Regenesis A-Teia - Probably Worse (?)

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SciCat 6

My entry for a local tournament. A remix on Bridgemans Restoring Jinteki and the Fastest Advance concept by james123lui.

As a deck concept I'm generally impressed, it can threaten the Bacterial Reprogramming + Punitive Counterstrike off stray accesses, a souped up archives or even a stacked HQ. Like the 44 card version it's weak to single agenda point steals, but it's more proactive with more defensive layers with Moon Pool.

The Kakurenbo+A Teia+Moon Pool+Regenesis combo fast advances out of the blue from a lot of gamestates. Since it's faster than Clot on most boards, it requires more tech or strategies than most Runners want to accommodate.

It absolutely feels like something that can contend with the best decks, given you find space in the meta. The play pattern isn't too entertaining though, since you're pressuring inevitability and pressuring the Runner to interact. My best game this tournament was when my three Regenesis got stolen and I had to score out. Moon Pool is a surprisingly versatile tool, especially in this style of deck.

A Teia as an ID is the enabler for the combo, but it does save a click here and there more often than anticipated. While I personally enjoy defensive IDs, there's still potential to be found here.

It was still a lovely event all in all. Five rounds of Single Sided matchups was plenty for a 12 person tournament and definitely for something I'm considering for future casual and competitive events.

All the best/ SciCat

5 comments
18 Nov 2023 SciCat

At the event in question I managed to forget my Sadaka traps at home, so that was a bummer, I definitely missed them for both threatening Bacterial and protecting the one pointers.

Hybrid Release is also a surprisingly potent tool when your archives is usually left along or reset via Kakurenbo.

18 Nov 2023 AugustusCaesar

Very intriguing. What is the plan for kakurembo?

Also, did you have issues with having punitive money, for my RH but in Ag experiments, regolith felt very necessary for that.

18 Nov 2023 SciCat

Kakurenbo installs a Regenesis from archives and the A Teia trigger installs a Moon Pool from hand. Due to both Kakurenbo and Moon Pool removing themselves from play the Regenesis clause is still valid and can steal a second agenda from archives. Be it the beast Jumon or in this deck preferably Fuji Asset Retrieval.

In general, no. This deck doesn't rez as many ICE as AgInfusion does, I've found even in late games 4 ICE is enough.

Since you're spending a lot of time watching the runner establish their position from iced-up centrals and no scoring remote, both the assets and operations easily shoot you up into the 20-30 credit range. Even reinstalling an asset off a Hybrid Release is a way to build your credit pool. Regolith is too easily trashed to be worth the investment in my eyes.

19 Nov 2023 DoubleK

This was a scary deck to play against. I was sure I would get Punitived and would've without luck on my side with accesses. The Kakurenbo-Moon Pool combo is cool!

Thanks again for running another fun CO and for all the great work you're doing to make the Öresund meta (is that what we should call it?) lively and welcoming to new players!

2 Dec 2023 SciCat

Ran this back on another tournament, this time Linköping CO. It's still producing results I feel I can be proud of, it's mainly my runner failures that keep muddying the waters.

I started the tournament with a great punitive window from a Mass Driver Kit charging Makers Eye hitting R&D and stealing a Regenesis and Fuji. Sadly it didn't pan out since the payoff came one click too late. Lost off stray accesses.

Round two I managed to lock out a Ken from running centrals profitably. Still gave me trouble and I clutched the win by dodging an otherwise winning 1/3+1/2 access on HQ.

Third round ended with a flatline on a Bankhar into Anansi face check from a MawShiko. I had decent control of the game up until that point, even more so if I hadn't slipped with a couple of sloppy archives setups.

I swapped in two Mavirus for one Moon Pool and one Kakurenbo. I don't think those two are the correct slots to flex. Swapping Spin Doctor, Sadaka or one Punitive are all possible lines, but there are few interesting cards outside traps.

One concept I've been looking closer at is trashing from hand on the runner turn to pivot a trapped archives into a scoring Kakurenbo, Anoetic and Sadaka already help in that regard but both Anemone and Hafrún feel too sporadic. Helheim is probably not better than an additional Anoetic.

Thanks again to Svenska Netrunners for a great netrunning year, restarting my local meta has given great energy and enthusiasm returned in kind.