Radiant Sable -- 17th at Worlds

Radiant is our resident Crim player and incepted me in the weeks leading up to worlds to put some reps in with this Sable list that he had tuned. It didn't take long before I learned what everybody else already knew: in a glacier-less world, Bankroll is cracked. Our Hoshiko lists were starting to diverge and I didn't know how to play them well, so I made a call to take this to COS and see how it did. It kept winning so I brought it to the main event. It took me to 17th, which I'm thrilled with. There's not a ton to say about the list that other people haven't already said with their Sables, so I'll talk about a couple important flex slots.

• Legwork: I've seen this as Docklands Pass in higher placing Sables, which totally makes sense if you're able to consistently get HQ accesses. However, I see Legwork as a reset card: If there's a remote you can't crack, Legwork + Hermes buys you another turn (and likely 2 points for your trouble).
• Dr. Nuka Vrolyck: It provides a lot of draw, which is nice since this kind of list needs to find its 1-ofs. I think in retrospect I'd prefer at least one more Diesel, and I'd be willing to cut a Nuka for it. Single click draw is important in mid/late game.
• Shibboleth: yeah, it mostly sucks. But just use turtle once Threat is active. The inf you get back from Unity is too important.

Game Reports

• R1: Asa (W). An early unprotected R&D gave up a lot of points. Classic Asa problem. Was able to suppress econ enough to force a bluffing agenda in the midgame that I could contest and hit 7 points.
• R2: Ob (L). I couldn't find a way to break a Code Gate in time and Axwill got 3 Atlas counters. I technically took more clicks but felt like I might as well had conceded :P
• R3: Ob (W). We had very little time left for this game, so we both knew we were playing to time. It was very tight, but an early Bones helped suppress the QtM Ob engine from coming online. I then got super lucky with Azef damage missing my Carmen in hand, letting me steal an SDS Drone Deployment pushed behind Stavka with no 3c card to trash.
• R4: Ob (W). Sable feels favored in this matchup when you find breakers, and that's what happened. R&D lock, Bankroll for economy seals the deal.
• R5: R+ (W). They scored a Bellona on their last click, letting me bounce the HQ ice with Hermes. Diversion of Funds for free led to econ hell and a game win shortly thereafter.
• R6: NEH (W). I can't remember the details of this game, as it was the last in a long day and had a lot of hard decision points. I remember ultimately I won by being credit perfect to install two 1c things from hand and run Archives to steal a Degree Mill which was cool. I feel I got lucky with this game and am glad I didn't have to play the archetype again.
• R7: R+ (L). Extrac played this game excellently and deserved this win. One interesting turn was when I wanted to Doof but needed Aumakua's virus counters for it to connect. There were two unchecked remotes, and I used Hannah to check a random one. It wasn't Mavirus, so I went for it. The other one was, rip. Should have just checked both. Connecting the Diversion would have been an additional 7c swing that very well could have won that game.
• R8: Ob (W). See it on stream!
• R9: ID.

I had a great time playing lots of wonderful people. Thanks opponents and NSG volunteers, was a blast. Thanks Muntal Bost for the support, it was so much fun to prep and play with y'all this season. Can't wait for the next—hopefully my SOS will be a smidge higher!