Cat Concert 28th @EMEA Online 2025-06-28

The deck went 1-2 at EMEA Online Megacity, on 2025-06-28. It got me to 28th position, out of 36 players.

Round 1, auto loss. Eventbrite lied and told me the tournament started at 5 am, my time. Daylight saving time should not exist and Eventbrite is to blame anyway.

Round 3, loss vs xiaat on AU Co.: The Gold Standard in Clones. I got to 6 points, but I could not outspeed xiaat who score out on turn 8. Well played!

Round 4, win vs siupergirl on Nuvem SA: Law of the Land. I got lucky in my sabotage and I was able to find the winning agendas on turn 7 in archive. Good game.

Round 6, loss vs Cyrcle on BANGUN: When Disaster Strikes with Phật Gioan Baotixita. I after I scored to 5 points, Azef Protocol into a freshly installed Phật Gioan Baotixita after a False Lead used sealed my fate. Well done!

Game plan : Sabotage the corp to the ground.

Mulligan plan : Marrow, Cacophony, Mystic Maemi.

This is totally inspired by Paillu's deck.

Thanks to Meleas, from my local meta, who played games late the day before against this deck. I discovered there that I needed a Buffer Drive after all.

After testing Paillu deck (I am an Esa fan), I found it fun and wanted to play it more. I tried some iteration with Ghosttongue and other things. I came to 4 conclusions :

1. The deck is all about the combo of Cacophony and Daeg, First Net-Cat, I want this combo to start as early as possible.
2. There was no game where Ashen Epilogue would make a difference (maybe I did not play enough), but having a Buffer Drive early extend the game and allow me to get a needed card in an emergency.
3. I need money! Fermenter is great, but too slow. If I ever click for more than 4 , it usually means that I need more economy in the deck. This is the reason for No Free Lunch. It is either 3 now or a protection from Public Trail/Tomorrowʼs Headline/Orbital Superiority.
4. There is plenty of core damage here. I usually get to 6 core damages in most games. Fun combo : I often use Bumi 1.0 to get myself a core damage while running a server. Why use my own cards if the corp is providing for me?

If the game goes long, it is possible to do massive amount of sabotage. Best I've done is 33! Thus decking the corp.

The deck goes well and could have won every game. It came down to the wire for every loss. No disappointment whatsoever and every game was fun and tense.

Thanks to aksu for organizing and judging the event, and a big shoutout to all players, it was a blast!