Top 12 Louisville: If it Bleeds, it Leads v3

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And hopefully, it will bleed a lot.

So, I like to include a 1-of ICE in all my tourney decks that nobody expects. In this case, it is Snoop. I actually got to use it in a couple matches, and there's nothing better than disorienting a runner ;).

I also have a preference for decks with multiple outs. This deck can FA (SanSan + Astro); it can SE; and it can PsychoBeale. Fear of the latter two opens up FA wins once runners see either; if runners see SE, you can often still psycho, if they see psycho, you can often still SE.

This deck was a champ in the Swiss rounds. I psycho'd out one game, SE'd another, lost one to me being a complete dunce, and FA'd the rest, including two of my new favorite "I can't believe this play is legal" scoring-the-game-winning-agenda-from-deck wins with Fast Track. Seriously. Fast Track. We need to have a national conversation about Fast Track Violence or somethin ;).

It completely fell apart in elims, being both of my losses: the first to a business-as-usual Andy deck that trolled me hard, the second I should have won: had 15 tags on the runner, snoop tokens, an SE and a Beale in hand + money, but two turns of power draws (for Psycho or SE) produced only agendas. Variance is a MFer ;).

Oh, and it actually doesn't bleed much: 75% or more of the wins will be "normal NBN shenanigans", which now includes getting to 5+ a token and a SanSan and Fast Tracking the win from the R&D for a dollar (FT, install, advance + token).

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