Spags-shop v 2.0 - 6-1 (4th) at Leisure Games SC, 5/3/16

No surprises here, NEH is speedy and sometimes Just Wins Games.

My one loss all day was in the first round, to (I hate this name) Dumblefork. Even then I was on 6 points with an Astro token, but was hard R&D locked. If the second Breaking News was a 15 Minutes I might have been able to pull it off, but I wanted to have more opportunities to blow up Wyldsides. Still not sure on which is better. Probably the 15 Minutes, in hindsight.

I'm hazy already and didn't take notes, but I think my wins were against Noise and Ken (elims), and Noise, Chaos Theory (stimshop), DLR/Gang Sign Leela, and Valencia (big on Blackmail recursion and R&D pressure).

I don't like the Grim and it's coming out, possibly for a Tollbooth. I'm also never happy to see the Resistor, but maybe I'm just bad at using it. My opinion is likely skewed by not coming up against tag-me runners for a while.

I suppose the two notable variations over the canon list are no Archangel, and no Turnpike. I feel that those are both better options for taxing the runner, but I'm not interested in taxing, really. More so than ever in the current meta, all your ice is a speed bump. I need it to buy me just enough time, not to tax the runner out. Better players than me are on those cards, though, so maybe go with them instead.