NEH Mumba-jumbo

I piloted this to a 4-1 record, 9th place overall at the Pittsburgh regionals on May 7th. It's a pretty standard asset spam Mumba Temple fastro deck, though I had to add my own personal oddities to the list.

Archer was a standard include in the old "Gas Pedal" builds, but of late hasn't seen play in NEH. In testing, and during the tournament, it surprised my opponents. That said, it's a flex card, and could just as easily be a Hostile Infrastructure.

The All-Seeing I is a combo-wombo include, as the only tagging mechanism is Breaking News. Still, it can be a game-changer when landed, and I don't see it coming out of the deck any time soon.

I won't bore anyone with a detailed tournament report, however here are highlights.

Round 1, vs. JDeng (the eventual winner of this regional): WIN

He was on Kate, which meant I had to play around Clot. Got the train started, scored out an AstroScript Pilot Program into a Breaking News in one turn thanks to TS and SSCG for the win.

Round 2, vs. Simon: WIN

Being from the same meta, Simon and I play against each other, a lot. Cleveland rocks! Unfortunately I don't remember much of this game. He was playing Jasminder, and I helped him playtest the Thursday before regionals. I was the one who convinced him to slot the clot. And I forgot. Still, recovered and won.

Round 3, vs. Jake: WIN

It took this long to see a Whizzard player. He did his best to keep up with the asset spam, but once the train started there wasn't any stopping it. At this point, I'm 5-1 and feeling good. That was until....

Round 4, vs. Andrew: LOSS

The eventual top-seed heading into the cut, Andrew piloted his Noise deck extremely well. This game came down to one large brainfart on my end. I chose to be cute, and tried to bait out a run on a SSCG through a Tollboth & Wraparound server instead of trying to jam out a Beale. He didn't run, he LARLA'ed. Soon, I was milled out.

Round 5, vs. Michael: WIN

CLEVELAND ROCKS! Another C-Town meta match-up. Michael is on Kate with Apocalypse. This would be bad, if I didn't know his deck beforehand. I jammed out remotes, covered centrals and went to scoring out.

My runner play left a lot to be desired, ending the day at 2-3 which left me on the outside looking in. Overall 6-4, one of the toughest SoS's, got to play new people and familiar faces - and sit near Dan himself. Just a great day of running nets.

Shout out to the Cleveland meta - Michael finished 8th, I finished 9th and Simon finished 10th. We're a well-kept secret.