Ecce Homo 🫨 (11th @ Montréal NA Continentals)

*Actual footage of my opponents hitting Behold!

Latin for "Behold the man," ecce homo is a phrase from the Bible. There are 3x Behold! here, rendering theological-tier shock and awe for runners of all factions.

This deck went 4-2 over the two days, with wins against Mercury, Topan, Az, and Esa, and losses against Wyld's Lat (who accessed precisely three cards all game, separate turn R&D top-decks, sniping two Next Big Things and a False Lead), and Hams' Esa in the cut, in a tense game that went to time. In it, I hit one of my best Netrunner buddies, whom I shared a bed with all weekend, with three table Beholds, in a profound display of misanthropy.

Meanwhile, I kept a Tomorrow's Headline on the table, unscored and untouched for almost the entire match, hoping to eventually get the End of the Line/Touch Ups/Gemilang combo off once Esa took enough core damage after a turn one Marrow install, but Hams was relentless at keeping me on the Nebula side once I finally had the combo pieces.

Not far off from my Vancouver Megacities Nebula list, I leaned into Sokka's lower-ice and more-Behold philosophy for this tournament, really liking the call with Semak-samun, a double stack of which on archives won me a game against an Esa in round 9, when they couldn't break either with a Mayfly or take 3 net damage through the second one, lest they flatline.

Going forward, I would cut the Public Trail and Shipment from Vladisbirsk from the list, as I never fired either card all weekend, opting instead for a couple of Non-Equivalent Exchanges to even out the econ.

A huge thanks to Andrej and his volunteers for running a top-tier event, and to all of my very cool and friendly opponents over the weekend. Everyone was awesome, and the games were great.

My runner deck is here.

See you at Worlds!