Spanish Inquistion (Revised Worlds 32nd, 82st, 93rd, 103rd)

NOBODY EXPECTS!

Anyone who didn't expect CtM at worlds isn't really keeping up.

@IroncacheMaybe its a joke about Monty Python ?

@aakroma Maybe. Maybe its also a follow-up joke about how pervasive CtM is in competitive Netrunner. I guess we'll never truly know though; art being subjective and what not.

@Ironcache It's simply a joke about Spaniards playing something unexpected (Door to Door).

I mean, yes? Almost everyone would expect people from Spain to go to world's I'm sure, especially national champs. Most would probably also guess that they'd bring a deck that could plausibly win world's, which admittedly has a breadth of possibilities, ranging from playing EoI in CtM with assets, to playing Psychographics in CtM with assets, to playing [edgy import here] in CtM with assets.

I want trying to rain on anyone's parade with my initial comment. This deck looks strong, and I hope the players that went to world's enjoyed it. But, to be clear, this was the most predictable Spanish Inquisition in recorded history.

I Wasn't trying to...*

I looked over my last comment and realize I might've come off more negative than I intended. It's a game, and the important thing is people have fun with it. I sincerely just intended it to be a light-heated joke (I think we can agree that CtM is a very common face in competitive Netrunner).

Anyway, congratulations to your crew for the strong average placement. Hope it was fun and memorable.

@Ironcache I get the sentiment that CtM + Assets isn't an extremely novel combination (and also that you were just trying to playfully chide people for describing it as unexpected).

At the same time, I gotta give some respect to anyone who brings Private Security Force to day 2 of Worlds. To me, that's the truly amazing thing.

I guess also any yellow deck that isn't a Breaking News/24/7/Exchange of Information combo deck is unexpected to me.

@Ironcache82nd player here. The "Nobody Expects" is for:

• One of our players (2 times Spanish National Champion) wrote on a Stimhack thread "NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION" to announce 4 spaniards will come to worlds (Last year there was only one, me. 2013, nobody. 2012, only one. So, you can't say that is something expected). Obvious reference to Monty Python, as well.

• Regarding the deck, it performed really well, and the combination of Dish, Aryabhata and Door to Door was something no one could see in advance, and that's something unexpected (even a tester who played against one of us got really amazed by it, as some other big names like, for example, @spags, who's actually playing his own version). It also performed well in KOS, getting a 4-1, only losing to D1en who removed Boom! from the game and won straight after I scored a PSF who could have bring him some problems. Also, our team was named "NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION" (Again :) ). Then, the deck is solid, losing only on the clock against crazy mediums runs, and having only 8 agendas in helps against that, making it harder to achieve (one of my rivals made a 17 R&D cards access to score nothing, as all the agendas were on the bottom thanks to Sensie. Then, in this situation, you have to forget about Jackson and Museum, of course).

So, the "Nobody expects", which was my comment, was more like our inside job, which was repeated several times all the weekend, but also a reference at all I said before :)

Thanks guys for the nice comments! And, of course, thanks @Erik_Twicefor the initial idea!

(By the way, it was also 3rd place in a SC this weekend, because I played very poorly my top games :( I really wanted to give the deck a good achievement, but well... maybe another day)

Beautiful influence spread

@moistloaf 10 "free" influence, 100% Weyland. No MWL. It's indeed beautfiul :)

I played a very similar build last week, with mixed results. I was already playing the @Greylin list before Worlds, and found it so fun that I couldn't help myself trying this approach after I knew the Spanish team at Worlds were going to take it there.

My version has a different agenda mix with fewer 5/3 agendas and an AstroScript Pilot Program. I also removed the Bankers (maybe I shouldn't?) to free up some influence to slot in a Zealous Judge, which I think is a cool threat in this particular deck, anyway.

How do you find Observe and Destroy vs. Best Defense? I was trying the latter but never got the chance to use it...

Kudos for the deck and congrats to my fellow Spaniards for the results!

@DarthIA Hey, glad yo hear you are having fun with the deck :D

For me the top prioirt is saving as many deck slots as possible, which is why I decided to run as many 5/3s. I would even run Global Food and Vanity Project if I could! Being able to score is not a priority.

Zealous Judge looks a lot of fun, you can easily play one copy and tutor it. You don't need the bankers per se, so feel free to experiment, but you often want to tutor for them so I would keep 1 at least.

For me Observe and Destroy is better because it allows you to trash anything with just one tag. After all, if the Runner has more than one you can just tutor Boom and win, rendering Best Defense unecessary.

Hope yo keep playing it, have fun!

I'm trying this out, as said is not much fun for the runner. I've swapped wraparound with Ip Block. But in the future i'm looking foward to implement Macrophage (for the extra 4 traces that can drain the runner resources quite fast if Aryabhata is rezzed)

Nice to know you like it!

Bear in mind, though, that nowadays is not a good moment to play this, as Andy with Power tap is growing popular... But if you have none of it in your meta, enjoy it!