what about this new 1.5k deck? https://github.com/donkuri/Kaishi
>This deck has its origin in a discussion between Tyogin and myself in the TMW dicksuck server. We were both lamenting the fact that the popular beginner decks at the time had annoying flaws. Beginners kept getting confused when using Core 2k and Tango due to various issues. Tango had some obscure words in it such as ナンプラー which is a Thai fish sauce and many people weren't really interested in all the basic phrases and country names taking up such a large amount of the deck. The deck's fields were formatted terribly which made it impossible to use the deck in a different way than was originally intended, which was sentence cards. Core 2k on the other hand was modular, but had multiple mistranslations, missing or unrelated pictures and some of the sentences weren't very useful, sometimes not even reflecting the meaning of the word used.
>Both of these issues were annoying enough that we would get beginners asking questions about it every two weeks. Tyogin proposed we fix the issue ourselves and a small team was assembled to fix these issues. We mostly took data from Core2k, Core10k, Tango N4 and Tango N5. We then combined the data, sorted the words by frequency using various Yomichan/Yomitan frequency dictionaries and selected around 1500 words. We then fixed the translations for each word, chose the best sentence for each word and fixed the sentence if it needed fixing. We had to fix roughly 120 sentences out of the 1500 we chose. After this, we generated audio for words that were missing proper audio, and a team of two people (Karifurai and cindsa) verified the pitch accent data we got from AJT Japanese as well as adding pitch accent notes for words that needed it. We then took out silence on the cards and normalized the audio level between the various files. On top of that, we also generated furigana from AJT Japanese for the words and the sentences. After this, we designed a basic hint targeted sentences card CSS to be used on the default version of the deck. Finally, multiple people proofread the deck to make sure we had as few errors as possible.