Political Pirate (US Nats, 2nd Place)

I'm not going to spend as much time on this write-up, as it's basically the same deck I played at Regionals + a Political Operative. Write-up for that here (https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/50788/the-snapping-turtle-4-1-fresno-regional-)

Going to 47 cards felt bad, but also necessary, as during testing I found that I was going to get absolutely wrecked if anyone played multiple copies of Navi Mumbad City Grid. The PolOp was my out. It didn't end up being as relevant as I expected, but I was still glad I had it in there for peace of mind.

I've played literally HUNDREDS of Geist games in the past few months, so I wanted to take a deck I was comfortable with, and had good matchups across the board. The main weakness I found was HHN early, and course that's how I lost 2 games in swiss.

Otherwise, I knew this deck inside and out, backwards and forwards and with Hook + Bitey there isn't a piece of ice in the game you can't break.

Dorm Computer on an IP Block / News Hound remote was hilarious, and DC also did work against some Surveyors, as I was usually rich enough to pay into the ETR trace.

In the swiss I lost to a Gagarin and an Argus, beat a Palana and an Azmari.

In the cut, I beat a Palana, lost to Patrick's Skorp (shaking fist at turn 3 Corporate Town! lol), and beat a PU on time.

I never debated on what I was going to play at Nats, and I'm happy I stuck with my guns instead of pivoting to Val which I didn't have nearly enough practice with.

Thanks again to everyone in SF for just making me a better player. And I don't think there's a person in the world more excited for DJ Fenris than me, lol.