Leela Patel, v. 2

The previous version of my Leela Patel deck had been doing quite well at work—so even though it was 51 cards, I didn’t really know what to get rid of! I eventually decided to get rid of my last Dyson Mem Chip, one copy of Crescentus, and both copies of Symmetrical Visage: I didn’t end up needing much memory, Crescentus seems like it fits with the theme but in practice I never used it, and while Symmetrical Visage is nice, I mostly wanted run-based economy, and the fewer resources I have, the easier it is to float tags.

Here’s the result:

Leela Patel

Leela Patel: Trained Pragmatist

Event (20)

• 3x Account Siphon
• 2x Dirty Laundry
• 2x Emergency Shutdown
• 3x Forged Activation Orders
• 3x Inside Job
• 2x Legwork
• 2x Special Order
• 3x Sure Gamble

Hardware (9)

• 2x Clone Chip •• ••
• 3x Desperado
• 2x Plascrete Carapace
• 2x Prepaid VoicePAD

Resource (5)

• 3x Compromised Employee
• 2x Security Testing

Icebreaker (8)

• 1x Cerberus “Rex” H2
• 2x Corroder •• ••
• 1x Faerie
• 1x Femme Fatale
• 1x Mimic •
• 1x Passport
• 1x Yog.0 •

Program (5)

• 1x Crescentus
• 3x Datasucker • • •
• 1x Parasite ••

15 influence spent (max 15)
47 cards (min 45)

I took it to a tournament on Saturday; unfortunately, it did just as badly as my Cybernetics Division deck, leading to by far my worst result in a tournament. This deck was a lot closer to winning than my corp deck, so I was somewhat unlucky going 1–4 (maybe I went 2–3, I can’t remember for sure which side I won my first game with), but still: I’d been right to feel that I wasn’t sure why I was winning so often with this deck.

I’m going to leave it assembled for a while—I do like the criminal “mess with people” approach, and I still think it’s a decent deck—but I’m going to experiment with a Chameleon deck for a bit.