Problematic Labor

I've been slaving for weeks trying to make a unique glacier deck, but no matter how strong or abundant... the boat Endurance just cuts through all ICE like butter. So, I got frustrated and thought, you know what? Fine, I'll make a fast advance.

I started to look at the ice but... then I thought, what does it matter? The runner will cut through it anyway. I did a test with a deck that thinking you know... it probably won't work. But you know what? It does. It wins most of this time. I've adjusted it slightly over a few games.

The only deck this simply won't do against is probably the deck that lets the runner trash corp cards even when they can't normally be trashed. There may be nothing for that except to go fast.

I think the deck is pretty self explanatory. You use Biotic Labor to score 3 advancement agendas... or Moon Pool which can score them if you have a couple of other agendas in hand without even having it on the board already. Notably, I once had a 4/2 Offworld Office in this deck and scored it often. You can have Bass CH1R180G4 or Bioroid Work Crew on the board to bate the runner to pay to trash them or mixed in around Marilyn Campaign and Rashida Jaheem . You may consider putting Nico Campaign in just for more assets that cost the runner to trash before they can get their money going.

How does this do against Keyhole? Fine actually. You're seeing cards just as fast as they are and you have Spin Doctor to make sure of that.

Diversions are pretty annoying, but then I just throw all the assets into remotes and rez them when it comes up. If we are a few agendas deep before being diverted, I hardly even care about diversions.

Mavirus is here for Clot, but a runner can only clot so many times anyway.

So it works. It works very well and very fast. The place for this deck to me is if you're more interested in your runner and you are going to a tournament and want to spend very little time playing as corp.

Now, I want this to be a decklist of the week. I don't know how that happens, but I want to make a point.

We're not interacting anymore with netrunner. Runners don't interact with the strength of ice or make short term/longterm decision about their econmy. You don't have to succeed at a run to get credits with Bravado for instance. Runners use their breakers as as "just in case" but break almost everything with Boomerang or [Botulus}(/en/card/30004) and either with Boat over and over again or Hippo make it so they may never have to interact with the ICE. Every faction now has at least a decent option for ice breakers of every type without even having to spend influence.

Don't get me wrong, I am grateful to have Netrunner going strong, but I think this non-interaction era has run its course and we should be aggressive in moving forward without the boat, without never advance. Jinteki: Personal Evolution just made the ban list because people don't like shell games but... that's the only thing that wins right now.

Lets make ICE a part of the deck again.

Try this deck. You'll see it wins.