Kate: 1st Place Zurich Regionals 2016

This deck went 3/4 on the day in a 25 person tournament with four rounds of Swiss and a top 8 cut. I was 1st after Swiss and undefeated in in double elimination.

My corp deck can be found here. The latest legal pack was The Liberated Mind.

Swiss
Round 1: Bye
Round 2: Win against Blue Sun
Round 3: Loss against New Angeles Sol
Round 4: ID

Top 8
Game 1: Played corp
Game 2: Played corp
Game 3: Win against Blue Sun
Game 4: Win against Blue Sun (same opponent as Game 3)

I’ve been playing Kate for a few weeks and it’s no secret which cards are good at the moment. So I put together a Kate that fits my play style.

Notable decisions: "Freedom Through Equality" vs. Notoriety
FTE synergizes with Indexing, while Notoriety (slightly) synergizes with Hyperdriver. FTE also helps you turn off currents (would have been nice against Sol), but Notoriety lets me win if I only draw it at 6 points.

D4v1d or Parasite/Datasucker vs. HQ multi access
D4v1d/Parasucker are the only cards that I think could be dropped for HQ multi access, be it Legwork or [The Turning Wheel](/en/card/10085. I think I have a good chance of winning with Indexing, remote lock and Clot lock and I really love having D4v1d and ParaSucker. Also, I only run one Lady, which means having D4v1d for another Scavenge target is great. I would love to have HQ multi access though.

Tech & silver bullets
I run two Film Critics, two Plascretes, one Councilman and one Deus X. Drop any card to get to 45. Since I went against four kill decks (random, there were many non-kill decks) on the day, I didn’t regret my huge amount of tech. I would also want to run two Film Critics against Pālanā or SYNC (for hosting Food and not scoring it until you can win). With one Critic, you just don’t see it in a some games. If you have ProCo, drawing a useless tech card is not too painful.

Levy & SoT
I just don’t need this. Maybe if you play QT and Diesel you do, but not playing this gives me two more slots for tech cards. I’d rather lose one in 10-20 games because my deck runs out. Nobody plays IG in Switzerland, and none of the German/Austrian/Swedish guests brought it (We’re a positive player experience meta :) ).

Notable play
The Blue Sun player that I faced in the semi-final and final was playing SEA/Scorch and Punitive Counterstrike with the Power Shutdown combo. I discovered this during the first game, so I knew what I was up against in the final. I was on 3 points and we had been racing each other for money. I was worried that I couldn’t keep up much longer, and he had three face-down remotes, with one being protected by two unrezzed ice. The first Jackson was used, the second was out there on the table, but where? I indexed him to bait out the Jackson. I didn’t see a single Agenda in the five cards, but rearranged them in some way and ran again (he shuffled). For once, I was happy to not have a Councilman on the table. I indexed him a turn later to put Government Takeover on top. While Jackson is the best Indexing defense, Indexing is the best Jackson defense. The 2-iced remote would have been a Snare!.

Thanks to Andi and Dani for organizing, and thanks for everyone who came to play and made this a great day of Netrunner!