Mumba NEH (Utah Regional Winner) [26 Players]

Heartthrob 2490

Big s/o to my man @Shmeguy for this highly refined and vigorously tested list. He took down 4 Store Champs in the UK with this build and it's still a powerhouse.

It's just Mumba NEH, nothing too fancy. The deck was undefeated on the day (6-0) against 3 Dumblefork Whizz, 1 Angry Val, 1 Good Stuff Val and 1 Leela.

This version puts a tiny bit more hurt on anarchs with dual Lil' Engines, 3 CVS and ASI. The Four 1-pointer loadout is still my favorite, even more so with a rise in Current play due to IG and other powerful horizontal decks.

All-Seeing Eye is life. I landed one in all but 1 game I believe.

s/o to my fellow Hackaholics @Akanderson, @Yeoda, @JackWeyland and @Shmeguy for putting hundreds of games into this deck with me.

The tournament only had 26 Players on the day, due to a lot of bad luck that kept many people from coming (our SCs had similar showings, so the low turnout was a surprise). The majority of the competitive crowd was there, however, so it wasn't any easier.

You can watch this deck in action on our Hackaholics Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/hackaholics/profile

15 comments
18 Apr 2016 yeoda

Shmeguyyyyyy

18 Apr 2016 yeoda

@heartthrob - way to go man. Well played on your part. What would you change lil engines to if you're facing all shaper ?

18 Apr 2016 Heartthrob

@yeoda If it's stealth shapers that run Refractor instead of Study Guide...i'd pull one maybe. If SG, keep both! In our testing against SacCon Shapers with Clot the ice wasn't the issue. You need to spam assets and go fast. Most of those Shapers have lousy burst econ and take setup time, meaning they can't afford to keep a real clot threat up + check remotes + pressure centrals all at the same time. Also sneaking out BNs to blow up their stuff with ASI is usually a death sentence for them. I think your ice will be mere speed bumps in that MU anyway dog.

19 Apr 2016 Hazzwald

I've been playing a similar deck but with two cerebral static instead of the biotic to deal with what I thought were the hard matchups in whizzard and leela. Do you find both those matchups to be good without? I also play gfi over napd with two one pointers, but don't play asi and have a different ice makeup. Does ASI flat out win you the games when it's fired to justify it's inclusion?

19 Apr 2016 CodeMarvelous

This looks strong. Do you miss Hostile Infrastructure from builds such a mine or is the biotic more important in your match ups?

19 Apr 2016 Heartthrob

@Hazzwald Yeah the way we deal with Whizz is by prioritizing good ice on R&D and slowing down your play at the beginning just long enough to get enough hard cash that asset trashing won't bankrupt you when you need to rez ice. We've tested Whizz, Hayley and Leela the most against this I'd say and you play against all three very differently. @Shmeguy's been testing the GFI versions of late, but I'm not sold quite yet. It gets you an extra ice, which is baller. ASI flat out wrecks Noise (or any pancake anarch), Leela (Gang Sign/Drug/Kati/SecTest -style) and Pitchfork Hayley when it hits. It's gud.

@CodeMarvelous Just different ways to attack the Whizz amiright. Don't know which is better tbh

19 Apr 2016 CodeMarvelous

@Heartthrob I hear the best way to kill a whizzard is with a bunch of Hobbits

19 Apr 2016 Heartthrob

@CodeMarvelous Hobbits in bunches is ... terrifying.

20 Apr 2016 AkAnderson

I've found that 2 Little Engine is the best way to beat any Whizzard. Blaine's a pain.

22 Apr 2016 XxSHIFTxX

May I ask what you protect your scoring server/sansans with?

23 Apr 2016 Heartthrob

Rarely do i ice remotes. It's all matchup dependent though. I may create a scoring remote against Shapers to waste their SMCs/Clones just to keep the clot threat minimal and to sneak a nice BN out for ASI. But this is horizontal NEH amigo...no need to waste time icing sansan

26 Apr 2016 podoboyz99

I like the list, but in NEH when you have 3 Sponsorship, I feel like Sensie Actors Union might be better than DBS here. Sure, you might only get 1 activation out of it, but thats still maybe more valuable than 2-3 triggers on DBS. Also it motavates non anarches to waste their time trashing something.

4 May 2016 Heartthrob

@podoboyz99you are correct. SAU is much much better. We thought it might be, but didn't have time to test it before this tournament.

8 May 2016 spore

Played it on a GNK yesterday. I removed both Daily Business Show and 1 Cyberdex Virus Suite for 3 Sensie Actors Union. ICE was amazing, "Geist" players fell from their chairs. Whizzard stumbled and could not keep the pace.

7 Jun 2016 Shmeguy

Yeah sensie is the shit now, @spore Stumblefork?