To the MaxX!

Mead hall store champs, on 2/6, 48 players. 5th in swiss at 4-1, 3rd in top 8. Played with Haarpsichord.

I feel like most of the card slots in here are pretty straightforward or self explanatory. As far as the breakers go, Faust is backed by your choice if situational breakers, as well as Datasucker. This deck looks to apply as much pressure as fast as possible by setting up 8 card per turn hands through Wyldside and MaxX: Maximum Punk Rock dropping any econ you see as you go and using Déjà Vu to recur any pieces that get binned on the first pass. This deck has given me a new appreciation for Legwork and The Maker's Eye. They were really all the multi access I needed.

If I had to make any changes, one of the major ones I felt would be good was the inclusion of a 3rd Faust. With only one mimic, hitting a swordsman unprepared could be a large tempo hit, even with the ability to deja vu it back. Also, not seeing one quickly can slow down your pressure early. The two biggest things I deja vued for were wyldside, and Faust. Anything else was usually to pick out a situational breaker I needed. The queens gambit wasn't bad, it felt nice sometimes to have a piece of econ usuable at 0 credits that also gave you enough to drop a liberated. That said it might be the first thing I'd cut. I never played the yog all day, but I never played against hb all day. Its main purpose was for turings on centrals.

Round 1: VS. Nesei Division. Win

Drew into a ton of econ early but no breakers. I had all 3 daily casts and a liberated down by turn 3, he used a Medical Research fundraiser as well. We both dug for sever turns, him for an agenda and I for a breaker. Finally he hits a Nesei mk II, installs and advances, and that turn i draw faust, install and run, passing a through a wraparound and a snowflake to score the nesei. 3 turns later make a legwork run on hq, win a psi games for TFP and see a GFI for game.

Round 2: VS Jinteki Biotech. Win

Drew an early wyldside + chronotype combo, then hit a scrubber and started checking his remotes, assuming some would be traps and i could handle a snare or even a psychic field as long as it was first or second click. Ended up seeing a braintrust, a medical breakthrough and a pad campaign. From their kept my hand size up and made multi access with sot, makers and legwork, keeping my hand 7 or higher so I could soak a double snare if I hit it. Found my last points of multi accesses.

Round 3: VS NEH Scorch. Loss

Played far to cautiously. Allowed him to tunnel out a astro and beale fairly quickly before I started to apply any pressure. Manage to pull and beale off his deck before he scored out with another astro and beale.

round 4: VS Blue Sun. Win

Played an early corroder, ran R&D several times, eventually one turn randomly found two priorty requisitions back to back off R&D while he had no punitive in hand. He put a swords man in front of the icewall on R&D and i lost my faust to it, ran his hand 3 times and sniped out an oaktown reno for the win.

Round 5: VS Spark. Win

Managed to get past sparks game text with an early career fair/ liberated accounts turn 1. Kept my econ hight from their on out. Played out both scrubbers and hit his ads as soon as they got rezzed. Dont specifically remember but I think I hit all my agendas off multi accesses from makers or legworks.

Top cut.

RD2 VS NEH, loss

Got off to a fairly slow start. He had scored out a beale and an astro fairly early. I get in and bust up his san san grid. I deja back a mimic as he has a turnpick on R&D and run his scoring server before installing it, and he rezzes a swordsman. He scores another astro putting him to 6 with an astro counter. I legwork his hand and pull the 3rd astro out. He starts to dig looking for another agenda to score. I drop turntable and and makers R&D, I see and beale which i swap for his astro that has a counter, and a 15 mins which i swap for his other astro. Before I can close the game he scores another beal out on a grid.

Rd 3 VS RP, win

My first turn is Gamble, faust, Legwork. He has 3 cards in hand and i pull a nesei mk 2. 3 or 4 turns later I check R&D for a single access and pull another nesei. I think shortly after that I pull a Fetal out of a scoring remote. I decide, with 2 sameold things on board i decide to pop one for a makers through double komainu with 9 credits, 9 cards, 2 of which were ive had worse. I let the 9 sub komainu fire, it hits both ive had worse, drawing out the last 5 cards, and i break the second komainu for 5 credits, the 3rd card off the makers is a winning GFI.

RD 4 VS RP, win

Early R&D accesses score me two NAPD contracts. Somewhere around midgame I score a fetal AI off HQ access. He scores out a nesei in his scoring server with a caprice. He only has a himitsu bako on rd and i have corroder out, so i poke his hand, accessing the same TFP probably 5 times without scoring it. eventually he dumps it in a server with a caprice and an ash. I finally win the caprice psi games but he nesei counters me out, and ends up scoring it putting him to five points. I end up with a timed win, 6/5.