1 Core + Ashes 1-1 4th of 7

We had a great small tournament in Berlin, getting to know the knew cards a little more in this fun format.

At a german nationals side event I won an Reina alt art, so the ID was set from the start. With Keiko and the companion suite you have a very strong eco engine in anarch. so that was set. This also ment many things to install to trigger paladin.

As I was already running multiples of the Keiko and the companions I didn't want many doubled programs, so SMC was the way to go. With Keiko's MU it shouldn't be a problem to juggle some programs around. There are 2 Femmes because I wanted to discard one early for the Retrieval Run synergy.

In the end my icebreakers didn't mattered at all, as I only ever installed Corroder.

The first game against @p@stm@n went great, I found Paladin early and installed both Earthrise Hotels early for all the good stuff. I went up to 6 points with a comfortable lead, got cocky and ran a Snare on my last click. He had an advanced Ronin from round 2 or 3 onwards on the board I disregaded as a Junebug. I should have known it wasn't a Junebug when he didn't overinstall it, despite it being one of his few with ICE protected servers.

The second game I won against @yehonatan_ also on RP. I got him to rez an Eli 1.0 turn one on HQ which left his eco crippled for the next few turns. I got lucky running R&D in that time getting 4 points out if 4 accesses. The game went on for a bit, I started building my rig as I now had some breathing room.

While he got his eco online, I started threateing R&D with Stargate, he made a play preparing to install an agenda next turn, I installed Climactic Showdown, choose R&D, which he refused to let open against Stargate, and got lucky stealing Flower Sermon and Fetal AI from HQ while dodging both Snares.

All in all I really liked the deck, it probably has too much eco in it, another Stargate for example would be nice, but for a beginner like me I think it was the right call.