Tech Trader Kate (GNK winner, FWIW)

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I've been playing this since Business First (Tech Trader) came out, and I just won a small GNK with it so I'm publishing it here. I have ~40 games in with it, its win rate is quite high but much of that is Jinteki.net so take from that what you will. Credit to my friend Kyle for the original idea :)

This deck exploits the interaction of Tech Trader and disposable breakers. Panchatantra+SS/DX means you get an Inside Job once a turn. The rest of the deck is normal Kate stuff. It's something of a weird version of PPVP Kate as you have a pseudo econ card that makes your normal actions more efficient (in this case, it makes SMCing/Clone Chipping breakers more economically palatable as well as the Pancha+breaker thing). The goal is primarily to remote camp and then make opportunistic Maker's/Legworks.

It's a lot better than even I expected when I first started building it! Give it a whirl, it's definitely a lot of fun to play and, more importantly, you can win games. You get one solid run a turn or so, thus you want high-impact run events. Escher would fit quite well in here if you can find room. A single Test Run is also good.

Sports Hopper is almost certainly going in here, but I built this pre-Salsette.

Post script: I saw someone published a similar thing very recently, but the similarities are entirely coincidental as I built this quite a bit before that deck was published! In the interest of openness, that other deck is here: http://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/34491

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