Ken Deck

Gripeaway 13

Of the new Criminal identities you have, Ken is probably the most viable. It is kind of painful to not have Dirty Laundry but other than that it's pretty fine. The idea of the deck is just to play a lot of run events and cards that benefit from running.

You have Blood Money now so you just need a single Paperclip as your fracter as you can get it with Special Order and it will always be there for you. The most efficient Criminal breakers you have now are Passport/Alias, so we play 2 of each. It's not a huge problem that we can only use them on centrals: Datasucker wants us to run on centrals, Temujin can run on centrals, Maker's Eye and Legwork are both on centrals. You can use Security Testing on archives to get that money and trigger Datasucker while still running a central that they don't really want to have to ice up. Faerie just lets us run safely earlier and some combination of Inside Job, Faerie, Paperclip, and Femme Fatale can usually let us run remote servers. If we do give the Corp too long they can eventually set up a remote server that we can't get into so we need to keep them distracted with constant pressure on HQ and RD with our multi-access run events.

2 comments
31 Oct 2016 martinimon

How well have you found your version of Ken to be when you play it?

I play a lot of Ken, and I feel like this deck is lacking some synergy between cards and some choices of cards are not needed..
For example you could put earth rise hotel in over Quality time and use the influence elsewhere. Kati Jones seems like a good choice of econ in the longer game (after all the run moneys gone) but when I play Ken the games are normally fast paced and the burst econ from just running is enough (40-60 credits for an entire game on average) especially if most of the run events are used in a combination of Ken's ID or a public terminal or two., anyway just my thoughts, nice to a variation of how I play Ken though

11 Nov 2016 Gripeaway

@martinimon Thanks for the feedback. The decklist was just made for someone at their request on this reddit thread: www.reddit.com The reason the deck is lacking some things is because they don't have access to those cards, unfortuantely. I agree that Kati Jones is not really ideal but unfortunately they don't have access to really any other burst econ.