Really, I was the only Reina? Ok, I guess (68th UK Nats)

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My runnerside deck for UK nats! The basic plan was to use Reina's ability as an annoyance while trying to just play Good Netrunnerâ„¢.

I'm not fantastic at Runner so I've got less to say than about it than corpside, but I still have some thoughts:

  • Hernando Cortez is a surprisingly good card! If the Corp has an economic lead then he does a fantastic job of bringing them back down into the single digits - highly recommend. It can even make cards like Tithonium and Endless EULA flat-out unrezzable when the corp is at certain money counts, especially with Reina's ability - a neat little counter-counter card for all the multi-sub anti-Boat cards.
  • Keiko and Poemu are much more the heart of the deck's economy than I thought and both should be played at 3. Oops.
  • I thought Steelskin and Deuces would be enough card draw to get to the breaker suite ASAP, but more often than not I was stuck desperately digging to get around a simple Magnet. Back to Moshing, I think - partially for the dig and partially a way to put cards in the bin without having to resort to hand size.
  • Beth was great in every game but for some reason I always drew both. Maybe dropping down to 1 and splashing for something else wouldn't be terrible, but then - what if you desperately need to Mosh but she's one of the only candidates? Something to ponder.
  • I was originally on the Avgustina / Chastushka plan but there was a twofold problem; one, paying for Chastushka, and two, Av and all her support cards taking up loads of deck slots that otherwise go on things like, you know, card draw and money. Kind of hard to win without those. I'd like to re-include Sabotage as a win condition but I think I need to rejig the deck significantly first.

It was a fantastic event and I'm looking forward to the next one!

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