Getting Dressed In The Dark [0-3, Jersey City CO]

After my last CO (erm.. I mean.. the last CT...) my takeaway was "I’m going to try and find different ways to fit a couple Bahia Bands [into SPARK45]." So last week I spent some time trying to synthesize two of Tuno's Esâ lists (SPARK45 and I am carried) while keeping to 45 cards so that I could find the Chastushkas ASAP.

Once I hit 45 cards I sleeved up the deck, tossed it into my bag, and didn't think about Netrunner again until I arrived at Victory Point on Saturday morning.

I'm publishing to shame Past Me.

Please learn from my mistakes.

In fact, maybe you can spot the mistake(s) in the list above. There are plenty, it shouldn't be hard.

[Jeopardy music plays]

The biggest single problem is that I cut the Buzzsaw but forgot to add the Botuluses despite spending influence on Simulchip.

I ended up in some truly nightmarish boardstates where I needed both Begemot and Laamb in order to accomplish anything, but I didn't have any way to find them or discount them (except for the simulchip that was difficult to activate) and no way to recur them if they got damaged (except for that same simulchip and Labor Rights).

Combine the bodega-ass decklists with the fact that I played (four of my five all-time worst matches](/en/decklist/84346) of Netrunner and viola -- I'm a distant last at a four person tournament.

Matchups

Round 1: Loss vs Wyld playing Built to Blast BTL

Round 4: Loss vs Olivia playing Yodel Riot PD

Round 5: Loss vs xdg playing AgInfusion

On the bright side

Everything about the day outside of the matches themselves was excellent. Victory Point in Jersey City is rad (they even have a pet bird!)! We had something like 4-7 people stop in to scope out this (un)dead game and few of them played demo games.Shoutout to rohit for organizing this CO. Best of luck to everyone from the NJ/NYC meta that’s making the trip to worlds!