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As in, I came right as he was done distributing the packs to one table and starting the other. Like the other time, there were only 6 people on the less experienced table, so he put me with them (which wouldn't have happened had I arrived on time).

I opened a pack with Eliminate the Competition, Unlicensed Disintegration and Welding Sparks. Maaaan.
Went with Disintegration because if I'm going to send 2 first-pickable cards to my left in R and/or B might as well take the best one in a vacuum/the most easily splashable. Then maybe I can go Bx and just splash it? Not a fan of Red in Kaladesh, even energy decks go stomp-stomp over sweet stuff like Aethertorch Renegade.
Eliminate and Sparks wheeled. I already had another Sparks to I took the rare and ended up not playing it.
Later I was sad when I saw a pack with Trafficker and Underhanded Designs, but I lacked good creatures so I took something else over them and got Trafficker on the wheel (low artifacts at that point).

My deck could have had 2x Disintegration, 3x Welding Sparks, 3x Tidy Conclusion, Eliminate the Competition, Pyrohelix, Chandra's Reprisal, Essence Extraction... and a Die Young or two prob.
Between the ones I saw pack 3 when I severely lacked good creatures, and the ones I didn't pick because "dude I've got enough already!", I ended up with:
2x Unlicensed Disintegration
2x Welding Sparks
2x Tidy Conclusion
Eliminate the Competition, Pyrohelix (didn't make the deck).

... I mean, there were 3/7 people in red and at least 2/7 in black. But two people ended up RW (drafted some G) right to my left and passed me all the black pack 2 (Conclusion was my last pick of that pack... for real) and the two guys right to my right were UW and UG and passed me all the red.
With all that removal I thought I'd potentially have a control-ish deck, but I didn't find the artifacts to feed Trafficker/Master of Marionettes (received pack 3) or big bodies in general, and I started hogging all the 2-3 drops when I noticed I was lacking them.

Deck was something like:
- the 6 removal mentioned above
- 2x Dhund Operative, 2x Fretwork Colony, Speedway Fanatic, Syndicate Trafficker, B puzzleknot, Subtle Strike
- Pillarbug, Weldspark Monitor, 2x Lawless Broker, Kambal, Spireside Infiltrator
- Maulfist Squad, Ovalchase Daredevil, Spontaneous Artist
- Master of Marionettes

Cuts: Eliminate the Competition, Ambitious Aetherborn, Quicksmith Genius, 2nd Ovalchase Daredevil, a couple tricks.
I'm not a fan of aggro and even though I know it's good this format I don't seek it. I don't even like the BR pair, to the contrary!
It just comes to me. D:

Match 1: bye
Karma for coming late. In part.
I watch the two guys to my right duke it out: UG hard casts Gearseeker Serpent turn 6 (with a mana dork) 'cause screw artifacts, only for his opponent to cast Saheeli's Artistry on it and his own Chief of the Foundry. 2 3/4 lords and a 7/8 Serpent, and since he's UW he can even make it unblockable!
Then game 2 he stumbles a bit on mana and gets destroyed by a string of Hunt for the Weak/Nature's Way on Ripparian Tiger, and Aether Meltdown when it gets triple blocked, 'cause he couldn't draw the rare big things in his deck (when you run a Tasseled Dromedary you didn't draft creatures enough :x), and game 3 he's even more stuck so he concedes since even a 3/6 Turtle is too much for him (UG held Insidious Will to stop removal).

Match 2 vs UB control
I knew a bit of what he had from the draft (though he didn't get Designs, weirdly enough) and at one point in round 1 glanced over his game's board.
2x Contraband Kingpin, 2x Essence Extraction, Freighter, Noxious Gearhulk, Gearseeker Serpent, Skygate... on paper he's equipped to deal with me.
Game 1 I get Fretwork Colony on the play and he stays stuck at 2 lands for awhile. Even a Kingpin can't save him too long from the Colony + a couple of 3/2 + Kambal, and when he Malfunctions it I just Tidy Conclusion something and push through. He had Essence Extraction but never got a 2nd swamp, had he had it on turn 3 it could have changed things a lot.
Game 2 he kept a ketchy hand, with a couple higher plays but again he gets kinda stuck on mana, and has a couple misplays: I had Speedway Fanatic + Spireside Infiltrator + Dhund Operative vs Lawless Broker + Sky Skiff. I forgot to play one of my artifacts pre-combat so he can crew and kill the Operative (better than the Fanatic), or trade with the Infiltrator, or trade with the creature then crew to put a counter on the Skiff (but he's better off developing his board). Since he had a Rush of Vitality in hand, he could have killed 2 of my creatures and stayed alive... I'd prob have won a couple turns later at worst tho.

