Stop, Calibrate, and Listen - Winner Champaign Store Champ

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BraveLilToaster 472

Winner Champaign Store Championship (12 players)

I had been playing CI for a month or so before doing very badly with it at a Chicago store championship, and so I decided to change things up. I knew CtM was good, but in practice online I was only winning about half of my games. Then I added the Team Sponsorships (admittedly an idea I stole from @grimwalker's NEH deck that crushed me in the previous tournament I attended). Most often they were there to recur calibration testing and commercial bankers group. Though twice on the day I recurred agendas that had been milled away by self-damage anarch decks.

This deck feels even stronger than CI to me. In a couple games it spat out 4-5 points from rnd early, but it was still able to rally and win in the end.

I also am a huge believer in AR-Enhanced Security now. I believe 3x is the right amount. Scoring one early can be game-deciding.

In swiss it faced Steve Cambridge (win), Geist (win), self-damage MaxX (lose), and ID the last round. In the cut it faced two different flavors of MaxX (reg-ass and self-damage) and won both games.

3 comments
5 Feb 2018 Yukon

This gets a heart just from it's deckname. It looking like a quality deck that performs well is just bonus.

5 Feb 2018 PureFlight

Just did well with a very similar list! Thoughts on a 3rd Team Sponsorship?

Also, my tag+punishment package was a little different from yours, and I never felt like I had the right combination of tag punishment cards in hand. Would you make any changes from yours?

6 Feb 2018 BraveLilToaster

@PureFlightYou could try 3 team sponsorships though in my experience they almost never get trashed and aren't strictly necessary to win the game so I opted to keep the traditional CtM Marilyn instead.

I consulted with some Chicago players on the operation package and I think this one is pretty brutal. Only thing missing is psychographics but if you have all those tags on them already you're probably winning anyway.