StashAugustine posted:

Considering changing my title in memoriam once rotation hits

Kaethela posted:

General Battuta posted:

I thought everyone agreed Brain Trust was the worst 3/2 by miles, why the love?

E: oh because it's still a 3/2

AgentF posted:

I think FFG must be reading my emails because below is a "Top 20 cards I’ll miss post-rotation" that I sent to friends a full year ago, with asterisks next to every card that has been saved. A full 14/20 of the cards have been saved from rotation, and all of the top nine! Good news for
* 02) Chaos Theory

Kaethela posted:

CT not #1, shameful list.

Brofessor Slayton posted:

Chaos Theory herself would put Dinosaurus at #1.

Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:

I think you're meant to deal meat damage in little chip-damage amounts, and snipe cards the runner needs later and/or force them to hold back cards they need to protect them. CS2 Weyland plays almost like a rigshooter deck.

With Ronin and Junebug, it looks like Net damage is supposed to be the "big gulps of damage" flatline threat.

Karnegal posted:

I'm going to miss Fetal for sure, but there were a lot of good salvages. I would just like to see NBN not be an arguable best corp for a while. And I'd like to see Weyland actually be good at killing runner again.

CodfishCartographer posted:

From the last page, but I wonder if they're just trying to have damage in general be chip instead of big burst. It's more manageable and interactive to have to deal with lots of small damage over time because you need to constantly manage it and worry about it. It also has a better chance of avoiding the problem new players run into of "Oh, you only have 4 cards in your hand and fewer credits than I do? I win then" after not taking any damage the whole game. If a player is constantly getting pegged with small amounts of damage, then even new players will understand that having a small hand is dangerous, and then they get the interesting decision of trying to balance game tempo with risking a flatline.

Of course, they recently printed BOOM, so who the hell knows.

Kaethela posted:

In a similar vein, I'd like to see Anarch not the de facto best runner faction for once.

Hannibal Rex posted:

Prepaid Kate had a pretty good run from Lunar to late SanSan, no?

Yithian posted:

Anarch was hot, dirty garbage up until Faust came out and started a trend of shoveling ludicrously overpowered cards into the faction.

Cinnamon Bear posted:

Are there any other good teaching decks besides these from TheBigBoy? Also curious if anyone has taken what will be the new core set starter decks for a spin yet.

Kaethela posted:

These ones are pretty good. A friend put them together solely from Core 2 cards for players new to the game. The deck description include thoughts about the deck includes as well as potential good matchups to run.

Cinnamon Bear posted:

Also, was looking around and came across this, which seems like they're possibly getting rid of MWL and just straight up banning and restricting cards.

quote:

With a new lead designer, who's also a completely new figure in the company, the hierachy within changes a bit, which basically means that higher-up FFG empoyees get to do a bit more poo poo, so the MWL is dead.
It's gone.
We're going straight into Game of Thrones-style banned and restriction. I dunno if they'll call this NAPD KILL LIST or some fancy poo poo, maybe just banned and restricted, who the gently caress knows.
Restricted means you can only choose 1 card off of the list (per side), but you get to play the whole playset, e.g. you can play 3 Magnum Opus but then no Levy or Employee Strike or Clone Chip.
Also Gang Sign is on the list, which is a Gang Sign of the Times I guess, kudos to you crazy brits, you loving did it, you absolute mad lads Gang Sign got the hammer. Ps. Alex White is the most handsome Netrunner player.
Alright onto the good stuff:

BANNED (Straight banned put that poo poo in one of your spare Kit deckboxes-tier):
Aaron Marrón
Bloo Moose
Faust
Rumor Mill
Sifr
Temüjin Contract
Salvaged Vanadis Armory
(lol 9 Runner cards in Crimson Dust, 2 of them already banned a month later)

Clone Suffrage Movement
Friends in High Places
Mumbad City Hall
Sensie Actors Union

RESTRICTED (Choose one then cry during deckbuilding because you're missing all the others-tier):
Aesop's Pawnshop
Clone Chip
Employee Strike
Film Critic
Gang Sign
Inversificator
Levy AR Lab Access
Magnum Opus

Bio-Ethics Association
Estelle Moon
Fairchild 3.0
Global Food Initiative
Hunter Seeker
Mumba Temple
Museum of History
Obokata Protocol

With this, rotation and Revised Core Set I gotta say the meta is more interesting than ever and I'm more interested in Netrunner than I've been in two years, but I'd be more interested if FFG upped their business practices and didn't ignore the playerbase for 4 months, just to name one example.

Also if any FFG folks or scoop troops or who knows what wanna get in touch e-mails still spoilerken@hotmail.com.

Midjack posted:

Core 2 coincident with rotation will be nice.

Cinnamon Bear posted:

I'll put it in an easier to read format, but actually this has me pretty excited if they're willing to shake things up this much.

Yithian posted:

If the banned and restricted lists are legit, I'll be excited to play the game for the first time in probably a year.

Edit: it would also indicate that FFG is finally putting on their adult pants and acknowledging that they aren't perfect and some cards just need to go for the good of the game.