BOOM! Sun - 100% UNDEFEATED tournament winning WEYLAND list!

Sorry for the very much tongue-in-cheek title - the tournament was a six person GNK, so the "undefeated" means it went 3-0. It was paired with a take on the silly Val R&D Interface + Obelus Blackmail spam deck that's been doing the rounds.

This is @thebigunit3000's list that I saw on a stream, with -1 Ice Wall, +1 Meru Mati, and -1 Shattered Remains, +1 Snatch and Grab. The former change was because I've only got one alt art Ice Wall and didn't want to play with mismatched cards (I was obviously taking this tournament extremely seriously). The latter change was because I was more worried about Film Critic turning off Midseason Replacements than I was about meat damage protection. My thinking was that if you land the Midseason Replacements you can - in theory - keep BOOM!ing them until they run out of protection, whereas Film Critic basically turns off your kill win condition. It's also tutorable with Consulting Visit, so you have a pretty good chance of having a window to use it, or if they have some other Connection that you badly want to get rid of, I suppose. The down side to cutting the Shattered Remains is that you have nothing to send them down a taxing remote with, as we all know that you don't ever need to run an unadvanced card in a Weyland remote.

Tournament summary:

Game 1: Win vs. (regular?) Valencia

My opening hand lent itself to a rush attempt here, so I turn two (I think) Oversight AI'd an Orion on a remote and stuck an Oaktown Renovation in it, with spare clicks going on making money and protecting HQ (in case it was an Angry Val list). I gave up four points on R&D to Medium to score this, but when my opponent's answer to the Orion was a slow Parasite I thought I'd probably be able to keep the rush going. Next turn was ice R&D to defend against Medium, install Project Atlas in the remote, advance. Scored that, used it to get a Global Food Initiative, and score that next. Not the greatest strategy, I think, but I had either a Consulting Visit or Midseason Replacements in hand if the agenda got sniped (after pulling the Orion to hand to fund it). Win on points 7-4.

Game 2: Win vs. Stealth Kit

It turned out to be Surfer Kit, but my opponent didn't see enough of those pieces before the game ended. Their first turn was to SMC for Magnum Opus and mash it three times, so I was worried that I might lose the money race and didn't fancy my chances at being able to win this on points, as I didn't have a good answer to the classic Weyland problem of scoring the last agenda once the runner was set up. Fortunately I saw enough money and Oaktown Renovations early, and enough of the combo pieces (aided by Consulting Visit) in the meantime, that I managed to coax them into stealing what would have been the game winning Global Food Initiative while I had the Midseason Replacements in hand and the money to make it stick. Win with BOOM!

Game 3: Win vs. Gang Sign Leela

I saw an absurd amount of money early. I think I was on over 50 credits by Midseason Replacements time. The turning points here were playing Scarcity of Resources turn two, which is normally a questionable play if you suspect Employee Strike, but I had just drawn the second one and had a Jackson in hand to recur them so went for it after the first Gang Sign hit the table, as I assumed there would be more resources to come. That made Temujin maths unfavourable, helped by finding a Datapike to lock up centrals. Inside Job through an Oversight AI'd remote to steal a Project Atlas played into the Midseason Replacements plan, and I was lucky enough to top deck the BOOM! as my mandatory draw so I didn't even need to wait for one more turn to Consulting Visit it out. Win with BOOM!

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Really fun list, but with everyone playing Employee Strike to hate on NBN: Controlling the Message, I don't imagine we'll see it tearing up Worlds this week. Far less stressful than playing BOOM! out of NEH and seeing all your agendas pile up in HQ while you've got no way to score them, mind you.