God I love the idea of Weyland Consortium hiring an assassin to off a pesky film critic.
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no idea where to post as there is no general chat thread that i know of but
hey all, i’ve been road tripping around the country for the past 2 months. been missing this community and anr in general. just wanted to say hey and everything going on seems to be very exciting, the anr pro circuit is a killer initiative and shouts to all making that happen. i popped over to nrdb to check out complete card list for chrome city and underway and wow, a lot of surprising and exciting cards there for runners and corps. should be back at a home base within another 3 weeks; can’t wait to be back in this community & octgn & twitch.
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So there is a spoiler that is floating around /ang/ that appears to be real, but has yet to be confirmed by either Spoiler-Ken or snow-jax. It fits the naming and faction pattern of the previously release and spoiled regions for the SanSan cycle.
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Old Hollywood Grid
NBN 2 inf
Region
5 rez, 4 trash
“Agendas accessed from this server cannot be stolen unless the Runner already has a copy of that agenda in his or her score area. This applies even during the run on which the Runner trashes OHG”
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So you can only steal re-runs? Nice.
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Nice. I like that. It also prevents things from being pirated if you want to think of it that way.
It also encourages agenda diversity - you just flat can’t steal a source fragment from a server with this rezzed.
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Old Hollywood Grid - Coming Soon to an IG deck near you.
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It also makes The Future Perfect even more impossible to steal. 2 Influence is not a lot to spend to almost guarantee a scored 5/3. The more I think about it, the more this might not be legit. It seems super overpowered.
EDIT: Although, this does nothing to stop a Film Critic from hosting said agenda which is both thematic and hilarious.
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Yeah this pack is basically “A whole bunch of OP corp cards that get countered by film critic”.
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Is Film Critic going to be a must play in every Runner deck? Four is Flatline has it listed as 1 influence so at least it’s easy to find space for it in every faction that isn’t Criminal.
Also, Crim’s have a tutor for it (and card selection).
I don’t think so. We’ll see a period where it is really common, but there are counterplans (all the currents, plz).
Either way, it seems like the meta is about to get really weird in the next month.
Sometimes being certain about the meta seems like a violation of Discworld Rule One: “Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men”.
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I don’t think so. I actually think it’s a bit like clot; the cards it counters are strong enough that people will still try to play them (so the Critic will always have a home in some decks) but at the same time its existence will disincentivize playing those cards, so Film Critic will be less neccessary… you get the idea.
I like that it’s pretty much is a direct assault on RP, as it effects 2/3 or so of their agendas and 3/4 of their agenda points.
I also like that it is Nasir’s dream card and what did he ever do without it oh my god I can’t wait put this shit into every Nasir deck.
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Why is it bad to play Film Critic though? It counters The Future Perfect and NAPD, prevents things like Punitive and Midseasons, and the Runner can choose not to fire it if they don’t want to (at least according to the text spoiler on Four is Flatline).
Does the card have a downside other than that it is a resource?
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Deck slots. What do you cut for 3 copies of a card that only impacts a few corp archetypes? It’s like Clot - everyone hopes that someone else #slotstheclot so they don’t have to.
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exactly this. also, even at 1 influence, many decks won’t have room for this.
that said, I think a lot of decks (especially green ones with plenty of draw) that want to play this card will be able to get away with 2 copies - if you don’t see it, you don’t see it, but 2 at least gives you a fighting chance to grab it in most games.
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I think Film Critic will see a home and add a lot of hope to decks that can get in, but only once maybe twice per turn to one place.
So your London Library Femme Chameleon decks that can get one look at that TFP a turn will love Film Critic. Or B&E Criminal, or Fausty Anarches.
I can’t see PPVP adding one or any Film Critics, they often have the money to play the psi and the breakers to play it multiple times a turn. Nor classic Andy or good-stuff Anarch. It’ll see a blaze of play and probably die down to decks that absolutely need it, like our good friend Nasir or the new ‘i dont use credits to break stuff’ decks. I’m absolutely happy that Film Critic gives new life to recurring credit builds, jank or not.
Unlike Clot, Film Critic doesn’t just effect one or two deck types. It’s certainly much stronger against RP between NAPD and TFP, but against any Midseasons list it blanks that threat (along with TGTBT), counters Punitive kills with Government Takeover, allows safety against PE when encountering Fetal AI (or if needed, click 4 agenda accesses to prevent flatlines), not to mention NAPD is generally an auto-include in a large number of Corp Decks.
While Clot is effectively blank against anything other than Astro or Biotic, you’d have a difficult time finding a Corp Deck at the moment that Film Critic is blank against.
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