Manchester CT - 1st Place Andy 2015-02-21

4-1 During swiss at Manchester, CT store championships, and 2-1 in elimination. Both losses to Replicating Perfection.

Note - this was shamelessly stolen from the France "The Edge" store championship decklists.

http://www.acoo.net/deck/6659/edge-store-championship-1st-yodasensei-andy-stealth/

Honestly, most of it was pretty straight forward, I considered an inside job instead of a Legwork, and I dumped 2 Masanori's for 2 Mr. Lis, which were KEY in getting stealth out. Masanori was always nice, but when I needed him, Mr. Li was huge.

I never played feedback filter or plascrete, but I did see them enough that if I needed them, I think it would have been ok.

Round 1 vs. Blue Sun I checked an exposed remote early and lost my plascrete due to a snare. We ended up playing a massive economy struggle... i finished the game with ~40 credits, compliments of Switchblades ability to run for free and security testing credits.

Highlight of the match, breaking Orion for 3 stealth credits.

Round 2 vs. NEH Opponent was playing a horizontal NEH with DRT and a tagging gameplan. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to ice HQ, at a Turn 2 siphon. Desperado and security testing were able to keep up economy wise with the remote spam, and eventually the agendas followed.

Round 3 vs. HB: ETF Opponent was playing an "old school" ETF build with Efficiency Committees and Shipment from SanSan. He double biotic'd out the Committee, but I was able to maintain an R&D lock. Eventually, R&D was Sagittarius Sagittarius Viktor 2.0 Viktor 2.0 (unrezzed) Architect

This took 5 stealth credits, 2 real credits and 2 clicks to run. Eventually he had the money to rez the architect, but he was so low on cards on R&D that I knew I had to hit them now... and started burning reserve credits off Ghost Runner and snagged the final agendas.

Round 4 vs. Replicating Perfection My opponent left his decks behind, so cobbled this together at the store with some of his leftovers if you can believe it. He set up a tollbooth -> Nisei on his HQ so I couldn't siphon or steal agendas. He eventually ended up celeberity gifting a hand full of 5 agendas, and would just slowly build his scoring tower that I couldn't run because he had snuck out a Nisei. ELP + being forced to stop his drip economy had this game go down to the last card in R&D, but he was able to score out the turn that he drew it.

Highlight of the game, realizing that the opponent had 0 Jackson's in his deck, and I was still going to lose.

Round 5 vs. Replicating Perfection This was against a regular sparring partner. I decided on a lark to play stealth Andy (despite no experience) after going 1-4 against this deck earlier in the week. He mulliganed into no ice on HQ, ate a turn 1 siphon, and it went downhill from there.

Elims!

Round 1: I was paired (3rd seed) against my Round 5 opponent (6th seed). He was running Leela vs. Hub, so I chose to run (stupidly).

I don't remember much about this other than I hate playing against Replicating Perfection.

Round 3: I was up against a TWIW deck running IQ. He started riding the train, but once the rig was out, R&D lock kept him under control. I won the turn before he was going to score out.

Finals: vs. my Round 5 and First round elim opponent. After a long day of netrunner, mistakes were made by both parties. I snagged the win on an epic turn consisting of a central run, a nisei ended run that used most of my stealth resources, a 3rd click faerie from hand, and then one final run with 1 credit more than I needed to steal a Fetal AI (and exactly the right number of cards).

This earned me the right to play against Leela for the belt.