You’re both boring
Just had to make sure I could secure entry into the stimhack invitational! Don’t worry, I’ll do my best to be back with some 1st place jank soon.
That NEH is anything but boring (to be fair, you probably didn’t even read the decklist)
Location: Fantasiapelit, Helsinki, Finland
Players: 18
Rounds: 5
Cut: Top 4, double elim
Date: 2015/02/22
Card pool: O&C
Winner: Arto Heinonen - Ahein
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Runner:
Leela Patel: Trained Pragmatist (All That Remains)
Event (22)
3x Account Siphon (Core Set)
3x Dirty Laundry (Creation and Control)
2x Emergency Shutdown (Cyber Exodus)
2x Inside Job (Core Set)
2x Legwork (Honor and Profit)
3x Special Order (Core Set)
1x Stimhack (Core Set) •
3x Sure Gamble (Core Set)
3x The Maker’s Eye (Core Set) ••••• •
Hardware (3)
3x Desperado (Core Set)
Resource (8)
1x Bank Job (Core Set)
2x Kati Jones (Humanity’s Shadow)
2x Same Old Thing (Creation and Control)
2x Security Testing (Honor and Profit)
1x Utopia Shard (All That Remains) •
Icebreaker (9)
1x Cerberus “Rex” H2 (All That Remains)
2x Corroder (Core Set) ••••
3x Faerie (Future Proof)
1x Femme Fatale (Core Set)
1x Mimic (Core Set) •
1x Passport (Honor and Profit)
Program (3)
2x Datasucker (Core Set) ••
1x Sneakdoor Beta (Core Set)
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Corp:
Near-Earth Hub: Broadcast Center (Upstalk)
Agenda (11)
3x AstroScript Pilot Program (Core Set)
2x Breaking News (Core Set)
3x NAPD Contract (Double Time)
3x Project Beale (Future Proof)
Asset (10)
2x Daily Business Show (All That Remains)
3x Jackson Howard (Opening Moves)
2x Marked Accounts (Cyber Exodus)
3x PAD Campaign (Core Set)
Upgrade (3)
3x SanSan City Grid (Core Set)
Operation (10)
2x Biotic Labor (Core Set) ••••• •••
2x Fast Track (Honor and Profit)
3x Hedge Fund (Core Set)
3x Sweeps Week (True Colors)
Barrier (5)
3x Eli 1.0 (Future Proof) •••
2x Wraparound (Fear and Loathing)
Code Gate (7)
3x Pop-up Window (Cyber Exodus)
2x Quandary (Double Time)
2x Tollbooth (Core Set)
Sentry (3)
3x Architect (Up and Over) ••••• •
that’s about what i expected knowing you as a player. grats ben
Location: Manchester, CT, USA
Players: 20
Rounds: 5
Cut: Top 8, double elim
Date: 2015/02/21
Card pool: O&C
Winner: Gabe Moss
Un-original decks NEH Fastrobiotics and Stealth Andy.
Detailed matchup notes in the NRDB listings, but honestly you aren’t going to learn much, as I’m more of a player than an innovator.
After having extreme runner anxiety after having Replicating Perfection abuse me earlier in the week, I decided to tweak a stealth Andy list and hope for the best. It worked out. NEH was 6-2, with losses to Andy and Leela, Andy was 7-2, with both losses to replicating perfection.
As a NEH player, I didn’t like the Stealth Andy build because it didn’t seem sufficiently fast to deal with what I perceived to be the dominant deck. With more people playing RP, it seemed like I needed to try to deal with that, and just accept that there is no good answer to NEH other than Leela, who doesn’t exactly just auto-win there. I still fail to see how it has the amazing matchup vs. RP that everyone says, but I will admit that it’s better than I originally gave it credit. My apologies Dan for talking shit about it in my head!
Stealth Andy had a good day yesterday, it seems
[quote=“captain_frisk, post:1138, topic:533, full:true”]Andy was 7-2, with both losses to replicating perfection.
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Isn’t stealth andy’s strong matchup RP?
Yours isn’t
Yes, this was my understanding. clearly I need more practice, or I’m doing something wrong.
Location: Milwaukee, WI (USA)
Players: 14
Rounds: 4
Cut: Top 4, double elim
Date: 02/22/2015
Card pool: O&C
Winner: Aaron Andries
Another tough road event. I played all 3 other Top 4 opponents in Swiss. Top 4 cut was Spags #1 seed, myself in #2, Paranoid (aka Robot Joe) #3, and a newer player named David on some hot decks. Leela just would not be denied and I decided to player her instead of a Danny D. style Reg Ass MaxX variant mostly because of this thread and the ability to get Leela some much needed props.
*Deck Notes - I would change the ice build on the NEH build, it’s on the publish.
