Ken - 2nd Place Store Championship Paladin's Place, Germany

Ok, so first off, why Ken over Andy or Gabe? Because:

• he can basically turn Dirty Laundry into Sure Gamble on your opening hand.

• he has 17 influence.

• he can have the most efficient PPVP set-up.

• against asset-heavy decks such as the very popular NEH he can potentially generate 9 credits with one click (2 PPVP, Dirty Laundry, Security Testing, Desperado) and might even get a sucker token out of it. As unlikely as this sounds, this actually happened in a lot of games I played with him.

Apart from this, it is a pretty standard criminal set-up. This deck runs fairly well against NEH Fast-Advance (won 2 out of 3 against that beast) because it can be really fast. Breach is a pretty good counter to Blue Sun's Oversight Curtain game. It can have severe problems against RP though, especially when you're out of Faerie's and have no opportunity to siphon.

Fortunately for this deck, O&C was not legal at the point of the SC. The greatest upcoming problem will be the heavy use of Crisium Grid in a lot of Corp Decks because of Keyhole/Eater and all that. I still have to figure out how to adapt to this metashift and I'm very grateful for any advice in the comments.