7 agenda sportsmetal (1st Swiss/4th Louisville Regional)

it's basically @janktivist's sportsmetal regionals?; it's just a good solid deck. big ups to jank for testing this deck to death for me. ;)

Changes from that version:

• -2 Hyperloop Extension
• +1 Domestic Sleepers
• +1 Voting Machine Initiative

I wanted to lean into the 7x3 + 3x0 agenda suite from matusczak's original deck, so I did. Voting Machine Initiative.... sure is a thing.

• -2 Scarcity of Resources
• +1 Blue Level Clearance
• +1 Loki

Having played against it, I'm fairly confident in this deck's ability to play without spookytown, and also to counter currents if it needs to. I used the freed slots to get an 18th ice and another draw/money card.

• -1 Ash 2X3ZB9CY
• +1 Mason Bellamy

Mason makes it wildly easy to score Ikawahs in a remote. Thanks, Damon!

• -1 Enigma
• +1 Magnet

This is probably micro-optimizing, but: Magnet costs Engolo an additional credit to break. That's it. That's the reasoning.

On playing seven 5/3s out of HB:

Holy cow, the 5/3 selection in HB IDs is terrible.

• Eden Fragment (strongly considered it when I was also considering Asa as an ID instead)
• Hades Fragment
• Utopia Fragment
• Priority Requisition
• Project Wotan
• Voting Machine Initiative
• Vulnerability Audit

VMI ended up as agenda #7 solely on account of the way it helps make FC3 more durable. If this deck wasn't spending its influence entirely on 6 Weyland ice, I would have even considered a Vulnerability Audit solely because it can disguise itself as a single-advanced NGO Front.

Performance on the day

• Round 1: bye.
• Round 2: win, beating a Rezeki Khusyuk Wu.
• Round 3: ID, but I then played (eventual champion) @janktivist in a couple casual games on stream and 2-0'd him. That'll teach me.
• Round 4: ID
• Top cut round 2: Lost to a goodstuff Leela deck; despite having seven real agendas, I'd drawn five of them by turn 4 or 5 (and still had some luck despite that: in a hand of 3x Ikawah 1x Ash, my opponent managed to only find the Ash).