I had zero business making the cut at Worlds. This deck is broken.

Could you please explain the controversial Obelus/Shard interaction?

@FightingWalloon Obelus's card-draw ability does not specify that the cards you access have to be from HQ or R&D. So if you run on HQ and fire Hades Shard mid-run, then you will draw one card for every card in archives (accessed via Hades Shard) and one card for every card accessed from HQ. That can be a lot of cards!

Incidentally, Account Siphon mentions not accessing cards in/from HQ, but doesn't prevent you from accessing cards in other servers via paid-ability effects.

I never saw retrieval run in the streams...Timmy had one Imp, and I think almost everybody had 3 DDOS or am I wrong?

Timmy here. My list cut Eater and Plascrete Carapace for 1 Imp. Otherwise AFAIK all of our lists were identical to this one.

@tmoiynmwg You cut eater and plascete for 1 Imp and....? You have me on the edge of me seat.

He played a 45 card deck. As did I, I simply cut Plascrete. No one was on 3x DDoS and I'm pretty sure everyone kept ret run in, it's handy if you inject a Medium or Faust into the bin because you want to be spending your Deja Vu on Siphon & Cutlery.

@MurseI think the other cut was to play 45 cards (this deck runs on 46) :)

Yeah we played 46 since we literally could not figure out what to cut after an hour long discussion in the hotel the night before! In hindsight, I would have cut Eater, but, I could see cutting Plascrete or Rumor Mill as well.

Excellent Siphon Whiz deck. Have an upvote!

Spicey tech to Rebirth from Whiz to another anarch pending matchups.

Love the Hades Shard Obelus double Spice.

This deck deserved to have performed as well as it had.

Yea, I would have also cut the Eater. We definitely played games in testing where it was useful, but if I had to make a cut that would have been it. Second choice would probably have been Rumor Mill. Cutting either of these weakens you overall a little, but doesn't hurt your yellow matchup as much as it does HB or Palana, and given the the worlds meta that would have been okay.

I think if I cut two cards I'd consider adding Wanton or Demolition Run to deal with Psychographics and Exchange (rather than just hoping to Medium dig your way through it).

That plascrete proved quite useful. xD

Figured out vs RP it's not as easy as suspected it would be

It's 46 cards. He could have cut 2 for 1.

This deck is the bomb. I'm gutted you built a better siphon whizz deck than me. Congrats on an outstanding performance!

A high compliment from an amazing player! Thank you @Cerberus, we all worked super hard on it.

I ran this deck at KoS, as Val. Add 3 blackmails and a demo run, and the spice must flow.

Could someone explain the interaction between Obelus and Hades Shard, please? I don't get it.

This deck is an absolute work of art, and was comfortably the best runner deck that I saw at World's. I got to run against the two West Coast players that I met in the cut; if I'd had to Corp it would have been a totally different story.

Can't recommend enough.

Sure @Hallenbach

You can use Hades Shard at any paid ability window during a run on HQ or R&D. This technically makes you access all of archives during that HQ/R&D run.

Obelus just says "cards accessed during the HQ/R&D run". It doesn't care where or how you accessed those cards so it sees all the cards in Archives and draws you a BUNCH OF CARDS.

@MurphyAhhh, very nifty. =) Thank you for the explanation!

Love the deck. The hades shard combo was actually the first thing I thought of when I saw Obelus, but I have no proof other than asking one of my friends if he thought it would work!

Anyways, I'm assuming you guys tested Vamp in this deck at some point, and I'm wondering what your conclusions were.

@meta4 - I don't think we spent much time on Vamp (but someone correct me if I'm wrong). Despite having siphon, many of my games with the deck I don't have a credit lead. It often plays like you have just enough credits, but not more.

3 Faust seems one too many. I was thinking -1 Faust +1 employee strike.

Also 3 medium, 3 obelus seems too many.

But its just my opinion, im interested in hearing yours.

