All Hail Aruzzana - 3rd @UK Nats '24 ("Worlds 2")

This is the list I piloted to a 3rd place finish at UK Nationals - aka "Worlds 2" - losing only to Chris Dyer's R+ in Swiss, and JonnyDL's R+ in the Cut (whiffing Deep Dive's in both 🙈)

It's very similar to this year's Worlds winning list from @aruzan, hence the title, and all the credit goes to them for making their cracked 50-card Spree list 💜 The main changes I made were:

Slots

• +1 Aniccam, +2 Into the Depths — draw consistency is the biggest weakness of the deck, particularly at 50 cards. Adding an extra console improves the chance of drawing it, and upping the event count seemed sensible (especially as econ was cut elsewhere)
  • ITD was a late include, but I was extremely happy with it - not only as an econ option, but tutoring out SMC, Paricia for free, or Pichação without using up the best card in your deck is cracked
• -2 Fermenter, +1 Mystic Maemi, +1 Hush, +1 No Free Lunch — Fermenters felt too slow to me, and further incentivized purges that can wreck our favourite trojans, while Maemi really helps the deck bounce back from low credit totals, especially with Commission, ITD, and Spec Work
  • Not playing Hush in Arissana is criminal in my book 😂 it's so good against so many ice! NFL was the last influence because it's a good meta call for a UK Nats(🙄), and it's another low-cost econ option vs. other decks 🤷
• -2 Daily Casts, -2 Environmental Testing — cut for slots and replaced with the aforementioned econ options (mainly because I wanted another Aniccam and less Fermenters)
• -1 Gauss, +1 Slap Vandal — Slap is just a good cheap trojan that can get us into a lot of places, and can even be another great Spree target on gearcheck servers
  • Gauss never felt particularly good in my testing, but I'm most dubious about this cut... leaving barrier-breaking down to just Propeller / SV / Botulus is definitely risky against glacier decks

If I had more time to test and tinker, I would have liked to try and cut down to 48 or lower to improve consistency, but I'm really not sure what I'd be dropping at that point, and if 50 works for the world champ...🤷

Special Thanks

• All the organisers, judges, volunteers, etc. — UK Netrunner is such an awesome environment, but turning around such a smooth event despite all the crazy venue issues was incredible ❤️
• The TAI Breakers team, as usual — from our Heathrow roadtrip, to losing my voice yelling about being "team mum", to endless rounds of braille shithead that nobody wanted to end, y'all are amazing and I couldn't have done it without you ❤️
• Of course, @aruzan, for restoring my faith in Arissana, and showing the world that she don't need no tree 💅💁