Kit Surprise, NA Nationals Top 8 2013

By JoshuaSable, in Android: Netrunner Deck Building

So this is the runner deck that I used at Gen Con's Nationals tournament and got all the way to the top 8. It's a lot of fun to use and a lot of people were saying they wanted to look at the deck.

Rielle "Kit" Peddler

Event (15)
Freelance Coding Contract (Creation and Control #33) x2
Levy AR Lab Access (Creation and Control #35) x1
Scavenge (Creation and Control #34) x3
Test Run (Cyber Exodus #47) x3
The Maker's Eye (Core #36) x3
Sure Gamble (Core #50) x3

Hardware (8)
Akamatsu Mem Chip (Core #38) x3
Clone Chip (Creation and Control #38) x3
Plascrete Carapace (What Lies Ahead #9) x2

Program (19)
Crescentus (A Study in Static #65) x2 ■
Faerie (Future Proof #104) x2 ■■■
Femme Fatale (Core #26) x2 ■
Self-modifying Code (Creation and Control #46) x3
Cyber-Cypher (Creation and Control #44) x3
Deus X (A Study in Static #66) x2
Snowball (Trace Amount #27) x2
Magnum Opus (Core #44) x3

Resource (3)
Daily Casts (Creation and Control #53) x3

Strategy:

Early game, use Self-Modifying Code. It lets you run rigless with a Shaper, which throws a lot of people off. If they only have one ICE on a server, you can play Cyber-Cypher and target that server, which makes even the strongest ICE crumble with Kit's ability. Don't be afraid to use Cyber-Cypher due to it's limitation, you can easily just Scavenge it later to change the target server.
After you use a Faerie or Deus X to break a big ICE, feel free to Crescentus it as well, pulled from your stack or heap with Self-Modifying Code or Clone Chip. Haas-Bioroid uses a lot of AP ICE, and Jinteki has lots of net damage traps, so you basically always want a Deus X out or able to be pulled against them.

My weakness with this deck is against Barriers, especially several stacked on one server. That's why I used Snowball as a Barrier breaker, but even then it can fall short. If you face a lot of Weyland, you may want to change it out to something else, maybe Battering Ram, even though it uses a lot of memory.

Very interesting. A friend of mine has been eyeing our newest Transhuman to try to figure out a deck for her, I'll ship him this link so he can get some ideas.

Feel free to try it out. This deck certainly is able to catch people off guard, but it also requires a little practice to learn its tricks and when to use them best.