scrapper shrike

OK so this is my Magnum Opus, the best and coolest deck I've ever made for reboot. I was a Leela/MaxX player exclusively when I started playing in D&D so I always had a soft spot for Leela and wanted to show that she is on the same level as the other crims in Reboot, despite the nerfs. Hopefully u will be convinced!

My record with this deck is 15 - 5 and I have beaten pretty much everyone with it including the best of the best so I finally feel ready to post it. I'll break each of the card choices down in detail:

• 3 Hostage, 1 ProCo, 1 Aesop's, (1 Decoy). The bread-and-butter econ. The problem with previous attempts to play Leelashop was twofold-- spending all of your inf on copies of Aesop's was a big waste and Aesop's was still not enough on its own. ProCo is also a connection, tutorable in faction, and completes the Aesop's engine seen in comparable shaper decks. Decoy is a nice bonus in the Plascrete slot that we can tutor, and covers our weakness vs. fast decks like TWIY.

• 3 Desperado, 3 Security Testing. Thought we had enough credits? Think again. They will have to ice up all servers and you just sell the SecTests when they do (and install the next one when they bounce the ice!). Generally if u don't install this or ProCo in the first few turns you will lose so mulligan aggressively.

• 3 Daily Casts, 3 Cache, 1 Harbinger. This completes the scrapyard econ package with Aesop's, and the Cache's help to smooth out opening hands as well. Maximizing the clickless pawnshop value is most important vs. EtF where you need all the money you can get to contest stuff.

• 2 Grifter, 2 PAD Tap, 1 Crowdfunding. Grifter here is really the cherry-on-top of the whole suite. Install it early to maximize Despie + SecTest or in the late game to lock R&D. When you know you can't get in, sell it for a buck. PADs are very helpful vs. pop-ups which are otherwise a pain, and this deck can install crowdfunding every 3 turns and sell it for 3c in a pinch.

• 2 Account Siphon. I've been experimenting with 2 siphon decks 'cause I think they're neat. This is the ultimate 2 siphon deck. You are going to clear unless it's game point so 3 is overkill, but most crims need this card. Use Decoy to clear a tag in the non-tagging matchups to save a click on the power turn.

• 2 RDI, 1 HQI, 1 Legwork. The multiaccess package. This deck chugs and chugs and never runs out of money, so the interfaces are perfect. 1 leg because it's an 8/10. The interfaces also combo with the star of the deck that we will get to later...

• 2 Inside Job. Standard criminal trick to contest the remote, which is what it should be used for 99% of the time.

• 1 Spec Order, 1 Company Mixer. ProCo means lots of drawing and slots are tight so 1 sporder is all that fits. I prefer to use the shuffle to combo with mixer to get what was bottomed back in circulation. Mixer is usually a budget QT or HP and is great as there is a lot that is nice to bottom.

• 1 Smashing Spree. The coup-de-grace. When it gets to the thrilling end of the game you will have have drawn through most of your deck and found this. It has several uses, namely-- blowing up R&D for the bounce when the corp goes for the IA or IAA final score out, blowing up HQ when it's full of biotics or AMs to stop the FA train, blowing up crisium to open up siphon or leg (yes, it does this). This card is so splashy and hype and always makes for a great haymaker in those tense games.

Breakers:

• 1 GS Shrike M2. The namesake. It looks like a joke to spend inf on this but it's actually correct. Since this deck plays no EShutdowns or Parasites, the number one sentries that should stop it are Archer and Tsurugi. Shrike beats Ninja against these ice and Ichi 1.0, Komainu, and Rototurret. It loses to Ninja against Katana, Grim, and Assassin, which Walrus basically blanks.

• 1 Mimic. Solely for avoiding Architect tax in EtF and the occasional deck that plays Caduceus + destroyers where Mimic + Walrus is enough.

• 2 Walrus. Inf free and the counters fill in for the missing Faeries. Playing 2 is actively insane when the first one gets sold to pawnshop. The break costs are also nutty against bioroids and hard to tax out.

• 1 Maron, 1 Cerberus "Rex" H2. Wine and the dog. Dog sells for +1c when it's spent and blanks the goat ICE. Wine is the perfect breaker for a rich boxer and is a standout against Caprice where it makes Turing and other taxing code gates look like butter. Facechecking Archangel early is a lot less threatening when it can't be stacked and the wrap behind it gives a discount, meaning Maron becomes an in-faction Gordian-lite in some matchups.

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