PatchworkStuffandRun (8th german nats)

My runner from german nationals, which took me to 13th in swiss and 8th in the cut.

Overall decent build but I would not recommend it further in this form. I took out both Aumakua for clone chip and 1x datasucker to have a bit more flexibility and to break news hounds for 3. It makes the deck real subsceptibile to Thimblerig and Excalibur, Aumakua fits the bankroll plan better too I think.

Other than that the econ is event based, hence only 2 hacktivist is fine. In testing I found I could go tag me against CtM with this and Imp their Tag punishment (which I didn't do, because I only faced 1 CtM during the day).

Imp is good. Patchwork out Imps and trash stuff, very versitile card!

Friday Chip, Guinea Pig I played both 1 time during the tournament, but thats how it is with conditional 1-ofs.

In Swiss the deck had 1 timed loss, 4 regular wins and 1 timed draw. In round 6 I ID'd.

In the cut I only played one game as runner against bantwins on Political Dealings FA Mti. It can be found on trace5 stream.

I found little econ early, but manage to get a hacktivist online. So he goes tripple install and I figured there is agendas there to clear the hacktivist. I am forced to run pretty low on money and face a Mti'd Tour Guide with 3 subs. Breaking it would've ruined my econ and I didn't have Patchwork yet if I recall correctly to come back so I decided to jack out. I thought he would ICE a Viral Weaponization most likely, because he had a jeeves online. So I clone chip my Imp and trash the jeeves. Last click I run another of the installed cards to find a Medical Breakthrough. Turns out he installed 2 Medical Breakthrough, scoring the other next turn to clear the hacktivist. Arg bummer, he got out of the flood real nice and I help him clear the hacktivist. A turn later or something I find my second hacktivist, only to find out it was a Braintrust in the Tour Guide remote and not a Viral.. I mill my other Imps and struggle to get econ going so the board state quickly becomes unmanageable for me. But I get a bankroll, turning whell going and farm up some counters and money. I have the option to take the slower approach and Levy, but would've needed to trash his Malia first blanking my Same Old. I have 10 counters on the wheel and was scared of being locked out of R&D with tour guides, because he had double DBS going. I'm on 4 points, go for the 6 cards dig, pay 15 for the Mti'd Tour Guide, find only 1 agenda. I go for a desperation stimhack on R&D next turn for the top deck. I face a double Tour Guide this time, which I can't break. GG.

Really cool tournament, with a very strong field I felt. This was my first participation in a large event like this, so I'm glad I made it this far. Feels good to play some high stakes netrunner.