Y'all Just Suck at Nova -aka "Bad Crim"- (8th@SE Regionals)

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No, Nova is not the worst runner identity, you're probably just bad at playing Nova.

This is the Nova list I took to an 8th place finish at Aldershot Regionals. [REDACTED SMURF] played a near identical list to a 29% win rate on jnet, although I think they played an Ashen Epilogue like a coward

In terms of playing, it's like 40 cards different from the list Sokka took to a high finish at Worlds last year. It's very good. You just sort of play tempo control with Diversion and Swift, and use your strong tech cards (Miss Bones, Stoneship) to dodge matchups where they try and do weird shit. Tired of losing to your local PD player? beat them to death with Nova.

I've been playing this personally as well and been having good success on it. I played a single game on my main jnet account and went undefeated with it. Good deck good.

(Shoutout rubenpieters for the idea to shamelessly parody Whiteblade's "Yall Just Suck at Crim" writeup after I remarked that my Nova functions like a bad crim deck)


FAQ

Why Nova?

  • I "won" a bet 😂 I blame xccam for making Nova look good in a random jnet game of his that I spectated, but in all honesty I just wanted an excuse to play something different

Betting is bad, kids

Should I play Nova?

  • Only if you're a masochist - it took me a lot of losses to find something that I started to feel close to comfortable with, but it's still rough out there for Nova

Nova: not for the faint hearted

But didn't Nova make Top Cut?

Why did you play [insert card X]?

  • I started with Ams' EMEA List but wanted to cram in the Swift + Deep Dive package that Lat/Sable have been using to good effect recently.
  • My list is packed with early aggro cards to contest early remotes, then tries to finish the game with the DD haymaker. If that fails and you somehow haven't lost, you can Labor Rights the Deep Dive back in and try again

Why didn't you play [insert card Y]?

(maybe I should have been less worried about sticking to minimum deck size... feels overrated 😉)

5 comments
27 Aug 2024 wowarlok

I don't know if it's more impressive that you actually played (Runner) and performed well or that you didn't play Ob xD
Great work!

27 Aug 2024 Council

<3

28 Aug 2024 aksu

"(maybe I should have been less worried about sticking to minimum deck size... feels overrated 😉)" 100000% fam. Get couple more cards in there and we have a certified classic on our hands

28 Aug 2024 Baa Ram Wu

Top cut with Ampere when?

28 Aug 2024 Council

@Baa Ram Wu

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