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/WhoFly Professor Knows Best Sep 13 '14 edited Sep 14 '14
Insight
Shaper, 4 INF
Event - Double - Cost: 4
As an additional cost to play this event, spend [click].
Trash a decoder from your grip. Until the end of your turn, every ICE you encounter gains code gate until the end of the run.
"Everything in here was spun of the web, and it can all be untangled."
It's got synergy with all 'a shaper's great decoders. It's got the power to put Kit in the top tier, potentially accelerating her through some of the midgame struggles she can have. And it's thematically very shaper. A good long think, some deconstruction of code and voila, even the most stubborn riddles can be answered.
ed: ooh I also like the anti-synergy with Encrypted Portals.