Sifr Kate / London 1.1.1.1 tournament

Built for the London Thameside Casual Onesies tournament in Feb 2017. Team 3, the mighty Jank Bank, finished in a glorious last place.

As this was my first real attempt at deck-building I decided to ignore Hard Mode - building both Corp and Runner decks from the same boxes - in favour of the Coward's Path, and embrace the most obviously powerful combination I could think of. Turns out Parasite and Clone Chip work really well together. FFG might want to look at that.

Cards

The operational side of the deck is pretty straightforward: Anarch core set programs because they're brilliant; Shaper C&C breakers because they're brilliant; SMCs (brilliant) to get them out; Clone Chips (brilliant) to get them back; and Sifr (brilliant) to support Atman at zero and turn the Parasites into instant speed ice-eating monsters from the darkest corners of corporate nightmares.

The money side of things might be a little more interesting. I took Quality Time as my 3-of because while Temujin Contract is the best money card in the game, there are plenty of pretty good ones, and money is nice but quick set-up time might be better. Temujin, monster that it is, exchanges six clicks for 16 credits; Peace in Our Time, albeit with heavy caveats and downsides, exchanges just one for nine.

So with Diesel/Quality Time/Aaron Marron counters feeding you cards and PiOT/Daily Casts/Sure Gamble giving you efficient money to install them, the early-game pottering about phase is as short as possible. And once you're set up, you don't need a huge amount of money to exert pressure: all ice is the same strength in the eyes of Parasifratm0n. That was the theory, and it worked ... okayish? Certainly, I never felt like setup was dragging on too long.

Games

Two wins and a timed win. Against a rushy GRNDL I got the Cyber-Cypher on the remote early to skate past Enigma, then used the Parasites to kill anything nasty that popped up. Only ran into one Snare, and remote locked to the win. Against Haarpsichord, Aaron Marron and Medium turned up nice and early, and between them terrorised the Corp into submission. Tags? Pfft.

The timed win came against an HB glacier deck. Morally speaking it was at best a draw, and had the game gone two turns longer it would have been a timed win for my opponent. Some silly choices on my part plus some well-timed, annoyingly-recurred Marcus Batty uses on my opponent's meant that the game stayed 0-0 for ages as my recursion leaked away.

As time was called I spent my last Clone Chip getting into the scoring remote to steal the first agenda I'd seen all game, a 4/2. The game then ended with a two-advanced 5/3 sat in the remote that I would never have been able to steal. I'd have had to dig for my Levy, and there were two Ark Lockdowns floating around R&D somewhere. Extremely fortunate, all told.

Kudos to WorldSerpent and Bruno for, respectively, organising and running the tournament: it was great fun.

Packs used: Core Set, Creation & Control, Quorum + Quality Time x3