Leech! (2nd & Queen of Swiss @ May AMT)

It's seb! I'm top of swiss again! Certain commentators mentioned "i'm really not sure why you aren't running leech" when my previous list went up. Pleased to announce that I'm not really sure why I wasn't either, because it's great. (it was an overcorrection from adjusting down from the 59 card deck to 46 between council's two rwr writeups). It shores up some holes - Nebula in particular asks us to kill a ton of 4-str ice and not many 1-2str ice, and the "just use multiple Crews" advice falls a bit short there with Audrey being starved of trashables in that matchup and being unable to pick up the slack. Incidentally helpful to make Biawak Weyland, everything other than AU Co in Jinteki, and the entirety of Haas-Bioroid substantially more favoured for us.

Rising Tide is there specifically to deal with Kessleroid in the Ob matchup where it's near-guaranteed to have multiple on centrals very early, but it's incidentally handy into Ping, Ablative, Semak-Samun, and Maskirovka. Worth the 1-of.

Lago is down by a copy because I reckoned I could get away with it now that a deck that isn't installing in roots most turns (Nebula) is predominant. This worked out for me - I was able to keep up fine with the non - au co asset decks I played into.

Rent Rioters sucks, I'm just playing an extra fermenter.

On kill matchups - I haven't tested hard into the kill Nebulas so idk. End of the Line is not to be feared - it's just a strangely shaped agenda that they can play for 3 credits that you have to play around in particular ways. Thule in particular is not a coherent answer to Seb - the density of trashables, necessary lightness on ice, bad econ, and dependence on having the right answer at the right time in HQ just does not do the job. My motto in these sorts of matchups is "sometimes you do just get shot in the face" but it's really quite easy to prevent this from happening when you lock the game down like usual.

This deck continues to be extremely fun and extremely good. It feels like the only thing that can beat me, especially after incorporating these tech choices, is my own misplays. This is a great feeling.