Armored Turtle v5: The Medium that came in from the cold.

I took Stirling to the Spanish Nationals, finishing in 9th place after tiebreakers kicked me out of the top tables with 14 points. I lost one game as Runner and two as Corp.

Brief Tournament report:

1) Astrobiotics: He leaves HQ open and I sihphon him, then Legwork nets a quick agenda, tricky play finds me another one and I soon find myself in a comfortable position with Tri-Maf and Logos on the table. He is leaving R&D virtually undefended (just an Enigma) so I let him score so I can dig up for Medium. He doesn't seem to realize that so I dump Peacock, Medium and hit him once, as a warning. He ignores it and I keep it easy, letting him clear cards out of R&D with Daily Bussiness Show until he's one agenda away from a win, then I hit him with Medium like crazy and win.

2) HB FA: Don't remember this game too well. He had a decent start, but I spam Legwork and steal two agendas, putting me in lolmedium mode. Lolmedium works and I win.

3) Astrobiotics: Lolmedium wins.

4) HB FA: This was an extremely grueling game against Cartesius, a regular. Lots of back and forth, good play on his part and we reach the end with three agendas each. He has a Biotic in hand, I have a deadly Medium but neither of us can win. He creates an opening but I siphon him and run R&D, stealing a one-pointer. He purges and I run to charge it back, without luck. He might win any moment now and his R&D has a Tollbooth, a Heimdall 2.0 and an Ichi. I could run it if I use Inside Job but I'm tagged he could kill me with Tri-Maf. I look at him and realize he won't notice...I go to R&D and nothing. He plays his turn and forgets he could kill me, which I'm happy to point to him because secretly I'm kind of a douchebag. He plays something in the remote, which is protected by Caprice. Not a chance! I make a glory run on R&D and win :D

5) Jinteki RP: I have a strong start with The Supplier, Rachel Beckman and two Tri-Mafs. He knows I can get in any second now and so places most of his ICE on the remote, install an agenda and advances it twice. Realizing it's a non-threatining Future Perfect I let him score it so I can dig for Medium and soon I get two. I start hitting his poorly defend R&D, but he keeps scoring. Next turn he's going to win and I hit double-Medium for around 9 cards. His agendas are all at the bottom and I lose.

Decklist overview:

1) Drive By is a very powerful card, though three copies may be overkill. You normally spend the early game trashing junk and Drive By does it for you. It's specially strong against NBN, which helps.

2) Account Siphon is a meta card. I wanted to have more control over the NBN matchup but Traffic Jam was completely useless so I just decided to run Account Siphon instead. Yeah, sure, it's compeltely anti-sinergetic with half of the deck but it works with Medium and that's all I really care about.

3) lolmedium wins games. You don't win games because you run R&D Interface.