An undefeated day for SPORTS! England won their Rugby World Cup semi-final, Reading's match against Forest was postponed (a surefire, if shortsighted, way to avoid defeat), probably some other stuff happened, and this SportsMetal deck went 4-0 at a GNK.

Not a huge accomplishment perhaps, but this is the same deck that I also piloted 4-0 to 5th out of 23 at the Bristol regional. That's EIGHT whole games without loss! It has also won BOTH friendly games that I've played with it. Pretty incredible.

Anyway, the deck: It's a Jinja Sports deck that kind of speeds up and slows down to suit the gamestate. No 1- or 0-pointers in sight here, this isn't a combo deck, nor does it fall back on Game Changer and the like. The Sports ability is only fired to keep the tempo up.

When you're on the defensive, get a Jinja down, play a VLC and build a remote, stick an Ash in it. When you're ready, it's time to break! Jam an agenda in the remote and force the runner to respond. If they have tricks and can stretch their resources to get in, you've just earned a window for the next agenda.

Trigger Sports for draw if you're looking for the next agenda, or want ICE for Jinja.

Punitive provides a great line if you can force the Runner to expend cards and money stretching for an agenda they probably should have left alone.

A quick note about Jinja: it's a trap. Do not snap-install ICE you draw on the remote, but think carefully about where you want your ICE (this applies to all games really, but it's easy to forget with a rezzed Jinja). You probably want Architects and Slot Machines on centrals, so don't Jinja-install them except in exceptional circumstances. Surveyors, Seidrs and the first Fairchild belong on the remote ideally.

A small note about Vitruvius too: Unless it's going to win you the game, try to always score Vitruvius with at least one counter. Vitruvius counters go a long way with the likes of Punitive and Biotic in a deck, or more general recursion in a pinch.

Shout outs to: Rotage (it is essentially his deck) and Catherine (who lent me 40+ cards to play it in Bristol)