I love the JRPG + Research Station angle here, noice!
@bluebird503 gratz! Recurring Credits Andy is real, folks :). @Nordrunner’s Overmind concept is very intriguing to me; something to test vs. my more traditional breaker approach.
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This is the 2nd time I’ve seen research station on a recent, winning deck. I’m glad some of these cards re-emerging out of their boxes. You can tell people may have forgotten about that card since it now has +10 clicks on it.
Unfortunately, Research Station still sucks compared to other things you could be splashing in RP. In the immortal words of Admiral Ackbar - “It’s a Trap!”
Poster even said Research Station was underwhelming and IMO it’s clearly worse than playing an Ash, or playing the 3rd Lancelot and a Daily Business Show. If AI breakers are in his meta then it’s also worse than playing Wraparound.
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There are a lot of problems with it. The idea was that if you aren’t able to get parasite/DS going or if you aren’t running ret/run morning star, Ashigaru is very expensive to get through.
Part of the problem is the low trash cost makes you defend HQ more than you normally would when running Crisium. Another drawback is that Ashigaru takes the slot of a punishing ice (tollbooth/wall of thorns) so ideally you want it to be on the remote or innermost on a central – which is not exactly what you want early game.
The benefit in my experience didn’t end up helping all that much. It worked really well one game allowing me to use celebrity gift without showing agendas and making for a 6-7 sub Ashigaru but it did next to nothing for me the other games. Ash would have been much better, like you said. It would also free up a card slot allowing for interns. Daily business show out of RP is bonkers.
That said, these were fun experimental decks – I knew most of these things going in =P
One really awesome thing about running 7 upgrades though was that it was really intimidating for the runner to look at a scoring remote, R&D and HQ all with at least one upgrade in them very early on.
@bluebird503 Nice work! I’ve been playing around with the @Nordrunner Andy a fair amount and it’s very fun to play. If the meta shifts away from fast advance with the introduction of Clot, I could see that deck being a powerhouse.
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Gratz Kyle!
Information for this event
card pool: Order and Chaos
event: Store Championship
players:20
location/store: Dice Age Games (http://diceagegames.com/)
city: Vancouver, WA
country:United States
date:1/31/2015
winner: Matt E, (unknown stimhack username)
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card pool: Order and Chaos
event: Store Championship
players: 18
location/store: Fat Ogre Games and Comics
city: Spring, TX (north Houston)
country: United States
date: 2/15/2015
winner: Bryant Smith @Darkshift07
Corp: Director Haas Glacier (1st Place Fat Ogre Store Championship · NetrunnerDB
Runner: Gabe Back to Basics (1st Place Fat Ogre Store Championship 2 · NetrunnerDB
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card pool: The Source
event: Store Championshipish GNK (Announced Store Championship but didnt recieve the KIT from the german publisher, still getting the bye, kind of strange…)
players: 14
location/store: Spielzeit Krefeld
country: Germany
date: 21.02.2015
winner: Jürgen M. @Axul
corp: Haas ETF
Still ending the fun
runner: Noise
Maria, i like it Noise
After hitting home at around 10:00 pm yesterday, 12 hours of work and some afterwork long island icetea, i did some smart changes to my Noise deck, including removing the Plascretes and inserting some Mimics for the dominating NEH with Architect…hit 3 Weyland Scorched decks and just one NEH. Still runner didnt lose one game 
Any particular reason the card pool didn’t include The Source and O&C?
Actually The Source was legal, maybe a copy&paste mistake from Axul here. He even had Earthrise Hotel in his Noise deck, so yeah. O&C has not been released in germany so far, we are still waiting desperately.
card pool: Order & Chaos
event: Store Championship
players: 27
store: [Pandemonium Books & Games][1]
city: Cambridge, MA
country: USA
date: 2/21/2015
winner: Max Gillett / Crunchums
NEH Astrobiotics - http://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/16130/neh-astrobiotics-store-champ-1st-pandemonium-books-games
Calimsha Kate - Calimsha Kate - store champ 1st place · NetrunnerDB
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That’s a [x] Check and a [x] Check :). Playing the good decks! 
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Did you face any Eater/Keyhole/Wanton on the day? If so, how was that matchup without any Tollbooth?
Nope. I played against
4 Kate 4 Andy
5 NEH 2 Blue Sun 1 RP 1 HB:ETF
I’ve did some testing against Siphon MaxX and it felt very easy to beat. If there is some siphonless Keyhole/Eater/Corroder deck out there then I haven’t seen it yet.
-1 Atman -1 Deus X +1 TME from Calimsha’s latest posted build. I didn’t think Atman would be necessary because people in my meta don’t tend to do that sort of hate-teching (my round 1 opponent put an advanced Changeling on R&D, but I managed to win anyways). I dropped Deus X because our resident Cambridge PE player wasn’t playing PE - @voidcircuit - thanks for telling me! : )
you’re all playing the good decks :), jebus!
