The deck I didn't bring to CBI

Alright, the people have spoken and I shall obey. Here's the deck I almost brought to CBI but am very happy I didn't.

It's flashy, it's fun, it's actually surprisingly strong... and extremely flimsy.

The base idea of the deck is: what if you just use Spark of Inspiration to find your only copy of a program you put into a deck. Obviously World Tree was the main choice for target here. So if you can't use programs, what do you use? The pirate breakers of course!

With Poison Vial, the 3 copies of Kongamato and Gbahali get you through 6 ice. Together with the Boat, that should be more than enough to win the game with Basilar Synthgland 2KVJ + Deep Dive... right?

Well, not quite. You often need to contest whatever is going on in the remote and while I could do all of that for very cheap, I often ended up sitting on a pile of 25 credits without anything to spend it on and no way into servers ever again. So I experimented with Orca and Amina, but missing on the Tree actually hurt more than getting those chonky breakers for cheap did help.

After a while I tried out Nanuq and it actually was the card I was looking for. Alleviates the pressure on your limited breaking resources for a while and a good money sink in the late game. And in case your first Spark fetches it rather than a Tree, you're still set for some early interaction and flexibility.

I ended up not playing the deck in the CBI and am very happy I didn't. Against AgInfusion it is extremely hard to use Deep Dive and my first three rounds were exclusively against AgInf prison. But while this deck may not be the best meta choice at the moment, it would be a shame to not publish it and wait for better weather. Especially since I have shown many a jnet opponent large parts of my decklist already by playing single copy of Spark of Inspiration...