The World of Imaginative Logic

With the new set on the way I'm super excited about this new pack when some of the other cards where spoiled. 

:: SPOILERS :: WARNING::

So a recent Question from cobelli57 of "Whats a good way to trash cards without accessing them" (paraphrasing) leads to a root problem of "How to deal with Jinteki PE" You can build a deck around trashing cards without accessing them but it's not necessarily the best choice vs other decks where accessing is perfectly safe. So a better choice is "How to fight PE with my already made deck?"

You can find slight differences in the "shell game" Style of PE that run little ice but more focus on traps then anything else. So first lets see the terrible things that can happen to you.

This is probably the most nasty thing to hit during your game fighting PE. Taking 3 brain damage (assuming its been Mushin no Shin) can make all of life harder to deal with later in the match up. where your constantly almost dead from being EMP'ed to flatline and you have to draw up first to even SCORE fetal let alone not die afterwords

Snare! is a monster of its own. 3 Net from RND access can catch a lot of runners off guard and causes some of the most flatlines just from lack of clicks left to draw back up after hitting one.

Psychic field is one im surprised more people don't splash into. some times more deadly then the Snare this is the most likely to cause flatlines from EMP the turn after

The most painful agenda to score taking 3 net from PE and 2 credits you effectively pay 2 to snare yourself Scoring this monster.

This is a MUCH less common card in PE Shell as the solution is Deus X and in a lot of games 3 brain damage thats mostly unpreventable vs to 6 net, 3 brain will practicly win you the game if early one, but a June bug is compleatly negated by Deus X (I still like it) These are the WORST things you can access in your fight of PE. but the most important note. is that only Snare and Fetal work from HQ and RND. Everything else is 100% safe to access. 

When your fighting PE. Go for HQ/RND

As the golden rule, don't run last click. But running in HQ/RND is the safe bet fighting Jinteki PE. as we are all Scared of snare flatline if it doesn't kill you, it was wasted credits on their part. and you spend the rest of your turn drawing back up. and you'll never see that snare again (Cough cough Jackson) IT'S OK TO HIT SNARE!, as long as it's early in your turn hit it. make them spend credits then draw back up. A lot of people become crippled in fear of hitting a snare. I like to call it Occupational hazard. 

Ok they just Mushin'd a card. Time to Assess the situation

Any PE Shell deck worth noting runs 3 of this card and will jackson it back every chance they get. When they do, it's gennerly one of three cards (with exceptions) Overwriter, Ronin, Future perfect, Fetal AI. The moment they Mushin first thing you should do Is check their archives. (not running but like... grab it and look at it) If you see 2+ Overwriter its probably not that and your safer to run it. Second thing you do is ask the golden question

If that is a Future Perfect. How F***ed am I going to be? if they are sitting at 4 points. you run it. I don't care. 3 brain damage is not worth the chance of losing right then and there. If they are at 2 or less points you might let them score a Future perfect as the game becomes impossibly hard with a 2 card hand size. Most PE decks run 2-3 Advancable Death traps (cerebral) 2-3 Ronin and 2 Future perfects. 3 Fetal AI. When they mushin a card if your to take raw satistics its about a 1/4 chance of something that will Ruin your day if you access it. I tend to be more scared of unadvanced things as hitting Snare! or Psy field will set me back an entire turn where advancing means its neither. 

Counting Cards Clicks and Credits

When your turn is about to end the few things you should do is count their credits and Cards and assess the situation. In their three clicks what would it take to murder you? If they have a 4 advanced card, and its a Ronin they can Ronin EMP EMP for 5 damage, if their new 2 advanced card in a ronin the most they can do is Advance Advance Ronin for 3 damage. or do they have the credits to emp you twice? Ect. Doing this small thing can help you figure out information of what everything is. if you have 4 cards in hand and he advances that 2 advance card twice. he might of realized he needed that ronin at 4 to kill you and is trying to correct himself too late.

When you take a look at a lot of Biroids a whole lot of questions pop up like "how effective is it REALLY?"

There are a lot of biroids to compare and how effective is each is highly interesting. Lets look at the classic one, Eli 1.0 The most used barrier ice in literally every deck (stimhack)

Looking at Eli a lot of people see it as "oh hey, it takes a runner HALF their turn to get past Eli to click past it. how awesome is that?!" Well. this goes back to the word "Click Compression" Lets assume the runner has a Corroder out and is now debating on clicking though eli, or spending the money to break it, (4 credits) 

A runner with Bad click compression, the prime example of 1 to 1 of Clicks/Credits looks at Eli and says "hey, it only costs me 2 credits to get past Eli, and ill do that" A runner with Better click compression lets just say. 1/1.5 sees eli and goes "it costs me 3 to click past him." Runners with great click compression with things such as free account siphons, Prepaid kate ect. Will max out the cost of an Eli to be 4 to break. If you have better click compression then 1/2 then its cheaper to just break eli with corroder.

