Brave Enough For Politics - 12th Place, New York Regionals

A lot of people had a rough time during Mumbad cycle, but there is no one it was worse for than Jesminder Sareen.

Her sister Akshara Sareen was running for office and Jesminder, being a good and supportive sibling agreed to help out with the campaign.

Her brother Krishnan Sareen, by contrast, was not a very good or supportive sibling, particularly with regard to how he conspired with Jinteki to have Akshara assassinated.

That was devastating for Jesminder.

Now, after a lot of healing, Jesminder is finally brave enough to get involved in politics again. Thanks to her pal DJ Fenris, Jesminder has a new politician to support: ChiLo's own Liza Talking Thunder.

Hopefully Jesminder has found someone a little less assassination prone this time, because it really would be horrible if after Jes FINALLY summoned the courage to support another candidate, something were to happen to them .

Notes on the deck:

I adore playing Jesminder and she's never been particularly good. But Hot Pursuit is out now and that card gives a new justification to play the ID that she didn't have before. This particular iteration of the deck went 2-3 at NY Regionals so I don't have anything to be too proud about, but I think it hits on some good themes for Jesminder deck building:

• Maya + Equivocation lets you shred R&D if you can keep the costs of running low enough.
• Playing Maya means you can cobble together a rig of programs that is really good at dealing with whatever the corp throws at you, which helps with the previous point.
• Hot Pursuit and Datasucker force the corp to spread out ice even wider on all three central servers, which helps with the previous two points.

For this deck, I think Datasucker and Escher are very good cards for the current meta.

Political Operative was mainly put in the deck for thematic reasons.

Laamb should probably be Inti, though it does give you cool options with using DJ Fenris to get your friend Quetzal.

Levy AR Lab Access isn't that important to the deck.