Me explaining why Breaking News was good for the game.
I can see that if it werenât for 24/7.
Then surely the problem is 24/7, not BN?
Stage DirectionsâŚ
(both arms) You draw and draw and draw and draw thenâŚ
(right arm) 24/7
(left arm) Boom!
24/7 is such a dumb card
my observations from October league play are Gagarin/NEH are good. the ignore all the nonsense in the remotes and medium dig plan is gone. maybe I just donât know how to play against them but I felt lost.
thereâs a 7 point CI build out there that seems good too. sac con clot maybe get them but it seemed to have outs.
film critic may or may not be too narrow for your one restricted card so it may be opus or levy because they are better vs an unknown field.
I havenât seen any DDoS or apocalypse at all which leads me to believe people are sitting on brews involving these cards because they imo are too powerful not to see play when everything else with anything teeth has been banned.
what these all means ? lol I have no clue. Iâm like 3-15 since league started trying to playing punitive nonsense and the shattered husk of anarch.
With the recent errata to Slums (which I think makes it worse because it now doesnât counter CtM and Hostile Infrastructure as directly), Iâve been having a hell of a time against IG Biolock. Iâve played against it a handful of times now and itâs just beastly.
Itâs fueled by Whampoa + Shannon Claire, which is as strong as Museum + Mumbad City Hall. So once Hostiles come down that combo is pretty hard to get off the table.
I think itâs pretty much impossible to âplay aroundâ IG Biolock; you just have to have tech cards. Specifically, I think you need Slums. Maybe Archives Interface, but that becomes pretty uninspiring if Whampoa is on the table.
Build up money, run archives, trash the important cards, repeat. Donât waste time on anything you donât need. Only address their plan, your plan doesnât matter. If your deck canât handle that type of gameplay then itâs bad.
Standard IG procedure.
Slums is technically worse now but still a worthwhile include in Anarch decks and Shaper decks with Artist Colony IMO. Itâs very valuable against any deck playing assets and/or upgrades. In the few dead match-ups (Rush), you just pitch it (or never tutor for it).
It still stops Hostile from pinging you, no?
Ha, casual. You can find posts here in which I explain why Astroscript is needed in the game
(To be fair, it was because the whole faction was built around it. Later releases changed things)
Ah, I suppose youâre right. And the card that you RFG against CtM doesnât trigger the trace, either; it just doesnât fizzle the ID.
Iâve never seen it distilled down so clearly. Thanks for the tip!
If you were going to pack tech cards to help with prison match-ups, which do you like? Slums, or is Scrubber good enough? Is Paricia helpful, or is it hot garbage?
If youâre Playing Shaper and expect to see a lot of Prison/Asset Spam 3x Paricia is good enough. You want that online early, and itâs highly tutor able being a program. If youâre expecting a mild amount of Prison Iâd only go 2x Paricia.
If youâre playing Anarch 1x Slums is solid and Iâd personally prefer Imp to Scrubber, but thatâs only because it has a bit more utility in the CI match up.
If youâre playing Crim idk, I think you take scrubber since you have fall guys.
Hinky IG is good too. Bioethics, Hostiles, Chairman Hiro, Ronin, Dedication Ceremony, etc. The difference being youâre trying to kill quickly, rather than lock them down. Since youâre going fast, you can run Illegal Arms Factory for card draw and not worry much about the bad publicity.
Paricia is way better than scrubber if you can spare the MU.
The only hitch is that it is vulnerable to Best Defense⌠and âcan spare the MUâ is not exactly a light ask.
Something like non-Opus Kit, Sunny, or a no-breaker/gang sign criminal would love it.
Just donât forget Paricia can only help to trash assets while Scrubber can trash anything that has a trash cost. Paricia is fine in-faction because itâs Self-modifiable. I donât see much reason for Crims to prefer it over Scrubber. Maybe Geist if he ever cares.
True, but with sscg out, thatâs less of a limitation than it used to be. The fact that itâs a net gain of 2 out of the box is pretty decent.