When I were a lad, and all this were fields…
Back in 1996 Richard Garfield designed another card game, and why not, Magic seemed to be doing okay… Already fans of the designer and William Gibson novels etc., a mate and I got into this new-fangled Netrunner card game. Back in those days it was the CCG model of random cards in a booster and in an effort to keep the cardboard crack addiction in check, my mate and I decided to split all the cards. He was Runner and I was Corp. Ah, happy days, how we miss you Schlaghund.
To this very day though, I still favour playing Corp. I don’t really know why. It’s an odd dichotomy playing Netrunner. Sometimes I look at Architect and think (especially in the current meta), “Why aren’t there more indestructible ICE?!” and then others (when building Runner decks, especially with Apocalypse) I’m more “Bloomin’ Architect is annoying, why is it untrashable!?”. Such are the joys of an asymmetrical card game.
Mostly though, it’s the Corp that interests me. The inexorable journey to an end game, the vulnerability of agendas, that myriad Runner plans that can unfold as you make a best guess at defence with the resource R&D and HQ see fit to make available to you…
Have you got a favourite side? Who would win in a fight, Runner or Corp?