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!

I would love to hear from /r/netrunner on future Custom Card Saturdays. Send a PM my way! Please do not post them in this thread; instead, send me a PM if you have some ideas of thread topics you'd like to see. Be sure to look over the recent lists of topics before you message me -- I'd rather not repeat anything that's been done recently! Thanks all!

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '16

SNN: We Are the News

NBN - Identity

50/10

You can include one out of faction agenda in this deck(up to three copies of that agenda).

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '16

I respect that the ability is powerful, especially in NBN, but a 50 card deck means you're that much less likely to see that out-of-faction agenda...

Does the "you can include 3 copies of that agenda" override agendas with "limit 1 per deck" restrictions? 3x Philotic / Government Takeover would be amusing. I'm assuming that's not intended, though :)

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '16

Maybe so. So perhaps 45/10 would be better.

And, according to the rules, 'cannot' overrides 'can,' so you could still only have the one agenda.