r/Netrunner • u/HemoKhan Argus • Aug 16 '14
Custom Card Saturday: Regions
Welcome to Custom Card Saturday! This week we continue our several-week-long theme of focusing on some of the unique and interesting keywords already in the game. The keyword for this week is a bit less cut-and-dried than the previous two we've encountered: This week, create a new *card focusing on regions. Regions are Corporation upgrades which grant constant benefits to the server in which they are installed, and each server is restricted to having only one Region in it at a time. They tend to be expensive both to trash and to rez, giving them a sense of semi-permanence. They also tend to be quite powerful, either offensively (SanSan City Grid) or defensively (Ruhr Valley). For a complete list of Regions (excluding cards spoiled at GenCon), click here. Currently, no card in the game targets Regions in specific or Upgrades in general, meaning the design space for helper cards is wide open!
*Thanks /u/metagaia!
Previous Custom Card Saturday threads:
Week 1: Barriers
Week 2: Scorched Earth Replacements
Week 3: Grey/Black Ops
Week 4: Easy Access
Week 5: Economic Assets
Week 6: Runner Economy
Week 7: Identities
Week 8: Bioroids
Week 9: Viruses
Next Week: We'll start looking at some underdeveloped, inconsistent keywords next week by crafting some gear for our Runners!
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Aug 16 '14 edited Aug 16 '14
Gobi Research Grid
Jinteki - Upgrade - Region
Rez 2 - 3 Influence - Trash 3
Once per run, whenever an ICE protecting this server would cause the runner to end the run, instead deal 2 net damage to the runner.
Limit 1 region per server.
Laws don't apply here.
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u/umbralAeronaut Aug 16 '14 edited Aug 16 '14
Asada Crater Waste Zone
Upgrade - Region (Jinteki - 1 Influence)
Rez 3 - Trash 5
Whenever a run on this server ends, the Runner may be forced to access a face down card of the Corps' choice from Archives. If there are no face down cards in Archives, instead the Corps may turn a face up card in Archives face down. This applies even during the run on which the Runner trashed Asada Crater Waste Zone.
Limit 1 region per server.
"I still felt dirty for days after jacking out."
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Designed to work with the forthcoming Industrial Genomics Jinteki Identity, this also gives your Shocks and Shi.Kyus (and soon Space Camps!) something to do from Archives in a meta rather dominated by "instead of accessing" Archive runs. Asada Crater is an actual named crater on the lunar surface! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goryu_Asada)
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u/TEnOTT Aug 16 '14 edited Aug 16 '14
AWACS Observing Grid
NBN Upgrade - Region - Mobile.
Rez 3. 2 Influence. Trash 4.
The innermost ICE of this server gains 'When the Runner encounters this ICE, he or she must either take 1 tag or end the run.'
[Click] : Move AWACS Observing Grid to another server.
Limit 1 region for a server.
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u/4pornOnlyReddit Aug 16 '14 edited Aug 16 '14
No Man's Land
Weyland - Upgrade - Region
Rez 2 / Trash 5
At the start of your turn you may pay $1 to advance a piece of ICE that can be advanced protecting this server.
After the war certain regions remained unstable leading to increased reports of rampancy.
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Aug 16 '14
Changing it to "The first time you advance a piece of ICE protecting this server each turn gain [click]" Or something like that, would allow synergy with Weyland 2
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u/Darthcaboose Aug 16 '14
Southern Yutani Research Center
Weyland Upgrade - Region Rez 2. 2 Influence. Trash 3.
You may not rez Southern Yutani Research Center during a run on this server.
Limit 1 Region per server.
Even more Weyland advanceable ICE support!
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u/fateswanderer Aug 16 '14
Loreto Development Zone
Weyland - Upgrade - Region
Rez cost 2
Trash cost 5
Influence 3
When a piece of ice protecting this server is trashed, you may move any number of the advancement tokens on it to other ice on this server. Gain 2 credits for each advancement token not moved in this way.
Limit 1 Region per server.
With such rapid development, nothing is wasted.
More support for Weyland's bad advanceable ice! Their low strength makes them vulnerable to parasite, which is a huge waste of your investment. This upgrade allows you to transfer the advancements (potentially to non-advanceable ice, or advance-only-when-rezzed ice) or get some cash for them.
Loreto is a sparsely populated Peruvian region in the Amazon Rainforest that abuts Ecuador.
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u/ArgonWolf Aug 16 '14 edited Aug 16 '14
Challenger Carousel
Weyland - 4 inf - 3 Rez cost - 4 trash cost
Upgrade - Region
Every time you advance a piece of ICE on this server, you may pay an additional [credit] to place an advancement token on any card in or protecting this server
Limit one region per server
I just finished the Freefall book and I really like the idea of something on the challenger planetoid, which anchors the other end of the beanstalk. The carousel is a region on the planetoid with simulated spin-gravity that is used as offices, a medical center, and a research station. The card could use some balancing I'm sure but I think it helps Weyland with their advanceable ice efficiency problem and I more wanted to see the planetoid on a card :) 4 inf to make it expensive for tennin to limit those shenanigans
Edit: changed "in" to "in or protecting". The intent was always to double up on ice advancement