Shibboleth, HOW COULD YOU (1st Place, Montreal CO H2 2023)

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Shibboleth!

It's fun to say! It's fun to Patsplain what it means to people who are half-listening at a party!

It's fun to spoil on the Metropole Grid!

And yet, it let me down in every game. If I continue with this deck, I'll likely tinker the influence until I have a code gate breaker I'm happy with, and maybe toss in an Aumakua for backup.

That said, the deck went 2-1 on the day of the tournament.

This deck is obviously inspired by Whiteblade's Zayha list. My main changes were adding 3x Jailbreak, 1x Miss Bones, and 1x Reprise. In Zahya, I almost always prefer having a Jailbreak in my opening hand to a Sure Gamble. Reprise is just a card I'll always make room for in a Crim deck. Miss Bones is there because I dread asset spam matchups - I can't think my way through them, so I put in a card that does the thinking for me.

F.A.Q. (Frequent Asked Question)

Did you ever get to play Reprise? Yes! And it was great and mean. Hermes bounced an unrezzed ice, Reprise bounced a rezzed ice, and I strolled into the remote on a magic carpet of musical notation.

3 comments
10 Dec 2023 holzpubbnsubbe

Awesome! Congrats! P(a/e)t Card Reprise

10 Dec 2023 Sauc3

Yesssss Pat! I also love Reprise, and have played loads of games with it, but it has never actually done anything good for me and I’ve never seen it do anything good for anyone else… It truly must have been a virtuoso performance!

11 Dec 2023 Scorpi12

My best Reprise moment happened at another tournament: despite there being an advanced card in a remote, I reprised a different facedown card that I'd guessed was a Soin Doctor, and then went for Archives to seal the win. It's a haymaker (sometimes)!