Emperor-in-Exile [CBI 2025]

Council 2027

Sadly had to skip out on CBI because of a project taking precendence. This is what I would have brought, prepping for CBI was still great fun, nicely done by the people qualifying. :)

Deck had me feeling like

10 comments
20 Jan 2025 wowarlok

I came here expecting Decoy... What happened?!?

20 Jan 2025 Council

You've been swindled, banboozled, wowarlok'ed...

20 Jan 2025 HaverOfFun

That Mozart beat has all the hooligans bopping

20 Jan 2025 eden_online

This is both inspired and deeply sensible. Cutting Moshing and The Price feels scary but it makes perfect sense, and forgoing Charm to just efficiently break big ice with Audrey is great. Very excited to try this out for regionals.

20 Jan 2025 Jai

we are approaching levels of minimum decksize hitherto thought impossible 🚨🚨

nah but seriously Valentina is cope cut that shit out

Also Ashen+Badge/Ama>LR+Cup is worth seriously talking about

20 Jan 2025 Council

@Jai

I tried cutting Valentina but she's basically Rezeki++, I think we need her.

Cups defo cool, there could theoretically be a version with a more robust, non-HotP econ suite that can play Cup+E4E instead.

20 Jan 2025 koga

You shouldn't have posted this...

I sense something coming...

21 Jan 2025 bowlsley

Svelte Seb!

21 Jan 2025 Neither

confused noises at all the lingo Cups? Like Cupellation? And then Hotp = Hot persuit? Lol Would be interested in seeing the version if so :)

22 Jan 2025 Council

@Neither

That's right.

Cups = Cupellation HotP = Hot Pursuit (shoutout to Brandon for "Not Hot P(ee)!" E4E = Eye for an Eye

Yeah it's ever tricky to get it right, I spent a long time 'not' on Seb for this meta before coming back around. I had to understand what corps existed first before I could tailor the deck to what it needed to be able to do, and overcome.

It's still pretty experimental - looking at top 5's across the board I think it is largely favored into most things, but stuff like NotAgain's Outfit (which I knew about but didn't know the exact contents of) would be likely problematic, especially without matchup practice.

I don't think this is the last we've seen of Seb. :)