Évolution Numérique Top 8@CBI finals 2025-01-26

At the CBI top cut finals, the deck went 1-1, placing me to be 6th at CBI finals.

Round 1. Win vs Jan Tuno on Esâ Afontov: Eco-Insurrectionist. Jan Tuno Esa version is super rich. In previous testing, I usually lose to it. Luck was on my side and Jan could not get Begemot installed. After a big draw to do the run on a triple advanced card, the 3x Anemone protecting it pushed Jan to 1 card, where Jan (rightly so) jacked out to avoid the flatline. Fujii Asset Retrieval + Neurospike gave me the win on turn 12.

Round 2. Lost vs Jan Tuno on Esâ Afontov: Eco-Insurrectionist. Just like in my tests, Jan Tuno Esa is impervious to Punitive Counterstrike. Simulation Reset allowed me to survive more turns than I expected, by taking out multiple agendas from archive, but I was not able to put my gameplan into effective actions in this game that was tense and concluded on turn 14. Well played!

Special thanks to Kror for the organization, the commenters and to Jan Tuno for playing twice against me. Cheers!

The deck went 3-1 at the Circuit Breaker Invitational (CBI) in the Asia Pacific (APAC) pod online on 2025-01-18, giving me the 5th (of 27) position (just making the cut).

Round 2. Win vs Spacelce on Zahya Sadeghi: Versatile Smuggler, flatlined by Fujii Asset Retrieval + Neurospike on turn 8.

Round 3. Loss vs F3nr1s on Hoshiko Shiro: Untold Protagonist. 9 points stolen in one turn was not something I could recover from (on turn 8). Well played!

Round 5. Win vs analyzechris on Esâ Afontov: Eco-Insurrectionist. I gave 6 points (Fuji + Bacterial) in archive. Even with 6 cards in hand, double Punitive Counterstrike did the trick because we were in the early game (turn 3). The game was streamed.

Round 7. Win vs enkoder on 419: Amoral Scammer. A run on click 3 with 4 cards in hand scored a Fujii Asset Retrieval, while I had Punitive Counterstrike in hand. That was game on turn 7.

Game plan : Flatline the runner with Punitive Counterstrike or Neurospike. EVERY agenda is a trap!

Mulligan plan : Ices in hand.

This deck was made with the input from the Dép Dive testing group of Montreal.

Ice are meant to tax the runner. Anemone goes exclusively on the remote to setup the Punitive Counterstrike after a steal.

Neurospike gives you another avenue to close the game. All else is credits.

The big change from earlier iteration is having Urtica Cipher to have a big bluff in case the deck makes it in the cut, where open decklists are expected. Also, more Simulation Reset increased the reliability, by allowing me to reset my hand and/or to find Punitive Counterstrike more easily.

The decklist name is the french version of my previous deck, with the added tweaks.

Big thanks to the organizer and judge (Kror) for organizing the event, we were 27 players and it was a blast!

Cheers!