First match post. Fuzzy vs Garth Davos. Ding, round 1. Garth (The World Is Yours) against my Andromeda deck. The last time I played Garth was in Genesis league, where I pitted my Andromeda deck against his HB. (I dont always play Andy, honest!) Garths deck is fundamentally a Jackson credit engine, with fast-advance. Mine is fundamentally a credit denial deck. This could get messy... Early on, Garth ices HQ with what turns out to be a Pop-up Menu. Ooh, bad move; that just means I get more credits when I Account Siphon him. Which I do. Lots. I steal an early Project Beale from R&D (woot!). Garth puts something in a remote, ices it. I run -- and he rezzes the Chimera. Nice-- I can Special Order a Gordian Blade, install it, and run again -- stealing another agenda (Gila Hands?). Ive tossed a Faerie into the mix, and dont mind throwing it away to get into R&D, past the ice there (cant remember what it was, mind is going, Dave...). Garth is starting to hurt, and hes got nothing in the way of credits (he later admitted he was sitting on two Restructures and just couldnt get them off). Finally, he pulls off a round of credit-gaining Operations (two Sweeps Weeks and one of those Restructures), which lets him rez the Tollbooth in front of HQ, slowing my HQ accesses to a crawl. Im drawing like a demon (so is he, but he has Jackson for help, despite my continual trashings of him). I get the John Masanori+Desperado combo, and my last click each turn becomes a run on Archives for a credit and a card (who needs Professional Contacts?). Garth eventually stops my fun with some ice on Archives. So I run R&D and fluke another agenda (Astroscript). Five agenda, two to go... He tosses out two cards into a server, then rezzes the SanSan City Grid and scores the Project Beale, without overclocking. I kill the SanSan. He does it again. But its not until he scores the Astroscript that I know Im in trouble. Finally he puts me out of my misery with a Breaking News. A good tight match, but the better deck/player wins. Garth gets it, 10-5. Part the two: Garth plays Gabriel Santiago against my Making News deck. Hm, were both playing the same factions, but opposite identities -- probably some deep hidden meaning there, but if so, its staying hidden. Garths deck is essentially a Vegas deck -- get lots of credits and run lots. Mine is what Garth describes as a honeypot deck with Psychographics/Beale shenanigans. Five minutes later, having turned my deck upside down and shaken it until the agenda fell out, Garth walks away with a 10-0 victory. Against Gabe, most games are a bit like that -- if you survive the initial onslaught, youll win; but I didnt survive the initial onslaught. AND I missed my train :(
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:04:21 +0000
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