Is Credit Crash is pretty good for Ken/Public Terminal decks?
Yeah, the more I think about it, the less I like it. I do like that itās an augment to advancements that you couldnāt get in any other way. It qualitatively changes the ICE instead of just adding some negligible value.
If Iām reading it correctly, the ice in the top picture seems to be
[cardname] - 4
HB Ice - Code Gate Bioroid AP
The runner can spend ClickClick to break up to 2 subroutines on [cardname].
-> The runner must trash 1 of his or her installed cards
-> The runner must trash 1 of his or her installed cards
-> Do 1 brain damage
Str: 3
Sort of like a Markus 2.0, except as a Code Gate. I like it, especially making the 2.0 ādouble clickā ice cheaper.
Its weyland click compression. Whats not to like?
BoN would be cool with a scored Cleaners?
Youād really think twice about running a face down three advanced card without being able to break Mausolus?
Make a Jinteki alliance with snares, georgias, andā¦
Uhā¦ who needs Jackson anyway?
Doesnāt seem great. But another nasty advanceable ice for Weyland and who knows.
The 12 influence part, and the fact that the runner gets to literally choose when their clicks get compressed. Itās also once per turn, so every run (and ICE encountered) after that first one is at no consequence. Also, itās a 40 card ID, which encourages fast decks, but advancing ICE is one of the slowest moves you can make. All of this coupled with the fact that 90% of advanceable ICE are nigh unplayable makes this ID a bad card. It might get better 42 billion years in the future, but not on release.
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As far as Weyland goes, I think it is amazing. Only Blue Sun is better.
The best part about Temujin Contract is that itās effect is not an āinstead of accessing cardsā effect, and it comes through runs which is how you actually win the game. You can name HQ, RD, or the scoring remote and actually get the credits upon the successful run. The only risk is if a remote explodes but so long as there is ICE this is a bit unlikely.
I can see it replacing Bank Jobs and even Security Testing in a lot of decks.
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Iām curious, then, what you think it does that is good? Youāve said you liked it because of the supposed click compression, but how do you make that ability actually useful?
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I can see it being good with cheap advancables, Space Camps, Trick of Light, maybe even Matrix Analyzer so you donāt lose speed? Plus, if you can score a Cleaners, the ping gets a lot more pingy. I would pay a click and a credit to advance an Ice Wall on RnD and do a damage every time the runner pokes in any day of the week. And if they decide not to run RnD to foil my nefarious ping damage plans, well then they arenāt running RnD! Whatās not to like about that?
Also, it poops on Faust and I love that.
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You just named so many terrible cards in a row that Iām not sure what to do. Trick of Light might be a thing, so thereās that.
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PAD Factory a Komainu. Kill the runner!
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Not every time. Only the first time each turn. Iāll take 1 meat damage and run R&D two or three times in the turn with my medium.
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Okay, thatās actually hilarious. If I could like a post twice, this one gets my vote.
Nope, itās two āon encounterā effects on the runnerās turn, so theyād decide the order. Youād ping the damage, then Komainu would gain its subs on the remaining cards in the grip.
Edit - nevermind, as @Thike said the runner doesnāt decide the order of the corpās effects.
NOOOOO. Dream crusher.
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No, runner decides the order of their effects. Corp decides the order of corp effects.
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YESSSSSS! Dream vindicator!
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New Metas have a way of making great cards out of terrible ones, so we will just have to see what kind of support this thing gets, if any. You only really need one ice per server that is advanced even once for this to get the full effect possible, and that doesnāt slow you down too much I donāt think.
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My issue is that the āfullest effect possibleā isnāt a good case. As a runner, Iāll take 1 damage a turn and be fine with it. Fortunately, this isnāt even one damage a turn, just 1 damage whenever I feel like running an advanced server. I agree that a new meta might make this okay, but I donāt see that happening by the time this comes out. Hell, I canāt think of a time where the runner was overly concerned about 1 damage occasionally, except PE, and that is a case that Weyland canāt replicate.
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