KEN GANG CRIM4LIFE EASY $$$ (Top Swiss @ APAC Online Distric

Updated version of my previous Ken list, went 3-0 at APAC Online District and 2-1 at Montréal district, losing only to Jon on murder Azmari in what was a really close game.

Changes:

• Aumakua -> Boomerang: Aumakua doesn't fit my playstyle and only ever helped vs asset spam, which are usually fine matchups anyway thanks to hermes/bones/bahia

• Wake Implant -> Legwork: Wake sucks in most decks, spent a click installing it, take a meat damage, run hq, and the card still hasn't done anything. I think it has a place as a finisher in an opressive Steve deck where you spam hq runs and keep the corp poor by recurring doofs, but really does not help at all in this deck, which is more of a control crim with a very strong punish game. Legwork is a run event that wins games and contributes to this strong punish game idea.

• Mad Dash -> Emergency Shutdown: Mad Dash was tech vs Azmari and RH, but nobody plays RH, and reading one of Kikai's deck writeups he mentions tech cards don't work versus murder Azmari because you won't draw it in time. Even in the matchups where Mad Dash could potentially be useful it often felt like a dead draw. EShutdown is a different tech card for different matchups, mostly archer, but also helps against Precision Design to shutdown a Bran. It's more flexible, is a strong punish card, and combos with the rest of the deck.

• I considered 2 Mystic Maemis, but I feel like it's wrong to spend extra influence on a copy of a unique when you already have Class Act to help with deck consistency.

My favorite game of the Montréal District was actually the one I lost against Jon. My only experience playing against Reeducation Azmari was vs not_yeti in New Year's Showdown, where I got the most undeserved win just hitting lucky rnd singles, so I'm glad I got to play a more interesting game vs the deck before it rotates. I made a mistake commiting a lot to stealing a Degree Mill from rnd early which doesn't help me win and slows me down, for a card Jon would not like to draw anyway, but otherwise I'm happy with how I played that game and feel like I learned a bunch about the matchup.

Huge thanks to Kror for doing APAC Online District, and Andrej for doing Montréal District. Both were a lot of fun <3