The Circle (8th Polish Nationals)

"So when you thought this up, were you sitting on the shitter after some really bad Mexican food and wanted to share your misery with the world?" -Zombiak

This absolutely terrible deck got me 8th place on Polish nationals (primarily due to sheer luck in tiebreakers, because it went 3-3 in Swiss and then lost 2 games in the cut).

It didn't do very well, I mostly got carried by my runner (Liza list I took from Marsellus), but it still is satisfying to pull off the 7 points in a single turn.

• Game 1: Selverin - Corp split
• Game 2: Dawciu - Win
• Game 3: Luinloth - Win
• Game 4: Ojciec - Runner split
• Game 5: Apo - Lose
• Game 6: Muras - Runner split

Cut Game 1: Inermis - Corp lose
Cut Game 2: Apo - Corp lose

The games lost were primarily to hate cards -- Ojciec played Salsette Slums, both Apo and Inermis had some form of multiaccess with Employee Strike which makes this deck fare badly. The second game with Apo he also rebirthed into Kim so there wasn't much I could do. In the game with Muras I got flooded with 11 agendas and no Fast Breaks in sight.

There was a lovely highlight of my game with Dawciu when he pulled out The Black File the turn before I wanted to score out so I sat there on 13 points with 4 cards in R&D hoping he wouldn't hit the last 7 points.

Regarding the deck itself, the gameplan is simple - get the opponent to 4+ agendas, use Fast Break and Game Changer to set up the combo (Breaker Bay, 2 Cali Testing, Arella, 2 Sponsorships) and score out 7 points out of hand.

Throw out the Self-Destruct Chips and slot in a third False Lead, it will save your life.

Unfortunately I didn't manage to build it in time before CI got banned so no developer puns.