A Local Minimum [1-2, Jersey City CO]

This CO goes into my Hall of Shame. My finest moments include:

• Stole a 5/3 on Click 2 against BTL (I have 4 cards in hand, 4 credits in my pool). I can see EOTLs and Public Trails in the bin. Corp has an Atlas counter. I install two cards from hand and pass.

• Turn 1 against 419 I decide to save a dollar by revealing the Bran I installed on HQ and then pass with 5 credits. Runner does not have Doof to punish. Game proceeds. I forget that the Runner has seen the HQ ice so I pass the turn with 4 credits. This time the Runner has it and I never recover.

• Running a three ice remote against AgInfusion with Bankhar, Begemot, Laamb, and like 21 credits. Corp rezzes Anansi. I have 5 cards in hand including a Steelskin so I figure I can save Laamb’s paint ability for later in the run. Bankhar misses three times so the Anansi trigger flatlines me with Steelskin in hand.

In a couple matches I was able to achieve play that I would characterize as “Not Embarrassing”, but only a couple.

The Deck

I rezzed Lycian zero (0) times.

Matchups

Round 2: Loss vs xdg playing Swift Lat

Round 3: Win vs Olivia playing Pawnshop Lat

Round 6: Loss vs Wyld playing 419

Upward Trajectory

Everything about the day outside of the matches themselves was excellent. Victory Point in Jersey City is rad (they even have a pet bird!)! We had something like 4-7 people stop in to scope out this (un)dead game and few of them played demo games.Shoutout to rohit for organizing this CO. Best of luck to everyone from the NJ/NYC meta that’s making the trip to worlds!