Run Holo Run 1st @Startup GNK Montreal 2025-02-04

The deck went 2-0 at the event (out of 15 participants), allowing me to take first place.

Round 2. Win vs Matt on Arissana Rocha Nahu: Street Artist. Matt was unlucky with drawing economy cards, allowing me to prepare a double advanced See How They Run. After the runner finished a turn with 2 cards in hand, I used Neurospike to flatline the runner.

Round 4. Win vs Andrej on Arissana Rocha Nahu: Street Artist. Andrej trick shot R&D (finding nothing), with 3 cards in hand and checked the remote, where Hokusai Grid and Fujii Asset Retrieval were placed. 4 net damage finished the game (around turns 5 or so). For fun, since we had a lot of time, we tried another game. I put a triple advanced Urtica Cipher on top of Hokusai Grid. Andrej had seen (with Burner) that I had Neurospike in the deck. After a turn of me drawing 3 cards to "find" it back, he decided to check the remote, with 5 cards in hand. Hokusai Grid did 1 damage and Urtica Cipher the 5, flatlining the runner. MVP is Hokusai Grid, without which I would not have been able to win. Seriously, Andrej's deck was really good at pushing through my ices for cheap. I prefered to keep my credits while hoping for Andrej to steal Fujii Asset Retrieval, with the hope of landing Punitive Counterstrike.

Game plan : fork the runner between Neurospike and Punitive Counterstrike.

Mulligan plan : Regolith Mining License or ices.

Money up and setup your fork. Hokusai Grid has been prefered over Daniela Jorge Inácio because the damage is unconditional and the runner cannot chose to NOT take the agenda. That is 4 net damages with Fujii Asset Retrieval.

The Holo Man can score Offworld Office for free, making it much easier to use Neurospike. And Sprint allows us one more way to manage our hand and get our combo pieces out.

You could swap the Sprint for an extra The Holo Man and 2x Mindscaping and it would not be wrong. I went for Sprint because it allow me to find Punitive Counterstrike or Neurospike, while fixing my hand.

Big thanks to Odonuvo got organizing the events. It was a blast to play. Shoutout to all the new players that came to the events, it means a lot to have new people in the game. Cheers!