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Cyber Exodus |
A Study in Static |
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Hard Stealth Kit w/ Astrolabe | 25 | 24 | 4 |
Charting the Dark | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Charting the Dark | 33 | 25 | 13 |
Chart Harder - Indexing variant | 38 | 34 | 5 |
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Move fast enough and they'll never see you coming.
This is a hardware-centric Kit build that can get set up scary fast with Replicator and Inside Man. Drawing into your Magnum Opus is perfection, but tutoring for it with an early SMC/Test Run is hardly ever a bad move (you can always clone that SMC back later). In fact I usually dedicate my first SMC to making sure Mopus hits the table; not only does it set up a devastating economic potential, but it's your Scorch/Midseasons protection in a deck that just doesn't have time for Plascrete. That makes it all the more important to realize the healthy mix of blazing speed you can achieve needs to be tempered with economic patience. The more money you have, the less the corp can do to you. There are usually one or two money-making turns you should be able to identify in most games, wherein you should feel comfortable letting off server pressure and clicking Mopus for 8 credits; in much the same way corps identify scoring windows, your win rate with this deck will skyrocket when you can start to identify economy windows.
You can look at dropping the second copy of Magnum Opus if you're dead set on making the 45 card limit, but an early Replicator will easily thin anywhere between 6 and 8 cards from your deck, so this build plays much tighter than you'd think. I'll be adding 2 Astrolabes once Up & Over drops, and I doubt I'll cut anything to do so. This deck can also run a one-off Deus X or Sharpshooter if you want it to, but I personally favor patient play over the silver bullets. Give it a try and let me know how it works for you!
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12 Oct 2014
esutter479
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12 Oct 2014
Alsciende
Is it really important to play 3x Refractor? Did you consider Leprechaun? It's good to host SMC and Mopus, no? Are you happy with the Ghost Runner? |
12 Oct 2014
Pinkwarrior
Looks good, i really don't think blackat is worth the effort tho imo id rather just take a corroder over it. I personally play against a jintiki PE player alot so Deus X would be a necessity really a Philotic Entanglement can be game over without it. How do you find Refracter to hold up on non-codegate ICE that you've made codegate? |
12 Oct 2014
Softman25
No console? Ballsy. I like it. (Although with triple Inside Man - I can see Toolbox being viable - I can certainly see however why you wouldn't use it) |
12 Oct 2014
BTrain
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14 Oct 2014
Pinkwarrior
I maybe wrong i just dont feel it's worth the extra creds to install and effort. Stealth creds are limited and i can see a bigger ICE like Hadrian's wall really sucking them up using this. |
14 Oct 2014
BTrain
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19 Oct 2014
djencode
I love the idea of this deck! I've been trying to get a good stealth kit build and this gives me some great ideas. Some changes I'll be making... -1 blackcat +1 corroder. Reason for this, it's 1 point lower influence, which is huge when you only have 10. Stealth credits are at a premium, and with magnum opus the extra money will help you get past glacier with ease. I started with Blackcat but just couldn't be successful with it. -1 inside man, -1 cybersolutions memchip +2 Astrolabe. I think inside man is great to get your rig setup, but once that's done it's outlived it's usefulness. 2 should be sufficient. Also with 1 cybersolutions in play, and one astrolabe, there will be more than enough memory to host all the ice you want in play. -1 Dagger +1 Switchblade. I don't think this needs explanation. SWITCHBLADE! -1 Parasite +1 Datasucker. I think in this deck, Datasucker is much more valuable. Especially for the aforementioned glacier. |
19 Oct 2014
BTrain
