I only just realized Bryan Stinson says ignore all costs, and my eyes almost popped out of my skull. Replaying free Restructures? Single-click BLCs? Don’t mind if I do! Doubtful that Weyland can consistently put the Runner below 6 credits, but the payoff if you do seems massive.
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Whoever took these pictures is mean! Overlapping a few cards here and there so you can’t see influence on things like Macrophage, hiding the advancement requirement for that new HB agenda… 
Is Macrophage neutral? It looks a little purple on the edge, but I’m assuming that’s my imagination.
Also amusingly enough dies to para-SIFR before any subs even fire…
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Neutral on Macrophage.
I’m assuming neutral. It’s in the same area as the other neutral cards.
The influence though is an interesting consideration that I hadn’t taken into account.
Macrophage is hillarious.
-> Make your virus counters go away.
-> Make your virus go away.
-> No, seriously, make your virus go away.
-> Make you go away.
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Interesting to note that Aghora cannot break Macrophage…
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I do wish Macrophage would’ve had a clause that said that viruses can’t be hosted on it, but it definitely looks neat.
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If this thing was immune to parasite destruction, something would have to give. Rez cost up, strength down, traces/subs down… Something, I dunno what. It’d be giving way too much value at the 3c price point.
I like it as printed.
I’m not sure if it will see much play, but I definitely like Macrophage.
Sifr is less op looking than I expected it to be, and not called Void! I like the other cards however. Herald is fun, and if Net-Sensor Activation is a 3/1 then I think it could be ok. The pack looks pretty fair and has some cool cards, especially the crim stuff and the ice.
Between Data Ward and Macrophage, there’s beginning to be a kinda fun ICE suite that Sub Boost is pretty hilarious on.
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That Jinteki barrier is nasty. I smell a crappy Mutate deck on the horizon that actually doesn’t have to dump everything into ICE influence in my deck lists soon. We also get a second (better?) Precog in the same pack. Nice.
Macrophage is hilarious. Would you run this in a deck over Cyberdex, or say Cobra? The flavor text on Tribunal is great, reminds me of Curtain Wall’s text. Has a meta feel.
The NBN 4/2 is strong, but I suspect it will not be strong enough. Thankfully the NBN Trap ICE is garbage.
Violet Level Clearance still looks weak. Only for CI? The 1/3 is interesting against Blackmail (pre-rez before blackmail), assuming its a 1/3. Still too weak but interesting.
Veritas is GOOD. Replaces Caduceus entirely imo. Works better with Bad Pub. Stinson is predictably amazing for this effect, but I fail to see how Weyland gets the Runner below 6 with an upgrade on the table. He has high possibilities though. Would you dedicate 7-9 slots to reversed accounts and ceremony + stinson, just for the possibility of gaining up to 45c next turn? How does this deck strategy play out if they know what you’re up to in game 2?
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I thought this at first too, but it’s also only 3 to rez. I prefer this get parasifr’ed than my tollbooth.
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Actually, now that I think about it, one way to use Barney Stinson (I’ll never not call him that now) is to trigger mind-games with tracing ops. Like, the Weyland player can play SEA Source or whatever for 5 less than the runner’s credit pool, and the Runner has to ask himself if it’s a bluff to trigger a Barney on the board, and paying the trace will unlock billion dollar paydays, or if failing to pay the trace will just get the Runner killed.
Though that’s harder now that Boom! is the gold standard and everybody plays a million anti-tag pieces. But there’s potential!
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I love Stinson. Greatest compliance department asshole ever.
“Look, I’m not going to clear the payment to the NBN bounty tracker, as I’ve… What? He’s poor? Oh, that’s fine then, fuck that guy then, find him and shoot a missile at him for all I care.”
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i think it originally only reduce strength by 2 (but probably cost less to install)
imagine it being designed to work with Null, you discard a card, reduce strength by 2 then reduce handsize by 1 to reduce another 2 (or whatever the number was). it combos pretty well with him.
now it doesn’t combo well at all (unless you use it on two difference ICE), but Sifr’s effect is definitely ‘sexified’
Glaciers long time ago is not 60% deck win. I play this game for fun, not for competition (thats why i stop playing magic). And that’s like a rummor mill a card that force me to play things i don’t like if i want to go to a store champion and at least have any chance to make some plays. I never win a tournament in 3 years of play, but i had a lot of fun and very interesting games (some wins and loses) against competitive decks, last months playing against anarchs are miserable simply.
And the most important thing Anarchs don’t need SIFR or Rumor Mill. Anarchs should have weakness like every faction of the game. In this moment anarchs have the best multiaccess, the best breakers, the best programs, the best multiacces, the best consoles, best recursion, etc,
Black Orchesta, not need a simply faust spoon two card. Probably you don’t need more cuttlery outside of spoon, And put more deja vus
I love Macrophage almost as much as everyone hates SIFR
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I just realized an amazing, and terrifying thing about SIFR. It’s only 1 influence.
On the bad side, criminals and shapers can splash this monster with impunity.
On the bright side, you can play it as your console in THE PROFESSOR! Can’t wait to try it!
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