JDeng's Kate Is Not Dead - Pittsburgh Regionals 1st Place

Oh my god I cracked up so damn hard! For those who don't get the reference: www.youtube.com

@Wyrm how big was pittsburgh? I am trying to get a sense of regional attendance.

@CodeMarvelous 35 Players, same as Las Vegas

@Wyrm I have been really interested in a more middle of the road Kate deck. How did this do?

@CodeMarvelous I hope to write a stimhack article soon so stay tuned for that. To directly answer your question now, Kate had 1 loss on the day due to Pilot Error. I managed to dodge IG which is her Achilles Heel, but I think she can stand in the ring with any other Corp out there right now.

@Wyrm PDX also had 35 people and was held on the same day as the other two. That's crazy. This list looks really on point, but what do you do if you cant find ProCo?

Dodged IG.... That's fortunate ;)

@podoboyz99Overdraw until you find him. Install what's completely necessary and keep up your credit pool to ensure clot / breaker can be tutored to keep the Corps honest.

@moistloaf Lucksack for life.

Also, I can't express how happy I am that people are playing 45 card Kate decks again.

How does this fare against Palana? It feels like the economy's probably not good enough to make two runs against a scoring remote when you need to :(

@podoboyz99 its ok were playing 46 cards elsewhere :)

@LSK It performed well against Palana for me, although part of that was luck. Good thing is, you don't need to make two runs against a scoring remote with Political Operative. It matters quite a bit when you draw your ProCo, so what I would say is they have around a 4-5ish~ turn window to score nisei and if they don't they are in big trouble.

I've seen several Kate decks like this floating around, and several have performed quite well. However, when I try to net deck it and test it out, I feel like I don't know how to pilot it well. I've been playing more stealth builds and other random stuff lately, so this requires a paradigm shift for me.

What do you mulligan for? What's you're priority for installs on the first few turns? Any general tips?

Really like this list. Did you find you got more mileage out of Parasite and Datasucker than D4v1d (+another slot)?

@rwknoll Most of the time you are going to mulligan for Professional Contacts. Unless you have something extremely good like astrolabe, smc, sure gamble, hyperdriver, you will always be attempting to win the ProCo Sweepstakes

@Epimer Much more mileage out of Parasite. It shuts down some decks that otherwise can snowball out of control like the more recently popular Palana Grail and Tour Guide Gagarin