Dirty Noise *Nordic National Championship 1st Place*

This is my winning deck from the Nordic Nationals (63 players, 6 rounds, top 8 cut). It lost twice over the weekend (both games in Swiss), once because I made a clinical School Boy error and ran face first into a Komainu with loads of good cards, so that way my fault. The other is more debatable but I'll blog about that at some point over the coming week.

A lot of the cards are pretty standard, there are some good cards you just take anyway, here are some other comments:

I played Noise when he was rubbish. Thankfully things have got better for him. I used to run a more manual draw deck with I've had Worse and Inject, but I really hate Inject and think it doesn't help Noise at all. Street Peddler is amazeballs and won me at least on game in the Double Elimination, and helped out a lot of other times. Any Noise decks not carrying this and using Inject instead, stop being silly and taking drugs, get the hippy market vendor on side.

Rather than three Daily Casts I had two and two Dirty Laundry. I wouldn't say the latter is a key card, but it's a decent alternative to Sure Gamble as it fires for less and lets you make a run. I'm not massively sold on it, but it wasn't something I didn't like seeing either. It's just a different type of economy.

Some people use 2x Faust, Corroder, Mimic. I don't think you need that. I'd rather see a Faust earlier and use D4v1d for Wraparound. Sometimes you don't see your Mimic, but when it's kicking Architect into shape, it's great. If you'e using Faust, keep a Datasucker handy because the tokens save you cards.

One Clot is no guarantee of seeing it, but often you're going through most of your deck. You're running Clone Chip anyway if you do see it, and having one on Street Peddler sealed a game for me in the Double Elimination.

You can use Shards instead of a Clone Chip if you like, but I went for 3x Clone Chip just to annoy Dydra.

I've previously had some success with Hacktavist Meeting, but it does depend on your match up. As it turns out the RP in Nordics were using a lot of Enhanced Login Protocol, which I haven't seen in the UK for months. Even a one-of of a current would have saved me a lot of pain here, so worth considering.

Denmark is a fantastic country, full of beautiful people and Copenhagen is a delight to behold. Everyone at the Nordic Nationals was friendly and welcoming, great sportsmanship and players, and very helpful. Many thanks for Vince for organising the FFG event and Sonny for being an excellent TO - any thanks to the countless other people who made it happen!