Welcome to the Rebellion. (7th at APAC Online Continentals)

Here is my Corp Deck

Runner Philosophy

I’m a Shaper player by philosophy. I like building an engine, I like cool synergy pieces, and I like assembling an interesting collection of cards that are more than the sum of their parts. But I don’t like modern Shaper’s because they don’t feel like this to me, it feels like you’re bending over backwards and jumping through hoops just to do the bare essentials and scrape on by.

I swapped to Sable for megacities because she had better sustainable economy and once I really started to understand the interplay between the Mark, Sable, Info Bounty, Pennyshaver, Cezve and run events like Carpe Diem and Clean Getaway as well as understanding the right time to use Bahia Bands after a Transfer of Wealth to squeeze extra value from the tag removal. It all started to make sense to me and feel more like my kind of deck. Then Info Bounty got banned.

Seb is probably the closest thing to my preferred playstyle in standard right now.

Every Resource in the deck is a 2 or 3 cost Connection, making them perfect targets for Seb's ability. And every Connection other than Lago has some additional interaction or synergy with tags as well. The Lago in question plays well with Steelskin, Strike Fund and Buffer Drive, all of which then also synergize with Audrey v2. The Audrey gets help from the Gourmands which are also the perfect target for Privileged Access and the Audrey/Gourmand packages ties back in with Solidarity Badge which in turn works with the Amanuensis to tie it all back in with the tags. The Devil Charms and Leechs work with the Crews and the Audrey to shred strength and fix awkward break points. And last but not least the powerful run events Transfer of Wealth and Privileged Access give you tags, which ties them back in with everything else, rather than just being a green-shifted Crim card with no actual points of interaction with the rest of the faction at large.

There are honestly only 6 cards in this whole deck that don’t have some kind of special interaction. 3x Sure Gamble, for smoothing out early econ 2x Botulus, for bridging our limited breaking solutions 1x Ashen Epilogue for resetting the deck when we need extra juice for slow matchups

This is what I want, I want something fun and dynamic and creative and synergistic. I want more identities and card packages like Seb’s and I want more good, intriguing trojans for Arissana rather than IDs like Lat and Magdalene that ask you to do plodding, repetitive hand-size work for incremental, marginal value turn over turn.

What would I change about Seb?

1. I would’ve liked Devil Charm banned a long time ago so that ice destruction was less easy and required more interaction (visa-vi leech).

2. I wish Amanuensis would’ve been worded slightly differently to say, “whenever 1 or more tags are removed you may remove 1 hosted power counter to draw 2 cards.” Rather than requiring it be you who removes the tags. This way you’d actually have more game into kill decks rather than just dying from Touch-ups -> End of the Line after floating a single tag in an attempt to get your engine up and running. Alas, it’s a rather swingy card for the time being, quite strong in non-kill match-ups and kind of a dead card in EotL matchups.

What would I change about the deck

I'm not certain about a few slots, maybe cut down some cards here or there, shuffle some numbers around but I think the essence of the deck is strong and it's probably just a matter of iteration from here.

The Tournament

This deck went undefeated in Swiss and only lost a single game to Sokka in the entire tournament. I ultimately died on turn 5 to Public Trail -> End of the Line after clicking for credits to play around Oppo Research instead of drawing up to 4 cards. I'm still not sure whether to blame it on sleep deprevation, the fact that it was an unlucky top-deck (Public Trail was a one of in the deck) or that Nebula is such a spiky deck that punishes you for the smallest errors but the reality is I just made a silly mistake and hopefully I'll learn from it!

Congratulations to the King for winning the tournament! Somewhat intriguingly his deck looks very much like a Seb deck in a Hoshiko costume right down to the Manuel Lattes de Moura and Privileged Accesses so it's funny to see that this might actually be the optimal way to play Anarchs post Bankhar but only time will tell for sure.

Thank you all for a great tournament and I'm looking forward to EMEA Conts.