I personally believe the way to give yourself the best chance of winning a Netrunner tournament is to play a deck enough to be thoroughly familiar with every single matchup. Switching decks often is fun, and I do it plenty during SC season, but here in the northeast we don’t have like 100 regionals per state, and you really want to give yourself the best shot possible. Switching to a new deck a couple weeks before a tournament is a shooting yourself in the foot unless the deck you’re most familiar with is really terrible in the meta.
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Or @lpoulter could make it and we could call the archetype PoulterGeist!
The most important part of a deck is its name after all.
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That’s fair, but, Zach’s traveled to a number of Regionals, and has been playing the same dex (Andy/NEH) for the past year now. Granted, it appears that he has zero local meta.
Hey, we only have TWO in WI. It just so happens I have 4 within 5.5 hours drive of my house, and prob. 6 if I wanted to drive 7 hours.
Yeah, Zach is an interesting case because he travels to a good amount of tournaments but doesn’t get a whole lot of play in between them. I’m sure if he had more time to practice he would be more open to switching but from what I understand, like, half of his games are tournament games 
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He’s the Winter Runner: he gets unfrozen for tournaments, and then is put back into carbonite.
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Ha funnily enough I was just chatting about how when i win worlds my card them is sorted, ghost hacker on the wires.
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I’m pretty sure fully one third of all of Zach’s games of Netrunner have been against me.
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No wonder he’s so good.
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He actually thinks the game is called “Nilesrunner” not “Netrunner”
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Oh dear. Is it not?
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