OK, i found the subject so appealing I decided to create an account just to answer. No experience in Netrunner draft, by the way.
Eli I don’t like : in this format I’d rather have an ice they have to get a breaker for, because they may have only inefficient breakers. I’m not sure about Draco, as I wonder if tags will be frightening enough. It’s very unlikely someone will be able to scorch you twice. Therefore, I would go with Adonis.
On the runner side : it’s Mr Li or Test Run for me, it will be pretty important to find out the few jewels in the ocean of crap we’re going to call a deck . Mr Li is more versatile I think, so I would take him.
Clone Retirement & Mr. Li. An agenda you can score out of hand is even better in a six-points-to-win environment, and Mr. Li lends consistency to a fairly random deck. Hopefully another interface will roll by later, or maybe a Maker’s Eye.
I agree with Clone Retirement simply for being a 2/1. The fact that it could scrub a BP is also good, and it truly opens up some options in this draft for taking things like Grim or perhaps a Hostile Takeover if it comes. Easy points is easy points.
Let’s start with the runner pack. I feel like Mr. Li and Test Run are both bad choices for 2 reasons
We are running a 30 card deck. You are going to see a lot of your deck without tutoring or filtering.
If you use your early picks for good tutors/draw then your later picks are for scrap programs/hardware. Then you end up playing your tutors/draw to find your crap. It’s better to fill your deck with as much good stuff first.
Out of the remaining cards I feel that the two I want most are RDI and Mimic. Mimic is great against a lot of low cost sentries. However, we already have Pipeline who can handle Shadow, Roto, and an unboosted Draco just as good (But suck against Katana & Caduceus). We are definitely going to pick up at least one more sentry breaker but RDI is too good to pass up. This is because stopping ice tends to be a little rarer in drafts and lots of random taxing ice get placed on R&D. RDI lets you still get value out of those taxing runs and forces the corp to place their ETR on a central instead of remotes. For these reasons I vote RDI
Now for the corp pack. I feel like it has to be Eli. A single Eli on R&D is going to really irritate the runner. There is very few good ways to deal with Eli in constructed formats. If the runner wants to spend 3 out of 4 clicks on their turn to see a single card be my guest. Adonis is a really good economy card but if you stock yourself with lots of cheap efficient ice you don’t need as much economy. Plus, we also have Private Contracts already to help us out. Having a 2/1 agenda is good too but Eli is such a great ice it can’t be passed up. I’m actually really curious what card was taken from this pack last round. Ice wall? Hedge? Astro? Snare? What order are these packs going? Is this from Hollis or Alexfrog? Is there even a real draft going on or is this whole thing an elaborate troll?
That’s fair. RDI is definitely strong, I’m just not too sure about our breaker situation.
In a 6-points to win scenario with the principal agenda being PriRec, I’m not seeing the utility of Clone Retirement unless we think we’re going to be picking up a bunch of replacement agendas. I definitely want Eli.
Ya I agree with this. Probably best to hold off on agendas for awhile. If we take Clone Retirement then it forces us to draft more agendas in the future instead of keeping our options open.
The votes for day two are in. While it was much closer this time with some close competition from Adonis Campaign, Eli 1.0 was a convincing winner with 48% of the total vote for the Corp.
On the runner side R&D Interface took 49% of the vote with other contenders being Mr.Li, Keyhole, and Test Run.
For runner, Magnum Opus or Forged Activation Orders. If you are not very aggressive, FAO is the right choice, otherwise MO. Reasoning is that you can use FAO to manipulate corp’s credit pool then run elsewhere, but this is useless if you’ve run earlier and ice has already been rezzed.
So NEXT Bronze and Magnum Opus
edit: didn’t see we’ve already drafted Enigma. Hmm…
. Mr Li is more versatile I think, so I would take him.