The Continental Chungus 5-1 American Continentals

This is an updated version of the Controlling the Chungus deck I've been running since about March. The changes were all made to bring it into compliance with the new banlist, which actually helped this deck out quite a lot.

Most notable changes were 2 Bellona for 2 GFI because making them steal 4 agendas is always better, and -2 Marilyn to accommodate the influence needed, as Chungus makes up the HB card count for Jeeves.

Currents being banned freed up 2 slots from Scarcity, and with a couple extra slots from the Marilyns I had some room to play with, so I added SIU which proved to be unnecessary, an MVT because you need it to threaten in a cut and a Diversified Portfolio because screw it. It was at worst a Hedge Fund and occasionally an IPO for me all day, but I was almost never consistently poor enough for it to matter. I'd probably switch that and SIU for extra CalTest, MVT or a third HHN.

On the day it went 5-1 (I dropped last round) but I still finished 102nd because I went 0-6 with my runner (that Redino987 piloted to the top 16 so go figure).

Wins were against Adam x2, Hoshiko, Leela and 419 and the loss was against a Maw Hoshiko. The loss was very close and three times on game point the runner had the exact thing happen that they needed to stop me from FAing out the last 3 points. First, they 1 in 5 trashed the Beale in hand with Maw, second they installed SMC for Clot the turn before I drew the last GFI and the next turn they had Run Amok to force me to trash the Enigma I had protecting the GFI I couldn't FA the previous turn. After that I conceded as the remaining points I needed were all in the trash.

There's a lot of paths to victory with this, but most involve the following set up: Bass CH1R180G4 and Jeeves Model Bioroids on the board, rez and trash Bass and install Remastered Edition, click 4 times to advance. Preferably you have a Team Sponsorship on the board to recur the Bass. Then do the trick again with another 2 pointer and either a 3 point Beale or a GFI to score out. It is not uncommon to go from 0-7 points in 3-4 turns with the right luck off R&D and a Mumba Temple or two on the board. Calibration Testing is there as a backup if you need to score a Beale to recur a Bass or just to win.

This deck takes so many people by surprise and is great in a low shaper meta where the chances of seeing Clot are much reduced. People will either see Bass Chungus off R&D or a remote and ignore it. You absolutely gotta respect the Chungus cause if it sticks around, it will eventually work. People are expecting a regular Innernette CTM deck and if they haven't seen it before it gets rezzed, it can throw them off a bit to see Bass come out.

It was a real judgement call about bringing this to a tournament that was expecting a lot of Freedom and some 419. I'm lucky I dodged the Freedom MU all day, but happy that I beat the 419 I played. I also suspected that Accident 419 wouldn't be super prevalent due to the prominence of Outfit, which seemed to bear true as my one 419 opponent wasn't playing them.

Anyway this is a fun deck that I hope more people pick up on. I'd love to see it do well elsewhere too!

Congrats to my testing partners analyzechris and Redino987 for making Top 16!!