They killed Kenny! You bastards! 1st@Berlin

Welcome!

I won with this deck the Berlin Double Play community tournament.
This deck went 2-0 in top3 cut and 4-2 in Swiss.
Lost against CI (very close game, he top decked PV to finish), Skorpios (not the best mach up) Win against ASA, NEH, CI, CI and in finals CI and CI.

This is next generation of Self-Damage Self-Harm "Binder Vegence" Val I played last year.

Thanks to
Odol for working on the orginal deck
SeIverin for bringing the engine to Quetzal
Apo for idea to drop Titanium Ribs and add 3x Diesel to make the deck fast more consistent then Clan Vengeance is in the last 10 cards in the deck.
JanM for testing against Brains Rewiring CI that ended with including Jarogniew Mercs

Tournament write up :

Round #1 vs Longi (Reversed CI) This was the first game of the day against colleague from Czech. I was overall pretty confident, mainly because Longi was constantly complaining that he did not played against my archetype and he do not know what to do. That actually made me to lose this game. I do not remember why, but I failed to contest the MCA and allowed to score elective upgrades. Longi on 5 with EU counters. So I killed his whole hand, but it only get me to 6 points. checked RD but nothing. Then 1 or 2 later he topdecked or drew Vitruvius for the win from hand. But it was a close game. After it i told to myself that I need to focus on disrupting the corp and accumulate CV counters against CI, and only go check archives when they are about to win.

Round #2 vs Krasty (Scorp Rigshooter) So scorp is kind a bad matchup (Injects are deadly) but is doable because they can not really use Atlas tokens. Krasty also played very well. He baited my DDoS on the first turn with new asset NGO - this actually might cost me the game. Because this lost DDoS might be an agenda in other circumstances. My opponent did not know that I run only 1 MK Ultra and 1 Paperclip. But he Batty my MK Ultra out of the game, and scored over advanced atlas. Then I think wanted to keep a tempo until I drew next MK Ultra, and got the Graft from Atlas token, forgetting that I can CV his hand. And I did. Wasted 2 CV with 2 counters to get rid of 4 cards. Then we were playing some more turns. I knew that remote is out the option, so i did checked the RD each turn, but he managed to drewa and 2nd click and install in 3rd an Atlas. I managed to steal Corporate Sales Team and an 0 pointer with mad dash and this got me to 6 points but next turn he scored an atlas behind 2x roto.

After 2 rounds I was 1-3 and stopped thinking about the top. So i could chill out and play for fun :)

Round #3 vs Miriam (Asa Group) Miri was my great host at Berlin, and she played a rush Asa deck. I do not remember much besides the deck crates an insane remote with 6 ice, but was lacking resources to rez all the ice. She was playing around my CV by installing all stuff she drew, but for that I have Fisk :) For last agenda i Stimhacked into the remote, but she was only able to rez few of that ICE she had.

Round #4 vs Jakuza (NEH) Jakuza is the artist who did all the cool graphics for our prices and I was looking to play with him. He was playing Calibration Testing - Team Sponsorship NEH deck. I was able to control important assets by either By Any Means or casual trashing, and the same time trashing with Officer Frank and accumulating CV tokens. At the point he scored 5 points, I cleared the table from any Franchise City, killed his hand, checked RD and mad dashed into archives for win.

Round #5 vs JackMade (Reversed CI Pop-Up) This game was not really interesting. He was struggling with flood, and played his first scarcity when I had most of my important resources on the table. I controlled Jeeves and MCA with DDoS and Stimhacks, and when killed 10 cards from hand, checked the archives for win. Game looked kind similar as game 1, but this time I was able to trash MCA and there were actually agendas in the cards I had trashed.

Round #6 vs HoneyBadger (Brain Melt CI) Games against CI usually looks the same. I money up and scout for free accesses or ice. This time he did not want to rez RD ice so I had stole Brain Rewiring and Show of Force. This told me that I need to dig for Jarogniew Mercs. After I installed Mercs, his game plan changed to score. He scored Eff committee, that cost him credits and biotics. I remember that at some point I needed to use CV to block combo and I was able to snipe Shippment. If i remember correctly i finished the game by combo BAM/DDoS into HQ 3 times, and then kill rest of agendas with CV.

Top We were 30 players, and Dome proposed swiss 6 and single elim top 3, so everyone can play more, and we just have 2 thrilling games in top. I think this is really a great idea :)

Top vs ff0X We chat with ff0X a bit, and did a gentleman's agreement to not scout/ask around about our decks. I ended up #2, so I could choose a side. My moons were 5-1 and Kenny 4-2. ff0X played CI and Smoke. I knew Moons are good, but I were really tired after 6 rounds, and thought that my misplays could be really punished against the Smoke that I expected to had a Film Critic and Clot. On the other hand I had Kenny with pretty straightforward plan, and I can really autopilot him at this point. Cherry on a pie, was that if I win - it would be great, if not - it’s just that CI is op :D

So I choose Kenny. ff0X reaction was ‘ARE YOU SERIOUS?’ I just smiled, and basically from this moment any tension from me was gone and i just played for fun :)

At the end game was really close. I did a misplay at the beginning allowing to fire Stinson. But this paid of is some sort - because I did know what the deck it was. Then I think the missplay on ff0X side, was to put and rez Ashigaru on the remote. This costs him a lot of credits and tempo, to block my DDoS attempt to kill MCA. Although he was able to recover, he needed to drop the tempo. This allowed me to get more counters before he was able to score EU. After he scored EU I had go all in, and played BAM to force rez on HQ and RD. He rezzed HQ and stayed on 3 credits. 2 RD trashesh gave me 1 agenda into archives. Then I killed 6 cards from hand so he can not score 3/2 from hand. And.. I hit it! Next turn he money up and HF, and I check archives for the win.

Top vs Klopstock His Ci was 6-0 this day, so he obviously choose CI. Scarcity in turn 1 or 2, changed this game completely. I was drawing a lot and going for scout accesses to get agenda. Scouting told me that this is Brainstorm CI, that I had never played against, but I knew there are punitives and neurals. When he rezzed HQ and RD ice and stabilized. I knew his main game plan is to kill and not to score, so I started to draw for Mercs like mad. I was afraid he will try to score GFI in remote or I will get only 5 pts in arvhices, and he will 2x punitive me. So just in case I held 1 IHW in hand, and was drawing and playing diesels and inject for Mercs only playing event economy or installing CVs. Finally I was able to install mercs, and had 2CV so I can start getting my CV tokens. At this point he had scored PV with 2 counters and global food. But unfortunately for him, he was so tired and not expecting my deck, so he completely forgot my quetzal ID. He ark lockdown paperclip and archived memories for wall of static. I trashed 10 cards from his hand when he threaten Biotic a PV from hand, and went to Archives protected by Brainstorm and Wall of Staic. Quetzal broke WoS for the win.