This deck is an evolution of my "Ready, fight!" Leela deck I used in two SC (2nd and 1st place). Coming out of the SCs, if already identified that the PPvP economy was bursty fun but ultimately not as powerful in a deck without Levy, and that the deck was very taxed by RP.

Removing PPvP meant that Lucky Find and Dirty Laundry both lost value and thus got cut, opening 8 total deck slots and 4 influence. I back filled the slots with Econ (Dail Casts & Symetric Visage), duplicates of core cards (most Siphon), and still had some deck slots and influence.

Planning for RP prompted the other changes - against RP, multiple accesses would be harder, so Indexing became 2 The Maker's Eye and Mimic became Faerie. Faerie would not hold up over multiple runs, but I'm packing Femme for the main breaking.

That was also related to my other goal - this deck seldom needs a full breaker suite, but it does need to threaten fast or a single ice can lock you out and stop your game plan. To that end I added more Sentry breakers and got a second Barrier breaker - Morningstar.

Morningstar is not fast, but my deck often builds 20-30 credits in the first few turns waiting for the opponent to mess up, and being able to leverage that into cheap accesses is huge. Looking at the meta, it's strong against NEXT Silver, Ashigaru, Eli, and Markus. Against them it takes a 3-4 credit per run tax to 1 compared to Corroder and that is huge. I figured RP would be packing 1-2 of those (or other Barriers) trying to tax decks relying on Mimic, and it also hurts HB decks that aren't packing Hiemdall level defenses.

On the day it worked out well - the new Econ worked well and Morningstar proved its worth vs HB and RP. Ended up 6-1 for the day (not counting the Bye), loosing only to Astrotrain when it was up 5-6. Trash the Business Shows kids.

Also, don't under estimate the Paper Tripping. It cleared 20 tags over the course of the day, bring its total tournament tag kill record to 33 for this deck.