Intro

This blog is dedicated to analyzing the most successful decks and winning trends of the card game Android: Netrunner.

I will be crunching numbers from Db0's OCTGN statistics and looking up info from Stimhack's Tournament Winnning Decklists.

Some disclaimers before we begin:

• These are statistics. Always take them with a grain of salt. I'm trying to get as big sample size as I can, but sometimes it's not possible.
• If you just hate statistics and have a strong opinion that you know better what is good and not, please don't take it out on me.
• Luck is a factor of the game. It can happen that a bad or mediocre deck wins because of pure luck.
• Skill is part of the game. It's possible that a great player wins a tournament with a mediocre deck. In the OCTGN statistics, I will try to filter out inexperienced and bad players.
• Surprise can do a lot. Sub-optimal but unexpected cards can win you the game. This can distort the statistics a bit. It also means that you can have surprisingly good results without using the "average" winning deck.
• Creating and trying out experimental, new decks are fun. Though you might win appreciation of the opponents with these kind of decks, these are often not doing as good as the standard, tournament-winning, boring ones. Usually I will talk about the optimal, unimaginative decks, sorry. I know what you are thinking. I'm trying to convince you to sell your soul, and use the most efficient machine of cards to win. If you a infuriated by such thoughts, please leave.

OK, we have these out of the way, first article coming soon! :)