Accelerated Astroscripts, 89th at Worlds

Worlds was amazing. It was my first time ever at a tournament like that, and I look forward to attending and competing in future years. Overall I went 9-7, putting me at 89th place. I switched to NBN about 2 weeks before the tournament, never having played it before in my life, which was probably a mistake, but it was still super fun. I had previously been playing something similar out of Titan with Vanity Projects, but after doing poorly against Noise especially, I wanted to go with something that had a viable strategy to win even if the combo was blocked.

Overall, the corp went 5-3. In retrospect, I would have dropped the Quicksands, dropped the Turtlebacks and maybe an AD, and put in maybe a Reclamation Order, a scary ice like Archer or Architect, and a full suite of Hedge Funds.

Swiss Rounds:

1. Chris, playing Haley. I don't remember all the specifics of this match, but I remember I was on 2 points and had combo pieces in my hand. He ran, and the following turn I scored a 5 point Beale. The funny thing is we had literally played each other 2 days beforehand on jinteki.net, found out we were both going to be at Worlds, and exchanged names in case we played each other. And we just happened to be paired up round 1! (2-0)

2. Thomas, playing (DLR?) Val. This one was close; he was running fairly aggressively, checking remotes, siphoning me, and only slowly playing down his combo pieces. I scored 2 BN, had a Biotic in hand I think, and simply never drew an Astroscript. Finally I got the last combo piece in hand at the same time he got his DLR stuff up, and with all my Astros still in the deck, he was likely going to mill them all in the following two turns. But again, I was able to score a 5 point Beale for the win! (3-1)

3. Brendan, playing Desperado Val. He ran aggressively, scoring 4 points fairly early. I wasn't drawing any Astroscripts, had a Beale in hand, and for some reason idiotically scored the Beale on a Sansan, bringing me down to 1 credit, aka, short of rezzing the Wraparound on R&D. So he runs R&D twice and topdecks first the Astro, and then the Exploda for the game. (3-3)

4. Andy, playing Desperado Val. He ran super aggressively, really taking advantage of the open servers with Desperado + Masanori + 3x Scrubber. He kept killing my FA options with his endless asset hate so I think I only managed to score 1 or 2 BN. In the end though, it overwhelmed me; I started to flood, installed Astro naked as a last ditch attempt, and he ran it like any runner against this deck should. (4-4)

5. Ian, playing DLR Val. The Astrotrain did it's work in this matchup; I drew the Astros this time, and was able to score out faster than he could get his combo set up, even with the Siphons slowing me down. (5-5)

6. Dodd, playing Sunny. Again, the Astrotrain did it's thing. He had The Source to slow me down, so I burned the Biotic to score Astro on a Sansan. I managed to race to 7 points just before his whole setup came together. (7-5)

7. Peter, playing Prepaid Kate. I got lucky in that he got his Voicepads fairly late. I was able to get up to 5 points, no Astro token. He had the choice of either trashing the Sansan, or the Jackson. He trashed the Sansan, which was fine by me since I had no agendas in hand, and I did a lite version of the combo, scoring two points out of my deck for the win. (9-5)

8. Ran, playing Prepaid Kate. She got set up, slowed me down a lot with Clot, so I decided to combo score past the Clot. What I should have done was ice up a remote with a Sansan, bait some Clot installs, and stop installing so many damn servers. Getting those turtleback credits is NOT worth it, when Astrolabe is giving Kate her Lucky Finds and Makers. Ultimately, she pressured R&D and waited till there was a buildup of agendas in HQ. By then she was so rich and Legworked, paying through the Archangel trace, and got the two agendas that were hiding in there for the win. (9-7)

Overall, Worlds was an amazing experience. There were lots of incredible Netrunner moments, I met a lot of really cool people, and had a blast. I really like this deck and think it can be really good, so give it a whirl and tell me what you think. Though like I said before, I'd drop the Turtlebacks and change up the ice suite a bit. There was too much Parasite for Quicksand to be good and it should have at least one scary sentry.