Jinteki executive looks really good in RP.
Iām sure it wonāt the best deck going, but I really want to play Georgia Emelyov in RP, sneak out an Ancestral Imager or two and then slap a Checkpoint on each central.
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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.
[/quote]Thereās no need to make her run away; she only triggers on an unsuccessful run, so when you move her to a server and trigger her, the runner isnāt accessing her.
Georgia is sick anti-Nero tech.
In all seriousness, sheās incredible combined with Komainu in a trap-heavy deck. Used to be, if you hit a Komainu without a breaker, youād jack out and lick your wounds. With Ms. Emelyov on the table, thatās no longer an option.
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This came up on the Official Rules thread after D&D was spoiled, and the conclusion there was that the ice is considered passed at the time the encounter phase ends, so the DS effects ends when Prey takes effect:
Itās based on the same ruling that @ijw473 linked.
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I asked Damon (he answers a lot faster than LL btw) and you are right.
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Georgia.
Also known as, the card that makes Corps start asking āAre you breaking subroutines?ā on Komainu.
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Does anyone else think it is thematically a bit weird that the alliance mechanic will continue to work during the flashpoint cycle when these folks are supposedly at war with each other? Or is this just a case of a megacorps bureaucratic structure so large that the left hand doesnāt know (or chooses to ignore) what the right hand is doing?
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Nothing explicitly states which corps are at war, so you could imply that Weyland is teaming up with HB and NBN against Jinteki.
Interestingly enough, thereās currently no way to get all 3 alliance conditions satisfied in a single deck (6x1inf times 3 is 18 inf, and Custom Biotics canāt Jinteki).
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I donāt think thereās any more problem with Alliances than is already inherent in crossfactioning. The cross-corporate alliances just mean that, for example, Ibrahim Salem will more readily work for anyone who is already contracting a bunch of NBNās other staff and facilities. Your corps donāt have to be literal allies.
Sony has sued itself several times so yes, probably.
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Does anyone find it disturbing that Princess Space Kitten is actually a kitten?
Could just be an avatar.
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Yeah, Iām gonna assume cyberspace based on the giraffe and the levitating mic.
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One word. Imp.
Iām excited for this cycle, but at the same time, Iām growing disgusted thinking about the oppressive econ denial deck Iām going to make with Reina, Diwan, System Outage and Ixodidae. Thatās right, everyoneās favorite binder fodder seems to have a really interesting use 3 cycles later. Is it time for a critical mass of denial cards to outshine account siphon in anarch, so that our Queen may rise out of her shackles?
Answer: Iām going to be busy murdering people with net and meat to really find out, all things considered.
Letās talk about random cards I have words for!
Sunny card. So is net police worth playing yet? No? Sorry for asking. Myself.
Chrysalis: Why is the trash cost 1, why does it even have a trash cost? Is it a trap? Is the edge case Nero encounters it during multi access worth the inclusion. I mean, if course not, these are silly questions one asks to propose an answer to a question no one really asked. Still kind of like the card though.
Null: Lowering the strength of ice is not raising the strength of a breaker, so I would still recklessly toss Faust into a Null deck, just one that does more than trash cards and fat at video games all day. Faust can be a stopgap measure, until actual breakers are found, then those shitty inefficient, underpowered Faust decks can finally stop losing over and over to meat and net damage. You know, the professor Faust deck that is just inches away from winning Worlds
System Outage feels like it shoulda been blue
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Would be nice to get another Criminal current, they only have one. Anarchs already have 3.
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Going by their development cycle, Flashpoint was designed whilst we were still in the Anarch dark ages.
Expect a fair few things that should be in other factions thrown to orange.
Iām not sure why people are saying this - itās synergistic with FIS, and thatās about it.
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Many people think that all control/denial should be blue unless it trashes something.
But yeah, itās basically just another bitey virus, only in current form.