Guess what I'll draw... (15th at Belgian Nats)

Like everyone and their mother, I saw the Smoke list which topped German Nationals recently and I thought to myself: "yeah, that looks like fun". After having played Sunny for a while now, I have been feeling the need for speed recently and going from 50 cards back to 40 feels great. I made a few changes to the deck and took it to Belgian Nats. I clearly wasn't the only one. Smoke outnumbered Valencia as the most popular runner, although my version was probably the most esoteric.

Oracle May was suggested to me by a player who saw my Bye-Beater list and in testing I found it to be incredibly powerful. Combined with Paragon, you can afford to draw useless cards as it turns your clicks into a Magnum Opus. Wih two Oracles,I found I drew into her very fast, as opposed to waiting for Security Testing to roll around. Also, dropping the latter gave me influence for a second Stimhack, which was clutch against my CTM match up. No One Home was great as I was practically immune to Sea Source Shenanigans and it let me run a bit more confidently early against MTI.

Unfortunately, two changes I definitely regret and ultimately cost me games. I added Switchblade cause getting locked out of R&D by Tour Guide haunts my nightmares, and it also deals nicely with Komainu, Anansi and Surveyor. Stacked sentries were a huge problem though, and Dagger would have served me much better as I was usually filthy rich in real credits.

To run Switchblade, I opted to not slot the clot, which gave me a loss vs The Outfit and nearly cost me another match vs Titan. I won't make that mistake again. Clot will go back in, Dagger replaces Switchblade. No idea which card to drop though. Maybe the FTE or the third Daily Casts.