I was one of those dirty Anarchs who slotted Archives Interface! It was hit as either the 1st or 2nd net damage in my only serious game against IG.
I had a window where I was gearing up to lamprey the corp and fire Hades Shard, but by the time I had the money, my luck had run out and I lost that to net as well.
And Street Peddler betrayed me and tossed 2 Deja Vu. I am bitter against all street peddlers now.
am curious what you cut influence wise to slot a hade shard?
im pretty set on 3 aesops, 3 cache, 3 parasite, 1 levy these days.
I cut a parasite (gasp) for a Hades Shard. It definitely moves the deck into more of a ‘tier 2’ territory and is certainly a meta call, but it works for me most of the time.
Through the SC season, I played against a lot of glacier decks that would install their first jackson, and dump agendas into archives. I would pressure HQ to make sure this would happen. Most corps would be complacent with 2-3 agendas in archives so long as they had a Jackson on the table.
Most local players have changed their approach since then, but I kept it in because of IG, since many players thing agendas are the best thing to keep face-down in archives. This works pretty well with Imp, since I don’t care about trash costs so long as I can use Imp.
So there is rationale to it, but most of the time the 3rd Parasite is better.
Thanks for the kind words. It was great to meet you and hopefully see you when the HAC starts back up.
Here’s what I went with for NorCal regionals:
Fun times, would do again.
Yup, can confirm anecdotally. I played vs. DLR 3 times in Swiss.
I think the jury is still out on Levy, tbh. But it does seem very popular.
Here’s my lists from Tulsa:
Great tournament, great players. Insanely fun trip thanks to the Atlanta crew I traveled with.
4 Regional’s today
Warren
Gaultier
Durham
Pleasant Grove
Post your results,decks and stories of glory here.
Streams Also!
Warren is about to jump off; will keep y’all posted.
We got a @d1en and a defending champ @eric_c in the house–also a @x3r0h0ur
Dien and I faced off, needing to sweep each other to advance… He prevailed 
(and missed the cut anyway)!
43 at Eternal Games in Detroit (down from 63, -32%).
56 at Atomic Empire in Durham (70, -20%)
13 at MacNarb in Mississippi (new)
26 at Blakfyre in Utah (new)
139 people at 4 Regionals (133, +4% overall on 2x the locations / -25% in existing locations)
Top 8 After Swiss in Utah:
Final Standings (after double-elim:
Not sure on 5-8’s results in double elim. Will add decklists if I see them posted. Two of the Valencia decks (including winner) were apocalypse/siphon builds, other one was good stuff.
What was turnout like?
Not sure, just caught Top 8 and last few matches on stream.
Just an FYI: You currently have Spencer listed twice in the Final Standings.
I understand Jesse won Durham on a IG grind deck, featuring tech startup, and 3x hive.
Fixed, thanks.
The Top 8 Players for Utah were:
1: Spencer: NEH/Val
2: Elmon: NEH/Val
3: Austen: NEH/Val
4: Daniel: Palana/Leela
5: Ivie: Biotech/Silhouette
6: Sam: Sol/Whizzard
7: Aaron: Hayley/Titan
8: Sean: Ken Tenma/Argus
Spencer and Austen were running Aggro Val and Elmon was running Good Stuff Val. They were all running Mumba NEH
Detroit top 8:
It’s official, we are the Palana meta. Best performing corps: NEH and Palana, Best runners: MaxX, Kate, Whizzard
No IG in the top 16
