I am trying to count the total number of cards in A:NR at the end of the Red Sands Cycle.
The cards don’t have to be tournament legal (MWL), so cards like Astroscript are counted in triplicates, IDs on the other hand only once. I am calculating with 3 core sets (which means there aren’t any singletons or doubletons in the core set).
Core 248 (+55 from doubletons +2x11 from singletons)= 325
7 Cycles = 7x6x60 = 2520
4 Deluxe Expansions x165 = 660 + 163 from Terminal Directive
In Total= 3668
I think there are 83 Identities (4 from Terminal Directive), 9 of them are draft IDs, the 7 IDs from the Core Set I calculated only once, which means, that there are still 67 IDs in triplicates so we can deduct 134 from 3677 = 3534.
So if I calculated correctly:
At the end of the Red Sand Cycle, including Terminal Directive, there are 3534 playable cards in A:NR.
A little bit less if we include the current MWLs.
Do you want to count cards like Rebirth or Utopia Fragment 3x? Their one-per-deck restriction does not stem from the MWL.
I didn’t know the word “doubleton”, so thanks for that.
Here’s the list of all the cards that have weird deck building numbers attached, though I couldn’t figure out how to get netrunnerdb to just shoot out a list with the 1 per deck ones.
A bit of minor pedantry: Astroscript Pilot Program being 1 per deck isn’t technically an MWL change. Rather, it is card errata. In that sense, Astroscript Pilot Program is considered to say “limit 1 per deck” just as much as any other card that says “limit 1 per deck” on it.
Typically, even events that aren’t using official tournament regulations or the MWL still consider Astroscript a one per deck card.
I don’t know your purposes for getting this exact card count (it’s fun trivia if nothing else) but hopefully this is helpful in your decision whether to include 1 or 3 Astroscripts in your tally.
I bought every Datapack and Deluxe box up to Flashpoint yesterday, but I don’t plan to open them for quite some time, I am still enjoying the Core Set (although it kinda bothers me that I only have one set, I am thinking about proxying the missing 77 cards). I figure if’ve I tried out 3-4 different Decks for each ID and played them 4-5 times against each other ID, that will be enough and I will be interested in opening my first Datapack.
Which means I can use Astroscript in triplicates for some time.
Plascrete Carapace, Project Atlas look awesome already!
For the purpose of figuring out what binders to buy, though, I’m not sure it would be useful to keep the draft-only IDs with the other cards, since you’ll only need them if you do the same type of draft again. And that’s if you even get them, which I suspect a lot of people don’t, because drafting with the draft packs is not very popular in many places.