419 Goes Downtown

Nykride 307

The runner I took to finish 18th at Cascadia, going 2-3.

In my testing leading up to the tournament, I'd been playing around with Mining Accident and went 90% on jnet. But after Santa won APAC with Outfit, it was clear that there would be a lot of Outfit at Cascadia, which my pet card is actively bad into. The dream of playing 419, Leela, and Val in the same deck disappeared, and I switched in enkoder's favorite econ card instead.

Ultimately, I think Debbie is far too slow into the current meta, with Asa and Outfit being too fast for this list. ctz's meta call of having faster midgame multiaccess seems better to me over playing WAKE. Twinning is fine, but I would want to fit in two copies so it can be put down early, which seems hard since you need influence for money. I also didn't play against any damage, so Diesel would have been better than Steelskin Scarring on the day.

This deck also has no good way to combat purges/lockouts, so I'd probably play some combination of Falsified Credentials, Boomerang, and Inside Job given the amount of Mavirus right now.

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