There was not much overlap between me and the guest judge.
MightyToenail’s favorites were
camelcase
Syntax
Friff14
icecoldjazz
enk (best)
My favorites were
AndrewWest
Crunchums
greyfield
After taking a second look to see if I could agree with MT’s calls, I’m happy to give second place to icecoldjazz…
meanwhile the winner is ENK, congratulations!
I made some comments on each entry, posted below.
zaroth - As an early adopter of Windfall I understand what you mean. I really dig the bookmark here. Would have liked to see a Singularity so you can attack a remote after going off, though Vamp should do the same job most of the time.
camelCase - This deck is not that obscure. I like the Itinerant Protesters / FIS thing. Did you consider Corporate Scandal?
Syntax - I’m inclined to say that Au Rev is not a bad concept, you’ve just put it in the wrong faction. Also you need Forged Activation Orders for that Paintbrush.
cursor - This feels in the spirit of the contest, trying to force the corp to draw themselves to death.
jeepers - Wouldn’t you need multiple SoT’s installed at once? I feel like you need Leprechaun here (-:
Calimsha - I’m not sure Valley Grid is bad enough for this contest, once people realised the Caprice synergy and that you didn’t necessarily have to run 20 ETR ices.
AndrewWest - I like this one. Even if most power shutdown decks work on similar principles, it’s impressive that this one only needs one credit to go off.
edmund_blake_nelson - There’s nothing bad about Ash and Red Herrings. NBN Glacier can also be played as a Never Advance deck. Would have preferred to see this as a post MWL list.
Crunchums - There’s some really obscure tech in this deck, like using Batty to delay the effect of Chum so it applies to the same ice as Inazuma. A Neural Katana could be cool here.
friff14 - The Doppelganger for the pseudo extra click is a nice touch, but I’m not sure you do enough to follow up on the “1). Discard. 2) ??? 3) Profit” theme.
popsofctown - This is a pretty bad deck, which is good for this contest. You’ve got a few ways to get the philotic into your hand, but with no ice, what makes you think it will be safe there? You can save influence by using Trick of Light + Ice Wall (instead of biotic) which lets you add 24/7 news cycle so you can philotic even if it gets stolen.
GNB - What exactly is the idea here, is this just a more tax focused supermodernism? Dedication ceremony combos are cool, I like how this deck inspired some discussion of how to push them further.
icecoldjazz - Woah? My only criticism is that I don’t think Enhanced Login Protocol belongs here. The influence spend is also strange, I wonder if Medical Research Fundraiser is better than beanstalks.
greyfield - Consumer grade capstone is a pretty top idea. Replicator goes both well and badly with it, since it draws you a second copy when you install the first one, but then you don’t want to install the second one. Why only 1 pawnshop, when you could capstone away extras?
enk - What do you do if the runner trashes your museums? (Actually, I guess it would be hard to trash them nine times without ever letting you recur a single card).
corporationsrule - Runners can actually draw up and deliberately eat a junebug if they know that will stop you using trick of light, as crazy as that sounds.
cmcadvanced - Yeah, mumba temple is usually better for rezzing assets, since with ice you can’t control when you will need to spend the recurring credits. Also, it’s hard to resolve Ryon without, say, an Hourglass. You could even run this out of Stronger Together.