Comet CT (6th at Boardwalk Games SC)

Pretty much Ulkrond's deck Maverick with a few tweaks to make it my own. His breaker suite may be better, but I really like the efficiency of the breakers in this deck vs Glacier, especially HB. I actually didn't like Dirty Laundry in several games. Being forced to run for econ ended up being painful once or twice, so I would like to test Process Automation over it and swap Ice Carver for Net-Ready Eyes.

The deck is insanely consistent and sets up fairly fast, though it hurts if your Moddeds are stuck in the bottom 15 cards of your deck. The econ usually kept me at 15+ credits, so it was generally pretty easy to lock a remote if I was just patient.

Here's the tournament report: Game 1: (Win vs AgInfusion) I felt kind of bad for the opponent - 16 ice and he only drew 2. He flooded really bad and pitched 2 The Future Perfects early. I ended up having more than enough time to set up, stole one TFP and the other a turn later after Comet'ing out a "Freedom Through Equality" that I topdecked.

Game 2: (Loss vs Palana Glacier) This was a fun match because he was actually on a similar build to my Corp, the Death and Taxes Palana build. He got to 6 early and went on a never-advance plan, but I ran one time and sniped his Philotic Entanglement, putting me up to 5. I got greedy and spent a decent chunk of change going for a Maker's Eye. I waited a few turns for him to draw through and tried again, accessing 3 more and ending the turn at about 3 credits as he install advance advanced. If I had been patient and kept the remote lock, I think I could have kept up enough on econ to be able to run his remote every time he installed anything, but it's hard to predict a whiff off seeing 6 in total.

Game 3: (Win vs Cleaners Builder of Nations) Hit my opponent hard early with a Maker's Eye while opponent was low on ice. He set up a scoring server behind a Colossus early that I exposed, so I let him have it as I hammered R&D. Got up to match point early and was able to snipe the final 3 points off one last Maker's Eye the turn before he would have Red Planet Couriers'ed out his winning agenda. Part of it was my opponent's luck on me RNG'ing out 1 of 2 agendas left in my opponent's deck, but it's also because Maker's Eye, despite not being as insane as Deep Data Mining, is still a solid card.

Game 4: (Loss vs Punitive CI) I was keeping pretty even with my opponent on econ, trying to figure out what build of CI he was on. Sure enough, I Maker's Eye R&D only to whiff (probably a blessing in hindsight) ending the turn on 9 credits. He Economic Warfares me and rezzes Bryan Stinson to put him up to 23 credits total, putting the credit fight basically out of reach. Still unsure what build he was on, I was worried he was going to try and combo out soon, so I ran HQ to snipe a 5/3 off a random single access. He had 2 Punitive Counterstrikes in hand and blew me up due to the huge credit differential at that point. It was at that point that I understood why Ulkrond was on Brain Cage and made me regret not running it as well.

The deck is fun as you get to draw through your deck multiple times and the econ feels perfect, beyond my dislike of Dirty Laundry, as I mentioned. The breaker suite felt fine, though I think Cerberus "Lady" H1 and Brahman are likely better, as I mentioned. The tech cards unfortunately (or fortunately!) were not relevant in the match-ups I had today, but I would still run them 100% of the time as the match-ups when you do want them, you really want them. Misdirection really helps against HHN, and Paricia helps keep the econ (much) closer vs asset spam decks.