Wheelin' and Dealin' Ken
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| Standard Ban List 23.09 (latest) |
| Standard Ban List 23.08 (active) |
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DrJekyll 34
The deck is very simple, make money and play cheap cards saving the money for powering breakers. It's an aggressive deck building to big runs with freedom and multi-access on centrals from run events and the wheel to speed toward those 7 points not caring too much about receiving tags or damage. The dealers are just some fun econ and draw rather than just using the overplayed temujin and aaron which are getting bland for me.
Obviously the deck wants too win early else ken will likely die or get locked out though data dealer can help burst you back into the game. The corp can also exploit passport being the decoder of choice when setting up a scoring remote, inside job can try counter this but it is still a weakness. Overall the deck is not really a competitive one with some clear improvements available however it is some enjoyable high risk classic running which suits my play style.
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28 Mar 2017
Soulcow
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29 Mar 2017
DrJekyll
Hi thanks for your interest in the deck, I know it is a little unusual for Ken. The deck really wants to score a few fan sites or at worst use some small agendas (scoring 0 or -1 point agendas is always amusing) to have the money required to properly contest the game. The cheap deck I think allows this to work with the most expensive card being only 3c and costing only 6c for the whole set of breakers. The deck is never constantly rich putting its money back into runs not concerned with preventing a tagstorm hit. The passport can be a problem if the corp abuses this fact, however there are some tools as you've mentioned that can be used but it may still cost the game (an innermost lotus field in one game comes to mind). Before I made this version of Ken I had a gordian or rex to be that other decoder however I felt it didn't belong in this deck that wants to focus on multi-access on centrals. This is very far from a control deck looking to get a score early and normally will weasel out the win or be sitting on 5 or 6 points when it either gets killed or scored out behind a remote no longer contested. The deck is really only a casual one but it has fared alright on jnet so far. |
Wanted to comment about the usefulness of data dealer before I noticed you included fan sites. How do they fare? It's weird you're going for Ken but don't include the usual run based economy rig ^^ so I'm curious. Also, you've got no way of getting through code gates in remote servers, unless you're using siphon and emergency shutdown for those codegates? Or Inside job if they're at the outermost position. Have you encountered any problems so far?