Hello everyone!
I’m Girometics, and if you didn’t know me, it seems I’m fairly (in-)famous for my System Gateway + System Update 2021 decks. I made those decks back when I started out as a fresh Netrunner player, and published them mainly as a reference and “battle deck gauntlet” to play with my personal group of friends. It quickly became apparent that this “most fundamental” card pool is something that a lot of people enjoyed. Looking back and having grown as a player, I can’t help myself but see the glaring deckbuilding mistakes that I made at the time – but over time, I have come to accept that the lack of optimisation in my SG+SU21 decks is actually a good thing, as it encourages exploration and creativity, the things that any constructible card game wants to embrace.
With these guiding principles in mind, during the final weeks of developing Elevation, I set out to build another gauntlet of decks, this time for the NSG Core Sets, which is to say, the card pool consisting only of System Gateway and Elevation. My overarching goal here was to build one deck for each of the available identities, showcasing as wide a variety of deck archetypes as possible. As such, all of these decks feature some idea as a conceptual starting point, but also leave room for improvement for experimentation and exploration. I am very satisfied with the breadth of playstyles that Elevation adds to System Gateway, and these two sets alone make for an incredible kitchen table experience. While my decks are meant to serve as a baseline of functional decks which you can play with right out of the gate, I do very much encourage everyone to see what they can cook up themselves within this card pool, as in my opinion, building and tweaking decks is a major part of the fun of Netrunner.
These decklists (along with Grey Tongue’s System Gateway-only decklists) will live on a static page under the Players tab on our website, and can be accessed via the link below!