Now put that Eli Right next to Heimdall 1.0 With that Corroder it costs 7 to get past Heimdall. or you can do it for 3 clicks, Not much different then then Eli 1.0 but actually worse for the corp being able to click past it over Breaking Heimdall. so if both where in a server. its cheaper to Break eli, then click past heimdall. 

Viktor 2.0 is a moderately popular Ice in HB costing a Gordian blade 5 credits to break, the bonus of the runner needing 2 clicks or more, and cant bounce of it unscathed. (more or less) once again, with click compression it feels like ALL Biroids are just way cheaper to click past then ever needing to FIND a breaker :/

Ichi 1.0 is an special one as with most common sentry breakers Mimic/Femme Ichi costs a Butt ton (mimic cant break it without help, Femme costs 9 to break the whole thing. But you dont even need to spend 3 clicks to break Ichi 1.0 ... You just break the 2 important ones and then laugh at the Trace 1. Unless your CRAZY broke.

TL:DR: Unless your CRAZY Rich and money is flowing out of you. its way better to click though all the Biroid ice. then breaking them with breakers.

You as a netrunner player hear "Drip, Click, Burst economy" This is the term mostly used for explaining the different types of econ cards there are. We are going in depth to "Drip" economy and that fact that most people don't see the "Drip Economy" In a lot of cards. ALL DRIP ECONOMY HAS A STIPULATION

We'll start with the most well known and king of ooze Underworld Contact

Underworld Contact 

This is the most Well known as mentioned before as being Drip economy. the fact that it gives you Clickless credits that can be used for anything each and every turn, with the cost of needing the 2 Link. Some ID's are better about getting to the 2 link such as Kate/Andy/Nasir/Iain as they start with one and just need to install Dyson Mem Chip or Access to Globalsec to reach that 2 link, More uncommonly for the runner who don't start with 1 link, you can put 3 Rabbit Hole in your deck and if you find one, you'll get them all boosting you to 3 link instantly if traces are a problem in your meta but you GOT to play Wizard.

Data Folding 

Datafolding is a new card that just came out of order and Chaos and the big aspect of this card compared to underworld is that it costs more so longer to get your money's worth out of the card but you can install it from your opening hand and start getting credits. for thoes deck that dont push programs out like rats this is an effective card for that and Overmind / Sage decks

Zona Sul Shipping

This is HIGHLY comparable to underworld without needing the link. for thoes decks who run zero link this is a nice alternative. It has a high weakness to some decks but as long as you dont need credits every split second these will rack up to 4+ credits before needing to click for them becoming highly effective. Although big weakness to decks running Snare! / Breaking News If you run Zona Sul I would suggest Qianju PT over Plascrete to avoid taking tags vs Jinteki like decks or if your scared of SEA Source

Prepaid VoicePAD

WAIT A MINUTE! That card doesnt give me credits!!! Oh... Yes it does, just in a diffrent way. As long as your using events each turn this is JUST as effective as underworld contacts and the credits go directly into your bank when you use cards such as Sure Gamble. But lets be real. when it replenishes credits every turn. its drip economy and most kates don't even see the comparison to that and Underworld Contact

Cyberfeeder

Cyber feeder much like Prepaid is drip economy in a different way, Making runs pulls the drip economy out of this card as long as those runs cost you money. Now making stupid runs just to pull credits off of Cyberfeeder is really dumb but if you do make lots of important runs, about one each turn, Or install viruses each turn, then this card becomes quite effective

♦ Spinal Modem  

Ya same stuff but now your getting 2 credits per turn and Holy cow. thats a lot of cash! at the cost of only able to have one out and you might die from it (quite rare)

♦ Order of Sol

Nasir and my personal favorite drip economy. This card can net you 2 credits each turn (one for yours, one for theirs) but you have to be broke to get the money off of it. mostly paired with Personal Workshop as you can use the paid window on the corps turn and get your credit from Order of Sol being 2 clickless credits a turn

Inside Man

Well... if you REALLY like hardware and have a LOT of it, this is the drip economy for you. if you install hardware every other turn its as effective as Data Folding, and oddly pares well with it if your hardware biased 

♦ The Supplier 

So In Netrunner there are a lot of things a new player will have to get used to. One of the big one is figuring out what you should be expecting when you sit across from a player. Here is a Quick Reference guide for Brand new players and followed will be a more expansive guide on A few popular ID's

Can't Touch This (Shapers)

   Sharpers are mostly RND/Money focused

Shapers I would best describe as "Finding the peice to the puzzle"

Most shaper deck have a plan in mind

; From "Locking down RND so the corp never gets to see an agenda ever" to "Im so set up im going to access any scoring server any time I want" The shaper tools let them fit to this plan by solving the ice puzzles that come there way. Self-modifying Code is a classic example of this. They will use Self-Modifying code to use their massive banks (Magnum Opus) to find the breakers they need RIGHT before/after they encounter a piece of ice. (see 3.1 of Timing structure of a run) That moment is a Shapers dream. Using other cards such as Clone Chip to fix whatever problem they are having.