Leela Finds a Way:
Wausau NEH:
Direct your questions to Spags - I’m going mobile / underground
Winning deck lists from The Common Room Store Champs in Bloomington, Indiana, in USA. There were 10 players and the tournament took place on February 22. Cards legal through Order and Chaos.
The winner was David Kempe.
Finally managed to win a store champ.
Card pool: Order & Chaos
Event: Store championship
Players: 20
Location: At Ease Games
City: San Diego, CA
Country: United States
Date: 2/21/2015
Winner: Timmy Wong
In Your Head
Nisei Division: The Next Generation (Honor and Profit)
Agenda (10)
- 3x Clone Retirement (Second Thoughts)
- 3x Nisei MK II (Core Set)
- 1x Philotic Entanglement (Honor and Profit)
- 3x The Future Perfect (Honor and Profit)
Asset (5)
- 2x Jackson Howard (Opening Moves) ••
- 2x Mental Health Clinic (Honor and Profit)
- 1x Snare! (Core Set)
Upgrade (6)
- 3x Caprice Nisei (Double Time)
- 1x Corporate Troubleshooter (Core Set) •
- 1x Cyberdex Virus Suite (Order and Chaos)
- 1x Port Anson Grid (First Contact)
Operation (10)
- 3x Celebrity Gift (Opening Moves)
- 3x Hedge Fund (Core Set)
- 2x Power Shutdown (Mala Tempora) ••••
- 2x Successful Demonstration (Creation and Control) ••
Barrier (3)
- 3x Snowflake (What Lies Ahead)
Code Gate (6)
- 3x Chum (Core Set)
- 2x Enigma (Core Set)
- 1x Lotus Field (Upstalk)
Sentry (9)
- 3x Archer (Core Set) ••••• •
- 2x Neural Katana (Core Set)
- 3x Pup (Honor and Profit)
- 1x Tsurugi (True Colors)
15 influence spent (max 15)
20 agenda points (between 20 and 21)
49 cards (min 45)
Cards up to Order and Chaos
It’s Hammer Time
Edward Kim: Humanity’s Hammer (Order and Chaos)
Event (15)
- 1x Déjà Vu (Core Set)
- 3x I’ve Had Worse (Order and Chaos)
- 3x Inject (Up and Over)
- 2x Knifed (Order and Chaos)
- 3x Special Order (Core Set) ••••• •
- 3x Sure Gamble (Core Set)
Hardware (8)
- 3x Clone Chip (Creation and Control) ••••• •
- 3x Cyberfeeder (Core Set)
- 2x Spinal Modem (What Lies Ahead)
Resource (10)
- 2x Armitage Codebusting (Core Set)
- 3x Daily Casts (Creation and Control)
- 1x Earthrise Hotel (The Source)
- 1x Kati Jones (Humanity’s Shadow)
- 1x Liberated Account (Trace Amount)
- 1x Scrubber (A Study in Static)
- 1x Virus Breeding Ground (Order and Chaos)
Icebreaker (3)
- 1x Corroder (Core Set)
- 1x Gordian Blade (Core Set) •••
- 1x Mimic (Core Set)
Program (9)
- 3x Datasucker (Core Set)
- 3x Imp (What Lies Ahead)
- 3x Parasite (Core Set)
15 influence spent (max 15)
45 cards (min 45)
Cards up to Order and Chaos
I really wanted to bring my BWBI deck yesterday, but it was just too slow and too inflexible for me to feel good about it. NBN FA was the only good fast corp deck I knew about, and I didn’t want to play that. So I brewed up a Nisei rush/glacier deck based around chum. It didn’t end up being that fast, but oh well. At least it’s the first deck in which I managed to justify playing my alt-art troubleshooter - thanks @ff0x!
On the other hand, I’ve been tweaking the runner deck for a couple weeks, after seeing a list with special order in the Kim thread. I think I’ve settled on a pretty solid build.
Tournament summary:
Round 1 against Alex (Blue Sun scorch / PPVP Kate)
As corp, I scored through a chum-archer-chum-chum-anson/troubleshooter server. Alex didn’t know about the chum/femme interaction, but I don’t think it would have made a difference. When it was his turn to corp, Alex was forced to jackson-mulligan on the first turn. I capitalized on his stumble by stealing his agendas and trashing his flatline pieces, and he never managed to recover. 4 prestige.
Round 2 against Dylan (EtF FA / Quetzal keyhole)
As corp, it’s my turn to mulligan into an agenda-dense draw and I lost very quickly. The second game was quite close. I managed to make him rez lots of ice, keeping him poor long enough for me to find 7 points. 6 prestige.
