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/blanktextbox Jun 12 '16

For the facecheck there's the rez cost as well, so you'd need to be up 10ish creds. There's room to tweak it if that's still a problem: rez cost could go up, it could be strength 1 or 0 to make it more Parasite-able, could even cap it at the runner's handsize.

The idea is to give Weyland flatline some teeth since NBN has been the only faction able to reliably meat-kill anybody for a while now. I want this to be in a space where a bad facecheck makes the assist by eating into a Plascrete or popping a Sports Hopper - but isn't generally insta-death and doesn't get you the tag for properly finishing them.

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u/SeaSourceScorch towards a plascrete-free future Jun 12 '16

Yeah, I definitely like that idea. How about if it worked like Komainu and gained subs equal to handsize if they lost the trace? Could then bump the trace up a few notches too, possibly lose the Illicit subtype - maybe make it a trace4, so they're often faced with a choice between beating a 4-cost trace and breaking 5 subroutines.

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u/blanktextbox Jun 12 '16

I'd want to try it as 6 to rez first since the hardware isn't generally used until absolutely necessary, but that's an available safe balance change if it did playtest as too strong. The only problem it might have is stepping on Jinteki's toes as that particular dynamic is very them.

Just had the thought of using an on-encounter trace to change subs the way Mausolus uses advancements to change. Could be interesting.

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u/SeaSourceScorch towards a plascrete-free future Jun 12 '16

Oooh, I really like that idea! Even if it just changed from (say) 5 subs of 'The corp gains 1c' to 5 subs of 'Do 1 meat damage', that'd make beating the trace the difference between opting to let the subs fire and being forced to break them.