Criminal Whizzard

Mythras 317

This deck got me to 8th place in the German Nationals (85 participants). 2 wins and 1 loss against NBN:NEH, 1 win against NBN:MN, losses against Jinteki:RP and HB:ETF (Glacier). The deck also won me the first round in the double elimination bracket against Jinteki:RP, although it was a tie and I only won because of the higher seed. In the third round I lost against NBN:NEH because I didn't run on R&D even I could have done it.

The deck runs really well against NEH because it can produce really cheap runs, can produce money while running and can hammer R&D with medium. My favorite play with this deck is to security test R&D with Medium and Datasucker installed, effectively making money with that run most of the time and getting virus tokens, and then run R&D again to see a lot of cards.

Scrubbed is only in this deck to get rid of Enhanced Login Protocol which is really annoying for the economy and game plan of this deck. It also sometimes helps to get rid of an parasited ICE faster than the corp expected.

Ice Carver is my favorite card against Glacier decks, especially HB Glacier. It gets some ICE into the range of the fixed breakers (Ichi...) and makes breaking the rest of the ICE really easy in combination with a Datasucker (Viktor 2.0, Eli, Tollbooth...).

There are a lot of breakers in this deck but without a tutor it's still not enough sometimes. In my loss against the HB Glacier deck all 3 of my Mimics and Yogs were in the last 15 cards of my deck.

Memory can be tight because most of the time you don't want to wait for your Djinn to install the first Sucker/Imp/Medium. A huge problem if you dont draw one of the Desperados early. Typical Anarch consistency issues. :D

Cutting Scrubbed for a third Datasucker and a Deja Vu might be a good idea. Also replacing the Cyberfeeders for Daily Casts is possible because Cyberfeeder won't help to get the economy rolling if you're low on credits. But if you draw it early enough, it can make a lot of credits over the course of the game.

Replicating Perfection is usually a tough matchup because you don't have enough parasites to get rid of all the Sentrys with a lot of subs and those make the runs often too expensive for this deck. Without Plascretes Making News and Weyland can be problematic. :D

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