[quote=âfluffdasheep, post:31, topic:1485â]
Itâs dead if you draw it late, so you want more than one and you want to play it early.
[/quote]So⌠run two? Datasuckerâs comparatively dead as a late draw, though less so. Security Testing can be, too, depending on how late. Doesnât mean theyâre bad, just means you donât want to play 'em early. But with Djinn, well, tutor it if you think youâre going to want it? Viruses are the one thing we can tutor as Anarch, after all.
[quote=âfluffdasheep, post:31, topic:1485â]
However, itâs expensive, so you donât want multiples and playing it early might set you back on tempo.
[/quote]Which turns on Inject, yes? Itâs not more expensive than Medium, though it does have a pretty deferred benefit. I have some hope that Anarch econâll be strong enough by the time it comes out that playing it early wonât be a waste. For anyone else, I think itâd be doable, and if Anarchâs economy doesnât catch up then itâs kind of silly to worry about because thereâll be so many other threats by then anyway.
[quote=âfluffdasheep, post:31, topic:1485â]
It also turns on Rototurret. Iâm thoroughly meh about this card, but I can see its value against slow decks.
[/quote]I already run 3x Mimics and I doubt thatâll change. They do a right good job of turning Rototurret back off â besides which, the whole point of Incubator is to build a threat when youâre not able to run freely. If I can just bounce off of R&D, Mediumâs better on its own. If I canât â too expensive, say â then Incubator helps build for a massive dig turn. (I really donât think a turn of playing Medium, cracking Incubator, Demo Running R&D, running R&D is all that impossible/unlikely. Seems much more likely than just getting there with Medium alone.)
The biggest thing about it, again, is making the corp virus wipe more often. I donât know where the sweet spot is, but after 4-5 turns itâs a fairly big threat. Either they wipe pre-emptively (slowing themselves down pretty heavily, especially if you can follow up on that hard by playing an Imp and/or Lamprey and making use of 'em), or they let it go off and wipe up the damages (at which point youâve probably done something that puts you in a much better position).
Iâll admit that it might take until the Deluxe Box for Incubator to really shine, but I remain confident that it will shine. Playing the faction that I think is most able to slow down and disrupt the Corp makes a card that assists with that ever so useful â and itâll do that even before cracking, or give you a chance for some fun. Itâs not a card that anyone outside of Anarch would want, and itâs not going to have a place in decks without many kinds of viruses that can benefit from its use. But, used where it belongs, I think itâs going to be scaaa~ry. If not immediately, then soon.