I was trying to figure out why your deck seemed to have so much more room than mine: you’re not running ERH or Mr Li. Does lack of card draw hurt you at all these days?
As a slight correction, you’re not the active player in this case; it’s the corp’s turn. However, both triggers are Leela’s so I think she can pick the order.
I haven’t tried it yet. Had Visage. Price one pays for extra tools. This may be shitty, and not have enough money. Hoping to keep up HQ pressure. Will prob. rejigger once FIS hits.
My list is below. It includes the changes I mentioned above, and before that the list has changed very little for months (Bank Job went in instead of SOT at one point since I wasn’t using it very much, and Plascrete came in instead of Emergency Shutdown because I was sick of being murdered by butchershop which was everywhere in madison for a bit).
Notably I’m missing a few tools you’re able to run (+2 Emergency Shutdown, +1 Special Order, +1 Sneakdoor) from Mr Li, but having him has been really important. I’m sort of agnostic about Mr Li vs Earthrise, since I know most people have moved on to ERH but I don’t have that pack and I don’t feel like ERH is $14 better than Mr Li, so in he stays for now.
I usually find that Li is awesome when you’re floating tags. People don’t respect him enough to trash him, and he doubles the speed of your next siphon digging. Similar to the marked v. PAD debate.
Shutdown is definitely super strong and I miss it terribly (I was running 2x for a while). However, not so good against NEH in my experience especially since I can femme the tollbooth and I’ve not had any issues beating Blue Sun lately without it (we don’t have any dedicated blue sun players at the store, so people playing it are usually rusty with it). If glacier picks up in Madison or someone starts playing Bootcamp, ES will find its way back in.
Medium is 100% a playstyle choice. I love the way my games feel when I get an early Medium on the board, since it makes both players change their games to accommodate for its presence. I’ve long felt it would be better as 2x or as 3x RDI, but it’s part of the experience for me
I wouldn’t mind being able to go tag-me easier, but honestly it’s super hard to do as Criminal these days anyway unless you’re near the end of the game. Sec Testing is pretty important on its own, and I can’t really think of any Criminal who can go with out resourced based draw, Sec Testing and Kati (unless you’re playing FA). Tag-me feels off the table for now, but FIS might switch the balance there since it makes your draw event based instead.
Mine always gets trashed, though sec testing gets trashed first. Mr Li helps there nicely because he usually makes sure my second sec testing is still in the stack, instead of in the trash. So I can play it again to waste corp time later.
I’m wondering if a Muertos Gang/Forged Activation Orders combo could work nicely in Leela. Those three cards seem made for each other. Leela has the best shot at being able to pop Muertos for the free card draw when corp is either out of ice or has his few meager pieces rezzed.
That’s sort of true, but if you’ve got enough ICE off the table and they’re credit denied enough that forged would hurt, then I think the right course with Leela isn’t to spend 2 clicks trying to get rid of 1 ice but instead to apply your pressure to further snowball. It feels like monkeying around with MGM is going to slow Leela down right when you want to be speeding up.
I could be missing something and I should probably play with it, but it feels like too much work at a crucial moment.
