To take on the delusional denizens of NRDB? INCUR THE WRATH OF DYDRA?
Want NRDB points? Earn them 3 points at a time like me, or write a huge goofy story to go with your deck. Redeem them for your stickers and slide whistles at the counter.
The ID for deck of the week is probably similar to the influence wheel FFG uses.
I think there are a few things wrong with this deck. First, like you said, it’s trying to take on PPVP Kate, which arguably no one has done. Hubris aside, it ignores Chameleon’s greatest power and weakness - naming its type on install. That only works for you if you have a way to repeatedly install it mid-run, otherwise every face-down card is a psi game that costs you two credits to play.
I have a similar deck I’ve been working on for a few months, to pretty good success. I’m not a great player, but so far this deck has only lost to egregious bad play on my part (specifically flatlines). The keystone of the deck is Personal Workshop, since it can hold your Chameleons until you know which subtype to name. It got it’s name (Shotgun full of Bees) because dropping your Chameleons on PW feels like loading up a double-barrel shotgun. When you know which ICE subtype you need to break, Test Run is an ideal card to use to tutor up your next Chameleon. It costs 1 less than an SMC, can tutor from the stack or heap, and Chameleon’s ability negates Test Run’s downside.
Chameleon is a tough card to build around - it’s one of the most efficient breakers in the game, but only if you build around its downsides. I have full faith that a Hayley Chameleon deck will win a real event soon, but I don’t think The Novelist is that deck.
Someone brought Novelist to our Saturday meetup. It makes plenty of money once it gets going, but when your setup plan is 57 steps long you need to rethink your deck.
My guess is that anyone who got drunk at night,randomly put a lot of cards together,then yelling “IT’S A TIER 1 DECK!!!” and writing down a TL;DR analysis about “THIS IS A TIER 1 DECK BELIEVE ME!!!” could make a decklist of the week on NRDB.
I played some of them,some decks on the front page are really decent,I remembered Endless Waltz and L4J,they are really good and they do have good tournament results;but most of them,sorry to say,not functioning as how the author stated,“Tier 1”.Or maybe I am too stupid to play their decks I guess.
I try to practice netrunner regularly even though my tournament season is over, when these things come up on the front page I’ve almost always had experience playing with or against them by that time.
On a related note, I think net-decking and playing lists as written is the best way to learn the game; rather than net decking and changing cards right away because you think they are bad.
My aim is to shortcut that process and make sure the players that want to netdeck are starting off on the right foot.
