I have played extensively with Sandburg (not against it) – its not broken at all but it may have the appearance of being so because if lock is attained the game is all but over. It’s a heavily binary card and takes a lot of building to. Its weaknesses, much like IT dept is the necessity to defend two remotes spreading yourself thin everywhere. Often you need to divert further ICE to defending econ as well. Polop is a temporary hassle as Interns/Archived memories normally bring it straight back.
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I think the point of PolOp is that the Runner gets one turn of Reasonable ICE, and if the Runner is an Anarch, they can disassemble your glacier in that one turn…
To me, it feels like it’s right to drop WyldCakes and Faust out of the Two-Armed ICE Feast shell and go from there? The actual problem is the loss of Faust, but with that gone you won’t feel as much hurt from WyldCakes being gone… Ah well, that discussion is better had in the Dumble topic.
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Not really, “A whizzard deck with cutlery” is not really Dumble.
I think you’d have to go Maxx to deal with the loss of draw power.
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It never feels like I’m spreading myself thin with Sandburg. The problem with IT department is that you can tax the counters, and make the ice less useful, where Sandburgs global effect makes even 2 ice servers formidable. You can make ice bigger, faster with IT department, but you just need a str 4 cobra to much things up for the runner.
This makes me wonder if Hourglass has a place in RP
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Agreed that it is definitely more smooth to play than ITD. I’ve actually been surprised at how elegantly the card is balanced. There are a lot of ways to fight it as the runner, chief among them being “just keep breaking into the server and trashing it” and “make them keep spending money” but it still plays really well as the Corp. It’s the old school econ war writ large in the asset meta.
It should make Weyland better. That is all.
Wait, it won’t make it better without making another Corp significantly MORE better. Never mind. That’s the rule, forgot
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Sandburg would have made for a fine Weyland card. After all that talk about how to make Weyland good again, and using money as a means to help win…this was one such opportunity. The flavor text is basically Weyland’s MO, to boot.
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Also, Lateral Growth. Weyland gets screwed always. But, it has received some good cards lately. Just not all the ones it should have.
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Lateral growth as a 1 inf NEH card is probably a little too much.
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I might have jumped the gun a bit when saying it’ll make another Corp better, but at least it won’t likely be NBN. they’re already good enough without Sandburg, though they can use Full Rec Immersion Studio to host it and an agenda. NBN glacier unleashed? Half Life 3 confirmed?