Paperclip could, by your logic, just increase its strength once for free, a bunch of times, effectively becoming Yog infinity.
Not for free, since the card sets a minimum of 1. However, youād give it +2 strength and break 2 subroutines for 1 credit, over and over until you met the strength of what you needed to break. That seems way too efficient.
How about something non-unique that gets hosted on a single icebreaker? You could still have some of these amazing plays, but you wouldnāt get to use them all together without multiple copies?
Efficiency Editor - 1c
Program
0 MU
When you install a program (including Efficiency Editor), you may host Efficiency Editor on an installed in-faction icebreaker that does not already have a program hosted on it.
Reduce the cost to use abilities on the hosting program by 1c (to a minimum of 1c).
Neutral āāāāā
Weird hosting text, I know, but the thought is to deal with those order of operations problems by letting you host regardless of the order in which you installed the programs.
Portal
Jinteki 1 inf 3 cost
0 STR
Portal gains end the run for each server the Corp has that has no ICE protecting it.
ā_ just imagine if it made a gate for each active node in our servers! Either way, monitor for destructive programs, scripts or glowing keys._
Exactly the ICE that would make Yog and Parasite see play in every deck again.
Reasonable Cost Reduction.
0 cost
Weyland Operation
Trash a rezzed executive, sysop, character, clone or bioroid. Reduce the cost of the next ICE you rez until your next turn to 0 ignoring all additional costs till next turn.
_ Rumor has it, heās getting the axe_
This is kind of like Restoring Face for Weyland, and Portal is like Tour Guide for Jinteki. I want to make HB and NBN Assets and upgrades to go with this theme of taking an existing card and giving it an out of faction twist, but Iām just so tired right now.
Part of an imagined series of cards with this mechanic (i.e. government-issue breakers):
Stux - 5
Program - Icebreaker - Killer
Neutral - ā
Stux costs 1 less to install for each 5c you have.
2c: +1 strength. If youāre running a remote server, instead +4 strength.
1c: Break sentry subroutine.
Str: 1
Thatās great, it only costs 4 to install but has a threshold of 5 anyway. Iām beginning to want to play with these cards haha.
Interesting start to a neutral non-AI breaker suite. Do the others have strengths against different servers, or are they all going to be better at checking remotes than digging in centrals?
Random idea I had when looking at Door to Door, and thinking about what a Corp version of Turning Wheel would look like.
Baskerville Security
Weyland ID
45/15
Whenever a trace is unsuccessful, place a power counter on this card.
Whenever a trace is successful, remove a power counter from this card.
Your traces have +1 strength for every power counter on this card.
You can almost hear the houndsā¦
Oh man, this is amazing! It feels very Weyland too: the more the Runner evades them, the more resources they pump into finding them. Eventually, Weyland always wins.
And a reason to play Helium-3 Deposit! Sign. Me. Up.
HÅzuki Pharmaceuticals: What lies beneath
Jinteki ID
45/15
When the runner accesses an ambush in R&D or HQ he or she must reveal it.
Treat it as if it is installed and has 1 advancement token on it.
HB Upgrade.
0 cost. 3 trash 2 inf
Rez only if the runner has spent 3 clicks this turn.
Trash:The runner must pay 4 credits and take 1 brain damage to make a run this turn
World Expo Keynote
Weyland Asset
0 cost, trash 3, inf 4
Click - Click, Expose a finalized agenda, Trash World Expo Keynote : derez all corp cards and trash 2 installed runner cards. The runner can prevent this by trashing 4 installed runner cards. You canāt score any agenda until the begining of your next turn.
This, is a revolution - Jack Weyland
What is a āfinalizedā agenda?
I imagine itās an Agenda with advancement counters on it equal to itās advancement requirement.
Oh, I though it was in core rules when itās not. I saw it as an agenda with enough advancements tokens on it to be scored by the corp, but not yet scored.
Like when a corporation have a new designed product, ready to release, and expose it before in a keynote, then people rushing to stores to find it.
Tender Offer
Weyland
Agenda: Initiative - 4/2
When the Corp score Tender Offer, the Corp takes 1 bad publicity.
When the Runner steals Tender Offer, the Corp score 1 agenda point.
But if that remains you got to pay your will,
Pay your will, yeah yeah yeah.
- Jack Weyland, coming back home in his fastest car
How would this work?
Was working on a similar idea for an ID, and worded it as āPut a counter in your score area as an agenda worth 1 Agenda point.ā
Would probably be worded better as
While this is in the Corpās score area, the Corp has 1 additional Bad Publicity
While this agenda is in the Runnerās score area, the Corp has 1 additional agenda point.
Might read a little better as āthe Corp needs one fewer agenda point to win the gameā?
I considered putting a facedown non-agenda card from HQ, a non-agenda card from archives, or telling the Corp have -1 agenda point to win the game but I wanted to keep the text very simple.
=> Iām not FFG so I shouldnāt care, I just exposed an idea
I could also say āEach Tender Offer in the Runner score area gives the Corp 1 agenda pointā, it is a little boost vs Film Critic I did not want to give (not sure if OP - Weyland midseasons decks would profit from that a little too much I think)
This agenda would solve most Weyland oldschool rush problems \o/. Quote is an oldschool rock song by Janice Joplin, I could imagine Jack Weyland singing that
@pmavers the problem under that is you donāt track if the agenda was stolen or if it was added to runnerās score area with film critic. There should be some counter of some sort.
@BerenzenSA wordings are inspired by Clone Retirement. You forgot Film Critic interaction & the classic Midseason in T&B Weyland decks.