Genius at work 1st place Store champ Grosseto(Italy)14 /3/15

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Undefeated at swiss round, only one loss in the top4 match due to a my focus error(i was 5-0 against a tagstorm and i dont remind to draw a card with my last click to prevent the scorched, after six hour of play my mind began to fall :)). This deck is - like the shaper's nature - very adaptable to every archetype, it is very good against FA like a glacier deck, no exceptions:) The trick is know how to set Atman against the various archetype and how to use your sucker at fullpower:) Lets take a deeper considerations.

1-mulligan for a pro co, the only hand without pro co that i keep is for desperado

2-begin to ammass credit on kati and collect sucker token putting pressure on central(yeah, i run naked a lot) but REMIND:dont collect too many token on sucker, 5/6 is ideal, cause you dont really want that the corp purges and put some ice on archives

3-know your deck option. Overdraw and discard if you have parasite or atman in your hand. This deck also have a lot of 0 creds cards with Kate that helps you to build your full rig later like akamatsu, clone chip, sharpshooter, zu etc

4-The most important things:know your opponent with early pressure and then set your atman with smc/clone chip at the right strenght:for example, against rp i want a str 4 atman and a mimic, to deal with all the sentries and lotus field/eli/grim(with sucker), against blue sun i put it at 6 to deal with archer, hadrian wall, orion etc. A well charged sucker with a parasite in your deck/heap can crush all annoying ice you encounter(i usually reserve it for the toolboth)

5- Indexing, the makers eye and legwork are all closer move, use it when you know that you can enter multiple times in the central servers and know when the time is right to use them

6-utopia shard is super useful against kill combo deck like blue sun, dont waste it if you dont really needs

7- 1x of desperado. I ve playtested a lot this deck and desperado is very useful in the early game, but it isnt necessary at all. It make more effective the early datatoken ammass and helps economically your run. However why not 2x?Because i cant cut anything from this deck, all cards is super useful and this deck needs all the available option to deal with everything. Otherwise i cant cut totally the desperado, is the best console for this deck.

8-no prepaid, it slows me up to set my economy and i cant cut anything to put in the lucky find

9-Little note:this is a super aggressive deck, i win all my match in 10/20 minutes, My store champ match up was :Two jinteki rp, next design grail, the foundry, two NEH tagstorm kill, one NBN making news tagstorm. In the playtesting wins a lot also against NEH FA, blue sun, hb etf FA, Jinteki PE cambridge

4 comments
15 Mar 2015 p3t00h

Hi there! How do you deal with Curtain Wall or Orion? Or any other glacier with hi-str ICE. I played as Kate vs Blue Sun for about 5-10 testing games and every time got stuck in Tollbooth + Curtain Wall + Ash 2X3ZB9CY in scoring remote and almost same stuff on R&D. Does Kati Jones help this much?

15 Mar 2015 gabsnow18

@p3t00h hi! The trick to beat iper glacier deck like blue sun is very simple:stockpile credits on kati jones, ammass tokens on the datasucker (better if you can play two) and set atman to strenght 6 so you can deal easily with orion, archer, hadrian an curtain wall. Aniway against blue sun i play very aggressively in the early then ill stop to ammass credit and play the plascrete. I ve played only once against blue sun with this deck and at a certain point of game i have about 60 creds and my atman at strenght six that make me enter in every server with few creds. And remember:against blue sun i always parasite that fucking tollboth!

17 Mar 2015 Thymaius

Non PPVP Kate winning a Store Championship? A very early aggressive one by the looks of it too, very cool indeed, gratz man for your victory!

What is that Desperado doing for you as one-of in your deck? It seems you could rarely even see it during a game.

Wouldn't that influence see a better use on Femme Fatale/ the third sucker/additional out of faction tricks like stimhack and such?

17 Mar 2015 gabsnow18

Hi @Thymaius!thank you! PPVP is a great card but it slow this deck that is very aggressive and i dont have the influence slot to put in the lucky find. Desperado is absolutely great in this deck cause i run a lot, it was originally 2x but after months of playtesting i put in 1x cause this deck draw a lot(i take a mulligan if i dont see a pro co) and it is good when i see it but it is still ok when i play without him(i see the desperado in about the 65% of my game,). Femme and stimhacks are great but useless in this deck cause i dont run the test run, atman is cheaper and more effective and i dont have money issue. Tomorrow ill write the complete description :)