Estevez reporting live on #ShaperBS (8th @Hadrian's Wall)

Came 8th at the 54-person Hadrian’s Wall tourney in Edinburgh, entirely on the strength of this runner deck going 5-1.

I'm pretty sure others have been thinking the same sort of thing with Val but I couldn't find any extant decklists so I thought I'd push it out there.

The Deck Points

1. Turns out getting clot at ability speed is pretty good against fast advance – I wonder if anyone told shapers about that yet? If you can keep the clot or SMC hidden under a street peddler you can really capitalise on the surprise factor.

2. Cyber-Cypher secret tech over boring Atman; Faust can get you into remotes if you need and when you’re grinding against that Tollbooth on R&D or the Caprice remote CyCy is a cheaper outlay than Atman for the first 4 runs. With 2x and 3xCVS everywhere you can’t rely on datasuckers either (save those clicks for Ichi!).

3. Street peddler is even more absurd with Val’s bad pub credit than elsewhere, play less events to compensate.

4. Medium is a good card, spending blackmails on R&D won me three games on the day.

5. People often assume you’re leaning harder on the blackmail recursion than you are, leading to some sub optimal plays by the corp.

6. Would love to play imp but struggled with space (both in slots and MU), would drop a carapace for one easily but since this was a UK tourney had to pack for Meat Damage.

Played in order: Cybernetics Brain Damage, ETF Glacier, RP, ETF FA, Haarpsichord FA, and Astrobiotics. Only loss was to that Astrobiotics in the final round, getting to 6 points but seeing too many CVS’s and too few agendas in R&D (including seeing the winning NAPD in R&D but having spent my fourth credit to trash the CVS above it).