Clot Kit

Would Refractor not serve this deck better than cyber cypher? You've already got all the stealth credits in there and saves you having to scavenge between servers. Does such good work in Kit, generally allowing you comfortably face check any outer ice, even putting down OAI curtain walls.

Ignore that, completely misread! Solid deck :)

Haha, thanks! I've been considering dropping the cy-cy entirely for a third refractor, but it has definitely helped a lot in the off game where all my stealth seems to be buried at the bottom of the deck.

Why Switchblade over Dagger? Switchblade gets a little bigger but it requires two non-Lockpick stealth sources to function while Dagger only needs the one. And it frees up that precious influence.

@spiralshadow Thanks for the question! I find the extra efficiency of Switchblade to be tremendously valuable against RP and Weyland. Against Tsurugi and Komainu, Dagger is just a less good Mimic, and against Archer you'll need two stealth creds either way, but Switchblade is cheaper. Even switchblading through Pup can be really valuable over the course of a game. Against other factions, the efficiency really pays off as well, but perhaps not as much. Needing to find more stealth sources upfront is a little bit of a hassle, but I think it's a much smaller problem for Kit because the corp needs to be two ice deep before it concerns me, which gives me more time to hunt out stealth.

That means the two main problems of Switchblade over Dagger are overextending yourself on stealth creds, and the influence. Overextension usually isn't a problem when you're only trying to make 1-2 runs a turn at most anyways, and it's a lot harder for the corp to play the "stack three sentries" game when Kit turns the first one off, and Spooned recursion kills what I don't like.

The influence point is a good one, certainly, and I would love to find room for Parasite or Utopia Shard, but more of an issue than the influence is the card slots. I'm having trouble fitting everything I need as is, and even if I could free up the influence I'm not sure which cards I'd cut. My "46th card" in this deck is a Deus X, which I don't need influence to fit in. Suggestions on how you might fit in Deus X, or what you would cut to take advantage of the spare influence of using Dagger, would certainly be appreciated!

Also: when Net-Ready Eyes is a thing, Switchblade will turn Orion and Komainu into jokes.

Are you using Professional Contacts more than once per turn? Symmetrical Visage might be a better alternative here for the cost.

@GoldenArmKid I tried Symmetrical Visage briefly, and found myself just wishing it was ProCon. The tempo hit is certainly significant, but I regularly click ProCon 2 or more times. There are a lot of moving parts in this deck, so you'll need to draw through it, and ProCon makes that a lot less painful.

That said, updated versions of this deck have made room for Diesel, which might make Symmetrical Visage better.