d1en's Val's Pals (Ottawa Regionals Winner July 9 2016)

We're back at it again friends! I apologize for the lack of appearance, I went on a 3 month hiatus to prepare for Electric Daisy Carnival. Now that we're back at it again, I decided that after a long break from fair decks (see THE FUN ENDS HERE) it was time to pay my respects and revisit the original girl that made my heart pound. This is a update to my Worlds list, although much credit MUST be given to @lopert; as not only did he share his list with me, he convinced me to play Rebirth, which was MVP of the tournament, hands down.

This deck went 2-2 in the Swiss rounds (both losses to NEH due to crap mulligans) and 4-0 undefeated in the Top 8 cut. The tournament was 32 strong, with huge names from our Ontario/Quebec meta. Judges and players alike commented that "this is a Canadian Nationals cut of players."

Ottawa Top 8 Stream Link

First things first, the cuts and changes. Had to cut Stimhack because now hand size actually matters (Thanks Faust). I never played Faust prior to this tournament, but I knew taking brain didn't make sense. But I did throw in a e3 as to make a second subroutine break free with the Bad Publicity. We cut SMC because decking out is a real thing, so Levy needs to be used, plus MWL screwed our influence spread so we can't be complete Shaper BS. Yog.0 left the deck as a result, and because our rig isn't as huge, we had to lose the Memstrips.

Political Operative goes in to fight the current Palana threat, and because Psi Games are a thing that loses you games (who would've thought). One Plascrete gets cut because it's no longer the Butchershop/Haarpsichord meta but we keep one just in case we're wrong. @lopert opted to put two Dirty Laundry instead of my 2 Kati, but I believe midrange/long term economy is better to curve out the speed of your deck.

Finally, Rebirth. I can say this; I would never have thought I would use Quetzal or Edward Kim to win a Regionals, but I did. They were absolutely relevant against people in the cut. Quetzal helped me fight a Palana who splashed for Spiderwebs, making it a 1 credit tax(bad pub), it helped me live VS Blue Sun kill, burning their Scorched Earth's and Consulting Visits. It also helped me burn necessary cards against EOI Sync, burning Fast Track, Biotic Labor, amongst some others I can't remember currently.

Special thank you to @XVRogue, as he helped me stay focus and practicing with what little time I had to catch back up to the meta. I cannot take complete credit to this deck either, as it was @lopert who shared me his version, and I merely compared my Worlds list to help me make informed updates to the list. Please feel free to post up in the comments any questions you may have.