Jack's Renaissance v4 (Undefeated SC 2nd place)

I've been trying to make a BABW build that worked well for a while now. (I went with a program trashing build, running Ichi 1.0, Aggressive Secretary, Archer, Wendigo, Changeling and the likes, and it wasn't bad, but I can't pretend like it wouldn't be better out of HB.)

I kinda agree that the three O&C IDs are strictly better in most regards, but there is something about just being able to print money that the Runner generally can't touch, and Scorch the hell out of them. That's always been BABW's best play and I think it still is now.

I love Reclamation Order here. If the runner is swimming in tags, but has 2 Plascretes and IHW, I think the next logical step is, of course, to just keep on scorching until they die. I definitely feel like this is the way BABW is meant to be played.

My only big concern is 2 Wormhole. I have a hard enough time getting a single one to work in most of my Weyland decks. Do you find yourself getting much mileage out them? I would replace one with Mother Goddess. In a deck running light on ICE, MG can pull some serious weight and allow you to score, sometimes multiple times, behind it uncontested.

Very, very cool deck. 10/10 would Scorch again

@WayneMcPain Hey Wayne! You're 100% on my rationale in choosing the ID. Operation economy is difficult to disrupt and enables faster gameplay. You can play a similar list out of Blue Sun and Titan Transnational, I suspect, with a couple of tweaks to exploit those IDs better.

Mother Goddess is beautiful <3 and rush incarnate but I think her stock has depreciated in the Age of Faust. Wormhole will tax D4v1d counters (important for keeping Archer threatening, especially if you can place Wormhole in front) or it'll force a massive hand blowout via Faust, the kind that people generally aren't comfortable with making against Weyland. Or it'll make some criminals very poor. All good things. The advancements also create uncertainty and some players set up a bit more before running on it (god knows why, but it's a thing).

Getting it online... I usually just drop it ASAP and advance it twice or as is comfortable. You're right that it can be awkward but, having played with it for a while, I went up from one to two because the problem it presents to you is often less than that for the runner and ultimately I'm just comfortable with it. YMMV.

Slot MG and let us know how you go? #scorchfansunite #wearethekilluminati

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What do you do about Film Critic? Build a remote like a boss?

A Contract Killer or two could be useful to off Film Critics. Just a thought.

@Jack Weyland Thanks boss!

@Larro Paying the trace on Snatch and Grab and Midseason Replacements in one game is probably too much, so if you wanna pack hate, Contract Killer is the right call (and cool as hell).

On the other hand, I'm hesitant to pack hate for another hate card and Film Critic hasn't been a problem for me yet. I consider the second Housekeeping a flex slot and would swap that if your agendas suffer local Critique.

@RubbishyUsername You got it. You need to trust in RNGesus a bit, to deliver you Archers and a blend of different gearchecks for that remote, but you've got Jackson and The Future is Now and Project Atlas and faith to deliver you.

Playing fast goes a long way here too; Shapers durdle a bit these days.

OR you could play True Netrunner® and install two agendas, which gets around Film Critic (sort of, if they waste a click) ;)

I'm pretty sure all of the "defense" aspects of Weyland came with the Board pushing Jack Weyland out. Jack Weyland comes off as the Elon Musk of the Netrunner universe; not really good or evil, but just interested in making "the next big thing".

Nerd lore aside, yeah cool deck 5/7.

@Ironcache Thanks!

@JohnnyMilton Yeah, Wormhole is great against Faust -- but where there is Faust, there is also D4v1d. Taxing a D4 counter is good too I suppose. I just don't like spending a whole turn setting up a single piece of ice. Mother Goddess taxes 2 cards and can't be D4'd, and in every other matchup (except Atman, but I don't see that very often) it's a huge scoring window enabler. I would probably go one of each, but a one off Wormhole might as well be a Spiderweb I suppose. All I know is MG has served me well, even in today's meta. It's just hard having no access to good code gates. That's Weyland though I suppose. Wendigo does a surprising amount of work though.

Great stuff - if there has ever been a way to leverage BABW it is reclaiming operations. Titan may make more money in the long run with 2x HRI counters and Mark Yale, but its all delayed and relies very heavily on scoring before the payout which means more ICE and less murder support.

Film Critic has been on the rise due to Pālanā Foods: Sustainable Growth rush decks packing TFP and other decks creeping NAPD back in. I certainly think Contact Killer is a valid option. Slap it down, don't advance it, and pop it next turn. Long as you aren't on match point they won't contest it most likely since you aren't Titan getting Atlas counters.

Thanks for the great deck! I took this card for card to a local Spring Kit tournament and got second (this deck was 2-2). I won both games by kill and lost the other two to desperation plays after I'd landed the Midseasons but before I could lock in the kill.

Not sure what I'd change. The deck served me well against Noise, Kit, Whizzard, and Leela. I got the Crisium at the exact perfect time against a CBI raid, and Kit stalled against layered ice until she died.

Good job!

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