Last gasp of crim econ prison (3rd @ Colorado District)

My meta call here was to try catching corps off guard who may be looking for tight lines on their economies. Prepaid + Twinning package for snowballing on top of econ denial with typical crim stuff and supported by Mining Accidents.

In my mind's eye, I would be playing 2-3 Diversions by mid-game and using a Twinning or Cupellation boosted Rip Deal to bring them right back. On the day I think I played Rip Deal once and tended to pass on it in Class Act draws as inappropriate for the tempo to set it up.

It always felt good to be sitting on Finality in hand as the game approached conclusion from points or round timer. I don't think a Finality play closed out any games but there was at least one game where I found solid points from a 6-card R&D dig (Finality + Twinning).

Recommended changes: drop Rip Deal, replace Dobrado with Inside Job, add a second Sneakdoor. Pinhole would be important in a more Crisium heavy environment but I didn't anticipate it much for this event.

Tournament notes

R1. L vs Precision Design. Lost 6-7 at the buzzer. This game was going ok with a 4-3 lead until a Bran got rezzed on HQ slowing my ability to sap credits. Made a mistake in the last turn before time by trying to poke at a scoring remote I knew had a Manegarm I couldn't penetrate.

R3. W vs Epiphany Analytica. I had not played against Epiphany before. My opponent was also new to the game. There was an interesting loop here with cards I had little experience with like Balanced Coverage and Open Forum. I found an opening to play 2 Mining Accidents and used bad pub to manage the asset spam. Opponent did not have much defense on centrals to stop me from Twinning digs to win.

R5. W vs Jinteki PE. This was the most successful econ prison game of the day. I created a timing window to hard on credit denial after poking a few ICE rezzes. Diversions and PAN kept corp on clicking for credits several turns. I started to play more aggressively as time approached thinking I could close it out on points. Unnecessary because I had a pretty significant lead, maybe 5-2. Had the scariest turn of events as opponent dropped a 1-advance Blood in the Water the turn after I hit a Snare and thought I might be flatlined. Thankfully I had one card in grip to eat the net damage and there was no follow up damage.

Cut, winner's semis. L vs Ob Superheavy. Lost 5-7 at the buzzer. After looking at my opponent's list, I thought I was toast here. Many affordable barriers, Crisium, and Eminent Domain shenanigans looked to box me out of my game plan early. I was able to give the corp a hard time with tactical use of FAOs, Tread Lightly, and Sneakdoor Beta to snag points out of HQ. Pretty sure I played zero Diversions or maybe 1 that fizzled to a Border Control. Biggest hail mary of the day with Finality that whiffed for 0 steals. Almost had this one on time if I could have drained another credit or two.

Cut, loser's finals. L vs Asa. Total blowout from my opponent. Asa is excellently positioned to make ludicrous money while setting up affordable defenses at the same time. First click was an install and expose of Malia that crushed my opening draw of a Class Act that I was excited to use as a draw engine. I tried clawing out some tempo with an early PAN but this was no match for Asa's engine. Most of this game was me getting single accesses on R&D and seeing Fully Operational again and again and again.