Mwanza Medtech (2nd @ Diversified Portfolio)

Mwanza City Grid is great.

Annoying your opponent with both Snares and Breached Domes on centrals AND getting money for it (that you may or may not use for an HHN next turn)? Yes, please! Once you put un upgrade on a naked HQ, no-one even runs it anymore, it's great! :P

This deck is a spin-off of a Mwanza Palana deck I brought to Dutch nats the day before. It didn't do that well, but I loved piloting it, so I brought it again the day after (albeit in a slightly alternated form) for the Diversified Portfolio side event during which players were encouraged to play less than competitive IDs. Harmony Medtech was the most popular ID there, and for good reason! You can do some pretty funky shenanigans with a 44-card Corp deck with only 6 agendas.

The main idea is simply to install Mwanzas on HQ and R&D asap (backed up by a Prisec or 2), and use them to gain money and/or get kills. I played against 3 Nasirs, and Nasir needs a lot of time to set up, so I just scored out in those cases. As a matter of fact, 2 out of the 4 wins I got were simply scoring out.

As an alternate win condition to Snare! kills and straight-up scoring I decided to throw all of my influence into a classic Weyland/NBN kill combo of HHN into HPT, with a Zealous Judge and Consulting Visit thrown it. Works great! I ended up killing 2 Runners with HPT. I mean, who expects that in freaking Harmony Medtech?:P Zealous Judge is some neat tech here as well: just rez it after the Runner runs into a non-lethal Snare! or Prisec to rub some additional salt into the wound. ;p

Of course, there are a lot of weaknesses. Film Critic for one. Sadaka is meant as back-up on that front to get rid of them (slot your Fall Guys and Dummy Boxes, everyone!). Also, it's very well possible that the Runner simply accesses the agendas before all the nasty stuff. I got pretty lucky there on that front: I got quite a few DDMs thrown my way, with most of them fetching no agendas. Damage protection is also a thing.

All in all, I had a lot of fun with this deck. You can do so much dumb stuff with it. I would've liked to put in some advanceable traps and Kitsunes (which synergize nicely with Mwanza, as well), but I just couldn't find the space for them. Maybe (probably) in another iteration...;)