Round 3 against Vince (Stronger Together / The Professor)
In my corp game, my rush plan proved too fast for the Professor to match; he got some agendas off of a vulnerable R&D, but not enough to win. As runner, I snatched 5 points off R&D with lucky accesses, kept Vince clicking for credits by trashing his bioroids, and eventually found the winning NAPD in HQ. 10 prestige.
Lunch break! This was awesome because we didn’t have time to get breakfast. I ordered a carne asada omelette to eat at the restaurant and a shrimp-and-chicken burrito for later. Haumph.
Round 4 against Jeff (Blue Sun constellation ice / Leela aggro)
Kim had a slow start, which Blue Sun punished mercilessly. Jeff made all the money and rushed out 7 points before I could blink. As corp I drew little economy and Leela’s ability kept slowing me down. Ultimately Jeff siphoned me a bunch and won via double RDI. 10 prestige.
Round 5 against Jeremy (PE constellation-ToL / Valencia)
Kim vs. PE was long and grindy, and our agenda totals were consistently neck-and-neck. Toward the end I trashed his second trick of light from R&D, preventing him from fast advancing the last 2 points, and I finally got the 7th point with 2 cards left in my stack. We only had about 15 minutes left for the second game, so it came down to me rushing out a Future Perfect to get a 4-3 timed win. 13 prestige.
…which turned out to be good enough for 4th seed. Two other guys from the LA car had also made top 8.
Round 1 against Greg (MaxX PPVP-siphon)
Greg is one of those LA guys, so it was a bummer to play him first. He was playing NEH and MaxX. I didn’t feel like losing to astrochain just then, so I decided to try my corp luck against MaxX.
Neither of us got anywhere for the longest time, since I had to spend so much energy defending my centrals. His first wanton trashed 2 archers and his second trashed 2 agendas, but on the next turn I managed to topdeck jackson on my second click-to-draw. The match ended on time, 4-3 in my favor. In an untimed game I probably would have lost, since toward the end he was keyholing with some regularity.
Round 2 against Jeremy (PE constellation-ToL)
Now that I knew what Jeremy was up to, I wasn’t as intimidated by his PE deck (although it certainly had plenty of kill potential). He kept a hand with just a quandary and never drew enough ice to keep me out. I facechecked his remotes, pressured R&D, and finally got into a flooded HQ for the win.
Round 3 against Darren (NEH FA with scary stuff)
And Darren would be the last LA guy. I had a great opening draw with sure gamble and double daily casts - all those credits helped me hammer his HQ, stealing an astro and trashing a biotic labor. Then I ran out of money and had to slowly rebuild with kati; fortunately, Darren also had to recover economically, and he never drew a second astro. Eventually I assemble imp + VBG to trash all of his remotes and gordian + spinal modem to break through the lotus field on HQ and close out the game.
I was now in the enviable position of waiting two rounds while the loser’s bracket wrapped up. Burrito time!
Finals against Darren (Andromeda)
Darren survived his brief detour to the loser’s bracket in order to challenge me again. We decided to strike a deal: the tournament winner would get the plaque and the bye, while the loser would get shotgun on the ride home.
This game was epic. A few highlights:
- jacksoning all 3 future perfects back into R&D at the same time
- stopping one siphon with a nisei counter and then getting siphoned two more times
- forfeiting 1 and then 2 points to the same archer, costing Darren 10 credits each time to break
- on a 2-card R&D run, realizing that 4 of my last 7 cards were agendas
- finally scoring out, being left with 0 credits and 1 card in R&D
Props to the San Diego folks for putting up with our BS. It’s great to finally break my curse of scrubbing out in double elimination. Apologies to Darren and Greg, but I’m sure you guys will be crushing another tournament soon!
Let me be the first to say: wat
OH MAN YESSSS non-Stealth Andy / NEH stuff
Timmy you’re crazy
I got this reaction from every opponent who saw it. That’s probably the best reason to play the deck
NISEI DIVISION!!!
SECRET T1 ID, NERF NOW!
In all seriousness though, Congrats Timmy, looking forward to to playing you in the next round of SC’s
@tmoiynmwg: Any reason to play Nisei Division instead of PE for this deck ? Or it’s just for the econ boost on psi-game ?
My first tournament win yesterday as Leela / Blue Sun, and it was a store championship. Leela carried me through it.
Card Pool: Order & Chaos
Event: Store Championship
Players: 42
Location: Game Kastle - Santa Clara
City: Santa Clara, CA
Country: United States
Date: 2/21/2015
Winner: Joe Filomena
Tournament was 6 rounds of swiss, no elimination. Leela went 6-0, Blue Sun was 3-3, pretty standard builds for both. Links to the lists:
http://netrunner.meteor.com/decks/r34P525yuBeEJmCH7/
http://netrunner.meteor.com/decks/DwQTRZjsSc8zSDxMr/
42 people with no cut? Wow.