Do The Worm (1st - Store Championship Blakfyre Games)

Look interesting, but I don't get it. Any two ICE server with two end the runs at least stop you completely, no? If 3 Pachantras are installed, does that mean I can use it's effect 3 times per turn?

That's correct. Each pancha can be used once per turn. So it takes 4 non tracers on the same server to completely lock out, which just never happened. (The two most common corps, NBN and HB, will struggle with how many ice happen to have tracer as a sub type already). If your second pancha is being slow, you can have a little trouble with ETF, but usually its difficult for them to rez enough to stop you before you can dig for it.

I found I hit a lot of inconsistency problems because you're essentailly stuck not being able to run until you have Gingerbread and 1 Pancha out. What do you do in games where the two are far apart in your deck? Do get more agressive and start face checking or do you just spend 2 to 3 turns drawing up?

@SneakyBookshelfThe combination of the big Andy draw and a hotel will usually get you both pieces pretty early (I highly recommend three gingers and 3 panchas. You'll be tempted to go down to 2 gingers, but this is a trap). Sometimes your deck does hate you, absolutely, the way it sometimes hides the right breaker and your special orders on the bottom in a more traditional deck. I'm usually willing to face check a bit early, depending on the deck (NBN is usually okay if you have nothing that arch angel will mess up. HB is okay first click though Architect is coming back. Jinteki is not okay. Weyland is not okay). The other thing I usually do if play down a Temujin and make a few runs on Archives. That usually gets them defending all three servers and gives me the opportunity to draw aggressively. If you can find the influence, I'd love to have had 1-2 quality times in the deck to supplement hotel. As with most criminals, getting a hotel down early is a big win, and not having it really slows your tempo.

@Amakaze Yeah I wouldn't consider dropping to 2 of the programs, I've fallen down that trap before with other decks. I'm thinking of Fisk Investment Seminar or Express Delivery for draw and Crescentus instead of Tapwrm to have more potential to slow the corp early. I've been on a pretty long break from Netrunner but I'll be trying it out at a Store Championship this Saturday, no idea what sort of meta to expect so it'll be a big learning experience.

Out of curiosity why is Weyland not ok to face check? What do they run now that's dangerous early game?

I was also wondering about the call on Guru, I can see from your deck description that he did a lot of work for you but I noticed other Andy decks like Takeshi's Castle don't run any damage protection at all. Is that because CI went up in popularity over the last few weeks or are you just playing extra safe?

@SneakyBookshelf For Weyland its not SO much the ice (though both Veritas and Mausolus really suck to slam your face into) as much as you then have to worry about sea source or midseason counters if you get through, which can prevent you from laying down your resources to keep your credits up. Also because Weylands usually slow enough I'm comfortable drawing for breakers.

For the Guru it was a bit of a meta call. SIFR smashed a lot of corp strategies. Usually when that happens I find people running back to speed, which means either kill decks or fast advance. For my local meta, I figured I'd be dealing with a lot of Accelerated Diagnostic Boom decks. I was correct, too. I think I went up against 2 decks all day that didn't have boom in them. Best defense CAN accelerated diagnostic around Guru, but he throws gum in the works hard if they don't have it, and he's generally useful against all sorts of kill. If your local meta is falling back on the 7 point CI more than any railgunning, then I'd swap him for something else.

@AmakazeSorry for all the questions but I was wondering about one more thing. How would you say Freedom Through Equality affected the tempo of the deck? I'm thinking of dropping Freedom, Turning Wheel and Rebirth to make room for 2x Employee Strike and John Masanori. Would you say not having that extra Agenda point or one fewer multi-access cards hurt the tempo a lot? I'm very comfortable playing Andy with regular breakers but I feel like with this sort of rig you want to score as fast as possible. Is the difference as big as I think or am I overthinking it?

No problem at all! I think this is the type of deck without much in the way of keystone cards. Outside of the breakers, I think you can be comfortable changing it around to fit your needs (Though I would recommend keeping in Tpewrm rather than crescentus for a little bit. But that's mostly because SIFR is driving a lot of corps to very cheap cards)

Employee strike is always great, and I don't begrudge you at all. Freedom through Equality helps get you off the six point problem a lot of Global Food decks put you on). Its also synergizes very well with Gang Sign, since when the corp scores you can choose to fire gang sign BEFORE Freedom trashes itself, since they have the same trigger condition. This gives you one more chance to score an agenda out of hand and get your extra point, but I wouldn't begrudge anyone wanting Strike.

Oh! I didn't mention it above, but I got to do this once during the day. Macrophage is a popular card right now to counter medium. Corps will rez it to shoot down your Tpewrm or Datasucker. My recommendation? Let them. Bide your time. Then run back in on the same server when they install another ice. Use one pancha to make that ice at tracer (so you can break it) and the other to make it a Virus. Then you can let the macrophage trace fire, forcing them to trash their own ice if they have no other valid targets. You can even force macrophage to trash itself this way. Always feels good.