3 CST Palana - 5th Place London Regionals

This is the Palana deck that took me to the cut in the London Regionals (~78 players). Its a simple rush deck that often transitions into a glacier style if you dont see your caprice early. Credit for the deck goes to Laurie Poulter. The ICE suite is heavily teched to beat Anarch (snakesss), but folds to 4tman. Link runners are also a pain. As it turned out it was the wrong meta call as only one Anarch made the cut in London, although I did face a fair few in Swiss.

The deck went 4-3 in swiss, beating Whizzard (thrice) & Val; losing to Kate, Hayley & Leela; and winning 1-0 in the cut vs another Whizzard.

Polop can be a problem and given less Anarch in the meta, I would drop a CVS and include Voter Intimidation, and probably mix up the ice suite to lessen the concentration at strength 4.

Just a quick comment on one card that divides opinion - Agroplex. Initially I wasnt a fan, but after testing 100+ games (thanks, Damon) with it, I found that if your deck is built correctly this card accelerates your game plan faster than it does theirs. Im never sad to see it and im always sad to see it trashed. I would recommend putting it in the scoring remote (as a good Whizzard will trash it) until you are setup and then overwriting it when you go to score.