Kit aggro

You'll want the full recursion on parasite, and datasuckers to destroy ice hands down (since hitting 1 central should be easy with her ability). -2 corroder +2 datasucker -1 akamatsu memchip +1 clone chip.

I respectfully disagree - I've been playing variations of this deck for a long time, and was able to top 8 at a 110 person plugged in tour and win a couple local tourenys with it - it works just fine with the single parasite. Its for a lot of popular ice that cause kit headaches because they eat her ability - namely popup, ice wall, draco, and rototurret. between multiple femmes, multiple cyphers, SMC, corroder, and a MU slot for crescentus, parasite, or Deus X, Datasucker is rarely worth the memory.

This deck can get in, regardless of the server - you've got tons of tools to do so. Test run into femme, scavenge to cheat femme off test run or move Cypher, recursion via 3 test runs and 2 clone chips, and Cypher installs, of course. Mimic, again, doesnt need clone chip - its there for a number of popular sentries, especially draco, caduceus, rototurret, shadow, and swordsman.

One thing thats wrong about this list - the two masanoris are actually Kati Jones, and it should be -1 akamatsu +1 money card (kati or whatever).

I will note that it did run datasucker for a long time - but cutting it only made the deck more focused and cleaner. I havent looked back.

Why dont use a yog ? Really fun with kit.

Too expensive. It needs support, either through Dino, Personal touch, or datasucker, which are expensive in credits, cards, and MU, respectively.

Yogosaurus is probably the most popular option - and its good. But it costs 10 credits and 2 cards, and still cant break some really key pieces of ice, like archer, Flare, Heimdall, Janus, and Hadrians.

Cyber Cypher can break anything, and it costs 8 less credits and 1 less card to set up.

It certainly has a downside, but it is mitigated by a few things:

1. Scavenge. You can retarget them as needed.
2. Test run/SMC lets you get multiples out pretty quickly.
3. You will rarely regret putting Cypher on R&D and HQ.

It takes a lot of runs to make up that 8 credit 1 card deficit. You probably will eventually, but thats a very long term investment, and shaper needs to be aggressive in the current corp meta, or you'll be down 4 points before you get to that break even point.