@mohaymenObelus seems essential from the get go, it's the draw motor, I think 3 is ok... 3 medium and 3 faust could be too much...

now my question to you, why employee over more copies of Rumor Mill?

@mohaymen The deck featured 2 Medium at one point and it felt worse to me. The victory condition here is Medium. Having it early provides a TON of pressure.

3 Obelus is also necessary as it fuels the rest of the deck. It is the same reason Dumblefork would run 3 Wyldside. Without fuel, you get stranded on the side of the road.

Eater was in this build because we were worried about not getting one of the 3 Faust in some cases. Some decided the Eater was not needed but I don't think anyone considered going down to 2 Faust.

@teky I guess you were asking @mohaymen but it is a good question. A few of us came to the conclusion that Rumor Mill was cuttable for this build. You often need it in Temuj Whiz to fight against Scarcity which isn't a factor here. Good players play around Rumor Mill anyway so it didn't do a lot for us during the tournament.

Employee would have been nice but the influence wasn't there. Hades and Rebirth were way more value for that influence in the end.

3 Faust is needed for early remote pressure; this isn't a deck that you want to sit back on. Even with 3 Faust, sometimes I still can't find one fast enough.

The third Medium was something we added in almost immediately in testing. There was a game between @tmoiynmwg and I where I was able to lock him out of HQ with Blue Sun, but kept R&D very, very sparsely defended. If he'd had access to Medium sooner I wouldn't have been able to both keep him out of HQ and my scoring remote because I would have actually had to do something about R&D. This goes back to the core of the deck's playstyle: the goal is to keep the corp unable to keep enough ICE on the servers that matter, and Medium is the key to threatening R&D.

As I recall, we only added Rumor Mill in the night before the tournament just in case someone brought Palana. We didn't do much testing against Palana because we kinda thought Palana was a bad choice, but you can see literally anything in the lower swiss rounds. We figured a single copy of Rumor Mill makes the matchup almost un-losable, so it became card #46.

After watching the Day 2 videos at World's, it looked like Siphon Anarch struggled against CTM. Especially, since it seemed that the plan was to go tag me turn 1. Very few could land a decent siphon because CTM players heavily iced HQ, and used Archangel/Resistor to defend against Medium. And closed out the win with EoI or Psycho.

Given how Top 16 played out, with 9 CTM with most of them on 2 EoI, no ASI and prepared for Siphon, would there be any changes to the game plan and/or deck?

If anyone wants a twist on this deck, try it out of Val with Blackmail and en passant.

Very informative writeup. No macho bullshit or memes. Nicely done.

Looking forward to trying this. Looks like a lot of fun and I've been looking for another Wizard deck to play.

Note on the Hades+Obelus+Siphon combo, btw. Make sure you use Hades before you break anything with Eater or I'm pretty sure Eater's effect neutralizes Shard.

If the Hades Shard comes late do you ever not use it out of fear of decking yourself?

I don't think anyone has asked, but why is it called "Hate Bear"?

@Cyberzack That is a really good question. There is a nice balance to using the Hades trick. Too early and you aren't getting efficient draw. Too late and you may not have enough cards in deck to justify using it.

If the deck is working as intended, you will have plenty of tags so you don't have to ditch too many cards. You shouldn't be worried about decking yourself. You have no late game so hopefully it never gets to that point. In a more diverse meta, this deck will have major late game problems.

@dormio I was told there is a Magic deck that uses a lot of Bears. I don't know more than that.

@dormio - It's a dual reference. Partially it's a reference to the MtG slang "hate bears" (reference), and since we're from SF it was also a silly joke about how Whizzard kinda looks like a "bear" in another slightly less PG sense.

@westonodom This is logical, flavorful, and hilarious (the less PG sense). Thanks for the link, too; I'm one of the few (seems like) Netrunner players who's never played MtG.

Sure thing @dormio! I actually hadn't played any card games before Netrunner either, though since starting Netrunner I've begun following MtG a little.

Any cards you would suggest updating since Worlds? Still recommend the deck?