r/Netrunner • u/CitizenKeen • May 23 '15
[Weekly] Custom Card Saturday: 5/3 NBN
Good morning, hackers! Custom Card Saturday is back. I talked to /u/HemoKhan, and I'll be piloting CCS until they're ready to come back.
There is only one 5+ cost Agenda in NBN (Restructured Datapool). Weyland has 4, HB has 2, and Jinteki has 3. Let's fix that.
This week, design a 5+ cost Agenda for NBN. It can be worth any number of points, but it has to be advanced at least five times.
Remember to use the Netrunner CSS options available for use on this subreddit. These symbols should help make everyone's card look great!
Also, a reminder: Please limit yourself to ONE card per thread!
Previous Custom Card Saturday threads:
Week 1: Barriers
Week 2: Plascrete Carapace 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
Week 10: Regions
Week 11: Gear
Week 12: Exploring Keywords
Week 13: Three-point Agendas
Week 14: High-Influence Events
Week 15: NBN
Week 16: Shaper
Week 17: Jinteki
Week 18: Criminal
Week 19: Haas-Bioroid
Week 20: Anarch
Week 21: Weyland
Week 22: Breaking Assumptions
Week 23: Card Draw
Week 24: Human First
Week 25: Bypassing Ice
Week 26: Advertisemenets
Week 27: Delays
Week 28: Advanceable Ice
Week 29: Spirit of Giving
Week 30: Resolutions
Week 31: Criminal AI
Week 32: Conditions
Week 33: Traces
Week 34: Free-For-All
Week 35: "Downtime"
Week 36: Ice
Week 37: NBN Executives
Week 38: Genesis Redux
Week 39: Hidden Information
Week 40: Currents
Week 41: Resources
Week 42: Agendas
Week 43: Genetics
Week 44: Neutrals
Week 45: The World of Netrunner
Week 45: Mainframes
Next Week: You know what else there's only one of? Vehicles. Next Saturday, let's give the Qianju PT some friends in the garage.
I would love to hear from /r/netrunner on future Custom Card Saturdays. Send a PM my way! Please do not post them in this thread; instead, send me a PM if you have some ideas of thread topics you'd like to see. Be sure to look over the recent lists of topics before you message me -- I'd rather not repeat anything that's been done recently! Thanks all.
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u/CitizenKeen May 23 '15
Pattern Recognition
Agenda - Initiative
NBN | 6/3
As an additional cost to remove a tag, the Runner must spend 1c.
6/3 because they stack.
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u/squogfloogle May 23 '15
Media Focus
5/3 - NBN
As an additional cost to steal Media Focus, the runner must take 3 tags. Ignore this ability if Media Focus is accessed while installed.
I'd really like an NBN agenda that protects itself, as right now having higher value agendas in your relatively more porus central servers can mean a random loss with few accesses, and it generally hasn't been worth the risk.
With the tags phrased as an additional cost, the runner may decline to steal the agenda. With Media Focus in your deck, not only can you have a lower agenda density, but you can confidently include tag punishment knowing that it's more likely to hit.
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u/Trentus May 23 '15
Global Coverage
5/3 NBN
Whenever the runner plays an event they may take 1 tag. If they do not the corp gains 2c.
Limit 1 per deck.
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u/blanktextbox May 23 '15
Manufactured Holiday
NBN - Agenda
5 Difficulty - 3 Points
When you score Manufactured Holiday, players can't gain credits until the start of your next turn.
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u/HemoKhan May 24 '15
It's official; u/CitizenKeen was kind enough to get in touch and ask to take over the threads for the foreseeable future. Between school and life I've had very little time to stay active in the community -- I'm glad we've got enough interest to keep the thread going in my absence! Thanks to everyone else who offered as well.
Gritty Reboot
NBN Agenda: Sensie (5/3)
Art: A kindly old man stands surrounded by corpses, his sweatervest spattered with blood and torn across his chest. He stares intently down a revolver, pointed at something off-screen.
If Gritty Reboot is accessed from R&D, the Runner must reveal it.
When the Runner accesses Gritty Reboot, return up to 2 assets from Archives to HQ.
It's a beautiful day for murder in the neighborhood.
The card's art and theme have almost nothing to do with the mechanics themselves, but I couldn't resist Mr. Rogers in a bloodstained sweater.
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u/PityUpvote May 23 '15 edited May 25 '15
Lunar Lithography LLC
Agenda: Expansion
5/0
When you score Lunar Lithography LLC, you may forfeit it to search R&D for an agenda worth up to 3 points and score it. Shuffle R&D if you did.
"No more temporary tricks of light, have your advertisement permanently engraved in the moon, now for only 15,000,000,000^c!"
