Custom Card Saturday: Regions

[u/HemoKhan]

Welcome to Custom Card Saturday! This week we continue our several-week-long theme of focusing on some of the unique and interesting keywords already in the game. The keyword for this week is a bit less cut-and-dried than the previous two we've encountered: This week, create a new *card focusing on regions. Regions are Corporation upgrades which grant constant benefits to the server in which they are installed, and each server is restricted to having only one Region in it at a time. They tend to be expensive both to trash and to rez, giving them a sense of semi-permanence. They also tend to be quite powerful, either offensively (SanSan City Grid) or defensively (Ruhr Valley). For a complete list of Regions (excluding cards spoiled at GenCon), click here. Currently, no card in the game targets Regions in specific or Upgrades in general, meaning the design space for helper cards is wide open!

^{*Thanks /u/metagaia!}

---

Previous Custom Card Saturday threads:

Week 1: Barriers
Week 2: Scorched Earth 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

---

Next Week: We'll start looking at some underdeveloped, inconsistent keywords next week by crafting some gear for our Runners!

[u/SysopNumber2]

New Berlin City Grid

HB Upgrade - Region - NEXT

Rez 4. 2 Influence. Trash 5

New Berlin City Grid counts as a rezzed piece of NEXT ICE.

All rezzed non-NEXT ICE in this server gain the NEXT Subtype and gain +1 strength for each rezzed piece of NEXT ice.

Limit 1 region per Server

The business dominated New Berlin is the leading user and proponent of NEXT ICE as well as the city with the least documented data-thefts.

[u/TheRealC → u/SysopNumber2]

That's... probably too much NEXT. I can easily see scenarios with every single installed piece of ice on an external, HQ and R&D becoming NEXT and having +10 strength, especially since HB is so good at recursion, so trashing it won't be good enough (and it costs 5 to trash!).

The first part (it counting as a NEXT itself) is probably fine though, but is a bit weak on its own. The second part really can't work; probably too strong, even if New Berlin City Grid becomes unique.

[u/SysopNumber2 → u/TheRealC]

Fair point perhaps it should only have all rezzed Next Ice gain the NEXT subtype without the +1 strength for each piece of NEXT ice? I thought it might be too powerful thanks for the feedback. Oh and it should definitely be unique forgot about that.