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Finally won a Store Championship this season after coming in second at the other two I attended.

Card Pool: Order and Chaos
Event: Store Championship
Players: 23
Rounds: 5 rounds of Swiss, Top 8 Double Elimination
Location: Fun 4 All Comics & Games - Ypsilanti, MI, USA
Date: March 7th, 2015
Winner: Tim Vaduva (me)

The decks are nothing too special, but I’ll also link the 2nd place finisher which ran NEXT Design and Chaos Theory. Also, since I organized the tournament with @hypomodern, I will include some pretty graphs about the tournament.

Winning Mac Prepaid Blitz Eye AR (1st Place - Fun 4 All Store Champ 2015)

Kate “Mac” McCaffrey: Digital Tinker (Core Set)

Event (24)

Hardware (8)

Resource (3)

Icebreaker (8)

Program (3)

15 influence spent (max 15)
46 cards (min 45)
Cards up to All That Remains

Decklist published on NetrunnerDB.

Based on @Calimsha fantastic build. Only change was 1 more The Maker’s Eye instead of 1 Indexing. I made this change because I expected more glacier/taxing meta where multiple R&D runs in the same turn would be unlikely.

4-1 in Swiss (including 1 time win)
2-0 in Double Elimination

Winning NBN: NEH AstroBiotics Shipment AR (1st Place - Fun 4 All Store Champ 2015)

Near-Earth Hub: Broadcast Center (Upstalk)

Agenda (11)

Asset (8)

Upgrade (3)

Operation (13)

Barrier (5)

Code Gate (7)

Sentry (2)

17 influence spent (max 17)
20 agenda points (between 20 and 21)
49 cards (min 45)
Cards up to All That Remains

Decklist published on NetrunnerDB.

Fairly standard AstroBiotics NEH. Minor changes are 3x Shipment from SanSan and a bit bigger ice with 2x Lotus Field and 1x Tollbooth. This was to score from low credits (0 with Astro token, 5 with Biotic, and 6 with SanSan City Grid) and to keep runner out of central servers and/or defend a rezzed SanSan City Grid for multiple agendas. This worked well against Leela, 2x Edward, Silhouette, and Andy in Swiss and Silhouette (again) and CT in elimination rounds. Undefeated in all games.

5-0 in Swiss
2-0 in Double Elimination

Swiss:

  • Round 1 vs. Leela and Blue Sun: 4 - 0 Round 2 vs. Silhouette
  • Notorious Quester Silhouette (updated with new Lunar tricks) and NEH AstroBiotics: 2 -2 (only runner loss on the day)
  • Round 3 vs. Edward and Blue Sun Grail: 3 - 0 (time runner win against friend and coworker)
  • Round 4 vs. Edward and Tennin: 4 - 0
  • Round 5 vs. Supplier Drip Andy and NEH AstroLight (@hypomodern and I were on top of the ranking and we both knew we made the cut): 4 - 0

Elimination Rounds:

  • Runner vs. HB: EtF (Edit: I guess this is a thing) - I very close win against a deck using Rework, Heinlein Grid (and a bunch of other upgrades), and False Lead. After he scored the False Lead I was worried that he might zero out my credit pool during any run on a server with an upgrade, but he ended up using the False Lead a few turns later to help score an Utopia Fragment. The 3x The Maker’s Eye really helped in this matchup.
  • Corp vs. Silhouette from 2nd round of swiss - I was glad I didn’t have to face his NEH instead. He played it well, but NEH was running really consistent the whole day and knowing the his deck pretty well from the earlier swiss round really helped.
  • Runner vs. NEXT Design Rush/FA - The eventual second place finisher had a very strong deck and was able to pilot it even better. The critical play was using Utopia Shard when he Biotic’d, knocking out the Profiteering that he wanted to score to allow him to have enough credits for another Biotic in the next few turns. He knew he made mistake as soon as I used the shard, but after nearly 9 hours of Netrunner, who can blame him. He still scored out an ABT with the Biotic, so I didn’t think I got anything with the shard, I still checked archives after he fired off the ABT and scored the Profiteering. He was low on credits at that point so I was able to steal the last agenda from R&D without too much resistance.
  • Finals: Corp vs. String Theory - He came back up after defeating @hypomodern in the finals of the lower bracket. It was possibly the closest game against NEH all day. I’ve played String Theory for months, but this was the first time I faced it. I thought I was going to lose seeing the piles of credits he was building up and the massive card draw. Most of his runs were power multi-access run events. It seemed like it came down R&D not giving up too many points and providing the agendas when I needed them. I believe the last turn was seeing Fast Track a card down that I was able to select with DBS to score out the Breaking News with an Astro counter. If I had to wait another turn, it may have meant that I faced his aggressive NEXT Design Corp deck again.

Tournament Charts


A very diverse tournament in general. But, you may notice something interesting. A nearby store’s playgroup decided to come with the same decks and packed The Professor and Custom Biotics. I couldn’t blame them. Most of them already had a top 4 finish already, one won a store championship, and another won two.

The runner wins were pretty evenly split and the Professor held his own.

But on the Corp side, NEH showed it’s strength and won at a vastly disproportionate rate.

Flatlines weren’t very common on this day. But, I may have missed reporting some of them.

Edit: I forgot one of the most important graphs last night:

The Corp vs. Runner wins were about as evenly split as you can get: 52 total Corp wins, 53 total Runner wins, and 1 tie.

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