NEXT Rush (Pandemonium Store Championship 2nd place)

Crunchums 369

This deck went 3-1-1 on the day.

Runner deck here

Tournament report here

I had a lot of trouble finding a corp deck that I didn't hate for this tournament. I made this deck a week before the event, and was still making significant changes to it two days beforehand. I'm not sure how good this deck actually is, but it has a few qualities that I really like:

  • Its speed puts the runner under pressure and punishes slow/durdly runner decks. You won't lose any games to "never run until they can use Activist Support + New Angeles City Hall to set up blackmail" decks, for example.
  • It's high variance. I don't think you win many games against good runners using safe corp decks. I'd rather allow a lot of free accesses and win when they don't hit too many agendas than try to defend everything and lose most of the time.
  • It matches up decently against Gabe.

The basic plan is to be super aggressive (and I do mean SUPER aggressive) and score agendas behind a 1-3 ice remote until the remote isn't safe anymore, after which you're trying to score the rest from hand with Biotic Labor (or Shipment from SanSan, if you were able to score an Efficiency Committee). Also part of the plan: don't lose to Account Siphon.

Some thoughts on changes that I think should be made:

  • Caduceus should probably be replaced - it's great against some runners, but very weak in some of your less favorable matchups (Andy and Reina, in particular)
  • I wasn't happy with Blue Level Clearance; I think it should be some other econ card. Probably Beanstalk Royalties or Sweeps Week, assuming I free up some influence by replacing Caduceus with other ice.
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