Congratulations to “Benvelopment” Blum for winning NANPC Philadelphia
Bblum won the event with Ob and Kit! The Ob was their own brew of the classic “tempo” Ob list, while they picked a homebrewed Kit list tuned to take down the event. We caught up with Bblum for their thoughts on the event!
Congratulations on your win at NANPC Philadelphia You chose to bring Ob And Kit to the event, why those decks?
I don’t think I need to tell anyone why I brought Ob but one thing worth pointing out is I wanted to prove that Arella Salvatore is the better upgrade in a rush deck. I bought Kit because Inversificator gives you the sort of deep multi-turn, controlling the board, advance planning feeling you used to get with Prepaid Kate and is really the first time I’ve had fun playing runner in several years. and also it’s another pittsburgh homebrew so my whole team has been trying to get it noticed for a while.
How did you prepare for the event?
I don’t know, we prepared like we always do, jam games against known top decks for about a week and argue about whether we should play the third bravado or a tech card (it should have just been the bravado though).
Did you have any memorable games or moments on the day?
Honestly all 3 cut games vs Brandon, he’s such a delight. In the last one, vs Esa I got stuck with both Magnet and Thimblerig unrezzed on HQ and he wouldn’t let me rez them so I eventually had to trash the Magnet and spin it back just to have access to code gates (which is critical vs Esa’s breakers). afterwards I asked why he never ran hq and he said “well I could tell something was wrong and I didn’t know what, I had accessed both archers so I thought you were trying to shuffle it back so you could get it with eminent, and if I ran HQ it would let you feed tithe to Stavka to get spin so I shouldn’t run HQ and just focus on what’s already rezzed.” His reasoning was completely wrong but led him to make the right decision anyway and I thought that was really insightful.
Should we expect you at any NANPC events in the future?
Unlikely but I will be at worlds, and also Pittsburgh is definitely gonna have a regionals next year so please come to our beautiful city 🙂
Anyone you want to shout out?
Marcus, he’s done a lot of work growing the community in Pittsburgh and also invented the kit deck. Colin, he’s a great testing partner and has come a long way for being a recent convert to the game. Ysengrin, he knows why. barts bagels near redcaps, that horseradish cc is the bomb.
A huge congratulations to Bblum for taking down NANPC Philadelphia. August looks to be another packed month as Cascadia will take place on August 3rd to 4th and NANPC Montreal will take place on the 24th and 25th of August. The competition is heating up as the fight for NANPC circuit points only grows more fierce!