Won a small GNK yesterday with the Ken list I mentioned several posts above. It was a super-tiny GNK of 8 people, but we did 4 rounds because why not. It went 3-1, losing a close match against RP, mostly to a play error of mine early in the game that resonated throughout the entire rest of it. I find that of the couple games I’ve lost with this deck over the last 2 weeks, most are lost to small play errors; I rarely feel shut out of the game.
However, the RP game could have been saved if I had more long-term econ. I burned through my entire deck, and in the end was taking 4 and passing every turn, which was pretty bad (clearly). A change that might be good is to go -2 Medium -1 Stimhack, +2 RDI +1 Levy. This retains the multi-access runs on RDI (which makes the otherwise-single-access Dirty Laundries and High Risks more worth it), but at potentially lower numbers, and also gives me the ability to recycle the deck, almost PPPVP Kate-like. I really only burn through most of the deck in the longer RP or HB matches, but usually win before I would need to Levy, but adding in a Levy would at least give me the option.
Another option might just be to add in a Kati Jones in place of a Siphon or a High Risk. That would take care of a longer-econ game by banking on Kati, but might also make the deck more reliant on shaking tags. Right now, it’s set up with few resources so that if I need to go tag me, I can.
Either way, the Stimhack should probably go. I have it in there as a remote threat (or a way to get another Medium run through a taxing R&D), but I rarely actually play it. Same with Femme, actually. I wanted a Femme as an answer to things like Tollbooth, but I hate actually installing the damn thing. 9 Credits is just bonkers.
I’ve only lost a couple games over the last two weeks: one was the RP match I just mentioned, and the other was a SYNC Butcher game where I decided that I should access what I was already 90% sure was a double-advanced Shattered Remains. This blew off the 2 Plascretes, and then I thought it might be a safer play to draw up to 4 cards to make him have 2 scorches (he wasn’t on Traffic Accident for some reason) to kill me rather than run a Maker’s Eye to possibly win the game. The possibility he had 2 scorches was high, but I thought it seemed like it might have been safer. I was wrong on both counts; the win was on top of R&D, and he had the meat in hand.
Other than the above, the deck feels pretty darn nice. It’s not quite PPVP Kate, but at times it feels close.