Accelerated Television: undefeated at Verona Regionals

Nice! Good to see a new take on the old train. :)

May we see your Quetzal list? THAT WAS AMAZING.

Ah no, you are not the guy that placed 1st, sorry, missread :D

Yes, I placed 6th with 14 pts ) Played Val as runner netrunnerdb.com

That is why I wrote the reminder at the end of deck description )
If you combo playing Jackson from your hand, you place him into a new remote, trigger the card draw before Shutdown and you are fine.
If you combo when Jackson is already on the table, you either:
- need two empty iced remotes to avoid the NEH card draw trigger, or
- just play something from your hand as the first click if a 4-pt Beale is enough for you to win

Subliminal Messaging is a good way to get a click back during an AD if you don't need to use all 3 operations (in this case, it's a cheaper and influence free biotic labor). I suppose that Biotic does you better when you have to just play astrobiotics, but a subliminal in the decklist would still reduce the number of credits you need on hand to fire off the combo, and would enable you to use biotic labor to FA your first Astro before firing the combo, or drawing it later to fire the bigger project Beale.

Love the list btw--I played an PS/AD TWIY before NEH came out that was okay, but it tended to struggle when I couldn't find the combo pieces--this seems like a much tighter list that is less beholden to firing the PS/AD combo--or at least finding it. Congrats on the win.

I had a Cerebral Imaging: Infinite Frontiers deck that did the Power Shutdown / Accelerated Diagnostics combo for the 1 turn win, but it relied on scoring 3 agendas and it was before Leela Patel: Trained Pragmatist came out. :)

I like this list better because it just relies on 1 agendas over scored. I think I'll try it out!

What runners did you hit?

@Leviathan, that's great! Please let me know how it goes for you.
I am now playing it with one Accelerated Diagnostics less in favor of the third Eli 1.0 - just feels better and more consistent.

@LSK, it was Noise, Val, Stealth Andy, Prepaid Kate and someone else I can't quite remember

Ehhh, I mean no offence against the maker of this deck, but I really hate cheesy stuff like this. You're not playing a game so much as you're exploiting a broken combination of cards to hit the win button.

Fair enough in tournament play I guess but I'd hate for this to become how people play Netrunner.

@lolpaca I think you're looking at it wrong. Firstly, PS/AD combo is in no way a mainstay of tournament play, and this is actually one of few decks that have reported winning major tournaments with it. Secondly, while PS/AD is perhaps the goofiest combo, it is not the only combo that wins the game in 1-turn. Hivemind+Medium decks, Scorched Earth/Punitive Counterstrike, Psychographics, Cerebral Imagining, false lead+ronin, etc., are all versions of decks that try to win in one powerful turn. I don't consider any of these exploiting a broken combination, or they would be ubiquitously the top decks in tournaments, and there are all kinds of ways to beat this deck even around the kitchen table.

I don't think you can really compare this to a Scorched deck though, or even a Hivemind deck. I know there's no definitive line between cheesey shenanigans and a legit combo, but come on, this kind of thing is just taking the piss :)

It's not like this deck doesn't have angles of attack against it, either. It's not happy if the runner is Noise and just sits back, milling it - it has to use its Jackson Howards and once they're gone, they can't be used for the combo.

Latest version of the deck:
-2 Chimera
-1 Accelerated Diagnostics
+1 Eli 1.0
+2 SanSan City Grid

Doing good online.

can you do the combo with just two diagnostics?

@firesa, absolutely yes. Most of the games, by the time I find all the combo pieces, I already have two agendas scored and just 3-4 agenda points are needed for the win.

Accelerated Diagnostics is the only card in the deck with no value on its own. Everything else does something useful (almost) without having to wait. One of the reasons I like this deck over Butchershop is that all of our combo cards (with the exception of Accelerated Diagnostics) do something good for us when we draw them instead of sitting dead in our hand. We can shut down an icebreaker and score an agenda, play Interns into JH or a PAD Campaign or a trashed piece of ice, Reclamation Order a couple of Hedge Funds or Power Shutdowns or Quandarys, score with Biotic Labor etc.

The correct style of play is not to hoard the combo pieces, to use the first Jackson Howard for draw and save yourself from agenda flood if need be. So cutting the third Diagnostics was in the back of my head for some time.

While the latest changes mean winning in less of a style, they help to win more consistently and more often.

Was Noise not a thing in your meta? I'm really surprised to see this being undefeated at regionals. Here you just have mostly every list running either Hades ot Utopia.

@Stigmy, I did not know the meta in Verona beforehand, because I was just passing there driving back from vacation. I faced one Noise in the tournament, he did have the shard, but I won by simple scoring anyways.

From my online experience, the Noise match up is about 50-50. While they have some scary stuff like Imp and Hades Shard, they are slow to set up. My favorite tech against them is going after Aesop's Pawnshop with Breaking News.