Silence Kit v1.3

Instantly checked this deck when i saw its name, nice Pavement reference ! :p Strangely this make me think that Kit is close to Malkmus, they share some kind of elegance... Maybe SM is a cyborg too :D I will definitely try your deck, as I love both Kit and SM :) Thanks for share !

I feel like maybe Malkmus is more of a G-Mod :) I might have to name more decks after Pavement songs so that I can open a description with "I don't want your Corp-a-ration att-i-TUDE!" Anyhow, glad you enjoyed the list. It takes a few games to get the hang of it, but tossing people's ice around is lots of fun.

I've been trying to make an inversificator kit deck as well. One thing I like about Maya in Kit is that you can use the ability to put non-code gate ice on the bottom of their deck. My version has been using system seizure instead of Personal Touch and Tinkering/Careful Planning instead of egret, as well as a legwork. Any thoughts on that?

@metafoxx I think its a close call with Maya vs. Astrolabe. I used to use Maya and it certainly has upsides (the 2 mem gives you more flexibility to use SMC late game to fetch Egret, for instance). For now I've been liking Astrolabe. Funny you should mention System Seizure, as that was in an earlier version of my deck :) Now that you mention it, I might have to go back and see which gives more long term "sustain" in the late game. I think there are pros and cons to each. Guaranteed, stackable, hard to get rid of (hardware) with Touch. But Seizure costs 0, can clear currents, and vs. big ice probably saves you more credits, since you are breaking it twice. Could always go one of each.

For Tinkering, I prefer having a permanent solution to deep servers, hence Egret (which can also be SMC'd). Ditto for Careful Planning (which is really expensive to boot). I would love to have the inf for some HQ related tool, but with Kit's inf so tight, I think Spooned is a priority. And Aaron is just so essential right now that I can't see cutting him for something else.

Have you considered Lockpick over Personal Touch? Essentially does the same thing if you're only running once per turn, plus there's no worry of losing your buffed up breaker if you get Hunter Seeker'd.

You could even push it one step further and throw in a Net Mercur or two for more card draw and tempo!

@Feed An interesting thought, but the issue I see is that Personal Touch saves you on every encounter, whereas Lockpick is just 1 str once. Since you will frequently be running servers with more than 1 ice, you end up saving more with Personal Touch on each run. And occasionally you can hit 2 servers if one of them has only code gates (maybe because you stacked them there :) ) Though the protection from having your upgraded breaker sniped is nice. I think I'd need more stealth support to consider Net Mercur.

After trying your version for a bit, the deck is BEGGING for an HQ access tool. Camping that remote makes agendas pile up, and you just don't have the RD megabomb to win off just that (like medium/keyhole digs). This gives the corp time to stack up ice on RD and the scoring remote until it's safe to score. If -1 aaron +1 legwork isn't your thing, how about -1 aaron +2 turning wheel? The big thing I like about tinkering/planning is that it can be used on unrezzed ice, while planning also has some utility against defensive upgrades, but I suppose you could also run interdiction for that. I am also strongly suggesting a freedom through equality in here, just because it's so damn useful. Seizure vs touch is extremely situational, touch is much more reliable, but has generally lower payoff. Seizure is unquestionably going to save you more money IF it stays out for a few turns, but that's IF.

The biggest question I have after trying this deck out, though, is how do you decide between spooning down their RD and their scoring remote? This is something you have to prep for several turns, and I really seems bad to try to split it up between both.

Actually, I just had an idea. -1 aaron...............(drumroll please)...........+2 The Gauntlet. Much more expensive yes, i know. But you have modded and mopus econ so it shouldn't be that bad. The benefits include: 1. Massive pressure on a 3rd server, making them have to spread out their ice even more thinly to keep you out. 2. +1 MU. Because. 3. Less pressure to find your x1 legwork or whatever, plus not having to decide between legwork, spooned and makers eye for your SoT. 4. You know Code Fu. It's a fist in a nintendo power glove. +5 flavor. 5. Finally running Gauntlet in a shaper deck where it belongs.

It's a weird include, I know. But I'm willing to give it a try.

