Circus Hayley (4th at Euros)

When you use Brahman it's kind of sort of like juggling programs so:

This deck is the result of vigorous testing between Marcus(McBeast) and I in the two weeks leading up to euros. We went 13-3 combined during the course of the tournament, so the deck performed very well and felt like a great meta call considering all the Titan and Skorpios that were present this year. Marcus lost a game to Peter Dinya on Titan FA and I'm not sure I'll ever forgive him for this.

Anyway we started out testing lists that were very similar to the one Gregory Tongue piloted at the Stimhack second chance tournament with the addition of Compile, a card I feel most people underestimated at first sight, and some changes to the breaker suite to match. Primarily D4v1d and Femme.

Breakers:

D4v1d: One of the main problems runners had to find a solution to this year, was how to deal with Archer, and D4v1d + infinite recursion deals very well with Archer.

Cy-Cy/"Lady"/Femme: All strong Compile targets and breakers above the curve that don't mind being reinstalled. Not so much true for Femme, but you want to break sentries with the star of the show anyway.

Brahman: Star of the show that not only breaks a lot of ICE efficiently, but also acts as recursion for the 'single use' breakers. NRE usually goes with Brahman so you won't have to boost strength and can just enjoy breaking 2 subs for 1 credit.

Odd choices:

Imp: This is mostly tech against Lakshmi. I brought a CI Moons list to the tournament and it was simply difficult to win this match-up without Imp. I did not face any Moons, however there were still lots of utility: trashing agendas against Skorpios, MVT against CtM and general trashing of "stuff" followed up with a 3 credit discount to your 2 credit install. Also the new Alt-art is reason enough to play Imp in any deck.

Paricia: Or rather all 3 of them. The answer to asset spam and fodder for the downside of brahman. You really want to see 1-2 early against assets and they are never dead as you can of course just sell them so this got upped from 2 to 3.

Compile: If you haven't read Compile yet, now is the time. This card is your 4-5th SMC, it's your recursion and with this particular breaker suite you also kind of Inside Job the server, all in one click with one card. With Brahman you can even add the card installed with compile to the top of your deck instead of the bottom, and have a permanent answer to whatever you had to break on the remote - which is usually where you Compile run. *Do note that you can't bypass the initially encountered ICE with Femme + Compile.

My favourite Compile-featuring game was in the cut against Toby(knails) on Combo CI, where I couldn't find SMC so had to play Compile to fetch SMC and use that to install another SMC and then let vanilla fire. Same game I used it to get Clot from the heap and put it at the bottom of the deck - easily accessible with the Artist Colony. One of my runner games got recorded by Trace5, this game also features Compile twice both times leading to a steal. So hopefully you can see the deck in action once they publish their Euros content :-)

During the tournament I faced Combo CI, an Argus, a Titan, an Azmari, 2x Skorpios, a CtM and Roel(RvdH83) on his very cool Jermison list who was the only one to take a runner game from me.

Overall I'm very happy with how the deck turned out, in the near future you might need to figure out a couple of cuts for a current or two though, since everyone will be playing Palana with 3x Scarcity :D

I also must apologise for the 46 cards Proco list with literally 0 draw cards, but I'm just no good at minimal decksize...

Finally: A thank you to everyone I got to meet at the tournament and have fun with.