Good Pub Outfit

Anyone who’s met me knows I love a good pub, and in The Outfit every bad pub is good, so it’s only natural that I'd gravitate to this ID.

This is a fairly standard case of "take a good known deck, change one card and claim it for yourself" - in this case the latest iteration of Big Deal vegan Outfit. I particularly like Santa's Intercontinentals Pharos and Tree Line inclusions, as even with 4 or 5 bad publicity most of the commonly played breakers at the moment hate a Strength 10 ice, and even with the deck being a generally known quantity, there's still some residual wariness at taking damage vs Weyland. Following the vein of Pharos and Tree, my flex slot is Akhet, though i must admit its mostly on a whim - that and I don't value Winchester's rigshooting potential all that much in this deck - I think for rigshooting you've really got to lean in to it, and a single scorpion won't quite cut it. The only game where it came up, it would have prevented a Hippo crushing my HQ… but the ice protecting R&D was Hippo’d instead and then all 3 Regulatory Captures were ripped off the top in one or two turns. My other loss with this deck, I was at 6 points with two methods of winning next turn in hand, but in the same turn Maw hitting Reg Cap and then Big Deal being trashed prevented the win, which left me stuck trying to grind out the last point where FA was off the table.

Random inclusions aside, this is a clean and simple deck, with a good combination of flexibility and simplicity. It plays as smooth as a freshly poured stout - and critically for a tournament where I'd not had much time for testing, and almost all of which was focused on my runner deck (I bought 3 with me), it's quite easy to play. The deck is so simple you could play it if you were 5 pints deep. Not that I was, but I had explored Dublin a bit on the Friday, and it was still fine. At Monday Night Netrunner I handed the deck to a new player and he was able to win with it pretty easily.

A huge thanks to Anarchomushroom for running a great tournament (and recommending cool sights and good pubs), thanks to everyone who came to the event (especially meta-mate James who of course I paired with Round 1, but got re-paired - to my advantage, seeing as I still haven’t nailed the lines vs QtM Ag… RIP In Piss Keeling), and a thank you to Dzerards for handing the Weyland pin down. I’ll say Irish Nats and Dublin overall was a great time, already planning to come back next year.