Baby Yaga (3rd at KayJay's Store Champs)

So Yaga's good. This is a deck originally built by Rob Curry, local Melbourne player and beard god, and I jumped ship because val was getting old and I've drooled over yaga ever since it was spoiled. It's had some slight re-iterations, namely going from power-tap lite into this weird behemoth of a thing it is today. I've taken ages to actually publish the list cos im a lazy fuck.

It's an odd andy list as you can see from the lack of despy+dirty laundry, making starting hands kinda awkward at times. The goal is (obviously) to build the full yaga rig, boosting 4 str for 2 creds and breaking anything but barrier subs for free (fuck you snowflake). 47 cards was just me jamming in a inside job, both for early pressure and incase I fought potatoes (i've been on 1 card short for a fetal before a bunch and didn't want to cut anything), which I didn't. You could probably cut a casts for the inside job or just cut it if you believe in absolute consistency.

Notable Card choices:

• Peace smooths over starting hands marvelously, you'll usually never get to start the game with the temmy day job so this helps you vomit out pieces of the rig, casts and earthrises. Lucky find also works well in this slot.

• Tapwrm is an insanely good card that either gives you the time to build the rig, or gives you the credits to build the rig faster. If you're a corp, don't let this fucker fester. I see this becoming as much a crim staple as aaron macarron in future times.

• The Gauntlet is your hq pressure, yaga makes things cheap so it's pretty good, also 6mu is important for the rig+medium+tapwrm, or a femme stuck in there somewhere.

• Rumor Mill is a card i always love as a one-of, this deck's weak to caprice/batty shenanigans and being able to at least shut it off for the critical turn is often the difference between a possible hard win and an easy win. I know rob has cut it to incorporate lucky finds and he prefers the cred swing from them and can definitely play around things, but I believe it's important to be able to force opponents on their deckbuilding choices and not solely rely upon the fear of god to weed out problematic matchups.

• Sac Con not only protects the rig, it functions as a tapwrm purge protector, forcing either recursive cyberdex play or 2 whole turns of purging to get rid of the damn thing.

• 2x the rig. I think this is the most important thing to note. No recursion. You lose a piece, it's gone. If you vs rigshooter or trashy lists, you want to bank your second rig so that if worst comes to worst, you can just rebuild.

• Symmetrical Visage is here because you don't have sec testing, you don't have despy, you don't have dirty laundry. You're gonna dig for shit and you need some click compression to keep afloat while you do. Kati fills the same niche.

• Femme fatale is your turing-on-a-remote answer.

I came 3rd at KayJay's store champs with this, along with a 45-blue sun list that swapped the 2 subliminals for paywall implementations (cmon) and an added election day.

Had some really close games in swiss, only losing to Hue's dumble who got setup well and locked me out of scoring or midseasons, and my wonder partner Allison's psyper list. Double elim I faced allison again and eked out a really early boom, and faced matt cox's BABW, where i ran foolishly early and ate some hard news. Back into 3rd place against allison where I land the midseasons and she scores the final agenda off the top of r&d last click while i have the boom in hand. It was a really great tournament with a ton of cool people and a huge shoutout to all of them.