Atheist Fastro (King of Swiss/5th, UK Games Expo Regional)

tomdidiot 574

This is a fairly traditional Fast advance NEH deck that took me to King of Swiss at the UK Games Expo 120-person mega regional. It is a throwback to the oldstyle NEH lists that would occasionally attempt to build a remote to push agendas out of; something which is increasingly necessary in a Whizzard-heavy meta. Most of the time, you'll be able to get an iced etr on your remote befor Whizz can get his breakers out, so you should be able to push early agendas out efore Whizz can get setup. It also has lots of ice; enough to play a long game against most Shapers. This deck beat 3 clot shaper decks on the day; mostly by pushing at least a few agendas out through a remote.

Its only loss of the day was in the double elimination where I flooded like mad without seeing a Jackson.

Notes on card choices - No temples. Temples suck against Whizzard - at least the PADs cost some money to trash. Sensie is too bonkers to not use, so I'm running those over DBS.

To improve your matchup against Whizzard, you want to be protecting your money assets and TeamSpons with ice. Like seriously. A Popup will do a lot to deter Whizz from wrecking your PADs.

4 comments
6 Jun 2016 shanodin

Very similar to the list I was running Friday but I had the Temples. Love your deck name :D. 2x Biotic is gold dust in this meta.

7 Jun 2016 cursor

Did you get to use the All-Seeing I often enough for it to earn its slot?

7 Jun 2016 Katsushika

Nice list. Couldn't believe my luck when you flooded out hard in the top cut. That game was yours bro! Did the Turnpike pull its weight? The one-of Team Sponsorship is super interesting too, but thinking about it I'm finding it difficult to find a better 1 inf card.

8 Jun 2016 tomdidiot

@cursorYup. The blowouts it can cause are amazing, and you're able to dig deep for it with SAU. Seriously though, you don't need it to annoy Whizz; BN Trash is fine.

``@Katsushika` The Turnpike was pretty good at annoying Whizzard and other Anarchs. It's not great (you can't rush behind it), but I don't really have a better sentry. I might try Cobra, but 1 STR is really not where you want to be in the current metagame.