"Just Play Hedge Funds", 5-2, 4th @ BCOM 2022

The night before the main event of BCOM I was panicking that I'd picked the wrong deck. The Urban Renewal Azef Gagarin was shit and I was regretting not just bringing CTM with me. Cue 1am worrying at the airbnb when cablecarnage just turns to me and goes:

"Why don't you just cut the Urban Renewals and play 3 Hedge Funds?"

So anyway the deck was sick and carried me into the cut with a 4-1 swiss record.

This is a variation of the Snarebears Gagarin that came second at worlds. The idea is to install stuff that the runner can't check because of gag tax and threat of Econ Warfare into HHN, and use your assets to make money and score agendas either off the board or with Dedi Recoco. Your agenda suite is pretty well suited to this plan, everything bar Food is FA-able. Plus you have the kill threat to just get easy wins.

In swiss it beat 2 Big Lad Maxx, Wu, and Alice, losing to cpt_nice's Deep Dive Smoke. In the cut it beat Steve and lost to Big Lad Maxx. Highlights include:

• Triple econ warfare into Jeeves click HHN

• Triple advance an Azef on the board, get a Jeeves click, score the Azef, and using HPT to kill the double tagged runner

The deck feels very good. It needs some refinement. A second Audacity would be great, and ideally some better draw filtering. It's likely worse than CTM but is still strong and still dunks on runners who just want value.

Overall, great weekend, very happy with my finish, congrats to Jakuza for winning the whole thing. Massive thank you to PSK, Mark, Vesper, and Percomis for running and organising everything. It was wonderful and a blast to finally meet folks and put faces to usernames.