Toolbox CTM

So I thought I'd be a scumlord and take CTM to UK Nationals.

My thoughts were that the deck was:

• Pretty ok if you get a good draw
• Pretty ok if your opponent hasn't studied the match-up enough
• Pretty ok if your opponent isn't playing Employee Strike
• Pretty ok if your opponent isn't explicitly teching against tags
• pretty hecking bad in all other cases

And that's the story of the deck. I played people who knew to take it easy, be Whizzard, and trash assets and wait. I played people slotting 1x Networking out of Anarch. I played sec-testing criminals also with Networking.

My thoughts in retrospect about my list:

Mumbad Virtual Tour sounds like a good idea on paper, right? You put it in the Sensie Actors Union remote and they go to trash it and OH NO, another 5 credit tax, the Hard-Hitting News maths is wrong and they take 4 tags next turn. Honestly? Never happened to me.

SanSan City Grid somehow being squeezed in would work wonders. So many games were basically over once the idea of leaving a BN in a remote overnight left the table, and is the same 5 credit tax as Virtual Tour as it's still a weird kind of "must trash" if you think about it. -1 Archived Memories -1 MVT, +2 SanSan is probably more correct.

Enigma did very little work, and 3 to rez in this list is a lot if things aren't going your way. I feel like, maybe. more barriers is actually correct in this, although I'm also seeing anarchs just straight up go back to including Corroder again, so idk. -2 Enigma, +2 Quandary/Vanilla/Wrap

Tollbooth won me some games, easily, and the Nexus Kate matchup gets a whole lot easier when you can stack brutal on encounter effects like Tollbooth and Data Raven on R&D and a remote.

The All-Seeing I is probably wrong. I played it once against a DLR MaxX and the only reason it worked is because they over-committed to resources without the Fall-Guys to back them up. Another toolbox card like Exchange is probably better, especially if we're cutting the Archived Memories.

I do think the Archived Memories has it's place. The idea that you can throw away your 1x toolbox cards and bring them back when ready seems good, but on the day, it was never used.

So yeah, all in all, I am of the opinion that CTM is such a good ID, that the meta has gone all in on hate, which actually makes it a bad ID to play right now. I'd be interested to see, what with all the intentional drawing at the top tables, what the CTM win rate actually was. For example, it lost twice in the final round, with the runner's playing Strike or stright up

I won 3 lost 4 for 9 prestige to my 20 total, for 89th out of 157.