Pretty Hate Machine Chicago Regional 1st in swiss, 2nd final

Silver bullet gatling gun, completely oppresive. I chose this as a meta call for the CI hasty, skorp, moons, and coats matchups. Just a tournament write-up, don't need to go into the details of how to play, will answer questions.

Swapped out 2 Kati over @Joseki build, because I figured MCA would be everywhere. In doing this I realized I'd be running light on cash, so I added 1 Misdirection, which installs for free for aesops food (free to install to pull something from hand if you clone chip it), and with aesops out, you can sell x card, click for a credit, and clear a whole hard hitting news (the only real reason to worry about being low on cash). On the day it cleared 3 hard-hitting news that would have been a blowout. A+ would slot again.

Second DDM in the second slot, mostly because skorp, but also helps vs moons, who insist on putting 1 ice on RnD usually. Punish this by getting 5 card accesses over and over.

Swiss R1 - Sarah Andy/HB:Etf - Hayley drops rumor mill, smc, and aesops early. Snag agendas from the remote, possibly 1 from hq, then a deep data mining closes it out.

R2 - Derrick Kate/CI - This is an unwinnable matchup on Hasty. I drop SMC and some sac cons, Derrick concedes knowing its futile, and has a potentially long runner game with GiantDad Kate.

R3 - John Whizz/Skorp - We ID, being the only 4-0s, no real need to play.

R4 - Blain Leela/CI - Concedes once clot saccon come out.

R5 - Spags whizz/RP - We ID being the only 7-1s

I get top seed on strength of schedule. Praise lady Hayley

Elim

R1 I draw Josh, who is playing an en passant val with blackmail and medium. Corp deck will explain this. I win.

R2 Asher - Railgun NEH - I'm not stoked about this, but I get a laguna early, he scores a BN, I dig deep and find councilman and after getting him to RFG 1 jackson, I run and trash the second, get down another councilman and he has no outs vs me just trashing them. He concedes for my 3rd concession on the day.

R3 Trevor Smoke - I'll cover it in corp. I lose

R4 Josh again, I fear this match-up because its corp town gagarin with toybox to rez it and big ass ice. I decide I need early points and go on the offense without much board state, I figure out he has a tour guide on hq and no asset he can or wants to rez, i snag out a 3/5, run RnD, he doesn't want to spend down, I lift another 3/5. At 6 I can camp it out, and do. A few turns later I lose 5 resources to Corp Town, click up credits, clone chip out chameleon over misdirection and SMC (misdirection covered me on an HHN), deep datamine for 5 cards, snag a 4/2. Big sigh of relief.

Final games are rematch of the ANRPC grand championship, this time the opposite I'm coming from the losers bracket to play Trevor who rolled the upper bracket. Not a huge fan of either match up, I'm happy to try Hayley. She doesn't disappoint.

R5 Finals game 1 Trevor on SoL - Early-ish scarcity slows me down, I snag a beale onto a film critic over a News Hound using Faust. I clot out a beale going sansan, critic it. A little later after my clot is locked down, I deep data mine (picking up a tag off IP block), criticing an astro and snagging a beale to win next turn taking astro.

R6 Grand final - Trevor Smoke - I lose with BN and 15 minutes scored, 24/7 in hand, no Nach on board. Indexing is brutal.

Overall super clutch winning every game. I think the misdirection and 1 dean could be flex slots, and maybe even 1 DDM could be anything else. I tested with Price of Freedom, a second current would be good (System Seizure would be very good to help vs scarcity), and even an inti would be great.