@metafoxx you mad genius! I am definitely willing to try out The Gauntlet, for all the reasons you mentioned ("I love the Power Glove, it's so bad"). The fact that we have Modded makes it less intimidating. Plus, we don't NEED it until later, once they've decided that we don't have the chops to pressure HQ. And then... POWER GLOVE! SWAP ATTACK! KI-YA!!! Almost as awesome as the American Ninja movies.

So the question is what do we add in place of the A-A-ron? And I think the answer is pretty easy: Misdirection. I felt safe without it because of 2x Aaron, but with only 1, I think an emergency oh s!*% button for tagstorm is useful. Thoughts?

One thing to note though: By my reading of The Gauntlet, you A) can't get extra accesses from Spooned ice (boo) and B) only get 1 extra access if you do a Swap Attack, since it is counting only the number of ice ON WHICH you broke all subs. Since you broke the same one twice, that's only 1 extra access. That still makes it an HQ interface with +2MU tacked on for 1 extra credit, which is pretty good. And if you can get a natural code gate in front of HQ (by swapping it there maybe), you can get 3+ accesses. I will try it out and report back.

I don't think the Gauntlet triggers well with inversificator. I think because Gauntlet says "for each piece of ice"; you're typically still breaking just a single ice with inversificator. Still would be good to access one additional card each time, but wouldn't get super good until hq has 3 ice.

My personal choice for tag protection in Shaper for a while has been NACH, what with Film Critic being in faction and all. It's cheap to install, it works against Railgun, and it's 0 influence.

Ok, I did -1 aaron, -1 patron, -1 earthrise, -2 Astrolabe into +2 gauntlet, +1 Makers Eye, +2 Freedom through equality. My very next game was: steal 2 points with early makers, steal 2 points off double inverse swap, get some mopus money and wait for flood, then get 3 points off install gauntlet, play freedom, run HQ to steal GFI for the win. True, gauntlet is kind of a nonbo with Inversificator, and that sucks. But at bare minimum it's still 2 accesses every time, which is still worth it. The interesting thing about having gauntlet out, is that the defense against the gauntlet is to NOT rez ice in front of HQ, because rezzing ice gives you more multiaccess. If they are careless and rez code gates on HQ, you get more accesses for the rest of the game, if they are smart and don't rez any codys........well they aren't rezzing ice, which is the same as it not existing at all, which means they have less ice.......which is good for you. Even just hitting 2 cards out of HQ should not be underestimated. If they are even slightly flooded (2 agendas in hand) and you access 2 cards, you have a 70% chance of walking away with an agenda. And you can do this over and over again. The slight drawback of nonbo-ing with inversificator aside, the gauntlet seems VERY worth it. If you want an anti-tag card in post-rotation green/neutral, I can't argue with misdirection, though even one aaron is still pretty darn strong. Misdirection seems specifically targeted at Hard Hitting News and Midseasons, though, which means after rotation Midseasons is gone. And you have mopus so HHN is less of a threat. 24/7 boom is still a bitch though, but maybe........MAYBE.....Qianju PT? Dunno about that one. I think the misdirection slot could easily be a flex slot for you local meta. Hell it could be a paricia or a Chakana.

I never really got on the Spooned train despite playing Kit forever, but you're making me think I should try it! My version uses Temüjin Contract instead to speed up set-up even more.

Another thing I found cool was that I could swap Egret for Atman. It's a bit more expensive to pull out in an emergency, but setting up all the Fairchild 3.0s on R&D and then dropping Atman-5 is such a great feeling.

With no recursion and no Sacrificial Construct, what do you do about Sapper?

What about Escher? You can put all code gates on HQ then System Seizure with Inversificator and The Gauntlet on HQ for easy access as well have extra options...

Just a note that I posted an update list here: netrunnerdb.com

I couldn't figure out if there was a way to simply update the original posting's card list. I see how to update the name/description, but not the card list, so I just made a new post.

@daytodave: My plan vs. SkorpCorp is just to try and power on to a win before they can run me out of Inversificators. Given that I have 3, losing 1 isn't the end of the world. But it is a race against the clock. And by clock, I mean Hunter Seekers and Hatchet Job/Salem's Hospitalitys.

@M0H4WK: I originally had Escher in an early version, but I found it was only situationally good. They have to have enough rezzed code games AND you have to need to get into a 4+ deep server where you can't already swap the code gates onto it.