Outboxing

I played through a lot of different Leela decks trying to explore her from all angles and this is the most comfortable style of Leela to me where you sit back a bit and play more reactively rather than aggressively all the time. You can start aggressive if they show signs of weaknesses, but usually that window closes quite soon and you would spend most of the time pressuring the Corp through what you can potentially do rather than running into their servers. It doesn't work all of the time obviously, and it's not easy to judge when is the right time to attack, but I think it's an interesting finesse play which I enjoy.

The main difference between Leela decks is obviously the econ package. I like Magnum Opus a lot more than Kati Jones is because Kati Jones is often too restrictive to be able to strike at a moment's notice. You can't speed up your econ when you need it to, and it's also restrictive that it usually costs a click on that important turn where you need to do the most damage. Magnum Opus comes at 6 influence cost which could be spent on a lot of useful cards, and it's definitely a significant tempo hit up front, but I think it's the best econ card for Leela because of the flexibility it gives and it also allows you to go after trashing asset econ because you don't want to give them too much credits to create very taxing servers. Other econ packages revolve around how much a player relies on Sec Testing (a lot more with Desperado and slightly less with Doppelganger), but obviously those involve more aggressive running than sitting back.

With Magnum Opus, I think Vamp is the right choice to cripple the corp during your strikes. Indexing is nice early but usually stumbles later on playing more passively because a single unchecked Jackson Howard or other cards that can shuffle just nullifies it. Plus you might not be able to run multiple times into R&D then. Hades Shard is another good pressure card when you're sitting back because it's the best anti-Jackson Howard card. While it won't really let you score more agendas, having them proactively use Jackson Howard on their turns means they are able to draw less cards and also you don't have to spend resources trying to fish them out. Free pressure is always great.

Earthrise Hotel is definitely another tempo hit, but I think it just works a lot better in this style of deck and especially with Magnum Opus where you would have to juggle your clicks if you used Mr. Li instead. Bank Job is simply because it's a great econ card and when you play more passively, people tend to be less guarded on their remotes even with glacier decks and on that note, it's basically an influence free Lucky Find which is always great.

As for the breakers, it's fairly standard while spending fairly few influence left there is. I'm not completely sure on Crypsis yet, but it's probably the best way to negate Power Shutdown without spending more card slots and influence because this deck has no recursion. Definitely wish I could play less central-only breakers, but with the amount of influence there doesn't seem much that can be done here.

So ideally a Vamp turn which can be even better if led with Account Siphons, should be the beginning of the end for the corp, but again it's not always easy to get to that stage where you're at a massive credit lead over the corp where you're able to play your game and not theirs. If you get Magnum Opus early, do try to go after the corp's asset econ because it is a setup for later.