Whampoa Works How, Exactly? 4-0, Enschede Cache Refresh

Undefeated in the Enschede Cache Refresh Tournament after the Dutch Nationals (though I dropped after round 4 to catch the train home), this is a really solid ETF moons build, courtesy of one of my play testing group, @maxey. Cache Refresh runners aren't rich, and it doesn't take long for them to stop contesting the remotes, meaning you get very rich, very quickly, and Marilyn keeps coming back for more.

Then you have the usual Moons/Successful Field Test trickery, enabled by BWC which scored me the win in all the games (scoring Food from hand with 2 Biotics in two games).

Round 1 was against @kelfecil, who I really enjoyed meeting face to face for the first time – he was on a smoke build, but I held off the Maker’s Eye onslaught for long enough to score out.

Round 2, against @Cpt_Nice, playing Kate, same approach as in game 1, bang out the assets and play ‘hide the BWC’, there’s only so many remotes you can check in a turn and still develop a board state.

Round 3, against Christian, who was on a brutal Apocalypse Los deck – a real battle which took most of the round, having my board cleared twice. Fortunately, I’d kept Friends in hand, and was able to restore my defences fairly quickly – and most importantly, stop his recursion. Eventually his lack of recursion locked him out and he conceded so we could at least start the second game.

Round 4, against Roel playing a parasifr build in Null – I probably only scraped this win because he had a really slow start, and was unable to find the pieces he needed to remove all my R&D ice.

So, why the title for the deck? It’s a classic tale of tolaastic incompetence (of which there are many). I pinged @maxey on the train on the way home – ‘Why is Whampoa in this deck? It’s terrible! You never want to leave agendas in archives for a turn! I didn’t use it even once.’ ‘Uh, tolaasin, the card you bin can go straight on the bottom of R&D’. Embarrassed silence followed. ‘And you can use it once a turn, before access if they are running your hand’. More embarrassed silence.

So, slot Whampoa. It’s a good card.