Castles Andy

The runner half of my small store champ, went 3-0 with two timed wins on the day. In my last practice session, I was particularly happy to get waxed by this deck as CtM-- I'm blue at heart and having a chance to sleeve a deck I knew could compete across the color pie was a real relief.

Calls

Castles and Power Tap: saw both on the day, discarded and net damaged, never played.

As I faced two kill-oriented crimson decks, I don't regret the two additional cards!

John Masanori: I am not the finest Earthrise Hotel player you will encounter, so it was hard to imagine showing up without John. He came through strong for me in third game.

Kati Jones: installed once one turn before going tag me. She can deliver other jobs next time.

Games

Potential Unleashed (1-0, 3-1 timed win)

First five clicks went to a Ronin that hit my Gordian, so I'm on two clocks! Turn 2 Medium against a never rezzed single R&D ice (likely a code gate my Special Order Passport could handle) and low money for him meant a timed win. Employee Strike kept me a bit safer, because it was seven accesses in R&D by the end.

Industrial Genomics (2-0, 9-0)

Pulled a The Future Perfect off an early remote and won psi game 1. Summoned my breakers out of fear and danced with Genetics Pavilion, Bio-Ethics Association, and Chairman Hiro. Broke a Crick on archives to lower trash costs for next turn and won psi games 2 and 3 on face down Future Perfects. He went down to 2 to rez crick, and 0 -1 brought it home.

Engineering the Future (3-0, 6-4 timed win)

Played against a variant of my own corp deck. Rolled up every remote I could see, and forced an Eli 1.0 Lotus Field archives with an early Temüjin Contract. He stayed low on creds and scored whenever he could. I had some misplays in the middle game that allowed him back in (Legworked too early though I did get a Vitruvius, should have played back and for more money rather than running for single access with The Turning Wheel in hand). I was spoiled by pulling a Global Food Initiative on HQ single access. Took him a long time to get his first Jackson Howard and I pulled a Corporate Sales Team out of archives before he showed. Employee Strike and Enhanced Login Protocol both had banner runs.

In the end, an Account Siphon kept him 1 off the money he needed to Jeeves Model Bioroids + Biotic Labor + Shipment from SanSan out the tying points. Seems like a good card.