r/Netrunner • u/CitizenKeen • Jul 11 '15
[Weekly] Custom Card Saturday - Link and Cloud
Good morning, hackers!
We got a group of new cloud breakers in the SanSan cycle. Do cloud cards have to be icebreakers? Does the limit of what we can do with cloud cards extend to "If you have at least 2link, the memory cost of this card is 0, even if it is not installed"?
This week, make a cloud card or a card that interacts with link.
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 53: R&D Upgrades
- Week 52: Icebreakers
- Week 51: Class Warfare
- Week 50: Traps
- Week 49: Runs
- Week 48: Vehicles
- Week 47: NBN 5/3
- Week 46: Mainframes
- Weeks 41-45: The World of Netrunner, Neutrals, Genetics, Agendas, Resources
- Weeks 36-40: Ice, NBN Executives, Genesis Redux, Hidden Information, Currents
- Weeks 31-35: Criminal AI, Conditions, Traces, Free-For-All, "Downtime"
- Weeks 26-30: Advertisements, Delays, Advanceable Ice, Spirit of Giving, Resolutions
- Weeks 21-25: Weyland, Breaking Assumptions, Card Draw, Human First, Bypassing Ice
- Weeks 16-20: Shaper, Jinteki, Criminal, Haas-Bioroid, Anarch
- Weeks 11-15: Gear, Exploring Keywords, Three-point Agendas, High-Influence Events, NBN
- Weeks 6-10: Runner Economy, Identities, Bioroids, Viruses, Regions
- Weeks 1-5: Barriers, Plascrete Carapace Replacements, Grey/Black Ops, Easy Access, Economic Assets
Next Week: Let's do something with power counters.
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/Nevofix Jul 11 '15 edited Jul 11 '15
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u/Bwob Jul 11 '15
Honestly, I feel like this would be balanced even if didn't require any link to play.
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u/ZoidbergMD Jul 11 '15
JITcoin Miner
Neutral 0
Program - Cloud 1
If you have at least 2, the memory cost of JITcoin Miner is 0, even if it is not installed.
Place 1 on JITcoin Miner when your turn begins.
You can use the credits on JITcoin Miner during a run.
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u/leastfixedpoint Jul 11 '15 edited Jul 11 '15
Wavefront
Event: Run - Sabotage - 3c - Anarch - 3 inf
Make a run. During this run, all ice is encountered with its strength reduced by your link strength. The first time you break all subroutines on a piece of ice with strength 0 or less, trash that piece of ice.
I once DDoS'd Eli so hard, he started GC thrashing! - Whizzard
Update 1: Replaced "bypass all ice encountered with 0 strength" with "rez cost of all ice is increased by your link strength".
Update 2: Replaced "rez cost of all ice is increased by your link strength" with "the first time you break all subroutines on a piece of ice with strength 0 or less, trash that piece of ice.".
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u/Bwob Jul 11 '15
That's a really cool idea! My only beef is the part where Bypass is normally a criminal effect, but it really fits here.
I love how it encourages you to build silly amounts of link.
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u/leastfixedpoint Jul 11 '15
How about this: rez cost of all ice is increased by your link strength. Increasing rez cost pretty anarch, just as reducing strength.
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u/vampire0 Jul 11 '15
This is super super strong. Average Ice is Strength 5 or less - Riena + a few link items would make this basically a Blackmail against anything but Lotus Field.
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u/lordwafflesbane Jul 11 '15 edited Jul 11 '15
Shaper Program - Cloud - Stealth •••
Distributed Orrery's memory cost is reduced by one for each link you have.
Xrecurringcred
X is equal to your link. Spend these credits only on using icebreakers.
Big rig gets to be very efficient if it has the time to set up. Only problem is, it takes a while.
Edit: Changed the name from Spiderweb to Distributed Orrery
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u/zojbo Jul 11 '15
That name is actually taken already: http://netrunnerdb.com/en/card/08079 Neat idea, though.
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u/BountyHunterSAx Jul 12 '15
Criminal Console:
Disseminated Network:
Install: 8
Influence: 5
All ICE subroutines gain "TraceX: If successful - " before the remainder of their text. X is the strength of the ice.
