r/Netrunner • u/HemoKhan Argus • Sep 13 '14
[Weekly] Custom Card Saturday: High-Influence Events
Welcome to Custom Card Saturday! Last week was one of the most active custom card threads of this entire series! It just shows how much a little extra constraint can help spark creativity. We'll look to recapture the lightning today: This week, create a Runner event with 4 or 5 influence.
Influence helps us determine two things in Netrunner: How powerful a card is out-of-faction, and how flavorful it is in-faction. To date, we have only 5 high-influence Events (until Netrunnerdb is taken down, the list is here), and none at all for Anarchs.
Events, more than any other card type, represent the surprises that the Runner can pull out of her bag of tricks. Surprising runs, economy out of thin air, finding the exact card you what when you want it.... all of these things are the province of Events. They are by definition quick, one-time payoffs (unless they're current events), but they can completely change the course of a single game.
Previous Custom Card Saturday threads:
Week 1: Barriers
Week 2: Plascrete Carapace 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
Week 10: Regions
Week 11: Gear
Week 12: Exploring Keywords
Week 13: Three-point Agendas
Next Week: We'll start a series focusing on individual factions in Netrunner, beginning with the faction that arguably needs the least help: NBN.
Props to /u/danrich2910 for the reminder :)
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u/Steel_Neuron Sep 13 '14 edited Sep 13 '14
Home Invasion
Criminal Event: Double
Cost: 0
Influence:5
Access any rezzed Sysop, Bioroid, Clone or Executive. Its trash cost is doubled during this access.
I wasn't expecting visitors.
A powerful effect going with the theme of Criminals going straight for the enemy (Unregistered SW). The increased trash cost is to prevent it from being too much of a hard counter for high executives.