dumbles - 1st Place Leisure Games SC

Ollie 252

Not much to see here, this is pretty much a standard dumbles list, went 3-1 in the swiss beating NEXT, EtF and Biotech but losing to NEH butchershop which I rused myself into thinking was shutdown NEH. It then went 2-0 in the cut beating 49IG and Titan.

I chose to go with 2 Faust/ 3 Parasite as a response to thinking the quorum meta would be slower than before, this turned out to work well especially against EtF with friends where your ice destruction can be taxed a lot!

Sifr didn't quite turn out to be as insane as one might have imagined, while the ability is very good it's just another tool in your arsenal, you rarely get insane value out of 2MU and 5 to install is quite a tempo hit and against midseasons decks you are rarely in a position where you're comfortable spending that. That being said it's still the console you want in a standard dumbles list but you don't want to run more than 1.

2 comments
25 Jan 2017 GoHawks

Why did you go for 1x Knifed and 2x Spooned?

26 Jan 2017 Ollie

Good question! I'll be honest and say I didn't give it that much thought, in any list you want at least one of each cutlery and you usually don't have space for more than 4 so I guess the question is why the 2nd spooned? I would say most corps nowadays have more codegates than other ice type, although Sifr parasite gives you a very efficient option of dealing with big codegates since you only have one Sifr you can't always just sit back and wait for it. However, really it's not an obvious choice to go 2 spooned, 2 knifed or a 2nd deja would also fit well in that slot, the only real way to know is to just do a lot of testing and record how much ice you're seeing and what's causing the most problems.