Sunspear's Viper (1st Place @ Enchanted Grounds)

Here it is folks, the spiritual successor to the Doran's Blades deck. I went 3-1 with this deck and won the Enchanted Grounds Store Championship in Denver with it. This deck has gone through many, many tweaks over the past six months, to which I had a dozen variants spun off of my original Cerebral Imaging deck.

The first evolution occurred in December, where paddosan's Next Gen Fast Advance deck (http://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/748/next-gen-fast-advance-v1-0) inspired me to drop the one-turn win combo (the Trick of Light, Kaguya, MirrorMorph version) for a four-turn win combo with Celebrity Gifts and Shipment from SanSans; aiming for a scored Efficiency Committee and capable of scoring 8 of the remaining 10 agendas in the deck out-of-hand for one credit each. It proved to be much more consistent than Doran's Blades in practice, but stumbled and did poorly in tournaments.

The next revelation occurred with PeekaySK's Cerebral Giraffes decks (http://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/3381/cerebral-giraffes-vienna-store-champs-first-place- and http://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/4182/cerebral-hive-of-giraffes-chronos-bratislava-first-place-) which used the same strategy as paddosan, but put the 3-point agendas back in, essentially making it a three-turn win combo. It seemed I was most vulnerable after scoring the Priority Requisition, so this change brought in more ice (and bigger ice!) to take advantage of the Priority Requisition and survive the last couple of turns before scoring out.

One of the reasons I did so strongly with one of the older versions in testing was that runners were leaving the Jackson Howards on the table and letting me card draw away to victory. When it came to a more competitive level, Jackson was run as soon as possible and nobody let it sit on the table. That being the case... The final touch, as PeekaySK also did, was dropping Jackson Howard. This gave me the influence room necessary for two Hives and Tollbooth. What about card draw? I have tested versions with Anonymous Tip (as I replaced Jackson in all of my Weyland decks with Tips), but found I have plenty of card draw from Blue Level Clearance and Green Level Clearance without Tips and preferred the extra ice instead. What about recursion? Archived Memories and Reclamation Order work absolutely splendidly in that regard.

Alright, at this point, I suppose some folks are wondering what this three-turn combo are. First, you should check out the decks of the two gentlemen above, since they inspired the direction this deck took; a stark departure from the one-turn combo. That said... here's what you're looking for:

12 credits to spare without dumping your hand, 2 x Biotic Labors, 1 x Efficiency Committee.

There's enough strong ice in the deck to score the Efficiency Committee traditionally in a remote server deck; but by the time you've shored up the central servers, you normally have these three cards in hand and a stockpile of extra money anyway.

Your next step, on a future turn after scoring EC, is to install Priority Requisition, advance once, spend all your counters on EC, and double Shipment from SanSan to score Priority Req out of hand. You typically want Wotan, Heimdall 1.0, or Tollbooth on the table to rez on HQ at this point and protect your hand until you nab the final two points. It's also worth noting that your Hives are blank at this point.

From there, if you have 7 credits, a Project Vitruvius, and the third Biotic Labor in hand, you win. Otherwise, you can use Archived Memories or Reclamation order to pull a Biotic out of Archives and win on your next turn.

And that's how it's done. The one game I lost in the tournament, I drew 8 of 9 agendas in the deck in the first 15 cards. I can sometimes get away with those odds, but the player I was up against just put too much pressure on HQ and I was stomped.

Holler at me if you have any questions about the deck, feel free to discuss anything you think might make it better, and have fun trying it out!