“He’s gone bananas with these remotes.” - Me, after Sam Suied scored a Successful Field Test that let him install seven new cards all at once. [Scenes from Netrunner’s 2017 North American Championship at Gen Con]
Sam pulled off the sickest play in the lead-up to scoring SFT -- his opponent was keeping great control of the board up until this point in the Losers Finals match-up, but then he neglected to trash an Advanced Assembly Lines. Before the end of the runner’s turn, Sam used a Project Vitruvius token to retrieve a Clone Suffrage Movement from Archives, then installed it with AAL. Rezzing CSM, he returned a Friends in High Places to his hand at the start of his own turn, and installed a mix of threats (including a Blacklist to stop Bloo Moose from firing) that the opponent had to spend time dealing with. This setup allowed Sam to score SFT next turn and flood the board with Donkey Kongs.
Congrats to Sam, who is having a stellar 2017. After coming in second at regional after regional for several years, he took down TWO regionals this year, and then won the North American Championship! He also tried to steal my deckbox at Gen Con, but that’s okay because I’ve been stealing his runner decklists (shoutouts to Headlock Reina) for years.