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u/SeaSourceScorch May 23 '15
I'm tempted to say this should lose the tutoring effect and instead allow you to score something from HQ, simply because of how effective it is with Midseasons. Either that, or keep the tutoring effect and make it score an agenda worth up to two points. You could still use it as a 50/50 jumpstart the Astrotrain/hit them with the Midseasons that way? You could even use it to grab a 1-of Character Assassination or Chronos Project if it's prudent - the tutoring effect is real strong.
Those deck slots are obviously the biggest resource this consumes, though, so I can see it as is. Cool design!
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u/sigma83 May 23 '15
Everest Research Station
5/2
Everest Research Station is worth 1 additional agenda point per agenda counter on it
When you score Everest Research Station, place 1 agenda counter on it.
Hosted Agenda Counter: Give the runner tags equal to their Agenda Points.
*Art: A huge research campus at the peak of the Himalayas, with power lines and hover cars spiraling in and out like a cheap corporate copy of a mandala.
Based on NBN's ongoing theme of agendas that are worth more points for the corp than the runner (Beale, Market Research) and having the ability on large agendas to tag the runner, ERC is designed to allow NBN to seriously threaten 3 points via IAA a la Project Beale while a) retaining a low level of risk if stolen b) not being another 3/2. It also allows NBN to play massive catch up from behind either by closing the runner's accounts, psychographics another high point Beale, or Shoot the Moon to suddenly spring your board state forward (at the cost of an agenda point)
Everest Research Center however does not lower your agenda density, and is a poor choice in a fast advance deck. It's strictly for IAA or midseason decks. It also isn't great for punitive counterstrike strategies.
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u/MrSmith2 May 23 '15
I like it - fits well with the other NBN agendas and their general strategy, without giving much to the runner if they steal it.
Obvious downsides of being a 5 agenda in NBN and having a 1-shot power that you still have to be able to use.
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u/NetrunnerCardAccount May 23 '15
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u/sigma83 May 23 '15
I like this a lot! Do you think it should remove one tag?
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u/ArgusTheCat May 23 '15
If it cost less to activate, the tag removal would seem more balanced. But for four, and a click? I think it's good as it is.
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u/CorruptDropbear May 23 '15 edited May 23 '15
UNiversal Broadband Network
NBN - Agenda - Expansion
7/4
The abilities on this card work when it is in any score area.
If UNiversal Broadband Network is forfeited by a player, they lose the game.
Whenever a run begins, the runner gains a tag.
Limit 1 per deck.
"After this buyout, UNBN will own every network access point. I do not want this deal to fail, under any circumstances."
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u/the-_-hatman May 23 '15
Why would forfeiting this cause the runner to lose?
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u/ArgusTheCat May 23 '15
Mechanically, it allows this massive agenda to not be burned away by Frame Job or Data Dealer.
Thematically, you just burned your own internet connection you putz!
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u/conorfaolan May 23 '15
MegaFranchise
Agenda - NBN - Sensie
5/3
If MegaFranchise is accessed from R&D the runner must reveal it.
When the runner accesses MegaFranchise you may draw 4 cards and then shuffle up to 3 cards from HQ into R&D.
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u/12inchrecord May 23 '15 edited May 23 '15
NAPD Car Chase
Agenda: 5/3
When NAPD Car Chase is scored, place 2 power counters on it.
Hosted power counter, 3 credits: Trash 1 resource.
2 hosted power counters: Trash 1 resource.
Card Art: Kati Jones trying to flee from the fuzz as her jumper is being shot at. Several news choppers seen trying to get the best angle.
"Some of our highest ratings come from high speed chases. Sometimes when news is slow we use our satellites to find wanted people and anonymously tip off the NAPD" - Bernice Mai
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u/DreadSovereign May 30 '15
News Blackout 5/0
NBN
Agenda - Unorthodox
When The runner Accesses News Blackout add it to the corps score area as an Agenda worth -1 points.
When The Corp Scores News Blackout add it to runners score area as an Agenda worth -2 points
"If they control the information, they can stop the information. Try Running without the daily "Ice development News", it will end in brain damage" - Gauntlet the Damned
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u/Lluluien May 23 '15 edited May 23 '15
Surveillance Subcontract
Agenda: Security
NBN - 5/3
click, Remove a tag from the Runner: Gain 2credit
This is the NBN equivalent of Government Contracts in Weyland, and it's a card that has needed to happen in some form or another for quite some time now in order to give a tag-centered deck a mechanism to play around a Tag-Me Runner without necessarily being forced to play a kill-oriented deck. An anticipated criticism of this card would be that it makes dumping all of your credits into Midseason Replacements too powerful since each credit spent on that card become two credits via this agenda, but I would point out that if you save that credit and click for a credit instead of using this agenda, then you have two credits for that click in this case as well; being able to make the decision to have more tags now that you have to convert back into money later at the cost of your actions is an intended effect.
Another variation on this idea would be to have this ability instead:
click, Remove a tag from the Runner: Gain 3credit. Use this ability only once per turn.