Atlanta Regional 2015 - 1st Place Corp

Congratulations.

Questions: What's the purpose of Gutenberg? Just a way to slow the runner down? You are not packing tag punishment.

He has Closed Accounts

oops, missed it!

Great work. Congrats.

Is crick worth the 3 influence? From RP I know it's a great and cheap archives ICE, but in NEH, you don't need to ICE archives every game and for 3 influence, it seems like mimic food.

Crick is a code gate, so not Mimic food. Also, strength 6 on archives.

You can do some sick-nasty anti-Clot plays by using Crick.

Stuff like IA + write over the agenda once they Clot, and then bait them into Archives to only install it out again.

Sorry, Code gate, but that doesn't change the question - as NEH, you don't have to ICE Archives unlike RP every game, so is 3 influence worth a 1-of ice that doesn't really shine in your deck?

And what about money problems? This deck has not that much economy, having no marked, no popups. How did it manage to FA repeatedly if you weren't able to quickly score an astro first?

it has 3 pop-up windows? :O this is a solid list imo

3 Pop-Up, 3 Sweeps, 3 Sure Gamble, 3 PAD Campaig, 2 SfSS. That's a fair amount of economy! Ice averages 2.4 cost to Rez. I like this list a lot. I revised my FA deck recently and came down pretty close to this one. I used 2 Architect and 2 Biotics, and no Crick, but pretty much everything else was the same. Glad to see I may have been on the right path. ;)

@PlutoNick thank you. Gutenberg is to slow the runner. Its low rez cost is important. Most runners rely on resources for economy and other functions, so this ICE is very much like an Enigma, having them spend $2 and lose a click. A careless run on their final click is much more punishing with this ICE than with Data Raven, for instance.

In the event that a tag is not removed you can begin to prey upon their resources or utilize Closed Accounts.

@dante77 thank you very much.

@juliandark your concern regarding its influence cost is valid. It may be better to exclude it and another influence point in order to play a second Biotic Labor. I am uncertain as to which arrangement is better.

In answer to some of your concerns, though: I do not place Crick over archives. I rarely install any ICE in protection of archives other than perhaps Pop-up Window as a deterrent to Datasucker farming – or exploitation, as the case may be. You are accurate in your assessment that NEH is unable to spare ICE for archives. A facecheck of Crick is frequent, and the firing of its effect once is often sufficient. In NEH, its subroutine can also draw you a card. The recovery of a SanSan City Grid or Daily Business Show is quite strong.

This version of NEH is light on ICE, as most versions are. As such, it is important to maximize all of your ICE’s taxing potential and resiliency to disruption. Crick is $1, and its effect is to tax the runner quite a bit with any breaker other than Cyber-Cypher, which is in a potentially poor position given the weakening of Scavenge with the printing Blacklist. Yogo is a good solution given my inclusion of Pop-up and Enigma, but I think you may be ahead in the exchange. It is close though.

Regarding your assessment of my deck having insufficient funds to operate, the cost to rez ICE is purposefully low. Tollbooth has been excluded from the deck. Crick is included over a second Enigma and first quandary. There are three Pop-up Windows.

Most importantly, though, I do not Fast Advance my agendas repeatedly. FA is very expensive, true. But you may find that your funds go further if you avoid reliance upon FA or overextend in the early game. FA is an important element of this deck, but it is not all-in on that plan. I do not mean to suggest that you are saying the deck is all-in on FA; rather, my play style is to largely avoid FA until the endgame.

@scourged there are some neat tricks to Crick :)

@aphid thank you.

@Wookiee I enjoyed the list quite a bit. Biotic is very good. It may be superior to include the second copy as opposed to the ICE suite I selected for the tournament.

By avoiding FA until the endgame your early game plan is rushing, preferably astros, in a remote then?

@aphid that is preferred, but I certainly won't ignore opportunities to FA agendas when it will yield a superior position - or when it is necessary to score. My game plan is very reactionary to the specific game state at hand.

Congrats on the win! Can I ask how many clot Kate decks you encountered, and more generally whether you think this deck has a serious chance against them or whether you were hoping to dodge that matchup?