Information Sifting and CBI Raid are two unrestricted cards worth considering.
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Indeed, but their problem is that they are useless outside of this matchup and belong to a faction which is likely the weakest at the moment, so unless really big part of the meta is CI they will not be popular. Siphon, Vamp and Strike were useful in multiple matchups.
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In a vacuum, yes, CI is more fair than it used to be; however, in a card pool without Vamp, Siphon, Medium, Yog, and Parasite, I think CI is as lopsidedly strong as ever, and possibly more so than pre-roatation and bans.
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I donāt think information sifting is useless outside CI, itās basically like a cheaper legwork with different pros/cons. Good points from everyone though. I think the current strength of CI is mostly due to ETF rotating out and CI becoming the default.
Worlds is going to surprise you. The meta is not what you think it is. All the good decks are being kept secret (hence why everyone was so mad about the NRDB scandal). I think the best corp decks in the game right now are extremely unfair and everyone is going to hate them.
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Are you saying Chrisās article was a ruse? 
I have been wondering, as Iām not going to worlds and have yet to come accross anyone else playing what feels like a very strong corp deck (although I doubt itās secret worlds tech good).
Edit: I guess the article (on FFG if you havenāt seen it) did only discuss the runner side of things.
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Iām excited to see that. I donāt think the meta is healthy at all and Iāve posted already about my suspicions that the decks that will come out of Worlds will demonstrate this. Iām impatiently awaiting the Elitesā¢ to roll out the new oppression.
The decks I chose were only common decks on JNET, nothing more, btw.
The āJoppression,ā if you willā¦
Judging from the past, itās more likely to be Jonasās fault XD
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Iām fairly new to netrunner but coming from competitive mtg I find the whole āsecret worlds decksā idea kind of strange. Is it an in-joke or should I legit be grabbing my popcorn?
For example, my marginally educated guess at the best corp decks would be Gagarin asset spam, CI combo, and NBN asset spam of some kind (e.g. the NEH deck with Whampoa + Shannon Claire and HHN + Zealous Judge). Is the big reveal just the best versions of those strategies or do people show up with totally bonkers technology like scoring remotes or something?
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I think this would be the first worlds where the Known Good Decks werenāt generally available or being talked about / refined in public ahead of time! Previously, public speculation consisted of what the ratios would be, and who would be making which bets, not what the decks generally were 
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Itās mostly cause the landscape changed drastically between rotation, core 2.0, and banlist. Additionally, there wasnāt a tournament season to incentivize people bringing their experiments to light.
Overall, though, many players and cliques of players in this game pride themselves on cracking the meta in private and using those efforts to win tournaments.
Confirmed. Jonas is an evil genius.
Youāre way off. None of those decks are good lol.
So the glasshouse āleakedā decks were a ruse then? Thatās next level.
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Iām sure Abramās comment is partially disingenuous hyperbole and partially because better decks have likely been settled upon and honed in the time since then. The decks you listed are all reasonably strong decks; but Abram is suggesting much better decks exist, which is understandable. Iāll be flabbergasted if a deck comes about at Worlds that relegates CI to tier 2.
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Pretty sure Gag and CI combo kill will be well represented, Iād be excited to see what else is about though.
What Iād really be interested in however are any secret runner decks that can reliably beat these, as it seems that corps are definitely on top at a high level.
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An essentially Core 2.0 + Rotation legal Skorp Corp took second at the pre-rotation UK Nationals this year. Unless you are expecting runners to be better situated to handle rush in the new meta, this should count as a presumptive tier 1 deck.
Just adding this so Abram can confirm/deny. 
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Scorp is something people will play, and is worth being prepared for, but I think itās far from tier 1.
@moistloaf ādisingenuous hyperboleā OK BRUH.
I am far from a tier one player, but I have enjoyed playing rush decks. I think they are too draw dependent to be tier 1.
All three main runner factions have cards to stuff an early single-ice rush and access to good AI.
Rush can win games and is fun to play. Skorpios is an interesting deck that uses rush and rig-shooter in a way that can be strong if the runner has no answers. I suppose that might make it a good meta-call deck, but Iād be stunned if rush was a significant archetype at Top 16 Worlds.
That opinion and a nickel will buy you a gum ball.
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