Near Earth Cheese v2.2 - Manchester, CT 1st place - 2015-02-

V2.0

This deck won the January 3rd tournament @ Gamer's Gambit in Danbury, CT, as a slight modification of the deck that El-ad and I created prior to Nationals and Worlds season this year (-2 Marked Accounts, +2 Daily Business Show)

V2.1 -2 Daily Business Show +2 Shipment from SanSan

Went 4-1 in NYC Store champs - took 4th place out of 35.

v2.2 -2 Shipment from SanSan +2 Daily Business Show -1 Eli 1.0 +1 Tollbooth +1 Rainbow +2 Architect -1 Guard -1 Biotic Labor (SO SAD) -1 Fast Track +2 Crisium Grid -1 Enigma -1 Rototurret

Went 3-2 in Swiss and 4-0 in eliminations in the Manchester CT Store champs

I definitely felt the loss of the 3rd Biotic, but Architect did work for me all day. Crisium Grid was frequently dead, but it saved my bacon in at least 1 game. The tollbooth was just about right, I used it to good effect once, but frequently it was too expensive to rez.

The Crisium Grids were inspired from DJ Hedgehog. I feared "knifed" so I didn't want to fully rely on eli for taxation, so I kept the Lotus field and used a rainbow instead for junior level taxation.

Round 1: Vs. Noise, this was a surprisingly close game. At one point i had 4 agendas in hand, he installed a d4vid and ran through wraparound 3 times, stealing 6 points all in one turn. Unfortunately for him, the train still left. Our Andy vs. Blue sun match took a long time, so this one was played under extreme time pressure.

Round 2: Vs. Noise, My opponent was not able to find his Pawnshop... You can probably guess how that worked out for him.

Round 3: Vs. Kate Kate was playing an Opus + Drip Economy game, featuring the supplier. The train left the station well before that was set up.

Round 4: Vs Andy My opponent is playing a loaner deck from another person at the tournament. because he had left his decks at home. It was an Oracle May + Motivation deck. We both had some good laughs as we played as it was pretty ridiculous. At one point, I scored a Breaking News off a SanSan so I could Murder Oracle.

Out of desperation, he femmed a quandry and ran my HQ twice, snagging the only 2 agendas out of my 5 card hand. Eventually, the train was ready to leave the station (i had recovered from siphons or something, he ran R&D and whiffed, and then ran HQ in desperation on his last click) I tell him he has a 1/5 chance to win, as if he misses its GG.

And he gets it! Excellent games. I was still salty to go from a sure win to a loss on a random pull, but for all the times where you just ride the train away into the sunset, it was nice for it to fail for once.

Round 5: Vs. My local sparring partner running Logos Leela. I don't think there were any epic moments, but it was a close game that he squeaked out.

Elimination:

Round 2: vs. Round 3 Kate again. This time Kate was savvy and didn't try to pull underworld contacts & datafolding nonsense. It was a close game, but cheese is cheese.

Round 4 vs Andromeda. I mulliganed into a single ice sweeps week hand. I left R&D exposed because Astro was in hand, and criminals like to siphon.

Somewhere around turn 4, I scored my first Astro from hand. I proceded to score astros on the following 2 turns, and then a beale from hand the turn after. The game lasted a total of 5 minutes.

Round 5 vs. Valencia This was a crazy matchup. Architect saved my bacon on R&D, but the popup window guarding HQ did not. I was siphoned, wanton destruction'd, and even the popup window was destroyed.

Fortunately, I had a rezzed sansan, and was able to score agendas from hand as they came up while I sat there naked.

Eventually, I was able to stablize behind a wraparound, installed crisium crids on R&D and HQ, and trained out, but for a while it was looking really ugly.

Finals: Last match vs. Leela - was able to get double ice on both centrals and score out. Life was pretty sloppy at this point - it wasn't especially memorable.