Add Bishop. 
I think either NRE or 4man make null very playable and very powerful. Being able to yog an archangel by discarding a card is pretty sweet.
If we stay in assetland, he probably wonāt outshine whizzardā¦ But whizzard was seen as more-or-less a joke for over a year because assets were such a small part of the game, so donāt fall into the trap of thinking that todayās corp meta will stay static.
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I think null is great design, despite that fact that he obviously doesnāt encourage parasite recursion.
His ID ability functions so well with anarchs breakers, yeah thatās cool. What is really neat though is that his ID functions very well with card redundancy. So you can pack your deck with copies of a card you only need one of, and the other copies have a pretty reasonable chance of still being useful. Thatās nifty!
so just like every Faust deck ever
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Itās more elegant and universal, Mr. fausty poopy pants.
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I donāt foresee asset dominance going away any time soon. What was the last Operation that made a significant impact on the meta? Traffic Accident comes to mind. Assets have been defining the Corp game for a long time now.
While Whizzard has always been my Runner, since Honor and Profit, when people scoffed at me playing an ID that allowed for free Jackson trashes, at this point I would much rather play other IDs. Null is the definition of Reg-Ass IMO, a deck defined by its breaker suite.
That said, I donāt foresee Corps allowing serious Anarchs to venture outside Whizzard and Noise any time soon. MaXx is quite good but sheās almost a faction to herself, generally playing variant strategies. I donāt consider Devilcake particularly viable or as good as L4J was in its respective meta.
I will definitely be using Null to abuse Parasite, at least at first. The fixed breakers arenāt even efficient enough any more; thatās why we started using Faust in the first place. Paying 3c for Ichi and 5 for Hive is still a joke. Itās 100% understandable that Anarchs see this ID and think of the highest strength ICE they can melt at instant speed.
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Thereās a difference between defining the corp play and spam, though. SanSan was a definitive card in classic fastro, but most builds didnāt run much other āmust trashā stuff. A lot of the Jeeves builds around now are the same way - Jeeves may be the defining card, but there arenāt a lot of other assets to trash. If these were the dominant corps at the moment, whizzard would probably not be the strongest anarch.
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With Nullās ability you might see Prey being played out of faction.
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My immediate reaction to this is to recoil in horror as I think about the possibilities. And then justā¦ Meh. How is it better than Cutlery, and what do you trash? Cache? What else?
Play Scrubbed, then ideally nothing.
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Null is good with RegAss Anarch suit, the fact is he is kind of awkward to use Faust.Just RegAss bullshit with Parasite recursion.
The news so far is quite refreshing and I think Damon did some pretty good job.Iām just a little sick of hearing complaining Anarch or something,we donāt know a lot of new cards and how MWL and the meta will be look like,at least complain after they are actually released.
And Criminal is now officially confirmed as a mini-faction.
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And suckers, no ?
Thereās a lot of 0 Str ICE being played, so even now it wouldnāt be ridiculous out of faction. Itās just the influenceā¦
I was mostly thinking about it in Tenma, with SoTs.
Thatās a good question. Do we know if Datasucker āworksā with Prey? Prey triggers when you pass the ice, and my understanding is you pass the ice after 3.2, but Iām not sure whether the encounter is considered to have ended when/as you pass the ice, or if passing the ice marks the end of the encounter, or what. I think thatās pretty crucial to determining whether Datasuckerās strength reduction is still in effect when Prey triggers.
If I recall correctly, Datasucker doesnāt work with Prey.
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Yeah, it doesnāt (encounter ends prior to passing ice).
Technically you pass in 3.2 though.
Ice Carver is on encounter too : if Ice carver works with Prey, then DS works with Prey.
I prefer the Parasite road though.
Hmmā¦ I was always under the impression that the encounter ended, then you passed. Basically, I just use this thing.
I think you canāt pass ice until the encounter ends and there isnāt an ETR (somewhere). Kind of like what it says here, although Iād be happy to be wrong (always fine with giving APEX more life).
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Hmmā¦ if that page is correct, the strength is still lowered at the time when prey fires.
And looking at the rules it seems it actually supports this, though it is a bit ambiguous. The rule says it is passed when the subroutines are broken or resolved, which is in the encounter step 3.2. data sucker works in the encounter step, which is the entire step 3.
Encounter
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After the Runner breaks all of the iceās subroutines and/or any
effects from unbroken subroutines resolve without ending the
run, he has passed that piece of ice.
I know itās not as exciting as Mausolus (Weyland keeps up the āhistorical Kingsā theme - I do love how their megalomania comes through in their chosen āskinā on the Net) -
But Georgia (the Jinteki floating Net Damage Sysop) is a pretty great little annoyance. It makes facechecking a special kind of hell if you keep a little Georgia Fund on the go to move her. Not sure the match checks out on āworth itā in a serious game, but having her keep popping up like Bugs Bunny to whack the Runner upside the head then skedaddle oughtta be a lot of fun.
Iām an inveterate weakling re: Cambridge/1000 Cuts Jinteki, Iāll admit.
Observe and Destroy already looks slightly win-more (Runner has less than $6 = NBN is doing pretty wellā¦unless itās Corp has less than $6? HMM) - but what could it be? Surely not just ALL THE TAGS with ādestroyā, and surely not damageā¦and thereās already a fair few Resource trashers, so it hopefully isnāt just a better All-Seeing I. Intrigued!
I briefly missed that Beth the Shaper Supplier didnāt stack her abilities and almost exploded in outrage. Reading~~~ helps us grow~~~~ (āI, can do ANYthingā¦ā)
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