I was pretty afraid of his deck but strong starts vs mana screws do that... I checked his deck after the match and helped him make a couple adjustements, notably he had 4 7-drops (Automatons and Serpents) and 2 6-drops but no 4-5 ones, sso I made him remove one of his Skiff and redundant 3-drops to put bounce to help him stall, and vanilla (like the club security) to smooth out his curve. He had bombs and good early games but an empty midgame that could kill him vs flyers or standard big butts G I think.

Match 3 vs UG energy/removal
He jokes that he's gonna feel bad if I win and take the prizes away from him after they accepted me at the table, but I can feel that'd really annoy him. Granted, there's a Spirebluff Canal and we both play the colours in standard so it's going to be the winner's pick...
Game 1 he lacks U and burns his Aether Hub early, then I get dumb and play Kambal over Monitor turn 3 into his Servant of the Conduit and 3 lands, so Hunt for the Weak predictably kills him before he can drain much. I'm not sure how games 1 and 2 go actually, I just remember flooding in one (one more land than spells in a 16-lands deck) and the Puzzleknot saving my ass by digging me closer to my removal (resulting in a topdeck). Probably game 1.
Then game 2 he's a bit shorter on lands and same as the previous match, I function a lot better on low mana, and as I can use my removal to keep us on a tight board too, menace + a topdecked Cruiser win me the game. Considering his hand he could have been one turn/land from stabilising for most of the game, it was tight and my low curve helped a ton... along with the topdeck (removal woulda won too but still).

Opponent's a bit salty but I really can't blame him for the "had I said we'd rather be 6 I'd have that expensive fastland for my deck" thoughts he probably had. Especially since I wouldn't have been put at their table had I been on time (there's 1-2 guys at the 8-man pod who were noticeably weaker than the regulars that would've been put there instead).
We play a 3rd game and this time I get screwed out of red and he wins with Snare Thopter and Cowl Prowler while Disintegration, Welding Sparks, and Doorbuster sit in my hand, welp.

2280 dust (up to 10920), complete commons, missing 8 rares, 21/54 epics, 5/21 legendaries (priest, rogue, madam goya, mayor headache, and golden don han'cho).

Will read what the karazhan cards do one of these days, and hopefully this expansion sometime before 2018.

Hugh Darrow ending, mainly because I w anted to expose the Illuminati, but after watching all 4 ending, seems like Sarif's was probably the best.

(including the evil/neutral morality ones), makes me appreciate it even more. Even if you were a huge dick and mass murderer, Jensen seems to understand this and greatly regret his actions The voice actor for Jensen was a beast

Also did you do the bank or bomber woman?

in the end I did both neutralising the guy and saving the delegates but was sad because I did the bomber choice (major ragrets) and couldn't get the cure. Got the foxiest of the hounds and pacifist achievements though so i was happy. Felt like the ai woman bit was just irrelevantly tagged on mid story but that probably plays a part in the sequel.

a bank or bomber woman scenario at all. Unless you mean the bomb setup by Zeke during Jensen's first mission post-op.

you could stun the boss fight, but when fighting the 3 Tyrants, nah. And do you mean the final boss, Zhao, because I just killed that bitch lol. I can't help but think you are mixing some games up, because there was no "cure" scenario in HR, unless you mean what would of happened to me if I got the biochip upgrade post-recall. Glad I didn't do that lol.

I tried to save Malik during the ambush without a tranquilizer rifle, I just said fuqq it, finally got my hands bloody, and was more open to actually killing ppl to check out the kill takedowns. I still ended up being a "good guy", probably from the low body count, and doing a lot of the sidequests/saving ppl. I did regret choosing the whisteblower over prisoners, because I'm pretty sure I could of saved all of them, but meh,