JuniperTheory

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Hi i'm Junebug, the bug from online. I'm very cool and everyone who has ever met me loves me.


Welcome to day 3 of netrunner spoilers! Today is WEYLAND day, so let's see what team strip mine the polar bears is up to! The cards were spoiled by the metropole grid, you can find the video and some great discussion here:

Beyond that tho, I'll post the first card and the rest will go beneath the readmore, along with my discussion of the cards!

End Of The Line


Oh my god they reprinted Scorched Earth. "Tag you then scorched twice" was the ORIGINAL kill combo in netrunner, it was so powerful they printed Plascrete Carapace specifically as a tech card. Obviously you can't do that because of the "remove the tag", but still, this is fucking wild. We're gonna have scorched earth back in STARTUP.

Also like, I love the flavor of this card? Its so fucking cool, such an obvious trope for cyperpunk and so well done.

Kimberlite Field

Well, it's good in ob!

Seriously I'm sorry but you aren't running a 4/2 that sets you back on tempo for a maybe benefit outside of startup unless you're ob lol, not when the new 3/2 exists

Zato City Grid

This is fucking WILD. like. every single ice becomes a border control??? Jesus fucking Christ. If you put 4 ice that have a "end the run" Subroutine on them on a server the runner cannot get into it In Any Way. And there are some WILD other subroutines out there, this can instantly kill a boat with any shitty "trash a hardware" subroutine; and in Ob the ice GETS YOU A NEW CARD. So far, this is genuinely the scariest card in the set for me. Gonna be running 3 pinhole threadings for a while lol

Hostile Architecture

Oh my god they reprinted Hostile Infrastructure.

Not actually, this is unique; but it's still absolutely disgusting. This + bladderwort is some miserable, miserable old school netrunner times. Excited to see what awful bullshit I can pull with this, gonna slot it into NEH and surprise some runners in a real bad way. Worst case scenario it's 2 damage and the runner knows they have to trash it Immediately.

There was actually one other card spoiler today; but it was spoiled through the main netrunner discord bot and I'm supposedly not allowed to post it. But here's my review: lol the tradition of giving shaper bad cards that could be good in a jank context but are probably just bad continues! Perhaps I will be proven wrong... But probably not.

See you tomorrow!


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fan organization took it over, is printing cards, doing story, running tournaments, doing everything FFG did but better and gayer. Nullsignal.games check em out!

Unlike a lot of other fan revivals and stuff this one is notable for how like. The whole netrunner community kinda had gone a long with it, it's a big thing and they're real successful

I can give more details but overall they Fuckin rule

Yeah! If you play competitively, you may have to update your collection a bit; but all tournaments and things allow proxies of all sorts and there's a ton of great and cheap ways to get cards. And if you're playing casually, they all work just fine with the old cards!

It threw me for a loop when Project Nisei renamed to Null Signal, but hey, I get it. It's still the same people it seems like doing cool as hell things. Their card mechanic designs have been really cool from the stuff I've seen.

excited to rebuild ob around zato!

i don't think theres a great trash-hardware subroutine in the format, but trebuchet and fetching sansan could be enough. i think trash program subroutines are gonna be stronger to resolve than pretending to be border control with ETR though.

i like the new hostile, pity it doesn't hose apoc like the old one did.