A Black Sun - BC, Canada Regionals. 1st in swiss. 3rd place.

This is the list I took to my local regionals today in Vancouver, Canada. 43 players. 6 rounds, and I had a SC bye. I finished 1st in Swiss with one loss on each side, and 3rd overall.

If you told me going in to the day that every runner I would face in swiss would be Shaper, I would have considered bringing something else. Historically, Shapers have had the breakers and econ to deal with Bootcamp BS. PPVP Kate especially. However of the five I faced, I lost to a Kit with Torch and Femmes, and Blacklist locked 3 Kates. Shapers may be your nemesis, but the fact that they rely on Lady to get by barriers is exploitable, as are the decoder suites of some decks.

The other big departures from bblum's Bootcamp Glacier, which this deck owes a lot to, are found in the agendas and an ICE. First, Nebula. It is awesome. I've found that a lot of runners just aren't preparing for a 5 strength destroyer these days, especially if you use it on archives. Sometimes you can even rez a blacklist when Sharpshooter is in the heap and they have a clone chip.

As for the agendas, Oaktown is just a better Corporate War. In the previous suite I had two PriReqs, this deck was most sad when one was stolen, because that meant that the runner only needed three agendas to win. While that can still happen, this makes it much rarer, and gives you another easy way to score out. However, I'd never score the HT as anything other than the last point.

Matches:

R1: SC Bye

R2: PPVP Kate with Gordian. He discarded his Gordian on an early turn, so I installed a Blacklist behind a Tollbooth and a Datapike. Inevitable after that.

R3: CT Stimshop with Yogasaurus and Switchblade. Was running BlacKat, so double Curtain Wall and Wormhole were my scoring ICE.

R4: PPVP Kate. Blacklist locked his Ladies.

R5: MOpus Kate with Account Siphon. Disastrous start, and he got to 6 points largely based on the two Siphons I didn't see coming, then I was able to Blacklist lock his Ladies and score out from 0.

R6: Kit with MOpus, Torch and Femmes. Just couldn't tax him out.

Elim 1: Loss to NRE Reg-Ass MaxX. Had I remembered to rez the Blacklist I EBC'd, it would have been close. Instead he Deja'd a Yog.0 and I tilted a bit.

Elim 4: Win against the same MaxX. He got unlucky and milled all his Levy options and a bunch of econ, I Snatch and Grabbed the Kati, and eventually scored out as he ran out of steam.

Elim 5: Lose to the Account Siphon Kate from before, who eventually won.

Changes I'd make? Not sure now. I feel like most of my losses can be chalked up to a strong runner meta and suboptimal plays on my part. Even with NRE Yog around, I don't think I'd change the Code Gate suite. Datapike hurts to check, and Lotus is good against Anarch. I used to run a Mother Goddess; that might be another good early option.