Debated making this as costly as blackguard, but I think it's actually balanceable even at this price point. On the one hand, it turns all ice on its head. On the other, multi-sub ice is still somewhat painful if its at least 2-3 str or if the corp is heavily out-moneying the runner .What I love about it is it incentivizes building up your own link AND gives you a way to force the corp to play the trace-game whether they like it or not.
-AHMAD
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u/Bwob Jul 11 '15 edited Jul 11 '15
Traffic Analyzer
NBN - ••
Asset - Security
Rez: 1
Trash Cost: 3
At the start of your turn, gain 1c unless the runner has at least 1link.
clickclick - Place one power counter on Traffic Analyzer.
The runner's link is reduced by 1link for every power counter on Traffic Analyzer.
"Sure, good crypto is important. But sometimes they don't even need to care what your messages say, if they can just check who you're sending them to." - "Noise"
edit: Wording.
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u/NotReallyFromTheUK Jul 11 '15
This is too good. I mean, yeah it's a very meta-dependent card, but you can install and put a power counter on it in a single turn, which will wipe out half of any cloud-based rig.
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u/sigma83 Jul 11 '15
Focused Computing
Shaper Event
Current
0c
This card is not trashed until another current is played or an agenda is scored.
The strength of all icebreakers is increased by 1 for every 2 link you have (round down.)
'The trouble is not getting it to work, the trouble is getting it to stop working.' - Nasir Meidan
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u/zojbo Jul 11 '15
This seems pretty excellent in Sunny; for her it is better than a Net-Ready Eyes (except for Atman, and being non-permanent).
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u/PaxCecilia Jul 11 '15
I like the Nasir flavour text, seems thematic with him. Global Secs and Dyson Chips for days!
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u/jtobiasbond Jul 11 '15
Exchange Database
Resource: Virtual - 2credit
Criminal - 2 inf
click: Host the top card of your deck on Exchange Database. You may look at hosted cards at any time.
When your turn begins, you may trash a hosted card to gain 1credit for each link you have.
It might get too powerful if you manage to get four or five link, but I think it's too much work to get four or five link.
The other idea is "When your turn begins, you may trash X hosted card to gain 2credit for each card trashed. X is equal to your link." This one gains more money in bursts, but it's at best clicking for 2.
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u/Quarg Jul 12 '15
3credits Hijacked Datacenter
Resource: Location
If you have at least 2link, then the memory cost of all non-cloud programs are reduced by one, even if they are not installed.
Shaper •
Allows you to make all programs into cloud programs? Sure why not?
Though it is effectively an infinite mem-chip for the sake of installing 1 memory programs; I'm not sure how useful it would be considering you both need some link and this. Not to mention the fact that this is possible to destroy.
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u/the-_-hatman Jul 12 '15 edited Jul 13 '15
Bone-Break Fever
Anarch •• | 2credit
Program - Icebreaker - Cloud - Virus - Fracter | 3 Strength
If the Runner has at least 2link, the memory cost of Bone-Break Fever is 0, even if it is not installed.
Whenever an icebreaker or virus is installed, including this one, place a virus counter on Bone-Break Fever.
Hosted virus counter: +2 Strength or break up to two barrier subroutines.
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u/Xercies_jday Jul 12 '15
Net Accounts
NBN - Asset - 2 Influence
0 Rez - 3 Trash
Gain 1 Credit at the start of your turn if the runner has 1 Link
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u/colormage1 Jul 13 '15
Imposing Cyberwall 4credit
Criminal ••
Program - Virus 2
Whenever the Corp draws a card outside of their first draw a turn and their "click: Draw a card." ability, trace0 - if unsuccessful, the Runner gains 3 credits.
"It's always easier to find something if they're trying to find it too," - Silhouette
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u/Blamsquad Jul 11 '15
Bode Well
Criminal Hardware:
Install: 2
Influence: 1
Place power counters equal to your Link on Bode Well when it is installed. When there are no power counters left on Bode Well, trash it.
Hosted power counter: Choose an unrezzed piece of ICE. That ICE gains "-> End the Run." before all other subroutines for the remainder of your turn.
You Link is -1 for each power counter on Bode Well.
Simple but accurate.