Thank You For Scorching

This is the BABW deck I took to the St. Louis MO Regionals. It didn't win, and it didn't make top cut. But it is really, really fun and did surprisingly well for me, so I figured I'd share.

The deck is based on JohnnyMilton's deck Jack's Renaissance. The gameplan is pretty much the same: Make a bunch of money, score Agendas when you can, and setup the big Midseasons play. The only difference is you have four copies of Midseasons for the price of one thanks to Consulting Visit.

With that extra influence, you can run a couple of really important backup plan cards for when the runner turtles up and refuses to die or has had worse. Psychographics gives you a way to quickly score out with High-Risk Investment, while Exchange of Information makes including that HRI much less of a liability. Oh and both of these one-of cards are tutorable with Consulting Visit and can be fetched out of the trash with Archived Memories. It's actually difficult to not have the key cards at hand with this deck.

The rest of the deck is pretty self explanatory. You got ICE, money, Agendas that make money and Jacksons.

FAQ

How do you deal with Film Critic?

Play fast. Play smart. Hope it isn't in their deck.

Why Lotus Field?

Because I hate not having good code gates. It can be a Wraparound or Swordsman if you think you need more Faust hate, but I think the rest of the ICE suite is fairly decent vs Faust.

TIPS

I lost two games with this deck at Regionals. One was due to the boneheaded mistake of attempting Midseasons instead of scoring out when I had a remote locked down against a Stealth Andy that couldn't find breakers. Protip #1: Don't get narrow sighted on the Midseason plan!

The other game I lost because in ~10 rounds of play I saw a single transaction, which was a Restructure. Also drew lots of agendas that weren't Hostile Takeover. Also by the time I found money, they found Film Critic. Protip #2:....make sure to draw economy? Don't get flooded?

FINAL THOUGHTS

So yeah, that's the deck. It still needs some tweaks, but I think its a really fast and deadly take on BABW Midseason. Since the tournament I have not lost a single game yet, and have managed to land Midseasons every game. Consulting Visit is pretty good. You should play it.

As always, suggestions are welcome and Thank You for Scorching!