Fair Enough Hyper Tribrid PE (2nd@GGs only losing to Wilfy)

This is a tribrid deck: It's glacier, it's fast advance, and of course there's bluffing because it's Jinteki.

And frig this deck's fun. It's not the best corp ever, but it's the best PE has been at just scoring 7 in a long time and it's got so many fun lines of play that just meld the bluffing and the tempo elements of Netrunner together in some really neat ways. It doesn't feel quite like a Jinteki deck so much as it feels like the glacier / fast advance hybrid decks that you could play out of EtF for a while.

After seeing Geist and lots of Val at last week's store champs, I knew I wanted to play a deck that could fast advance a Chronos. When I was looking through NRDB, I saw Fair Enough PE and decided it was the sort of deck I wanted to play.

But the decklist doesn't really get into why it's such a fun list, and so I want to sell you on the way this deck plays and discuss my changes.

The goal of this deck is to score 7 points. You have a couple of ways to do this - there's obviously lots of fast advance, and some games, that's your main plan, but I think the heart and soul of this deck is that, in most games, your goal is to get the runner to run an expensive remote as often as possible. The way you do this is by aggressively bluffing and installing everything.

NGO Front is perfect for this plan because it means anything can be a bluff. An unadvanced card can be a Snare! or a 3-advancement agenda; an advanced card can be an NGO or an Obokata or even just an agenda. I love NGO Front so much. Praise Boggs.

Cyberdex and Hokusai serve double duty: they're good upgrades, and they're useful for their effects alone (Cyberdex is great at turning good Aumakua runs into awful Aumakua runs), but they also let you do more installing. You can install one of them into your Snare! server and give your initial feint another reason for the runner to consider a go.

Ultimately, like with any "score 7 points through moxie and bluffing" deck, you need to score a few early agenda points to make your later feints convincing. I would honestly consider fast-advancing agendas you don't think you need to in the early game, and rushing agendas even if it takes you to a low credit total, because you need to get to the point where the runner has to respect every single install.

The main changes I made to the Fair Enough PE list were adding two NGO Front, which allow for the sort of play I want, and switching out the upgrades from Prisec (which you have to pay for every time) to Hokusai (which you only have to pay for once and it has a higher trash cost) and Cyberdex (see above re: Aumakua)

I also changed the ice up; Enigma is in there for the hard ETR on a Code Gate, and it served me very well for how understated it can be sometimes. Anansi over Komainu is a style choice, but I feel like this deck really wanted just a slightly higher density of "break this or else" ice.