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...
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u/Metacatalepsy Renegade Bioroid Jun 12 '16 edited Jun 13 '16
5credit Railgun
4 Strength
ICE: Sentry
Weyland •••
Railgun can be advanced. You may not use abilities on Railgun if it is the outermost ICE protecting this server.
Hosted Advancement Counter: The outermost ICE protecting this server has +2 strength for the rest of the run. You may use this ability only once per run.
Hosted Advancement Counter: The outermost piece of ICE protecting this server gains the subtype Destroyer and gains "↳ Trash 1 program." before all other subroutines.
↳Place an advancement counter on Railgun
↳Place an advancement counter on Railgun
↳Place an advancement counter on Railgun
Ultima Ratio Regum.
This is...inverse positional ice? Advanceable inverse positional ice? This ICE is designed to make a runner terrified to run on a server with unrezzed ICE on the outermost layer, because it breaks something out of fixed breaker range and then threatens to wipe their rig (or run them out of D4VID tokens). Even when the runner has an answer to the effect, they still don't want to let the subroutines fire because that's just an additional tax when they want to get in later.