Mumba NEH (Utah Regional Winner) [26 Players]

Shmeguyyyyyy

@heartthrob - way to go man. Well played on your part. What would you change lil engines to if you're facing all shaper ?

@yeoda If it's stealth shapers that run Refractor instead of Study Guide...i'd pull one maybe. If SG, keep both! In our testing against SacCon Shapers with Clot the ice wasn't the issue. You need to spam assets and go fast. Most of those Shapers have lousy burst econ and take setup time, meaning they can't afford to keep a real clot threat up + check remotes + pressure centrals all at the same time. Also sneaking out BNs to blow up their stuff with ASI is usually a death sentence for them. I think your ice will be mere speed bumps in that MU anyway dog.

I've been playing a similar deck but with two cerebral static instead of the biotic to deal with what I thought were the hard matchups in whizzard and leela. Do you find both those matchups to be good without? I also play gfi over napd with two one pointers, but don't play asi and have a different ice makeup. Does ASI flat out win you the games when it's fired to justify it's inclusion?

This looks strong. Do you miss Hostile Infrastructure from builds such a mine or is the biotic more important in your match ups?

@Hazzwald Yeah the way we deal with Whizz is by prioritizing good ice on R&D and slowing down your play at the beginning just long enough to get enough hard cash that asset trashing won't bankrupt you when you need to rez ice. We've tested Whizz, Hayley and Leela the most against this I'd say and you play against all three very differently. @Shmeguy's been testing the GFI versions of late, but I'm not sold quite yet. It gets you an extra ice, which is baller. ASI flat out wrecks Noise (or any pancake anarch), Leela (Gang Sign/Drug/Kati/SecTest -style) and Pitchfork Hayley when it hits. It's gud.

@CodeMarvelous Just different ways to attack the Whizz amiright. Don't know which is better tbh

@Heartthrob I hear the best way to kill a whizzard is with a bunch of Hobbits

@CodeMarvelous Hobbits in bunches is ... terrifying.

I've found that 2 Little Engine is the best way to beat any Whizzard. Blaine's a pain.

May I ask what you protect your scoring server/sansans with?

Rarely do i ice remotes. It's all matchup dependent though. I may create a scoring remote against Shapers to waste their SMCs/Clones just to keep the clot threat minimal and to sneak a nice BN out for ASI. But this is horizontal NEH amigo...no need to waste time icing sansan

I like the list, but in NEH when you have 3 Sponsorship, I feel like Sensie Actors Union might be better than DBS here. Sure, you might only get 1 activation out of it, but thats still maybe more valuable than 2-3 triggers on DBS. Also it motavates non anarches to waste their time trashing something.

@podoboyz99you are correct. SAU is much much better. We thought it might be, but didn't have time to test it before this tournament.

Played it on a GNK yesterday. I removed both Daily Business Show and 1 Cyberdex Virus Suite for 3 Sensie Actors Union. ICE was amazing, "Geist" players fell from their chairs. Whizzard stumbled and could not keep the pace.

Yeah sensie is the shit now, @spore Stumblefork?