Rosetta Stone Leela (5th/6th at MN Regional)

Went 3-0 through Swiss with a last round ID, and then proceeded to lose 2 games in the cut to SYNC Boom and CI Penguins Combo. It won against Glacier RP, Gagarin Sandburg, and Skorp Fast Advance.

I built this deck expecting to go against more ETF Moons decks but to still have game against the field and didn't see any Moons on the day and only one asset spam deck. As was predicted but I ignored CI was common and that is what would end my tourney in the cut.

Basically the deck has too much Econ, and you can cut some of it to fit in more tech cards. Aeneas was a bad call because there was only 1 asset spam deck I faced. Cutting Aeneas and some amount of Career fairs can be done easily without hurting your econ and would allow more tech or crim tricks.

So the problem then becomes CI. This deck cannot beat CI without some serious luck. If CI leaves the meta this deck can become very good. It has econ for glacier and assets, as well as many tools for high pressure accesses such as Equivocation and Sneakdoor. The new CI decks cannot be beaten by the standard crim 3 siphons anymore, they make too much money and even if I was packing employee strike they have more recursion and tools to handle it. It is very unlikely that you can beat penguins with accesses, new CI doesn't get as flooded as shutdown CI did.

Rosetta: The spicy card. I believe Rosetta is much better than special order for Criminals. Being able to put 1 off programs in your deck and being able to drop them quickly and cheaply is very good. The next test I will be doing is replacing the Tapwyrm's with Cache's and replacing Equivocation with Keyhole.

Equivocation: In testing being able to fetch Equivocation after a Leela bounce and then tearing though R&D won me many games. But against CI this hurts you and helps them, unless you can mill them out.

Sac Con: I think these were a terrible include only to counter the expected Skorp matchup. I would rather sacrifice the matchup to shore up others. Possibly including Employee Strikes and more Femmes and Inside Jobs instead to compensate, since Femmes can be traded in with Rosetta.

Overall a strong deck but not right for the current meta.