Is this a hint about your build? 
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I hear ya! Iām on Stealth Andy and itās crushing. Has game against all comers, Iām finding. Especially HB!
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I aināt sayin 
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Stealth Andy or stealth hayley is where I am looking at right now for store champs, but for us aussies itās a while before then. That being said the next few packs should actually provide some dece tools for crims so that might push Andy over the edge. Hayleyās main selling point for me is the space for clot and clone chips. FA is still a pain in the a***
Been messing around a bit with Leela in a post MWL world. I think she came out on top in the faction, and is probably the best runner equipped to deal with NEH without having too bad of a matchup elsewhere. This is my build so far, but I do intend to try @Cerberusās third RDI over Zu which might be better than Zu. Itās probably a good sign that, as I was about to make this post, I looked a bit more closely at Daveās list and itās almost card-for-card with mine aside from the absence of Zu, despite this, I guess Iāve wrote the post now so Iāll post it anyway.
Either way, the way the meta is shaping up post MWL it seems like Leela will be a contender.
MWLeela (45 cards)
Leela Patel: Trained Pragmatist
Event (17)
3 Account Siphon
3 Dirty Laundry
1 Emergency Shutdown
2 Inside Job
2 Legwork
3 Special Order
3 Sure Gamble
Hardware (6)
3 Desperado
1 Plascrete Carapace
2 R&D Interface
Resource (12)
2 Bank Job
3 Daily Casts
2 Drug Dealer
2 Kati Jones
2 Security Testing
1 Utopia Shard
Icebreaker (9)
2 Corroder
3 Faerie
1 Femme Fatale
1 Mimic
1 Passport
1 ZU.13 Key Master
Program (1)
1 Sneakdoor Beta
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3 R&DI is something Iām pretty convinced on, but Iām interested to see if you come to the same conclusion. Worryingly Peacock isnāt that bad currently compared to Zu for a lot of common ice.
Drug Dealer is sometimes great and sometimes Iād rather have Visage, that may be linked with the times I should and shouldnāt be playing it though. Have you tested Visage, as I think itās worth it as a comparison?
I agree that in an NEH popular MWL world Leela may be one of the best answers now there is less easy access to Clot.
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Iāve not tested Visage yet, but I am a massive believer in Drug Dealer. I am not sure Visage is really a replacement for Dealerās effect, Visage is more of an econ card (and a slow one, at that) than a draw card and I donāt think thatās what the deck needs.
Gonna sleeve up a Peacock and RDI and see how I like this change.
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Iām curious as to what you are all doing with program trashing. Maybe it is just Jinteki.net, but I am seeing it a lot and the tough to avoid kind (Batty/Keegan/Power Shutdown). In particular with Criminal, most folks hammer Zu, knowing that we rarely have two. Maybe Iām just overreacting to the overabundance of trash oriented decks online, but Iāve gone for some more redundancy (+Peacock/Cerb at least).
Also, why no Drive By love? I generally play two, and they do a lot of work on remote upgrades and Moosh nonsense. Also, after you play one virtually everyone pre-rezzes, which is nice.
Visage and Drug dealer = a strange wyldside.
I wonder if that works.
I like Symmetrical Visage + Drug Dealer, but then I thought about it a little more and realized it is essentially two cards to do what Wyldside does by itself. It offers more flexibility and either card is good by itself (unlike Adjusted Chronotype).
If Wyldside was āyou may draw 2 cards, if you do lose clickā it wouldnāt have required pancakes to be a staple in Anarch decks. I think Drugs/babies is somewhat better.
As for drugs in Leela, I think itās a good idea, but itās hard. Itās even more important than Reg-Anarch not to get in a money hole. @Cerberus has done really well clicking for cards in criminal. Heās also pretty special.
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It worked fine in my Faust Gabe deck. Iām not sure itās what Leela wants. In Gabe, Visage offset Drug Dealerās cost while helping me Faust up, but then again I had ready uses for excess cards. I donāt know if thatād be the case here.
Faust Gabe is a lot more OK about being broke, especially when that money is feeding him cards, than Leela with regular breakers is.
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Iāve tried Endless Waltz post-MWL with 2 RDi, and the third has been sorely missed so far. I have yet to install Peacock or chafe much for want of Zu.
Thanksā¦ I think?
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I think youāve been consistently the best Criminal player in the UK for a couple of years. Maybe the best Runner player. Most people canāt make the blue cards work any more.
I think your making peace with the fact you need to click for cards, and knowing when itās appropriate to do so is a big contributing factor.
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Yeah, RDI is significantly better in Leela than in any other crim, I find. Having that option to deny the corp a score from a remote you canāt get into - by hitting R&D and bouncing the agenda if you steal - is super important, and wins a lot of games.
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man I wish I could stop sucking at playing Leela. Feels weird to play a criminal runner deck where I donāt just run everything all the timeā¦definitely seems to be in a good place for the most part, though not sure how it actually fares against post MWL foodcoats, and the likely mild influx of blue sun and RP decks? Maybe Iāll just wait until Rebirth 
Been facing lots of Batty decks. Not good when the breakers go down!
Drug dealer has been āokqyā but having multiples hurts. Probably will sub out for Visage or (*gasp) FIS. Needs moar draw.
I love me some FIS when played well, but itās not the same slot as DD or Baby Face. Because of its secondary effects, you have to use it as pressure, not econ. Is Earthrise too pricey to go in that slot?
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