I can’t wait for Weyland to buy RP, and Andy becoming an Anarch.
And if Dan can get FFG to reprint Jackson to be green, that would be great.
I’ve seen the first half of this argument before. If you could play any number of Jacksons, how many would you really play? I can’t think of many decks who want more than 3. Maybe shutdown combo decks, so perhaps 3 cards is wrong. That said, combo decks are pretty full of combo - so maybe not even there.
Edit: some people complain that JHow is ubiquitous, but his ability, as well as being strong, is almost unique. If there were similar effects on other playable cards he may well not be.
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Disposable HQ looks like it will be close to a Jackson replacement - no surprises it’s 1 influence and yellow.
It will certainly help against Agenda flood, though obviously R&D lock isn’t helped. The 5 trash cost is a big deal.
Disposable HQ is pretty good for slow decks or kill decks. But I don’t want it in anything that actually wants to score agendas in the early game. You need to play it alongside something that can shuffle R&D (or better tutor the cards you buried). Maybe a worthwhile combo with Shannon Claire. I guess NBN is the best (non neutral) place for Jackson Howard. If you had to pay influence for him, you might not (in many NBN decks), then again maybe that makes it the worst place for him. All the anarchs will be Showing Off in a couple of months!
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You could say the same about Jackson. Flood happens, right?
Jackson is good (Jackson tier) because he solves the flood problem and the ‘where did I put all my agendas’ problem. NEH FA isn’t playing Disposable HQ.
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Well, we don’t know if NEH FA wll be around post-Beale…
Jackson is better, particularly for those decks, sure.
There’s probably 500 cards between now and rotation.
We should stop worrying about it.
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Who’s worrying? I think the cards in newer cycles (not necessarily big boxes…) are substantially better designed than earlier ones. In particular, some of the Genesis cycle cards were good for the game at the time, but are now a liability in terms of deckbuilding and so on. There’s plenty of time for Jackson-like effects to appear and save us from Noise. I’m really looking forward to it.
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Since the metA has sped up, I think most glacier decks would be playing 4 or so. A year ago lost glacier decks would be playing 6 or 7. I’d be playing like 6 or 7 out of ig at 1 influence if I could. This is even without considering what new kind of decks of super grindy decks you’d be able to build at unlimited 1 inf Jackson’s.
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IG would be almost unbeatable with 6 or more Jacksons. Or imagine biotech with the shuffle. That would be comically hellish. You could probably squeeze out some three or four games with that. Both players would be in tears.
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I’m not sure I understand the problem with IG. Jackson doesn’t remove the agendas from the game, he puts them in R&D. R&D gets denser and denser. That said, I haven’t yet seen an IG deck that’s given me any real trouble. I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, just that I haven’t seen it.
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The biggest problem with ig decks is that thy have basically zero ability to score agendas when they draw them early (both hinkes style kill ones as well as silly grindy one) so hq gets very dense and you have no ability to do anything. Additionally, Jackson’s ability is nuts strong as you want to be overdrawing and discarding 90% of the time.
Additionally, as opposed to disposable hq, Jackson decreases the net hq/rd density when it fires as well as shifting cards from one to the other. That’s on of the reasons dispoable hq is terrible. The other that it doesn’t even fire on demand so you’ll still get hit by legwork. And that it doesn’t do anything if you aren’t flooded.
Card is garbo
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Yeah I think it needed the Cyberdex Virus Suite treatment (i.e you can also rez and trash to get its on-access effect) to have any sort of use as a defensive tool.
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I was thinking today about rotation, and IMO the loss of Whizzard, Imp, and Scrubber will be very impactful to the meta. I think cards, particularly the first two, have done a lot to keep asset spam in check. Even with them available and commonly played, asset/horizontal strategies have become stronger with every cycle. The best thing Criminal can do is make extra money with SecTest, and I think Shapers will always be loathe to slot Paricia.
Even setting extreme horizontal decks aside, asset economy looks to be improving at a much faster rate than operation economy (sorry, Donut). As it stands, Anarch is going to be ill-equipped to deal with assets post-rotation, and I think this will be felt by Shapers and Criminals as well.
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I mean, I think it’s partially because they’ve been very aggressively pushing the power level of assets. We’re getting ridiculous shit like Museum and Temple.
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I agree; and I think design was partially forced in that direction by the aforementioned cards of Whizzard, Imp, and Scrubber. Assets are already becoming near-impossible to control with these tools; once said tools are unavailable, I fear assets may run unchecked for some time, unless we are given new tools before that happens. To put it in perspective, it wasn’t too long ago that Shapers were splashing for Imp, even though they have Paricia in faction.
Just wanted to hear thoughts on the matter, and put a prediction out there.
Anarchs already have an anti asset spam card in a big box set: Apocalypse!
…Apex? Who’s that?
On a more serious note, I imagine once those cards rotate out (and if no replacement tool is printed), Apocalypse will become more standard in non-Maxx decks.
We’ll all just start playing Skull Jack. /s
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I would rather cut off my own… You know where this is going. That card is just so unbelievably bad. It MIGHT be OK if it was 0c and Meat instead.
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