Sifr Whizz - 4th Place Florida Regional

This is Simpleton's Gen Con list. In the description he says he'd swap a datasucker for a 3rd mkultra. I added a mimic which is basically the same. I'm mostly posting it because I don't get to go to a lot of events and I placed much better than I expected to. I think the raw strength of the deck meant I didn't have a lot of tricky situations which helped a lot. It went 5-1 on the day.

Swiss - Win v Sanjay's Tennin deck. I played against a friend who is relatively new to the game so props to him for coming out to the regional. We both had rough mulligans. For him that meant not icing R&D. For me that meant I didn't mind eating an Obokata off it on turn 1. Pretty fast game (2-0).

Win v PE. I believe my opponent's name was John. He had a Persephone mat from the Atlanta regional and I guess he'd enjoyed PE enough that he brought it here too. I got 7 1 pointers, mostly off R&D. My luck was pretty good in terms of hitting traps and I played cautiously. (3-1)

Win v Moons. I played vs Grey who was on what seemed like a fairly standard Moons list. I hit an early Temujin and Slums and he just had trouble ever getting much board presence. (4-2)

Win v Moons. Played against another friend from my meta, Derrick. His Moons list was a little less conventional but the result was similar. I hit the cards I needed and slums'd a lot of things. (6-2)

Cut - Corp v Andy. Won a game that looked rough early. (1-0)

Corp v Andy. Loss vs the eventual winner. (1-1)

Win v Spiky Palana - My opponent Rene rushed out to a quick 5 points. I hammered R&D most of the game and had a medium up to 7 a few times. Between ParaSifr and Temujin I had free reign of R&D for a while. I thought I had him locked though he apparently had a TFP in hand the whole time. He said he just never felt like he had a good window to score it beyond an early 1 he thought was too risky at the time. (2-1)

Loss v Spiky AgInfusion - This loss was to Ve of The Source podcast. I'm told it was a spiky big ice deck but I lost so fast I didn't see much of it. Ve rushed an Obokata on maybe turn 3 that I didn't really feel like I could contest. Then went for a Nisei the turn after. I ran the Nisei but the outer ice was an Excalibur and the inner ice got popped for Ag. Next turn Ve jammed another Nisei with the exact same situation but the previously scored Nisei token instead of the ice. My only answer to that is Sifr Parasite which I hadn't drawn so that was that. (2-2)

I ended up 4th after swiss and again 4th after the cut. I just wanted to say that everyone I met was extremely nice and it was great to put a few faces to names. The Gamesville tabletop store ran the event perfectly and I'm a little bummed it's 5 hours away. My only regret is not having done more of the events in the past because it was a lot of fun.