Regional Winner - Tacoma, WA 6/21/2015 - Replicating Perfect

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bluebird503 1981

This is the deck I ended up playing in Tacoma, WA. The event was at the Evergreen Tabletop Expo on 6/21/2015. The event had a different format, and it sucked that a lot of my Portland friends didn't want to come up for it, or couldn't commit two days to it, but it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed playing in it. Looking forward to it next year. This Regionals was 47 players total I believe(although I think there were a few no shows)..

It's only 2 cards different from the list I played in Portland (i switched back to 9 agenda). Robert Brown piloted an exact copy of this list to top 8 at the same event. RP is just solid and consistent. Even in poor matchups, you can capitalize on opponents mistakes and end up winning. R&D

This deck went 4-1 in swiss(had a super bye) , then went 2-0 in the double eliminations.

My 1 loss was a long Valencia game where I didn't see agendas early.

7 comments
23 Jun 2015 nobo

@bluebird503

Congrats again. Why no DBS?

23 Jun 2015 blackcaps

Did you test the Ichi 2.0 instead of the 1.0? If so why did you choose the 1.0 over the 2.0?

23 Jun 2015 bluebird503

@Nobo715

Thanks, had to get fairly lucky against that Medium and psi games but it worked out I suppose. DBS as a 1 of just felt like it had a low impact where the Ichi as a 1 of instead of something like Markus, Viper, Wraparound that just wasn't doing much for me. I could fit in 2 DBS but I would be cutting some great cards I didn't want to be cutting like Crisium/Restructure probably.

@blackcaps I didn't personally test Ichi 2.0 but my friend Robert did and was not happy with it in this list. Ichi 2.0 costs more and has more influence tacked on. I found the Ichi to be really solid and enjoyed having it in the deck. It is good on a scoring remote or on a central for taxing purposes.

23 Jun 2015 johncraven

@bluebird503 I think most lists are cutting Ash for DBS x2. Congrats on your performance!

24 Jun 2015 juliandark

Most decks are in fact cutting some 2 influence card(tollbooth, ichi or ash) and putting either DBS in, or a combination of blacklist+DBS. Also more and more people are running an 8 agenda spread, usually putting in either hades or utopia shard.

25 Jun 2015 bluebird503

@juliandark I ran 8 agendas at the last two events(Regionals Boise, then Regionals Portland). The first one was fine, I ended up winning. But after 9th place in Portland I switched back to 9 agendas. I don't think 8 agendas is terrible, and I'm not sure which one is actually better, but 9 agenda feels better too me personally. That extra deck slot is just an extra restructure really

A single DBS or two is fine, but I don't really like blacklist without slotting bootcamp. I just think Ichi, Ash, and Tollbooth have higher impact, especially when your only including a single copy of DBS.

26 Jun 2015 johncraven

@bluebird503 what about crisium? why not DBS