As the title suggests, this is the Runner deck that placed second at Chi-Lo in Louisville.
Quetzal was a meta call, and boy was it spot-on. This deck beats HB, Blue Sun, and Jinteki PE pretty consistently thanks to card efficiency and Keyhole. The best way I can describe this deck is that when I draw my starting hand, I have no idea what my “final” rig will look like, mostly because the deck is built around digging through your deck with Inject and using Retrieval Run/ Clone Chip to get important programs at the last possible moment. The only change I can see coming to this deck from Order and Chaos -2 Earthrise Hotel, -1 Dirty Laundry, +3 Steelskin.
I’m not posting the Corp deck because it was a nothing special Tennin No Remotes, and the Corp didn’t fair nearly as well in the top 8. This Quetzal deck won 4 out of the 5 games it played in the top, and only lost a total of 2 games all day.
Quetzal: Free Spirit (First Contact)
Event (12)
3x Sure Gamble (Core Set)
2x Retrieval Run (Future Proof)
3x Dirty Laundry (Creation and Control)
1x Legwork (Honor and Profit) ••
3x Inject (Up and Over)
Hardware (7)
2x Grimoire (Core Set)
2x e3 Feedback Implants (Trace Amount) ••••
3x Clone Chip (Creation and Control) ••••• •
Resource (12)
2x Armitage Codebusting (Core Set)
3x Kati Jones (Humanity’s Shadow)
3x Daily Casts (Creation and Control)
1x Hades Shard (First Contact) •
1x Utopia Shard (All That Remains) •
2x Earthrise Hotel (The Source)
Icebreaker (6)
1x Corroder (Core Set)
1x Mimic (Core Set)
1x Yog.0 (Core Set)
1x Femme Fatale (Core Set) •
2x Knight (Mala Tempora)
Program (8)
2x Datasucker (Core Set)
2x Parasite (Core Set)
2x Keyhole (True Colors)
2x D4v1d (The Spaces Between)
15 influence spent (maximum 15)
45 cards (min 45)
Cards up to The Source