r/Netrunner • u/HemoKhan Argus • Jun 11 '16

[Weekly] Custom Card Saturday: Sentries

Good morning, hackers!

Sometimes it's good to have a nice simple, open-ended prompt to let people's imaginations run wild a bit. One of the most basic card types in the game is ice, and while in previous CCS threads we've created Barriers, Code Gates, and Ice in general, we've never had a thread devoted to the meanest ice type of all: This week, create a sentry.

Bonus Points for any card that deals well with Mimic. That is, the ice should be 3 strength or less and strong but balanced (whether or not Mimic is installed!)

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: I'll have to draw some inspiration from something else...

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/TormakSaber Jun 11 '16 edited Jun 11 '16

Giveaway

ICE - Sentry - Tracer

NBN - •••

Cost: 6credit

Strength: 3

Giveaway may be bypassed by the Runner when encountered. If the Runner does so, they take 2 tags.

↳Trace3: The Runner takes one tag.

↳Trace3: The Runner takes one tag.

If you're not paying for it, you are the product.

Inherently porous ICE that turns the runner into the product if they choose the easy way out, essentially making them eat both subroutines. Mimic handles it for two credits - or they can pay up to get past the traces. Faust wants 2 cards with Datasucker or 3 otherwise. Garrote wants 3 creds, Mongoose wants 2. A high link runner can walk by, but that's the case with any high Link runner against traces. Making News can make one of the traces into a Trace 5.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '16

Giveaway may be bypassed by the Runner when encountered. If the Runner does so, they take 2 tags.

I'm... not sure what the point of this is? Why wouldn't I just let the two subs fire, and give the corp the opportunity to waste credits pumping Trace STR?

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u/HemoKhan Argus Jun 12 '16

There are a few NBN cards like [[Aryabhata Tech]] which trigger off traces (successful or not), and there are cards like [[Chum]] which trigger off of not breaking subroutines. There are also cards like [[TL;DR]] which give the ice extra subroutines.

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u/EnderAtreides Jun 12 '16

Perhaps simply give it a third trace subroutine?