Choose Your Own Adventure (2-1, 8th @ PH Megacity 2025)

Dumb Ways to Die

The deck's original shell was @DeeR's The Red Prince, while @Aruzan provided the tweaks to the deck, and added a lot more kill lines. In testing, it felt like there were kill lines coming out of nowhere; some lines include:

• Money-ing up, then going below 4 credits with the big Oppo Research, then rezzing Bladderworts after

• The usual Reaper Function + Sting! shennanigans

• See How They Run Touch-ups End of the Line (alternatively works with Sting!)

• Fujii Asset Retrieval Moon Pool Neurospike

• 2-3x Bladderwort 2-3x Reaper Function

The fun part about the deck is we're basically just trying to assemble any and all the kill lines every game -- there's no one set line, as all the pieces work together -- tags mean the Runner spends clicks detagging, and not drawing up, which gives reach to Reaper Function and Bladderwort. Accessing an agenda at the wrong time can mean a nasty unrezzed Phật Gioan Baotixita additional damage, into a burst with Touch-ups Sting!.

Urtica Cipher

This was a last-minute addition which paid off dividends on the day -- both of my Corp wins were to Urtica flatlines.

Since the deck is ultimately a See How They Run deck, there's no punishment for the runner to just draw up and run every single advanced card on the board. I initially included the Cipher as a gambit for the open decklist in the cut, but I did not perform well enough on the day itself for it to matter. In hindsight, it's still an insane card in this deck, as Urtica Cipher and Moon Pool gives us a lot of reach, as the magic number for net damage is 3 cards (Byte!, Fujii Asset Retrieval/Sting! with a Phật Gioan Baotixita surprise rez), so the extra one damage catches Runners off guard.

In my game vs Esâ Afontov: Eco-Insurrectionist, I also bluffed the Urtica as a Clearinghouse as I kept on advancing it as the Esa had Marrow and T400 Memory Diamond to combat against kill. (For reference, the Urtica did 10 net damage)

Ultimately, adding this card to the deck gave the deck a completely new axis of attack and gave us more opportunities to fork the Runner, which was previously difficult if the opponent could call your bluff. It gives the deck more agency, as prior, these types of AUCo decks feel like "just play what you draw lol", as noted by @Jai.

This deck went 2-1 on the day itself, while @CyberspacePanda and I ran the same 45 again for Runner.

My Runner performance was abyssmal; lost to Haas-Bioroid: Precision Design in a tense 5-turn rush game, and a timed loss vs Ob Superheavy Logistics: Extract. Export. Excel. where I whiffed the final The Twinning run on RnD (the next two cards were SDS Drone Deployment).

Philippine Meta!

Our meta is still growing and we're getting more and more people in the game all the time! And despite the tiny size, I do think we have amazing players, with consistent names seeing top cuts even in the larger online events.

I made these alt arts for our Megacity and I am now busy preparing more alt arts, prints, stickers, and potentially other cards and merch for APAC Continentals and Worlds -- if you want to get your hands on them. Funds raised from these will go towards growing the community <3

Megacity Conclusion

This tournament concludes our major competitive season locally. Throughout these tournaments, CyberspacePanda and I brought around 4-5 egg variants. It's been fun to experiment with the ID and to come up with new bullshit every tournament. My DMs are always open if you'd like to collaborate on a decklist -- you can find me on GLC!

Shoutouts to CyberspacePanda, profwacko, RLC, QtM, DeeR, Aruzan, Paillu, tuno oomf, and every sicko out there <3 Happy pride, and have a happy rest of the Megacity season!