Kit Mercur

Lupus Yonderboi 252

There's no need to wait for Ele "Smoke" Scovak: Cynosure of the Net to play with the new stealth toys. Kit can do as well !

Houdini sometimes save your ass, so I feel this slot is deserved, but the main breaker is Refractor. What really shines in this deck is Net Mercur. There's a reason Ghost Runner is called this, it's because it's dead, dead, dead ! Net Mercur is the ultimate stealth support, as it helps to sustain a freaking good run frequency, even allowing to run several times a turn, something Kit is not considered good at.

That said, the Net Mercur money is mainly for running, don't expect to get rid of assets or leading the money race with it alone. Also, while stealth money make ice strength almost worthless, multi-sub is still a thing. Fairchild 2.0, Aiki and even stacked Enigmas can slow you down, not even speaking of multi-sub sentry.

For the rest of the deck, economy, pressure and silver bullets are what they are and should be better. At least, you can take the breaking-core of this deck and adapt to what you feel is better. As is, this deck is a real threat for glacier, much less for asset-spamming and tag storm. Jintekills are manageable.

4 comments
21 Oct 2016 internet_potato

I'm a big fan of 3x Refractor-- stealth kit lives or dies by early pressure, and it forces the corp to lose a lot of tempo double-icing everything (and saves you from the extra cost of tutoring with SMC). I see Houdini more as a backup for stacked code gates than a replacement for the 3rd copy.

I've been finding 1x Paricia to be helpful against asset spam. The match up is still not great, but it's no longer completely impossible (especially with Net Mercur giving you a fake bad pub).

If you have Film Critic, might as well find space for a New Angeles City Hall to help with tagging. At a glance, I think you could do without the levies/SoT.

Thank you for keeping the dream that is Kit alive-- I get the feeling that Smoke is going to eat her lunch :)

21 Oct 2016 YsengrinSC

I would also think having another Temüjin Contract would be better then 2x Career Fairas you only have 1 non-unique target. I also don't think you need the Levy, but you certainly don't need 2. I'm a little surprised by 0 R&D Interface and no Indexing which is good in this low ice meta.

21 Oct 2016 dawspawn

If you're just running Houdini as a back-up, you might want to consider just replacing it with Cyber-Cypher.

21 Oct 2016 Lupus Yonderboi

In fact, I give a thought at going all Cyber-Cypher. After all, they can be fed stealth credit, too. But right now, I'm trying a Mopus-driven variation of this deck, so is a concern.