Reversed Casino Station (7 - 3)

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After playing this for a while and it carried me to a 2nd place at DomeCon in Feb, after some discussions with @Saan about you need something to advance, I wanted to give Reversed Accounts a go, it is something to advance and it is more expensive to trash and usually it's a lose lose situation. So I want to find out what is better, less money for the runner or more money for me.
I played it in the Net Quarantine International and the Hamburg (Online) Store Championship togethir with my Hoshiko build, where it went 7 - 3 in total (NQ 5 - 1, Hamburg 2 - 2).

Deck Building

It's still the Argus Shell, but I play it with Slot Machines and make use of the influence, so instead of IP Block as before I first tested Ice Wall but it was mediocre, while it has end the run, it's just doing nothing. On the other hand Boomerang spam is an issue and with so many Hostile Takeover I often want other targets to rez, this is why I included Tithonium and I did not regret it.
On the other hand 1 Surveyor it's more to have another sentry would have loved to find something else, the other one could have been Winchester but it does to less early game.

One thing to mention, when you rez your Crisium Grid on HQ to not flip your ID and the runner trashes it, it's usually a good moment to Tag them with Hard-Hitting News, but Economic Warfare won't work, there was no successful run :'(

The Games Net Quarantine

Can't remember the games from the Net Quarantine International, but remember I killed a lot of players that where not careful enough.

The Games Hamburg

Vokke on Maxx / Khumalo

When I saw Yusuf I was curious and also saw a lot of Imps and other weired stuff, I really liked it, so he was rebirthing mid game into Freedom Khumalo: Crypto-Anarchist and I was able to kill a Yusuf & Consume with an Archer, but it was not enough to win the game, but it was really on the edge and fun. Biggest down side, you need the log very careful what he trashed to Patchwork with Buffer Drive.
Lost (0 - 1)

CableCarnage On Wu

Classic Wu move to get out 2 Rezeki turn 1 and very soon also a Security Nexus made a mistake not flipping my ID and losing an Atlas to it, just forgot it.... with Nexus out you don't want to rez Tithonium and stuff, was not able to get the tempo and he was pretty rich.
Lost (0 - 2)

Saan on Hayley

It was this Armand "Geist" Walker: Tech Lord (DJ Fenris), Boomerang, Tech Trader build. Was able to get him low on credit & Hard-Hitting News him, he needed his 2 Simulchips to get enough money to get rid of them otherwise his Tech Trader and thus his econ engine would die. Later he ran into an Archer which fired and killed his Misdirection & Gauss so he needed Boomerang to break any Barrier. Was slow rolling a Global Food Initiative and when he went into R&D with Stargate I grabbed the last Hostile Takeover for the win. because there was no Clot thread anymore. Won (1 - 2)

Percomis on Hoshiko

I reallized immediatly this is an apoc build as they became famous recently, playing 3 Crisium Grid helps. So I was placing one on HQ & one on R&D. Was able to get an Project Atlas with a counter early, when I tried to score the 2nd one he challenged me and I needed to use the counter to rez the Tithonium. With all his bin breakers it did not matter to much and I was able to kill an Earthrise Hotel if that is enough.... and while I was pretty poor, having a hostile in hand sucks. So I was clicking for credits, playing Hedge & scored the Atlas to score the Hostile & was on 3 Bad Pub during the game. He ditched his apocs never challenged the one on R&D, but Wanton Destruction my hand. Losing me Economic Warfare High-Profile Target & Hard-Hitting News that sucked. Was able to drag him through my remote with Archer & Tithonium to trash a Reversed Accounts. I was so much on the edge on been able to kill him, but once that was not possible due to Crisium Grid & Economic Warfare. He rebirthed into Omar Keung: Conspiracy Theorist as expected was able to get up to 6 points, when I drew my GFI and slammed it into the remote, hoping no more Stimhack to ruin me, as there was a Border Control he would need to run through Archer & Tithonium twice, so he ran for R&D but there was only 1 GFI left in like 12 cards. That was on the edge! Won (2 - 2)

Post Game thoughts

2 comments
5 Apr 2020 Longi

hey Snoopi, nice to see you keep exploring the punishing Weyland archetype :D also congrats on good results

5 Apr 2020 5N00P1

@Longithank you, not so happy with Hamburg, but taking the player base into account it feels ok. Still need to practice your Argus!