'rara, the noisy little lion (1st, Chimera Nottingham SC)

(YANL -- Yet Another Noise List)

I'm no Noise guru. Rather than the result of meticulous testing, this list is a bit of "ehh, whatever" after seeing Imrahil's list while tweaking/sleeving the deck at 11pm the night before the tourney.

The deck went undefeated on the day.

Theoretically justifying the one of `Rara after the fact: usually if you've got an Aesop's, you're ok. The 'rara functions like a slightly weaker replacement until you find a real one, in which case you're supercharged. This is in fact more or less how the grand final played out; I had the 'rara but no Aesops for most of the game, and was mostly okay.

There's no other econ at all apart from the cache's; it seems more `standard' to do something like Josh, and have one each of 'zade and cyberfeeder, and 1 or more daily casts. This gives you a healthier econ overall, but any single one of those cards doesn't replace a missing Aesop's to the extent that 'rara does; you need to get multiples.

Another motivation for the change was space and influence for some goodies (hacktivist, utopia shard). These seemed to do work on the day; Utopia twice flushed an agenda out of hand late game after being hard cast when I was set-up and rich.

I make no claims that this is better than other Noise lists; just that he's strong enough you can do slightly different things and be fine, and posting this mainly for reference.