Cash Job Kate *Nordic Championship 2nd place*

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Crazimir 79

Here is the deck I brought to the Nordic Championship in Copenhagen this weekend (63 participants). It performed admirably: 5-1 in Swiss - the one loss was a silly flatline on 2nd click. Astrolabe into Cortex Lock. 2-1 in Elimination, losing in the finals to HB:FA.

The deck's central components are Symmetrical Visage, Aesop's Pawnshop, Cache and Bank Job, combining for explosive econ-bursts when the Corp least expects it. Street Peddler is a favorite card of mine: hiding a Clot, a Clone Chip or a Plascrete are absolutely clutch in a meta dominated by NEH. I closed several scoring windows by Clone Chipping a Cache on the Corp's turn (3$), selling it to Aesop (3$), popping Bank Job from a Peddler (7$) and then Stimhacking into a remote with 22 surprise credits on click 2 or 3 (Same Old Thing).

In hindsight the Datasucker should have been a Femme Fatale, as an early Toolbooth is the deck's only real weakness.

7 comments
16 Aug 2015 Swiftie

I've played a fair few cache shop decks and found Inti so be good in it. Cheap to install and does the same job against the small barriers as snowball. The higher price cost of snowball made it less likely to be sold.

Like the bank Jobs not tried them out in shaper before.

17 Aug 2015 Crazimir

@Swiftie I considered Inti, but did not have time to test it properly. I was on Prepaid Kate until I came up with this deck in a dream (no joke) ten days before the tournament. Will be honing it further and Inti will probably push Snowball off the list.

17 Aug 2015 Vimes

As someone who has never seen this kind of deck before, why are things like Snowball, Inti, and Study Guide so strong in it? Do you end up just rolling in money (your description implied so :) )? Do you need the Corroder influence in other things? Both?

This looks a little hard for me to manage, but really neat. Great work.

17 Aug 2015 Crazimir

@Vimes The deck is all about flexibility. Making loads of cash and having the ability to find the appropriate breaker in a given situation. You need a lot of experience with various corp archetypes to be able to maximize the deck's potential. Study Guide is good versus small code gates like Quandary, but can grow to handle Toolbooth if you throw a Stimhack Inti the mix. Besides, the influence is better spent on things like the peddler and Bank Job ;)

17 Aug 2015 ANRguybrush

wanna cut something for 2x film critic. any ideas what to cut?

17 Aug 2015 evilgaz

@crazimir Great to play against you my friend! Interesting twist on the Kate deck. I think you should keep that Datasucker for helping out 4tman and Mimic against some of the surprise sentries. It also save you money, especially on Study Guide.

I'm not sold on SG myself, but you seem to do well with it. I'd stick a cheeky Cyber Cypher in there to deal with Tollbooths myself - or maybe lose a Peddler for the Femme?

Test some stuff out and see what you think!

18 Aug 2015 Crazimir

@evilgaz Congratulations again - our single game was probably more fun from your perspective ;) I'd very much like a Cyber Cypher in the deck, but the slots are so tight... Will be working on it. Have already cut a Peddler for Femme and am liking the switch.