Kate Cache's in V.2

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This deck began life as a classic Pre-paid voice pad (PPVP) deck. However, I've moved away from PPVP altogether, replacing it with Aesop's, supported by Cache, daily casts, and bank job, with sure gamble as backup. I find the econ as strong as PPVP, and slightly more consistent since you can play the econ cards before you find aesops and still get the extra money, unlike PPVP, and you only need to see 1 of your 3 rather than really wanting to see 2 fairly early. Also, I always have the option of turning astrolabe or unneeded sharpshooters or SMC into easy mark's- not a great play, but its won me some games when I desperately needed the money, and it gives you some nice versatility. You lose the ability to SOT your econ, but you can clone chip a cache, which is almost as good (although the clone chips are admittedly stretched a bit thin in this deck).

The R&D interfaces give you a much better match up against blue sun and RP. Against blue sun, the bank jobs are obviously not great (although sometimes you still get one when they try to start building their scoring server with 1 ice), but the ability to sit back, Pro con, and install R&D interfaces can give you a very strong late game. Plus, they combo with maker's eye- I'm willing to pay through a curtain wall if I'm seeing 5 cards.

NEH is of course a tough matchup, and the pro cons are mostly dead. But the econ is pretty fast, astrolabe helps, and I have 2 legworks+ shard, and R&D interface helps out too.

Against RP, the bank jobs are helpful, and the multi access helps a lot too. The 1 of parasite (plus clone chips) is key, and it gives you a pretty decent matchup in my experience.

I'm running 2 lady's as my only barrier breakers, which worried me at first since I don't run scavenge, only 3 clone chips to recur them, but so far its been great- I've never run out of tokens, and you can Pawn used up lady's and then recur them with clone chip. Even barrier heavy blue sun haven't used up all my tokens- I just focus on making a few high quality multi-access runs, and its worked fine so far.

I'd love to hear any advice or suggestions on tuning the list.

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