Kate - 1st place cleveland regionals

super super solid. really maximises indexing in an efficient way.

congrats Ben, i love shaper so good to see Kate take down another regional in the hands of a good pilot

45 cards; still fits two (TWO!) plascretes in. Love it =)

I actually didn't need either one all day, but ever since last year I always bring 2 whenever I play in ohio. You can play 1 in most metas; a councilman or 2nd laundry would be my next add (calimsha might add a net-ready eyes instead).

Calimsha would play 2 Laundry, 1 Plas, 1 NRE and goes 46. But Calimsha is a moron who don't understand deckbuilding and !ratio anyway so don't listen to him.

46 in a proco deck though...

That's the joke @bblum

so 3indexing 1RDI vs 2indexing 2RDI, any significant reason to do one over another ?

More combo with FTE and also theoretically (I suspect, haven't tested enough) better against museum decks.

I've seen people go for Artist Colony as Plascrete tutor over slotting a second copy for its utility in other cases. Any matchups you needed the double Plas for consistency or do you not really value the Artist Colony?

I used to play Colony but it was only really worth it when news team was popular and it could do double duty. Besides, butcher shop can often burn through a plascrete and kill you again later with how slow your set-up time is compared to old PPVP kate.

I've seen "Freedom Through Equality" use to great effect with The Turning Wheel for a deep R&D dig when the game was on the line. It's a powerful card that wins games.

I've had some sucess lately using Power to the People,which has me thinking I could use Freedom instead, and just win quicker.

Obviously in this current meta where nearly every corp is running GFI to make the runner steal 4 agendas, getting an extra point from an agenda steal really undermines the corps' game plan.

Having a ton of fun with this deck. Freedom Through Equality is bonkers. Question, though. How do you use Hyperdriver? I feel like I always draw it a few turns in and don't have the memory. I'm doing -2 Hyperdriver, +1 Laundry, +1 Scavenge. -1 Plascrete, +1 NRE

I've also been trying some Out of the Ashes, since I overdraw with ProCo a lot. It's mostly good against bioroids. Any thoughts on that, or is it too low-impact?

How is technical writer working out? Are you getting enough credits from it to make a 3rd copy worthwhile?

@Esfres34 Hyperdriver is the diesel replacement. I will SMC for it as long as I have another SMC/clone to back me up (obviously drawing it naturally is better); then I will usually proco 4 times and install 3 things, sometimes making a run as well. I find it pretty important for getting out of the early game quickly. I don't like ashes for deck slot reasons; part of the point of this deck is you have way more free deck slots than whiz to spend on hate cards.

@Lttlefoot Writer is kind of a bad lucky find replacement. I usually take it late-midgame when it has 6-8 on it (used to be more, but corps other than sync aren't really pressuring the credit pool anymore). It's 50/50 whether I discard the second, depending how I feel about my daily cast situation.

I thought you were only allowed 1 ID round.

@wompa164 no you can ID all you want. :(

I had a lot of success with a very similar Kate list, but one thing I am surprised by is that you only have 2 smc. Is this always enough for you? I feel like if I don't find one asap then I can't deal with NEH at all. (And the meta here is 70% NEH.)

So I've played this deck a little, and through a GNK tournament, and found myself never using the levy. Even in the one game that I burned through my deck, the game was so close to being over that it wasn't worth it.

What match ups do you find it useful for? IG I imagine, but very few people here play it.

And if you were to cut it, what would you suggest replacing it with? I'm thinking the third SMC.

Then there's the question of whether to keep same old thing, but it can be nice for indexing