card pool: Everything up to Order and Chaos
event: Store Championship
players: 21, 5 rounds swiss, top 4 cut
location/store: Outpost Gent, Belgium
date: 22/02/2015
winner: Michael De Coster (@fluffdasheep)
Decklists and so on:
Whizzard’s Chippies
Whizzard: Master Gamer (What Lies Ahead)
Event (17)
1x Day Job (Order and Chaos)
1x Déjà Vu (Core Set)
3x I’ve Had Worse (Order and Chaos)
3x Inject (Up and Over)
2x Knifed (Order and Chaos)
1x Lucky Find (Double Time) ••
1x Retrieval Run (Future Proof)
3x Sure Gamble (Core Set)
1x Test Run (Cyber Exodus) •••
1x Wanton Destruction (Order and Chaos)
Hardware (5)
3x Clone Chip (Creation and Control) ••••••
2x Grimoire (Core Set)
Resource (7)
3x Armitage Codebusting (Core Set)
3x Daily Casts (Creation and Control)
1x Utopia Shard (All That Remains) •
Icebreaker (7)
2x Corroder (Core Set)
1x Femme Fatale (Core Set) •
2x Mimic (Core Set)
1x Yog.0 (Core Set)
1x ZU.13 Key Master (What Lies Ahead) ••
Program (9)
2x D4v1d (The Spaces Between)
2x Datasucker (Core Set)
2x Medium (Core Set)
3x Parasite (Core Set)
15 influence spent (max 15)
45 cards (min 45)
Cards up to Order and Chaos
Deck built on NetrunnerDB.
Yes, Whizzard finally joins the ranks, though he had to be pretty friggin lucky to get there. The deck has a history of being an anti-BlueSun deck with an anti-everything-else ID, using test runs, scavenges, and retrieval runs to recur multiple D4v1ds and get Torch out on the cheap. It had cutlery rather than parasites for ICE destruction.
Needless to say, that build did exceedingly well against Blue Sun and Titan, but the match-up against NEH was so horrible (damn those quandaries) I moved to a classic anarch rig with parasites, suckers, and clone chips. The astute reader will note that the list shares many similarities with Whatever-Ass MaxX. It plays inject and less economy than MaxX, as the Whiz himself is a pretty sweet source of credits.
It defeated Grail RP (barely) and HB ETF (handily), but against NEH it only managed 50%, and the 50% it won felt more like luck than anything else. But then, that’s usually what winning vs NEH feels like: you need to play well, and be lucky. Annoyingly, I didn’t face Blue Sun or Titan all day.
@Calimsha played an Ordinary-Bum MaxX list at this tournament, and after facing it I would recommend it over this, but if you want to give the Whiz a go just for style points, this is the deck for you.
If I would change anything about this deck, I would probably find room for Spooned or Knight, as Lotus Fields made me knock my head into the table several times during the day.
At Least It’s Not NEH
Haas-Bioroid: Engineering the Future (Core Set)
Agenda (11)
3x Accelerated Beta Test (Core Set)
2x Gila Hands Arcology (Creation and Control)
3x NAPD Contract (Double Time)
3x Project Vitruvius (Cyber Exodus)
Asset (9)
3x Adonis Campaign (Core Set)
1x Eve Campaign (Humanity’s Shadow)
2x IT Department (The Source)
3x Jackson Howard (Opening Moves) •••
Upgrade (2)
2x Crisium Grid (First Contact) ••
Operation (6)
3x Biotic Labor (Core Set)
3x Hedge Fund (Core Set)
Barrier (8)
2x Eli 1.0 (Future Proof)
3x Galahad i[/i] •••
3x NEXT Silver i[/i]
Code Gate (7)
1x Lotus Field i[/i] •
3x Merlin (All That Remains) •••
3x NEXT Bronze (Opening Moves)
Sentry (6)
3x Architect (Up and Over)
3x Lancelot (First Contact) •••
15 influence spent (max 15)
20 agenda points (between 20 and 21)
49 cards (min 45)
Cards up to The Source
Deck built on NetrunnerDB.
I love this deck to bits. Here’s the gameplan: rez ICE, get money, score agendas, get more ICE. Optional side-activities include kicking careless runners in the balls with Grail ICE, or locking them out with IT Department.
Crisium Grid was a last minute include over other, shittier hate cards (swordsman and bootcamp) and even though I didn’t face any Keyhole decks, it saved my ass at least once against a criminal. IT Department got me one lockout win, and was a great money sink for the runner every other time. It’s like the purple SanSan: when faced with it, the runner has 2 options, and both are miserable (unless they’re Whizzard 
).
It only lost 2 games the whole day, both to @Calimsha’s Normal-Butt MaxX (once in Swiss, once in the first top 4 game). It did beat it in the Grand Finals, after I read his mind, installed a naked Beta Test on turn one, which he then Queen’s Gambited. Best. Beta Test. Ever.