PE Cycle Challenge Tournament Winner, Lund, Sweden

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I put this deck together for a tournament where we were restricted to only use cards from ONE core set plus ONE cycle or deluxe box of our choice. So I went with HAP for some funny Jinteki shenanigans and I like criminal in general.

The tournament was 4 rounds of swiss, 9 players, I got a bye in the first round. After that I went 2-2 (runner wins), 2-2 (corp wins, both flatlines), 4-0 (Jinteki flatline). It was a really fun tournament and a great format to attract newer players since you don't need all cards.

This is a kill deck basically, where I intend to land a brain damage or two with Tori Hanzo and Cerebral Cast to make it easier to get the kill. The best ways to get Hanzo to trigger is a House of Knives token, Data Mine or Komainu since these deal a single net damage, Troubleshooter is there to help Komainu. Note, I hadn't played a single game with my decks so I had no idea what to expect and it was really difficult to anticipate what other players would bring.

This deck lost the first game to Gabe when he found 2 Future Perfect in HQ, and won both psi games on the first tries, after a pretty horrible mulligan. I managed to slow him down a bit at least with a successful Psychic Field and Cerebral Cast.

Game 2 was also vs a Gabe, he ran into a Data Raven pretty early and decided to go tag me. I found a Scorched and two EMP pretty fast and got the kill.

Game 3 I played vs Noise. I scored a House of Knives early, put down a Hanzo on R&D and snuck in a nice brain damage. Together with another brain damage from Cerebral Cast things looked good. but he managed to steal 3 agendas for 5 points. I put down a Philotic, Snare and House of Knives naked and hoped he wouldn't find the Philotic. He decided to install a Medium and go for R&D instead. He saw a Tori Hanzo on the first run, his third click, and trashed it with his last 2c. His last click he found some ICE or something on the top which he Imp:ed away and a Future Perfect underneath. At first he was celebrating thinking that he won, but then remembered that he was broke so I won the psi game. On my turn I scored the Philotic for 3+1 net damage, enough to flatline with his brain damage!

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