"Kit" - Stupid Green Dinosaur

After seeing a few paintbrush based decks, I decided to make my own. I figured that Kit was stronger, having a "paintbrush like effect" identity - and of course, making Code Gates, it was going to be Yog-o-saurus.

EARLY GAME

You'll want to be digging deep to find both a Dinosaurus, and any one card that can search out Yog.0. With that in mind, Professional Contacts was a must - helping me trickle up to the magic 12/13cr (including the cost of Test Run/SMC for the Yog), as I dig. Public Sympathy helps hold handfuls of useful events - Indexing, Escher, FAO etc - and protect against surprise damage decks. I find PS more helpful than Plascrete as it protects against net damage too, though it will feed Sweeps Week quite badly. Usually a rich Corp player is no problem, as you'll end up quite rich yourself. Once you get your Yog set up, its time to start facechecking ICE on. A less clever Corp player will rez everything as you touch it - the deck is somewhat concerned with an unrezzed ICE sitting deep in a server that could be a nasty Sentry. Sharpshooter will help facecheck when that occurs, as well as hitting deeper ICE with FAO. Early facechecking of the first few ICE will also help (though, you'll need a bit of bravery). When you can, go digging for Paintbrush. Your full kit is Yog-O-Saurus with up to 2 The Personal Touch on it, Datasucker and Paintbrush. You'll have a spare MU for Parasite or Sharpshooter.

MID - LATE GAME

At this point, hopefully you're looking at a whole bunch of rezzed ICE, and the glorious feeling of being able to touch any server at a whim. At this point, the pressure is on - any card the Corp puts down can be reached, and you have full control of HQ and R&D. Indexing comes into play here - spend a turn setting R&D up as a fun place to go. Try to learn what the Corp player does when you hit it - does he leave it as-is, or draw through? Use that to plan your Indexing order - and of course, Jackson Howard is the enemy. He must be shut down whenever possible.

Against damage-based decks, keep your hand high into 7+ cards. Usually you can trip over any Snares or low-advanced traps you find. Keep drawing up, and throw the Levy AR when needed. At some point, drop and Escher on the table. It should be pretty straightforward, but - Code Gates go to the back of servers (If you can build a full Code Gate server, stick it over R&D and have a party), unrezzed ICE go to the front. Spread Str 8+ ICE about - you don't want to have to spend more than one or two Datasucker counters to get into a single server, or the Corp will drop a purge on you and start trying to score.

FINAL THOUGHTS

I'm considering dropping Katie for Daily Casts, or another handy event. I find that, towards the end of a game, I'll be sitting on an odd 20cr with nothing to do with them. I've considered playing with Deep Thought, but am less interested in having a full MU rig. Its useful to be able to swap between Parasite (to shoot down those upsetting high Str/annoying "on encounter" ICE), or Sharpshooter (for the facechecks). Traps could be a serious hazard to the deck. I'm considering dropping in 3x Infiltration (maybe for Dirty Laundry) to help with deciding what to run on.