45 Purist (3rd of 34 Early Birds)

In the morning before tournament I wanted to play Kit. I thought she had reasonable way to stop corps´ rush attempts and later on she could lock R&D with Conduit. It may be true but during my two morning testing games I confirmed to myself once again that I suck at playing shapers. So I theory-crafted Zahya deck without even realising I could have built it as a 40 card deck. Turns out I do not suck only in playing shapers but also in math.

As for the game plan, the deck should be fast enough to hold the fast corps in check. You cannot let them score Cyberdex Sandbox and unleash the virus hate. Because the deck capitalises on the runs I decided to include Leeches instead of traditional green orbs. To have a reasonable late game I opted for Mining Accident and Rebirth into Steve Cambridge. I did not include any hate cards except NoH as I hate the hate-card strategy. Playing true criminal means your only hate play is to pressure corp and deny it money and that itself should be sufficient.

The deck went 2-1. In order to win, you need to pressure hard from the beginning not allowing the corp to take a breath. Do not be afraid to rebirth early to get the DoFs and other run economy back. Once the servers are properly iced, you start losing. The other way to win is due to incredible luck, such as I had in the last game against @SimonMoon.

Lastly, I would like to thank @Ysengrin for TOing this tournament to the very end, despite all complications. I liked the single-swiss format, it has its unique tempo and I also appreciate the fact that there is no IDing or 2for1ing.

PS: to trim the deck to proper number of 40 cards remove definitely 1x Mutual Favor, 1x Smartware Distributor, 1x Inside Job, the rest depends on your playstyle

My corp choice for this tournament is here