Ele-lusive (1st Place Arizona SC)

This is the runner deck I took to the Arizona SC and won the tournament with. It went undefeated 4-0. I really like the use of Beth + Peace + Tapwrm, and the flexibility that Clone Chip allows is quite a liberating feeling. Even if I have no reason to use clone chip on clot or misdirection, etc., it still has a lot of value as just more copies of Tapwrm, which gives me a full 9 installs of Tappy.

Tappy Tappy makes me Happy.

The Atman was added last minute just in case someone (cough CI) was going to try to lock me out with Mythic ice, fortunately that didn't happen, otherwise I'd take it out or swap it for Mad Dash/Interdiction. The REAL hero of this tournament, though, was Clot. This deck does hard anti-FA by giving clot as much staying power as possible, and it absolutely was a major player in 3 of the 4 games that day. I will NEVER go back to non-clot-lock Smoke until rotation pries it out of my hands. Other than that this is a fast smoke deck based on setting up quick and applying pressure while using Equivocation + Mirror to close out the game. The one leftover influence could be used on Turning Wheel or Hunting Grounds, but I felt little need for it.

1st Match - CI Bullshit. Oh look, a CI deck leaning on MCA Austerity Policy. What a surprise. Clot/Beth made MCAAP useless, and Tappy LOVED the 20+ credits they sat on the whole game, but while the deck ran only 3 pointers, I eventually closed out with Equivocation.

2nd Match - Titan FA. Would have been a much harder game if not for clot lock shutting them down pretty hard. Best play was using an indexing just to get them to burn an Atlas Token (for another Atlas) then running their hand to steal the Atlas.

3rd Match - NEXT Rush. Rush is surprisingly good right now since so many runner decks are slow, this guy's NEXT deck had won 3 straight so far, but while he did get to 4 points quickly, he couldn't close out the game because I mulliganed for a breaker, then used Peace + Clone Chip + SMC to get the other breakers out ASAP. After that he couldn't keep me out.

4th Match - More CI Bullshit. Different player, near identical deck. Again Tappy/Beth and Clot were all-stars. The game almost went to time because they were running Vanity Project for minimal agendas, but they got desperate and tried to hail mary a 5 ice server to win by having more points at time out, but I had farmed too many Net Mercur bucks for it to matter. The tournament ended with CI on 3 credits, tossing some 20 cards into archives and then I ran it win the game. #FeelsF**kinGoodMan. #EatItCI