Looks like fairchild and toth are new god-ice like susanoo.
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I think Thoth is pretty good - much like Data Ward the synergy with Bandwidth is sweet ;). Maybe it should be conceptualized as Ward #4 in yellow glacier, something horrible to put behind Bandwidth, Raven, and IP Block.
Also a beefy ice that will hard tag the runner (rather than the bounce that Raven allows) for only 3 inf sounds like Blue Sun would be interested in.
Slightly worried someoneâs going to take Curfew and make a go at Cybernetics Division again.
Because that ID terrifies me.
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Curfew does mean you only it and scored 3 self destruct chips to enable a lethal neural EMP otu of Cybernetics Division. Frees up a lot of space in the deck for economy and ice that used to be wasted on brain damage stuffâŚ
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What people need to realize is scoring 3 3/2 agendas should win you the game, not enable jank by scoring 3 3/1.
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Spoken like a true Harmony Medtech CEO. Away! To the jankmobile!
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Damon definitely seems to have implemented a step change in the power of big ice. Nothing particularly crazy, but there are some very interesting cards. I hope theyâll complete the cycle of region upgrades.
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I hope we get to see expose and derez effects relevant. Exposing ice actually matters if itâ's horrible to run into, and derez matters if it costs a lot.
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Somewhere, in a high-backed chair, Dan pets a grumpy-looking cat and smiles.
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The sheer tragedy that Jinteki and Weyland got their âgod iceâ in their big boxes. No need to give them âpower level updatedâ god ice, aka Thoth and Fairchild, because Susanoo and Orion never rotate. Right?
Isnât Weyland getting a big box soon?
I guess it will have to have some pretty gutsy cards to make people happy. The spoilers have me excited for Weyland. But I wouldnât expect to be pretty psyched to play Weyland this cycle.
Friends In High Places seems like it would be an interesting card in Sleeperhold style decks, especially since installing something like AAL is basically giving you âpseudo-clicksâ to use afterwards.
Four is Flatline isnât keeping up to date any more. Does anyone know a place where all the recent spoilers are collected together and arranged for easy viewing?
Itâs pretty up to date, I think he just doesnât want to post non-English card pics or text.
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But destruction will always be better than derez (and its currently costed the same) unless there are downsides to destruction or upsides to derez.
They realized this in MTG when they found tap effects were underpowered and so made âtap and doesnât untap next turnâ. Maybe Damon should look into âderez and canât rez until [some time later]â as an effect.
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The idea behing the current state of balance is that Derezzing is more efficient against larger ICE, whereas destruction is better against stuff like vanilla. Unfortunately this is now only true for the very biggest ICE which doesnât get played much anyway as it isnât efficient enough and doesnât help vs. cheese (DDoS, blackmail).
Especially since itâs actually 1 influence, not the 2 that it was posted as. Thatâs a pretty good card for people playing asset IDs in this Whizzard-clogged meta.
Buffing asset spam?
Whizzard isnât whatâs cancerous here. Whizzard, as an ID, only exists to keep asset spam in check. When assets werenât good, no one had great success with him. Asset spam has run amok competitively, which is the core problem. Making that archetype stronger is a mind-boggling design choice.
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I donât disagree wrt how wrong it is to buff asset spam, but that problem goes both ways. Whizz is played everywhere because asset spam is relatively strong, but asset spam/eoi are only played so so much because thereâs no other reliable way for a corp to win anymore (glacierâs pretty dead, rush is in a bad place, kill isnât in an amazing place except as an incidental to other tagging shenanigans, shell game doesnât exactly love a meta full of siphon and feedback filter nexus decks).
The two design directions perpetuate one other, not just in one direction
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Itâs also worth mentioning that itâs a great counter to ICE destruction, which is quite popular.