Eye for an CBI [ 2th/9th, 8-4 at New Years Showdown 2025]

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Intro

The Intro is plain and easy: I wanted to play CBI with OF15-15 and they magically dodged the Invite this Year. So we need a cool Deck in a somewhat new meta that can perform well enough!


Genealogy

The deck that OF15-15 and I tested for the New Years Showdown had three predecessors, Event Mulch Anarch, Ice Destruction Hosh from OF15-15, and the Sebastiao experiments in the early days after the banlist update.

Even if Event Mulch has developed more in a different direction (maybe another writeup on this <3), Aniccam was still very slot efficient and synergises very well with Lago Paranoá Shelter, plus the Lat-Meta has shown us that Aniccam can disarm Punitive Counterstrike well and gives us a buffer in other kill matchups.

For the Ice Destruction/Breaker Solutions we went for a leaner suite of Aumakua/Leech/Arruaceiras Crew/Bankhar which allows us to break most things (Dont look at me, Wraparound!) quite efficiently and generate enough pressure. The suite is also quite economical, which makes the deck relatively rich.

Sebastião was a natural test target after the R+ ban (Amanuesis included) and felt relatively promising, but was often too inconsistent and Amanuesis doesn't come without ballast even in a meta without NBN. In this deck, we came up with the idea of Cupellation/Eye for an Eye, which was surprisingly much better than we originally thought. While the deck played Audrey, Badge and benefited more from the tag, optimistically I thought the effect should still be decisive enough in some matchups. But I had the feeling that Aniccam was the better console and so we shifted more testing to Hosh. After a lot of rough drafts, OF15-15 came up with a variant that I really liked and performed extremely well, so we decided to stick with the experiment and adjust the slots.


Card Choices:

Draw: Aniccam, Lago, 3 Steelskin Scarring, 3 Raindrops Cut Stone, 2 Bahia Bands: We decided to use Aniccam and Lago as our drip draw and event based burst draw to feed Bankhar and react to the Lago trigger. Bahia performed really well between Click Compression, Asset Tech, Tag removal and Maemi dump. Wildcat Strike came in late on OF15-15 suggestion. I was very sceptical, but after a few games I was surprisingly convinced.

Econ: 3 Dirty Laundry, 3 Sure Gamble, 3 Raindrop, 3 Strike Fund, 2 Mystic Maemi, 1 Wildcat Striket: In fact, the deck is surprisingly rich in many cases, not least because the Breaking Solutions are very inexpensive. We didn't have any major problems against Asset decks in testing, not lastly thanks to Bahia, Cupellation and Fencer, but we also had a lot of fun with it.

Multi Access: 1 The Twinning, Eye for an Eye, Cupellation: A lot has already been said about this, Eye is a real card and Cuppelation and Twinning make it possible to sweep the whole hand, something that many decks can't handle very well. Twinning gives us an Option for the sometimes needed RnD Dig and Lock.


Matchup spread

The Matchup Spread seems quite balanced, Crew/Charm deals well with Jinteki Glacier in Testing, Bankhar and Turtle/Charm are fast enough to deal with HB Ice reasonable well. This list is not exhausting and a short summary of our Training Games/Tournament rounds!

EAzmari

Pre-Banlist Azmari was a good matchup, but EASports teched quite heavy into Mulch/Freedom and coleteral hi tour deck with Wraparound and Mavirus includes. Still, Hoshiko does surprisingly well, especially if you played the matchup a few times (What we did on Sunday luckly). A turtle/leech plan works usually better than crew and because there isn't that much ice, you can often eat their hand if they try to go for the score. Also, Annicam/Steelskin are very good at keeping you alive.

NEH

One of the better matchups, even though OF15-15 lost the final to it after some poor decisions in the lategame in a well played early to midgame. You have enough money to contest assets and Eye for an Eye is incredibly good at killing the kill pieces. The NEH Deck has big trouble to kill through Steelskin and Aniccam and ones the recursion is gone, it should be game.

PD

Interesting matchup, bankhar and crew/charm helps alot, but PD can be too fast sometimes. Try to lock the remote and clear HQ in critical turns. Being aggressive is quite important and force rezzes to slow the Corp down.

Asa

Quite similiar to PD but Bankhar is better cause the Ice is wide spread and Turtle got an easier time farming tokens.

Sports

I played a few games in testing and one in the tournement, it depends a bit but the deck seems fast enough touch some points reasonable well and Eye for an Eye hits Audacity and other Fast Advance tools quite well. Bankhar is really good against the low ice spread.


Conclusion

I really had a lot of fun testing and refining the list and am even happier that OF15-15 was able to get there well-deserved last minute CBI invite! I'm really looking forward to CBI and further testing down the road! Many thanks also to maninthemoon for organising and all the other helpers!

See ya soon!

6 comments
7 Jan 2025 lif3line

The deck I should have played! Awesome list

8 Jan 2025 holzpubbnsubbe

That cat strike is wild! Grats on the placement!

8 Jan 2025 AlbaMesser

The deck tested by OF15-15 and I showcases impressive synergy, particularly with Aniccam and Lago Paranoá Shelter, effectively countering threats like Punitive Counterstrike. Our lean suite of Ice Destruction solutions efficiently breaks barriers while maintaining economic strength. The innovative Cupellation/Eye for an Eye combo proved surprisingly effective. iogamesonl.com

8 Jan 2025 Council

I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!

EYE EYE CAPTAIN

9 Jan 2025 azizgarbayo

Play level) devil 2 and let the seemingly harmless platformer reveal dark secrets. Think you can overcome these difficult challenges? Prove it!

12 Jan 2025 maninthemoon

Very cool list!!

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