Hubbub Architect - Top 16 US Nationals

Zolend 193

Nothing too fancy here -- it's the same shell as bblum's philly list but without Daily Business show. Calimsha pointed out they can be a liability with medium running rampant.

In their place, I slotted another fast track to break R&D locks and an extra Cyberdex for Noise, which I knew would be popular.

It lost two games in Swiss, one really close game to Gang Sign Leela and one to a Siphon Whizzard which caught me by surprise.

2 comments
5 Aug 2015 sruman

How were the tollbooths? Did you find yourself rezzing them often when you did find and place them? In the need-clot-tech world, I'm finding the loss of money cards is making Tollbooth a tough rez.

7 Aug 2015 Zolend

@sruman Tollbooth is a versatile card that I rezzed on quite a few occasions.

It is good against Kate early because it is one of the few cards in your deck that she can't break efficiently. Eventually Kate won't care about money but there are times where Tollbooth is very effective in this matchup.

Against Crim it is really nice to have in front of HQ to shut off Siphon, just be sure to put a pop up or something in front so it can't be inside jobbed > shutdown if you do need to rez it. Also, keep 8+ credits before rez or you will be punished hard.

Against Anarchs it can be a tough card to rez. If you can succeed in shutting off suckers (which the 2nd cyberdex really helps with) it can be good, just don't rely on it too heavily with D4V1D in the mix.

With NEH in general you have to be careful where and when you rez ice, especially the costly ones. At a certain point the runner will be rich enough to get in anywhere but controlling the game up until that point with this ice is very important. In those late game circumstances it may be better to hail mary into some sort of Fast Track Biotic play rather than spending the money preventing accesses.