Cult of 47: 3rd Place Florida Regionals

WARNING: Unless you are playing MaxX, dont play 2 cards above minimum deck size as runner. Just dont do it.

Anyways, this is the deck I placed 3rd with at Florida regionals. Its a fairly standard Whizzard list, with a few slight changes, mainly to deal with IG (of which surprisingly, I played 0), but are still useful in other matchups.

For instance, employee strike and imp. Now when the IG monstrosity rose to prominence, many considered the possibility of using archives interface. DONT. It is bad. On the other hand, imp is almost always useful, and allows you to keep up with asset trashing, and in non-IG matches, lets you imp problematic ICE or cards useful to the corp. To make room for the 2x Imp I cut 1x Datasucker.

Concerning employee strike, its just a good card that really gives IG and a few other corps a kick in the shins. It is also quite useful against ETF and Palana. To make room for Employee Strike I cut 1x Career Fair. My other consideration for freeing influence was Parasite, but I did not consider it for too long, as parasite is more impactful.

I only lost 1 game with the deck throughout the day to a fantastic ETF player, and won the award for best Anarch in the tournament.

Round 1 (0-0) : I had a bye. Spent my time off getting something to eat and talking with the other players who had byes as well.

Round 2 (2-0) : In the second round, I get paired at table with a player I had never met before named Joe. To me, that's always been a very fun part of bigger events like regionals, in that you get to meet and play against people that you dont know or play against frequently. Joe is playing a Titan Transnational deck which aims to fast advance using Hollywood Rennovation. Early on, he manages to rush out an Atlas behind an Ice wall as I setup, but at the cost of minimal protection for R&D, and I manage to score 7 points with medium digs before he can score out.

Round 3 (4-0): In the third round, I get placed at the top table against a very strong player Stephen, who is playing Palana Foods, also known as Engineering the Food, or Monsanto. I don't remember too much specifically, as I played 3 Palana Foods during regionals. However, this match came down to the wire, and after scoring an agenda that put him on game point, Stephen was a bit low on money, and had already played the majority of his operation economy cards. Playing Employee Strike forced him to have to click for credits, which slowed him down considerably giving me time to hammer R&D with medium and to come out with a victory.

Round 4 (5-1): After splitting with Stephen I was paired against John (jandersoncad) in round 4, who was also playing Palana Foods, with quite a bit of anti-Faust tech. He starts by icing HQ and making some money. I take advantage of an open R&D, and unfortunately for John, I find 4 points off the top. From there I was only a PSI game away from sealing the game. In his write-up (which I recommend checking out at https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/34581/2016-regionals-palana) he mentions that it was his only loss with his Palana deck at the two regionals he attended. I certainly would like a rematch not so heavily affected by bad luck on either side just to see how both decks would've faired.

Cut: After the four rounds of swiss, my record is (6-2), making me the 3rd seed.

Round 1: In the first round of swiss, I get to play against Rene who is playing Noise and Palana Foods. As higher seed, I choose to run, since I really dont want to deal with Noise. This match turned out to be of the tensest games of netrunner I've ever played. Early on, Rene manages to score out a Corporate Sales Team, and I snag a Nisei Mk II out of hand. I continue to do my whole Whizzard schtick but cant seem to win the psi game on the Future Perfect I keep hitting in HQ. Rene manages to get a Nisei Mk II scored behind some beefy ice with a caprice. I manage to finally get the Future Perfect, putting us both at game point (sort of). The game progresses. With 7 cards left in R&D, and only 1 of them being an agenda, Rene installs and double advances the winning agenda in his scoring server. I'm dont have enough cards to get into the remote twice (due to Nisei counter) and I have a Medium installed with a counter on it, so I try for the game and R&D. Sure enough, I found the last agenda for the game.

Round 2: I played John again, although this time he ran, so I won't go into much detail, just that I won, and advanced to the Winner's Bracket finals.

Round 3: In the winner's bracket finals I play against Stephen Ball (from The Source podcast, also not the same Stephen from round 3 of swiss) who is playing ETF. He starts out by installing over R&D and making some money. With an open HQ, I run it a few times, just looking for an agenda or maybe something to trash, but hit nothing. He continues to glacier up, and I focus so heavily on running, that I facecheck a few architects and gets behind. Eventually, through never-advance taxing and winning PSI games, he to score out for the win. This was my only loss with Whizzard for the day.

Round 4: In the Loser's Bracket Final, I am forced to corp against my buddy Trusten, (who ended up winning the event). I get flooded early on, and none of the ice I have in my scoring remote end the run, so I couldn't get those agendas out of hand fast enough, losing to his runner and coming in 3rd overall.

To conclude, don't play 47 cards. If anything, I'd cut the plascrete. Dont really see many kill decks around these days anyways, besides IG, but its easy to beat with this deck anyways, and plascrete doesnt help. Reflecting upon the one game I lost with Whizzard, I probably shouldn't have run so much early, and actually have taken the time to setup, although breaking architect with faust is painful. Overall, this list isn't too different from the 'Dumblefork' list, just with some 'tech' cards that are more useful than the other stuff people have been using to combat IG. Funny enough, only one person was playing it that day at the tournament.

P.S. Dont play 47 cards.