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Oops, you are right, The Source was legal.
As jawZ replied, O&C isnt released in germany, and wont be for the next weeks too.
Hey,
I won another Store Championship in Berlin
card pool: legal up to the source
event: Store Championship
players: 22
location/store: Gamers HQ
city: Berlin
country: Germany
date: 2/21/15
winner: dome_
Here are the lists:
Near-Earth Hub Broadcast Center
17 influence spent (max 17) •••••••••••••••••
20 agenda points (between 20 and 21)
49 cards (min 45)
Cards up to All That Remains
Agenda (11)
3x AstroScript Pilot Program
2x Breaking News
3x NAPD Contract
3x Project Beale
Asset (10)
2x Daily Business Show
3x Jackson Howard
2x Marked Accounts
3x PAD Campaign
Upgrade (3)
3x SanSan City Grid
Operation (10)
2x Biotic Labor ••••• •••
2x Fast Track
3x Hedge Fund
3x Sweeps Week
Barrier (6)
3x Eli 1.0 •••
3x Wraparound
Code Gate (6)
3x Pop-up Window
2x Quandary
1x Tollbooth
Sentry(3)
3x Architect ••••• •
Kate “Mac” McCaffrey Digital Tinker
15 influence spent (max 15) •••••••••••••••
45 cards (min 45)
Cards up to The Source
Event (18)
3x Diesel
3x Dirty Laundry
2x Legwork ••••
1x Levy AR Lab Access
3x Lucky Find ••••• •
2x Scavenge
1x Stimhack •
3x Sure Gamble
Hardware (11)
2x Astrolabe
3x Clone Chip
3x Prepaid VoicePAD
3x R&D Interface
Resource (6)
3x Earthrise Hotel
2x Same Old Thing
1x Utopia Shard •
Icebreaker (7)
2x Cerberus “Lady” H1
1x Cyber-Cypher
1x Deus X
1x Gordian Blade
1x Mimic •
1x Sharpshooter
Program (3)
1x Parasite ••
2x Self-modifying Code
First Store Championship played in this year for the win!
Location: Red Castle Games
City: Portland, OR
Size: 21 Players
Rounds: 5
Cut: Top 8
First after Swiss (8-2); First after Eliminations (4-0); Final Record: Corp 6-1, Runner 6-1
(Full writeup coming soon of the Corp side)
Swiss: 4-1
- Win vs PPVP Kate
- Win vs Kit MO
- Win vs Kit (unknown?)
- Loss vs PPVP Kate @bluebird503
- Win vs PPVP Kate (everywhere that day)
Elims:
- Win vs Edward Kim
- Win vs PPVP @bluebird503
The Assets are High
Near-Earth Hub: Broadcast Center (Upstalk)
Agenda (11)
- 3x AstroScript Pilot Program (Core Set)
- 3x NAPD Contract (Double Time)
- 3x Project Beale (Future Proof)
- 2x TGTBT (True Colors)
Asset (16)
- 3x Daily Business Show (All That Remains)
- 3x Dedicated Response Team (Future Proof) ••••• ••••
- 3x Jackson Howard (Opening Moves)
- 1x Marked Accounts (Cyber Exodus)
- 3x PAD Campaign (Core Set)
- 1x Psychic Field (Honor and Profit) •
- 2x Snare! (Core Set) ••••
Upgrade (4)
- 1x Cyberdex Virus Suite (Order and Chaos)
- 3x SanSan City Grid (Core Set)
Operation (7)
- 1x Closed Accounts (Core Set)
- 3x Diversified Portfolio (Honor and Profit)
- 2x Midseason Replacements (Future Proof)
- 1x Psychographics (Core Set)
Barrier (6)
- 3x Eli 1.0 (Future Proof) •••
- 3x Wraparound (Fear and Loathing)
Code Gate (3)
- 3x Pop-up Window (Cyber Exodus)
Sentry (2)
- 2x Data Raven (Core Set)
17 influence spent (max 17)
20 agenda points (between 20 and 21)
49 cards (min 45)
Cards up to Order and Chaos
Deck built on NetrunnerDB.
Runner: [Stealth Andy][1]
[1]: Stealth Andy - 1st Place Store Champ, RedCastleGames, PDX · NetrunnerDB
This deck was basically the same as one @bluebird503 won in Olympia last month, which was essentially stolen from @mediohxcore. Really standard stuff. Spike deck FTW!
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Location: Critical Hit Games, Cleveland, OH, USA
Players: 18
Rounds: 5
Cut: Top 8, double elim
Date: 2015/02/21
Card pool: O&C
Winner: Ben Blum
Runner: stealth andy - store champ 1st @ critical hit, cleveland, oh · NetrunnerDB
Corp: DBS NEH - store champ 1st @ critical hit, cleveland, oh · NetrunnerDB
Matchups listed in NRDB descriptions. Didn’t lose a single game all day long. 
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