ok so let me tell you about this one card- (13th @UK Nats)

nervousnightjar 161

Hello and welcome to my ted talk/propaganda class about Divide and Conquer. Sit down while i talk your ear off as i did everyone i met in these incredible nationals.

Ok so it might not be a good card but it's soooo so fun, i literally can't shut up about it. But if you manage to, chances are nobody expects it! What better way to reap what you sabotaged earlier, with a little treat on top? mwah. Plus if you've been holding onto a cup it's really fun to surprise access 3 into a HQ that corp thought to be safe hehehe

Also, the adrenaline of ripping 7 points in a run is insane! Wildly enough, it actually happened during the swiss. Sure, amani senai does trigger on every steal, but the secret trick is to not have any board after stealing the degree mill before lucking into the final two points in HQ. All skill baby

I think i imprinted on this card after it granted me a win on turn one during a DSS match once. Time had been called during the corp's first turn and they ended their turn with two ices on both r&d and hq. Still, this wonderful card managed to find the winning agenda amongst the remaining cards in hand, and from this point onward my biais towards it only grew stronger and stronger

My dream would be to one day combine the cup with eru and pretty for a threat 3 archive run with 3 RND accesses to complement the cup's HQ ones. A 3 factions alliance run, wouldn't that be beautiful?

Huh? the rest of the deck? top cut? Don't know about any of that or how it happened, it still feels surreal to me T^T but what I can tell you is the deck went 3-1 during the swiss, losing only to AceEmpress's Thunderbolt (too OP, please nerf) and then got then killed by J0n4ld's Ob in the cut!

Meanwhile my corp was Council's incredible A Teia decklist and went 4-1 against the sea of Lats somehow. It lost to Dapperatchik's Lat as he just managed to crack the remote in time! During the top cut it also lost to Baserton's Lat, but having overcome 3 other Lats (and one Esâ) was quite nice and unexpected

This event was my first big netrunner event and as expected everyone has been incredibly wonderful. I absolutely loved meeting and playing against every single one of my opponents throughout the whole thing! Huge thanks to HarmonBee, CobraBubbles, not_yeti, tanzzen and everyone at EA Sports, plus literally everybody else really for the welcoming incredible experience. I can't stress enough how nice it was to meet everyone, and so thank you davz131 for convincing me to come from france to this big and intimidating but wonderful thing (even though it didn't take much convincing)

6 comments
21 Nov 2024 lif3line

Hell yeah, preach Divide and Conquer🔥

Lovely to meet you at Nats btw, hope to see you on Jinteki^^

21 Nov 2024 Council

<3

21 Nov 2024 Pokerface

Great list and write-up and congratulations on such an excellent placing.

I'll now proceed to trying to build a jank crim / sabotage / Divide and Conquer list that will surely win worlds 2025.

21 Nov 2024 Baa Ram Wu

Wow - totally Missed the D&C when looking through the decklists! 2x D&C in the Top Cut. What a time to be alive!

I've been playing this in Mercury with cup and can confirm it's cracked there - can't believe I never thought about just trying in Anarch and importing the Cup! Great work!

21 Nov 2024 harmonbee

Divide and Conquer is such a hot include, and I wish it was less than 4inf so I could include it in girls lol

Congrats on doing so well! It was lovely to meet you (and as I said in person, your outfit was so stylish) and hopefully we'll see each other again soon :)

21 Nov 2024 nervousnightjar

thanks everyone!

@lif3linelikewise and yes absolutely, see you there hopefully!

@Counciltysm for the amazing decklist! it's the most fun i ever had playing corp (and i played saraswati haha)

@Pokerfacethanks and can't wait to see that!

@Baa Ram WuThanks! And i get it, importing the 4 inf card rather than the 2 inf one is clearly the superior flex! I'll definitely check out your mercury deck it seems extremely fun!! o:

@harmonbeeThank you! i now realize didn't even tell you that i love your girls deck it's so cool! And thanks again because coming from someone with fire outfits it means a lot! O: so lovely meeting you too and thanks again for the incredible event!