Kitman Parasite - 2nd Place Bern Store Championship

I suspect I'm going to have to try this build because I see a few things that look odd to me from a long time of playing various Kit decks... I'm curious to know your reasoning behind:

1) 3x Yog.0? Could you go to 1x Yog.0 + 3x Parasite with the extra influence? Why do you have 3 Yog.0?

2) Astrolabe is an odd choice of console. My experience is that corp wants to keep as few servers as possible against Kit, because they need to stack their ICE deeper. And with Yog, Dinosaurus is the usual Console. Why did you go with Astro instead?

3) Indexing is also odd, since Kit generally wants to run once a turn for her ability. Any insight as to why you chose Indexing?

@CrushU It's the deck archetype called "Pressure" in the excellent article Peddling Peddler – All Things Kit. It's all about pressuring the corp in the early game.

1. 3x Parasite is probably better, as it is super useful in this deck. But, I didn't test it enough and was therefore afraid of not having Yog.0 early enough. It worked out fine at the tournament since I allways had Yog.0 in my starting hand.

2. Dinosaurus is too expensive for this deck. It has not a lot of economy and Yog.0 and the Atman's are already expensive to install.

3. Indexing is just another cheap "multi"-access card, as R&D Interface is too expensive. It does not work well with Rielle "Kit" Peddler: Transhuman, but can still be useful to maybe steal an agenda the next turn.

So the Astrolabe was more the third Akamatsu, and you were basically console-less? (With bonus if you play against NEH) I've done that. :)

I've always had problems with Kit playing against Asset-spam corps, like NEH or RP, simply because getting money is usually a chore.

So I went with Opus economy... To see what I've currently got Kit on (though haven't updated her since OAC... Study Guide seems good...) check out netrunnerdb.com

Yes, trashing Assets is a problem. In one of my stealth builds, I also included 2x Scrubber, but no influence here. That's one of the reasons I think that this deck is not good enough in the current meta.

I will try Yog.0 again when Net-Ready Eyes is released. I've not tested Study Guide yet.

In my (limited) testing, Study Guide was too slow to get up to speed; Gordian Blade was basically the same thing but ready faster. I haven't tried Atman yet, and I think I should try it out to see how it works, since I know it's usually specifically-strengthed Barriers that cause problems for my Kit builds...

(I'm tempted to try 2x Spooned, 1x Parasite, 1x Wyrm in a Gordian Blade build... That would literally be all of the influence, but that's a lot of ICE trashing...)