One topic I didn’t see covered as much as I believe it deserves attention, is the meta.
I have the feeling, that right now on the Corp side slower decks are the hotness.
When you check the tournament winning decklists, there is a lot of HB, RP and NEH.
However, you will notice that the tournaments with a lot of players (>40) were NEVER
won by NEH.
This indicates that NEH in fact has a higher variance. The more rounds you play, the
more unlikely it is to superperform. With less rounds, chances are a lot better you catch a lucky day.
So, assuming the top ranked players likely play decks that get along really well with long-lasting games,
a higher-variance deck that is super fast might give you a better chance, if you happen to get a good start in the tournament. Also, referring to the Titan Transnational Deck, another advantage might be that it is rarely played
(compare: Cambridge, MA, Regional: 73 players, 1 Titan). So players (even the top ones), might be more likely to make subtle mistakes that they would not make against NEH, that they have played hundreds of times against.
It just happened yesterday, so I’m sure they’ll be up soon :). I hear Zeromus played IG into the top-4, so I’m sure everyone will freak out about that list and realize it only works for his magic hands in a month.
Butcher shop was the star deck in cambridge yesterday. I think everyone is still assuming that if you know how to play against weyland SEA+scorch, and you know how to use clot against astrobiotics, then you can figure out a butcher shop matchup on the fly. Not so. You gotta respect that deck.
The Warren MI (detroit) regional was rampant with butchershop. I used a first round bye, then played 3 NEH butchershops, 0 losses, then I played 1 in elim, and it beat me for the first time when it killed me missing my IHWx2 in hand.
Oh and I was running a deck that is basically butchershop, so theres that too.
finally i have a reason to keep that paper trippin in my leela deck that has been dead weight for six months lol. its been relevant once and it actually did counter a midseason out of TWIY and won me the game. my idea was since i was running security testing and siphons it might be nice to spam siphons and then if the corp let the sec testing/kati stick around turn them back on. good in theory but not so good in actual play lol
@x3r0h0ur curious if we met at the tournament? what were you playing? butcher shop also wrecked me in the top 8, when a traffic accident missed my IHW before the scorch.
We didn’t play, I was maxx eater siphon wanton and butchershop varient. I had the military style olive green hat on and regionals playmat. I think when I was on table 2 you were next to me, like round 4.
Do you mean his biotech deck? I’ve played against his IG several times and can safely say there is no biotic in it. It is a hardcore murder deck and very scary to play against.
Mod edit: user @dogs has voluntarily enrolled in Project Junebug and, in a totally unforeseeable accident, tragically flatlined. RIP dogs.
It’ll have DBS, Ash, server diagnostics, melange, Crisium, etc I assume. I’ve got a strong IG list that’s just too slow to play in tournaments, I’m curious if Chris had found a way to speed it up.
Oh and Hokusai/Ronin/shock, the other best IG cards.
