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WorldSerpent 130

Why break subroutines when you can just trash entire board state? It has performed solidly in a GNK (Warboar, Bromley, London, 24th Jan 2016)) and always does well at casual netrunner meets.

This is my attempt at a zero-breaker deck. It hinges on the combo of inside job, feint, ddos and leela's I'd to allow the triple run on the central state to bust out the apocalypse. We all know the power of apocalypse but combined with Leela it just allows you to keep the corp on the back foot and then legwork top-deck r&d for the win. It plays better than it looks. The strategy is to sit back and wait for your opening whilst getting the combo into hand. Turn 6 or so is usually optimal because you want to trash as much ice as possible. Early bird allows you to apocalypse with a same old thing or follow up with an account siphon or legwork.

It is currently performing very well, even against its toughest match-up, foodcoats. pretty much any other deck can't lock you out and even foodcoats struggles. With MWL foodcoats will have a much harder time with this deck because Chrisium, Architect and Caprice are its main foils. It thrashes NEH sponsorship decks and seems to hold up against other sturdy decks.

I think Mumbai will have some solid cards for this deck but there is still a lot of wiggle room in the current build. I think the levy may be unnecessary and that a third DDOS would be better. I think drug dealer can also be cut to a two of. Lastly, armpit are and sneak door are two new additions which the deck doesn't rely on. Rolodex is amazing in this deck as planning your turns is farm more useful than just drawing your entire deck.

This decks biggest weekends are kill decks, I am trying to figure out how to fix that. Net/Meat damage will mess with your combos. Though I have only lost to a 3 advanced junebug when I wasn't thinking.

13 comments
24 Jan 2016 rojazu

Feint is the best way to deal with a rezzed crisium... Great decklist :)

25 Jan 2016 steveklabnik

Interesting. I've been thinking about Leela + Apoc lately, but turning breakers facedown was pretty bad. I'm excited to try this out!

25 Jan 2016 WorldSerpent

@steveklabnik yeah give it a go. It is all down to the timing of that combo. Also, if you have any feedback that would be cool.

26 Jan 2016 Dothanite

yeah I'm going to try this out and let you know. I would probably put in two Plascrete Carapaces or go -1 Apocalypse and +3 I've Had Worse some how. At least Gang Sign helps you some with kill decks.

26 Jan 2016 WorldSerpent

@dothanite yeah, though about Plascrete but I feel you are most vulnerable after the apocalypse as you end up with few cards in hand. Maybe tag avoidance is better route. I think you meant drug dealer but yes, that does help against kill.

28 Jan 2016 Achewood

What do you do about Guard?

28 Jan 2016 WorldSerpent

Yeah, that would be an issue, ddos still works if it is the outermost piece of ice. but when was the last time you saw one? I am not sure if I have ever seen one played.

31 Jan 2016 wittela

This is a super fun deck. One problem I have run into is Drug Dealer draining my economy late in the game. I am thinking about +2 Data Folding

31 Jan 2016 wittela

Sorry. I was cut off above. I would take out 2 Early Bird for the Data Folding.

31 Jan 2016 WorldSerpent

Thanks, glad you like it. For whatever reason I never end up drawing drug dealer so do have not had that much chance to really analyse it. When I have it usually hasn't become an issue because of apocalypse switching it off. Are you installing more than one? Because I don't think that is the correct play with this deck. I also click for credits quite a lot anyway waiting for my time to strike and try and stay afloat that way.

Early bird is amazing in the power combo, as it immediately allows you to capitalise in that same turn. In addition data folding costs 3 to install and will become useless once you apocalypse, and you are not likely to see a return, as you want to apocalypse every 5-6 turns. I would cut a same old thing for another armitage, as this can be cleared before you apocalypse and it helps bounce back from 0 credits.

In general I agree that the deck does need a little more economy. I think Exclusive Party from The upcoming Salsette island may be a good fit.

31 Jan 2016 wittela

I have installed more than one drug dealer at a time, to some hilarious results. Since then I have limited myself to one install. Today I added three dirty laundry and took out an easy Mark and two early bird. I see your point about the bonus from early bird and will go back to your original build to see how it goes.

31 Jan 2016 WorldSerpent

I didn't mean to come across as shutting you down, this deck is far from perfect, it definitely has a few kinks in it. Economy being the major one, it definitely struggles unless you hit an account siphon. How are you finding the dirty laundries? I had them in one of my earlier builds but was worried they would be very situational so cut them. I keep considering whether to put them back in or not.

9 Feb 2016 wittela

No problem. I took out the dirty laundries and put in kracken, which ianded once in a tournament. The deck went 1-2. It's fun to play, but has a big problem once the corp stacks 3 ICE on a remote. Sure, there is some pilot error. It's not a perfect deck, as you know, but I love how you've gone without breakers. No one knows has to respond until they see consecutive runs on central, and then they say, "Not apocalypse!"