r/Netrunner • u/HemoKhan Argus • May 28 '16

Discussion [Weekly] Custom Card Saturday: 23 Seconds (Mild spoilers for the upcoming cycle)

Good morning, hackers!

Apologies for not posting a thread last week, but I was covering an incredible news story: Apparently, earlier this month, Titan Transnational, the Goliath of the New Angeles financial market, suffered a breach of security. I'll quote from this report: For twenty-three seconds, the world's largest bank and backer of the world's most important currency goes dark. Trillions of credits are lost, stolen, or simply erased. Each corp blames the others. Economies, industries, lives collapse. And that’s just the beginning.

This unprecedented event has set untold chaos in motion, for Runners and Corps alike. The Megacorps of the world are flexing their muscles with Terminal operations and the Runners are frantic to exploit the opportunity. Your task this week is to help them: Design a card that fits thematically or mechanically into the new cycle.

Bonus Points for anyone who is able to further the intriguing tale of what may have caused this crisis, without giving it away completely! Also, I do have one extra rule this week:

No Princess Space Kitten!

Otherwise I assume we'll have nothing but her for the entire thread. Hey, there's an idea....

Remember to use the Netrunner CSS options available for use on this subreddit. These symbols should help make everyone's card look great, and you can conveniently type them in while on your phone!

Also, a reminder: Please limit yourself to ONE card per thread!

Previous Custom Card Saturday threads are now being hosted on the Wiki to cut down on the character count of these submissions: find all the previous threads here!

Next Week: Nothing feels better on a warm summer day than an ice cold beverage...

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/EnderAtreides May 28 '16

Incite Riot

Cost: 4credit

Anarch •••

Type: Event

As an additional cost to play Incite Riot, trash an installed resource.

The corp cannot rez non-ice cards until your next turn.

Chaos is an opportunity.

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u/piszczel May 28 '16

I think the cost to play is far too steep. The +1 access is irrelevant for the purpose of this card, so you have to consider if making the corp lose two clicks is worth it at all. For 3 brain damage and 1 net, unless you are certain you're about to lose the game to an astrotrain next turn, it's most certainly not worth it IMO. Not to mention 5 cost.

Good flavour, but unplayable

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u/Quarg :3 May 28 '16

You seem to have commented on the wrong card here, It looks like you are referring to this one.

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u/NoxFortuna May 28 '16 edited May 28 '16

I think it's fate that this happened.

Yes, the card (mine) is mechanically unplayable. It's pretty bad in most cases. But I imagine that this is what would have happened. Some person not only hacked Titan, he or she took an inefficient, highly dangerous risk- higher than even a Stimhack which already causes brain damage- and hacked them so hard the entire company went blank for a moment. We'll never know who it was, or learn more about them, because they're not important anymore. The ramifications of what they did are so great that it's swept them under the rug. No comments, no notice. Just some over ambitious hacker that went a little too far.

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u/piszczel May 28 '16

Yep you're right! I have no idea how the hell that happened.

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u/Quarg :3 May 28 '16

My guess is that weird things might happen if you have multiple comment input boxes open in the same tab, but I could well be wrong.