noob kit - 1st @ mead hall 2017 sc, minneapolis, jan 7th

My Hero.

gg wp.

what is your general strategy against asset spam like CTM or IG if you get a 'decent' start with perhaps an opening Magnum Opus?

Tinkering is a helluva card. Grats on your win

I imagine often people would see you hit the Opus button a bunch and then think you were on vamp. I love decks like this--make money, run. It's netrunner.

The Vamp ruse is a big part of your game against experienced players actually.

This is too pure

Do you wanna come talk about this on my channel @fiorillo.sj?

hehe, if this deck starts to get some traction, then I'm going to use it, but add Vamp. So the ruse will be that they will think there is no ruse, when in fact, that is the ruse. No one will be safe.

@hi_impacti can speak to ctm. i will typically trash all politicals and jackson, even if it means going tag me early. you can clear later or at least threaten that you'll clear. be ready to make a play on the remote as early as possible, which usually means having a stimhack or test run ready. hopefully after you slow their start and steal their first score attempt you've got a window to stabilize and transition to rd lock. it is not, at all, an easy matchup.

@CodeMarvelousyeah that'd be dope

@fiorillo.sj message me on stimhack or on slack

The double reverse Vamp ruse is even better than the Vamp ruse :P

Wondering about 1. getting killed - there's no protection at all and 2. are 3 Beth's necessary - very likely 2 dead draws. Is she that good?

@k.art - My answer from playing this deck -- although not nearly as well as the OP -- is that you avoid getting killed by playing carefully and that an early game Beth is really strong, so you put three in to increase the chances that it shows up early. Same reason you have three Magnum Opus.

You want Beth on turn 1 as often as possible. 3x is 100% correct. She's not just a bonus in this deck, she's a huge part of your strategy.

If your meta is full of 24/7 then you can play a plascrete. If it's full of PU you can play a Feedback filter. Including these cards in the core list is silly though.

I love the simplicity of the deck. Unfortunately, I live in a IG Prison meta. This deck would struggle with that, even with a Feedback Filter.

There isn't a remote to camp and if you cannot reliably kill Sensie Actors Union and keep it off the board you will never dig deep enough to win the game before you are killed.

Against IG 54 if you get down FBF + beth + magnum you cannot die. Against IG 49 you just need it to survive the burst combo.

They are certainly not easy match-ups, but they can be won, especially with an FBF.

@TheBigBoyWhat are you cutting to include FBF or Plascrete? Drop a single The Maker's Eye? This deck is pretty tight.

I personally like Aaron Marrón over Plascrete Carapace as a counter to 24/7 News Cycle. But there is nothing here that can synergise with it beyond that purpose, so Placerete it is.

The possible cuts are 3rd makers, 3rd RDI, the tinkering, 3rd scavenge, or maybe 3rd Beth. Only cut for a tech card if you REALLY feel like you need it.

Gratz!

With stimshop and the Test-Run-into-Scavenge combo, getting a Torch online seems easy. Any reason not to switch out a Gordian Blade?

Thanks for the list. I'm making a simple speed shaper for an upcoming GNK and this helped a lot. I'm trying a Knight, Escher, and 3 Indexings over R&D Interfaces + Personal Workshops for more speed. Anything you'd suggest for trying to make a deck like this tick faster?

I'm not sure what you mean by faster. This is already the fastest non-combo shaper in the game right now. Use your Stimhacks aggressively. If you have SMC stimhack in your opener then use it to stimhack out Magnum Opus on turn 1.

faster if its out of CT, sitmhack is great for facechecking, and mopus gives you money, with workshop interfaces rarely cost you much, and makers eye get you to the interfaces and make for an indomitable late game dig, thought personally im a fan of shrike over femme #2 becasue breaking ichi 1 for 4 feels good :D

Breaking you break ichi for 5 as it is (2 clicks and 1 on the trace = 5 effective credits). Installing a 5 cost program to save a credit each time is silly.

Disagreed on this being "faster" (aka being able to access servers and win the game earlier) in Chaos Theory. I was originally trying CT and needing more than Gordian Blade for safe early runs on 1-Ice servers seriously slowed the deck down. You're definitely right about the personal workshop + interface combo setting up pretty fast, so I might be mistaken about Indexing being a better "speed" choice. I'm running a Knight instead of a second femme because it cheaply helps Gordion with indexing and remote pressure on 2-ICE servers.

im not sure your plan for breaking stacked ichis, and the deck I play against the most is a more glacial variant of HB, so the ichis are stacked and if you think im paying one on the trace, you are mistaken. but if it works for your meta, all power to you, I dont like the extra damage and tag.

You put your femme counter on one of the ichis and click the other one. If they want to boost the trace that's fine. If they are way ahead on money either just magnum more or click the trace as well.

96/5000 Surely it is the easiest and most efficient deck I have played, with no complications. thank you very much.

How do you play -- what is your general approach -- to games vs. Gagarin or other asset-spam oriented decks?

Opening hand has SMC and Test Run but no MOpus. Do you play aggressively to get MOpus? Is SMC or Test Run the better play?

Vs. Gagarin just take 10 every turn all game. They can never kill you. Trash only bankers groups (and PAD's if it's safe). Then when you are up 100 credits to their 50 you can trash everything else.

SMC for opus.

Did you consider dropping 1x Legwork and switching 2x Astrolabe for 2x The Gauntlet, to free up space for either FBF or Plascrete?

Good players will put 1 or 0 ice on HQ. Gauntlet is not good at all.

If you want to run FBF or plas, the possible cuts are: 3rd RDI 3rd Maker's Eye 3rd Scavenge The tinkering.

So is this deck just plain dead when rotation hits? Loses RDI, Test Run, Quality Time, and Personal Workshop. Maybe some cards will come out to fill those roles in this deck, but it does not look likely.

That's true of most decks. We just need to see if replacement cards get printed.

I'm trying 1- Tinkering for +1 Film Critic. Having lost a couple of Future Perfect PSI games that cost me the match + Scorp removing my Lady, I feel it could do a little more work than tinkering. Love this deck.