Leemaw: Trained Pragmawtist

Your write up deserves stars. Also, at times I have created false equivalence between netrunner experiences and my own children. Though it's not as false as it seems :)

Love leela and can't wait to try this.

Using Gang Sign to potentially trigger Maw on the corp's turn is genius. Love it.

Really cool deck! I've been tinkering around wih Maw Leela myself, but my list was a lot weaker than yours, I guess (using Blockade Runner as your main draw engine is just really clunky) - although I spot many similar ideas and choices.

In my epxerience, this deck struggles mostly against asset spam (where Salsette Slums are a good addition, although one-ofs tend to be a little dicey for my taste) and against kill (where you have to pray to RNGesus that Maw snipes the kill pieces out of their hand, before they blow you up). But despite these weaknesses, this deck is great fun to play.

I was playing Andymawer rebirthing into Leela dreading the day Andromeda would cycle out... netrunnerdb.com Your list gave me hope for the future ;-)

Great deck! I think you should put 1 Sneakdoor Beta in there though, since you already have 2 HQ Interface.

Maw doesn't trigger off Salsette? Is there a link to that ruling? It doesn't make sense to me given the CTM + Salsette ruling.

From the ufaq:

1. If the Runner uses Salsettes Slums to remove a trashed card from the game, does Maw trigger?

No, Maw does not trigger. In order to use Salsette Slums, the Runner must trash the accessed card.

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@BraveLilToaster This sure is inconsistent with every other ruling of Salsette that says "the card wasn't actually trashed" (e.g. Hostile Infrastructure, CTM). That's... upsetting. (I'm obviously upset with the ruling, not with you personally haha.)

@dormioAgreed. It's not how I would have ruled it.

Slums has always been weird though. It doesn't count as a trash for the purposes of the CtM tag, but it does count as the first trash of the turn for the purposes of also not getting a tag on your second (actually first) trash. So I dunno what's going on.

I think it's the minutia of turn priority at work. In order to trash a card the runner 1. "triggers" the trash protocol 2. pays the trash cost, then 3. the card is trashed. Slums does a sneaky interrupt between 2 and 3 and the card is rfg instead of being trashed normally. For runner effects like slums and Maw it seems like the important thing is step 1. initiating the trash protocol, whereas for corp effects like CTM and Hostile the trigger is on 3. when the card actually goes in the bin. That's the only way it makes any sense to me and I eagerly await future releases which totally disregard that logic and arbitrarily do something else.

It seems like when you slums a card, no other cards consider it a "trash," but on the next card trashed that turn, every card now considers the first one a "trash." Which... I wish we could get a good, official explanation as to why this happens. Or maybe it was just because that's how Damon wanted it to work?

hmmm, no current. Bold man, gotta get in there with some early aggression to trash an oppressive current, or hope maw nabs their current before they find/play it.

And no longer legal for tournament play! How best to save 3 inf?

Lol. I'd say cut the slums and the sac con. Go up to another tapwrm and maybe another dirty laundry?

I dropped Slums and a Special Order for two Employee Strikes and damn has this deck been hitting hard for me.

"I have cried only twice in my life. At the birth of my daughter, and when I learned Maw doesn't trigger off of a slums trash." DYING, hahaha. As a new father of a daughter just this week myself, this landed very well. :)