relatively cheaply before corps win through scoring. Botulus can save you a lot of credits if you install it at the beginning a let it tick before you set up rest of your rig. Simulchips are there as additional copies of Self-modifying code and Imp and serves as replenishment for Euler. Even with all Optimalization you don’t have enough memory to use all of your tricks so you have to choose which ones are more important and then change your mind and exchange them thought Simulchip as well. As mulligan tip you are looking primary for Professional contacts as early as possible. This deck doesn’t have much draw because usually you want to use contacts as much as possible. This may bite you in faster much ups like against Precision design but they usually help you trigger your id and Pantograph early so you can find Conduit/Sneakdoor and punish them through R&d or HQ enough instead of trying to get into their remote server and Overclock can helps you with early runs. Clot is in deck because of Build to Last. It might be waste of influence for one match up but it feels really bad if you lose because you don’t have one that you can use repetitively through simulchip.

In tournament I was paired three times against GameNET and won all of them so I suppose it is favorite match up but didn’t feel that it is by much so more testing is necessary. In games it seemed that bigger threat to lose is through Punitive than them scoring.