And as far as Parasite goes, I agree it's nicer to have two Datasuckers when you're going against glacier, but when you're up against RP, one of the most prominent decks (at least in my meta), you'll want to be able to nuke the central ice that can effectively turn off Kit's ability. And keep trying BlacKat. I didn't like it at first either, but now I far prefer it to Corroder, even if it means losing Switchblade in the deck. Like you said, stealth creds are at a premium, and both Dagger and BlacKat let you mix stealth and regular credits to break. Switchblade is a necessary 2 stealth every time you want to break even a low strength sentry, and with no dedicated hardware to provide stealth money (Silencer), you're going to eat up your cloaks during runs fairly quickly. Corroder is nice when you have the extra Datasucker support, but for this deck, BlacKat is far and away my preferred fracter. |
19 Oct 2014
djencode
RP used to be huge in my meta, but right now Weyland and HB glacier still get a lot of play. I also think that Astrolabe is a good way to deal with RP because it makes them question every time they create a new server. And while Parasite could help with dealing with certain ice, I think Switchblade does a better job since it's only 2 credits to break almost every Sentry Jinteki can throw at you. Komainu? MEH! I just think the extra influence cost isn't worth it to me. The problem with Blackcat, is that if you want it to be good, you need to spend 2 stealth credits. Otherwise it's a shitty Corroder. And it's 3 influence. Where as Corroder is 2 influence, and is only marginally more expensive if we count in the use of stealth credits. And Switchblade, I know the way you look at it, is it has to cost 2 stealth creds from Dagger or Ghost Runner every time you run, but the way I look at it, is with Lockpick dedicating itself to Refractor, there are 2 stealth credits to spare for Switchblade. Especially since in most cases, that's ALL it'll need. Anyhow I'll try out this build and let you know how it goes! |
19 Oct 2014
djencode
Also, what are your thoughts on finding a way to slot in Paintbrush or Tinkering? |
19 Oct 2014
BTrain
I've never liked them. At a certain point, this deck can get through most everything without those cards' help, and if you're not at that point, you'd rather spend that click getting money, drawing cards, or building your rig. It's lateral movement in a build that wants to move forward as fast as it can. |
20 Oct 2014
loki1227
Hi. We still don't have First Contact yet but I would really like to start using this build. I'm replacing BlacKat with Corroder, first then probably Gordian for Refracter. Any other suggestions for decoders? Thanks! |
20 Oct 2014
Prox
Thanks for sharing! I've been running various iterations of Stealth Kit (hell, stealth anything) since Refractor hit, and this one has been the most fun to play. I did swap in Net Celebrity in place of Dirty Laundry. Without a significant number of run events, I wanted a harder counter to ELP (which is everywhere in my meta). Plus, that Net Celeb credit can do a lot of lifting early on. |
20 Oct 2014
BTrain
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23 Oct 2014
casteffens
There has to be something better than BlacKat. Running on servers with 4 or more ice and 2 barrier ice is really uphill. That being said, accessing 4 cards per run on the R&D is unbelievable! |
23 Oct 2014
Nil0
What is Test Run for? Just having more tutors? What about Diesel? I'm hardly trying to cut off to 45 and even add one Deus X. Hard. |
24 Oct 2014
karmaportrait
Too bad we need room for Plascrete now.. :P I agree that BlacKat is awesome, but the cost to get it out (and potentially tutor for it) just for a Wraparound does suck. Still won't swap it out for Corroder just yet. |
24 Oct 2014
BTrain
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24 Oct 2014
MoonlitAllie
This is very similar to my Stealth Repli-Kit-er deck I have been running. I have thought of swapping the Silencer's for HQ Interfaces. Might go back to BlacKat instead of Corroder if I do that. I have discovered that I LOVE Box-E for the extra hand size with this deck. The extra padding makes for a nice Net/Meat damage buffer when I feel I need it. I have found the Levy AR Lab Access to be very important, as I have decked myself a few times against Jinteki with this deck. |
27 Oct 2014
djencode
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27 Oct 2014
djencode
Also, Astrolabe vs NEH = AHAHAHAHAHAHA It always makes them think twice about creating that new server. |
29 Oct 2014
casteffens
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BTrain! Find me on OCTGN, man! :) Name's ligre...
Sweet deck, btw...stealth Kit is beastly. Played a few on OCTGN...went down to the wire each time. :)