MNGA - Rolling Ban-List Discussion

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Not a fan of Breaking News coming off, if Aaron Marron is still banned and there’s no extra penalty for GFI. I’ve said it in the Breaking News thread, but I’ll link it here too:

Breaking News: It's Good for the Game - by SimonMoon

So, the title should really be: “Breaking News: It’s Good for the Game Except for 24/7”? I like the concept of Corp threats and I think the article is well articulated. In general, I’m in favor of Corp threats. But, Breaking News in way above the power curve (compared to the other threats and to other Corp cards). The main problems with Breaking News is: It’s only 2 to score. To take advantage of it’s ability most of the time you only need one extra click. Most successful Corp decks have no problems scoring 3 advance agendas most of the time. This makes it very difficult for a runner to play around the threat without specific counters in practice. Make it a 1/3 or 2/4 and it’s fine. It provides 2 tags. Not only does it avoid some counters cards (i.e. Forger, Decoy), it turns on powers W…

Breaking News enables tag punishment too easily. The runner just has to miss checking one remote one time or the Corp has a window to NA it behind gear-check to cause a 2 AP swing (for the cost of just 2 advancement and a 0 cost operation).

It’s really just too easy. And once this list has time to settle competitively, I fear we’ll get hugely NBN-favored meta. MCA Informant is out now, so if you let Breaking News out of the bag, do the same with Aaron. At the very least add GFI to MWL, and maybe NBN will use real 3-pointers.

The options as I see them:

• Leave Breaking News on the banlist.
• Take Aaron Marron off. (Criminal needs good draw and now tagging decks have good option to deal with him.)
• Add GFI to MWL.