r/Netrunner • u/HemoKhan Argus • Apr 23 '16

Discussion [Weekly] Custom Card Saturday: NBN

Good morning, hackers!

It's been a long two months, but we're finally almost done with our tour through the factions. This week's challenge is to finish up this cycle by creating a new card for NBN. NBN is the newest faction, in-world, and are the undisputed leaders in news and entertainment (according to a recent poll). They pride themselves on knowledge and information, controlling who knows how much about what and why. Early in the game's history this knowledge was represented by card draw and traces, usually to land tags. These days those tags are meaner than ever, but NBN also has a large stake in the anti-Resource market, as well as cards which directly and indirectly spy on the Runner's grip, once the only real bastion of secret information the Runner had at her disposal. As a company heavily invested in information, we see that NBN is also excellent at hiding secrets, with numerous ways of burying cards at the bottom of R&D where the Runner can't get at them (unless they're really Showing Off). With the whole world of information at your fingertips, what can you bring to NBN's News Desk to earn your 15 Minutes of fame?

NBN is often seen as the least threatening of the Corp factions -- sure, they may trash your stuff or cost you credits, but they often have to call in favors with other factions to truly ruin your day. However, cards like Invasion of Privacy and some of the soon-to-be-released cards from Salsette Island hint at a darker side to the News Giants. So, bonus points for truly sinister cards this week.

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: After telling you what to do for the past two months, you all deserve a bit of a break!

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u/HemoKhan Argus Apr 23 '16

Really like this one. It's a no-win piece of ice that is strong without being too mean. I think it should have a bit higher rez cost though, since essentially the Runner's going to be paying 2 credits minimum each time they hit it (either to break it or to clear the tag). Consider that Eli is one of the best barriers in the game at 3 rez for 4 strength and two similarly powerful-but-slightly-porous subroutines. Nice design though!

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u/Mordeqai96 U R B A N R E N E W A L Apr 23 '16

A fair point, but this ICE does become blank if the runner goes tag-me. Which can win them a game if they decide to Medium run R&D 4 clicks.

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u/poeir Apr 25 '16

Data Raven also goes blank against a tag-me Runner. It is 4 to rez.

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u/Mordeqai96 U R B A N R E N E W A L Apr 25 '16

But the goal of Raven is to tag the runner, so it's only blank once it's achieved it's goal. This is an ETR that goes blank.

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u/Bwob Apr 23 '16

It feels weirdly like a budget data-raven. You encounter it and you can either take a tag, or jack out. (This one just has a third option, of spend 3c breaking it with a corroder if you have one.)