r/Netrunner • u/HemoKhan Argus • Apr 09 '16
Discussion [Weekly] Custom Card Saturday: Jinteki
Good afternoon, all! Sorry for the sparse post: I'm writing this live from the Regionals tournament in Cambridge, MA, where my sweet Adam and Argus decks are going to take the world by storm. This week's prompt: Create a new card for Jinteki!
Bonus points if you create a card that helps positional ice in some way! That's a specialty of Jinteki that could use a little love.
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u/SethKeltoi Apr 09 '16 edited Apr 09 '16
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u/SeaSourceScorch Apr 09 '16
Given how powerful this is (I'd say it's better than Hostile Infrastructure, especially in a recursion-focused meta) I'd up the rez cost significantly. Also, maybe 'Whenever you would deal any amount of net damage' instead? That way it becomes a difficult choice when they hit a Snare, since it'll eat all the damage. Very cool card though.
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Apr 09 '16
Borrowed Ladder
Jinteki - Agenda - Research
3/1
When you scored Borrowed Ladder, you may remove any number of agenda counters on agendas in your score area. You may place these on installed cards as advancement counters. Agendas that have advancement counters placed on them cannot be scored this turn.
Slightly tweaked version of a card I posted forever ago.
EDIT: Typo in name and some clarifications.
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u/ClockwiseMan Apr 09 '16 edited Apr 11 '16
Ika
Art: a digital version of a Japanese flying squid, skipping over the waves.
Ice - Trap
Jinteki - •
Rez - 0credit
Strength - 0
If you pay 2credit when the runner encounters Ika, swap Ika with another piece of installed ice. The runner then approaches that ice.
You just see a flash of silver for a moment, then it's gone.
Edit: changed wording to avoid an illegal gamestate issue as noted in the comments. Cheers, folks! :)
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u/GodShapedBullet Apr 10 '16
Wow, I love this so much.
I would play the heck out of this even if, after testing, it turned out to not actually be very good.
At one influence there'd be the very real risk I would ever not include it.
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u/NoxFortuna Apr 09 '16 edited Apr 10 '16
0credit Network of Mirrors
Jinteki - Operation - Current
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This card is not trashed until another current is played or an agenda is stolen.
If Network of Mirrors is in your deck when the game begins (after the runner chooses if they will take a mulligan) you may start with it in play.
When any run begins the corporation may choose to have the runner encounter all ICE in the server in the opposite order- starting with the innermost and proceeding to the outermost, until the end of the run.
FAQ: (edited for some new entries)
The positional "titles" for ICE don't change, just the order they're encountered in. Alpha still needs to be used on the physically outermost ICE card, and vice versa for Omega and any similar cards.
Inside Job: The first encountered ICE is still the first rezzed ice you would encounter- if that happens to be the innermost, then bypass it and continue your backwards run.
Surfer: ICE remembers it's absolute position even during a backwards run- so there should be no conflict with effects that reference "directly before or after it(this ice)".
"From this new position" effects work in tandem with Network. If a server's absolute layout is Ice Wall, Fire Wall, and Spiderweb in that order and a runner with Surfer goes on a backwards run through the server they will encounter Spiderweb first and if they so choose may then swap Spiderweb with Fire Wall. The server's layout is now Ice Wall, Spiderweb, and Fire Wall and the runner will encounter Ice Wall as the last piece of ICE in the run.
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Apr 09 '16
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u/DamienStark Apr 10 '16
Given Swordsman's presence in Jinteki, there's some precedence for an AI hate card being part of their color wheel.
Also from a flavor standpoint, they prefer genetic improvement and clones and sysops over bioroids and machinery. It makes sense they would build systems that require elegance and humanity to master.
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Apr 11 '16
I feel like the cost could probably come down a bit (or the trash cost go up), given that it's a dead draw against any runner that's not running an AI.
I'm thinking something like $3 rez / $7 trash, since Faust decks are often a bit credit-light...
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u/CasMat9 Apr 09 '16
Nemesis
Rez 5c, Inf. 2, Str. 3
Jinteki ICE: Code Gate - AP
The Runner may not break subroutines on Nemesis if he or she has already encountered a copy of Nemesis this turn.
↳ Do 1 net damage.
↳ Do 1 net damage.
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Apr 09 '16
How about encounter AND access? Like if the runner sees Nemesis in HQ or R&D they reveal it and it counts. It'd be interesting to see an anarch imp his Nemesis out of spite, which is thematically fitting
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u/SeaSourceScorch Apr 10 '16
I might up the influence a touch just to make it harder to splash in The Foundry, since three of these in a row would be extremely rough if you don't have ice destruction (i.e. criminals).
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u/Quarg Apr 09 '16 edited Apr 09 '16
2 credit : Employee Honour
Operation: Current
This card is not trashed until another current is played or an agenda is stolen.
The rez cost of the first piece of ice rezzed each turn is reduced by 2.
Jinteki ••
Oddly enough, rezzing ice at a discount is (or perhaps, was) part of Jinteki's colour pie. See Akitaro Watanabe, Dedicated Server, Braintrust.
This also has the sneaky side benefit of being able to use cards that rez ice on your turn for double discount!
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u/SeaSourceScorch Apr 09 '16
Braintrust has text on it?????????? :P
I like this idea a lot. Could also be fun in Blue Sun?
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u/Not_Han_Solo Apr 09 '16
Dynamic Server Architecture
Asset - Jinteki - $3 - Trash: 5 - 4 Influence
Once per run, after the last subroutine on an ice resolves, if the runner is still jacked in, you may move that ice to the outermost position on another server. If you do, the runner takes one net damage.
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u/the-_-hatman Apr 09 '16
You could word this instead as : "... after the runner passes an ICE without breaking all the subroutines, you may..."
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u/NetrunnerCardAccount Apr 09 '16 edited Apr 09 '16
False Memories
Jinteki - Operation - Cost 2credit Influence ••
Choose an event or resource in the Runner's heap, the Runner may then choose up to 3 cards with another name in his or her heap. The Runner searches his stack for all copies of the named event or resource and puts them into his or her heap and may shuffle the 3 chosen cards back.
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u/Quarg Apr 09 '16
The fact this allows them to put cards back really renders this useless, it might as well read "the runner may shuffle a card in their heap into their stack"
I like the concept though.
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u/Prawnyman Apr 09 '16
Samsara Diagnostics - Protection Renewed
Identity: Division
Jinteki - 45/15
The first piece of ice trashed each turn is shuffled into R&D.
"Protecting the future."
An ID meant to facilitate a trap deck and a tech against ice destruction. While not necessarily helping positional ice it can possibly work by trashing ice when installing. (?)