Gingerbread Kate - 5th Stockholm Regional

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The best breaker in (this) Gingerbread Kate is Inti.

Coming in to this tournament (25 people, 4 rounds of swiss, top 8 cut) I had no illusions of my chances of winning with this deck: it has no Clot for fast advance, no answers to either superfriends or bathing inside joke, and I have very little experience playing Shaper. That said, the original deck by alientoyshop seemed increadibly fun and something completely different from the types of Anarch decks I'm used to playing. I simply needed a break from Parasites, D4v1ds and Wyldsides.

Too bad I didn't get to use Gingerbread in more than two games - one of which I could have used Inti instead. The first game against NEH saw only Wraparound and Resistor before I won. The second game against Gagarin I installed Gigi and Panta before making my first run, only to realize this guy too would only throw zero/one strength Barriers at me. Third and fourth was ID, and besides two corp games in the cut I used Ginger once or twice in a NEH matchup before dying horribly to 24/7 Traffic Scorched. The deck went 3-1 on the day,

A few alterations from the original:

  • No Dino. I put Net-Ready Eyes in instead, which was probably wasted space.
  • The added Professional Contacts was installed twice, and both times pulled his weight to be worth it. Other times I expected tags, and so didn't use it.
  • Astrolabe, as I expected some assets and I needed the memory for the setup in lieu of the Dino.
  • -2x QT, -1x Modded, +1x SMC, -3x Hopper, +1x Plascrete. Nothing exceptional, just some tweaks to better fit the other changes and my playstyle.

In hindsight I could have used a second The Maker's Eye, as I needed multiaccess fast in a couple of games. And no, the deck does not need Clone Chip. It's not the best deck by any stretch, but I think it's a very fun deck to pilot and I will probably keep at it for a while longer.

Oh, and only winners get to make funny references in their titles and include even funnier images in their descriptions. Sorry.

4 comments
11 Jun 2016 alientoyshop

Well you get a heart from me! Nice finish!

12 Jun 2016 kollapse

@alientoyshop That's the only heart I need.

12 Jun 2016 Drazjk

Gagarin player here. The Gingerbread wasn't a bad install but yeah you could probably have set up faster with that and Inti. Funnily enough this was also the only runner my Gagarin lost to though.

13 Jun 2016 kollapse

@Drazjk I got the Inti a couple of turns after the Gingerbread install, so it didn't feel necessary to install it before I needed to go through multiple ICE on a turn. Seeing as you were on kill I didn't want to spend too much money running either. ;)

That feels good, I have to admit.