Time is Money (Criminals)

  Criminals are Mostly HQ/Event Focused

Criminals are more of the "Hit their wallets" the main example of this is Account Siphon and Emergency Shutdown, Stealing the corps money wile giving them-self a nice chunk of change. Shutdown can lead to a big hit of 5+ credits agiesnt the corp (sometimes a LOT more). This will keep the corp from rezzing too many ice that gets in their way. They will use tricks to Circumvent Ice such as Inside Job Letting the criminals get into servers where they normally wouldn't, Passing that mean Tollbooth for a mere event of 2 credits.

The Reds (Anarchists)

Anarchists are Archive/Trashing Focused

 "Im going to be the problem the CORP has to deal with, Not the other way around"

The reds are not good at targeting any particular server. They excel at going everywhere. They will install Medium Run the RND a few times wile its cheap perhaps using Knight on the one ice on that server. When RND is iced up and is now expensive to run that server. They will trash their program, install Nerve Agent and start running HQ. Using Imp / Parasite to deal with any particularly annoying ice. 

Onto corps---------

Neither Confirm Nor Deny (Hass Bioroid)

HB is a highly Secretive Corp that doesn't like showing what its got with Cards like Ash 2X3ZB9CY. They are mostly Asset money makers that excel at making taxing servers with the flagship ice Eli 1.0 to make trashing the Adonis Campaign cost 3 credits and 3 clicks (1 to run 2 for eli 3 to trash) wasting an entire turn to keep their money down. With Highly effective ice comes the downside of the runners some times dont have to dig for the ice breaker they need as they will just spend Clicks to get though the ice. HB takes advantage of this and starts scoring agendas with Biotic Labor wile the runner is busy wasting time.

Public Relations are handled by Lawyers (Weyland)

Weyland Is all about that money and they don't care how to get it. Hostile Takeover is a Prime example giving the corp a boost in credits when scoring this agenda rather then being behind. Their ice tend to be more hefty then other factions and uses the new found wealth with their signature card Scorched Earth Aiming to fix their runner problem and take out a few buildings with it. 

Knowledge is power, Data is money (NBN)

NBN is the Fastest of the 4 corporations using the massive draw power from Jackson Howard and scoring out their 7 points before the runner has time to even get a rig. the big name agenda AstroScript Pilot Program Witch allows the corp to score another 2/3 agenda out of hand for only 2 credits. The other aspect of NBN is about the traces trying to tag the runner using cards like Closed Accounts to slow the runner down.

Open doors hitting you on the way out (Jinteki)

Lots of Net damage, Jinteki has the most traps out of all the factions, letting the runner in for a cost Komainu, Won't stop you but accessing leads to cards such as Snare! that can trigger on RND accesses. With some of the most nasty sentries in the game you don't run without some kind of breaker for it let you die from net damage

So there is a lot to go though when it comes to particular decks. So Ill try to cover the most common decks you'll see in competitive play.

Andromeda: Dispossessed Ristie

Sucker Andy: Being set up fast lets Andy set up her Datasucker / Desperado / Security Testing to turn her early clicks on your archvies into money making machine. Getting 3 credits from the run from testing/desperado and Datasucker tokens letting cheap breakers get past expensive ice so she can Account siphon you. You'll commonly see R&D Interface  in this deck 

Stealth Andy: Much like Sucker andy but focuses on using Stealth breakers Switchblade / Refractor to make runs on zero credits most of the time.

Kate "Mac" McCaffrey: Digital Tinker

Atman Kate: is about using the Atman to make highly effeicent runs though breakers and Datasucker to help fix the strength of the ice to be the correct number. More set up time then sucker andy but much more effective when set up compleatly 

Prepaid Kate: You'll see this quite commonly where they focus on drawing all of their economy and using Prepaid VoicePAD to increase the ammount of credits they gain using it a lot like Underworld Contact. But digging though the deck so quickly with Quality time will lead to The Maker's Eye / Indexing runs faster then one would expect. Stay on your toes.

Reina Roja: Freedom Fighter

Deep Red Overmind: Not as common before it made a few plays. using Deep Red to make Rook and Knight highly effective and her ID + rook draining credits out of the corp and letting her in to RND with Medium. If any problems arised Overmind would get extra counters from Deep Red

Tag me: This is not uncommon for any annarcs but most people see it in Reina for the extra Economic strain. Joshua B. Data Leak Reversal, and more cards to force the corp spend time trashing these cheap Resources all wile Reina gets into servers unimpeaded

Noise: Hacker Extraordinaire

There are a few variations of the deck but the main focus is installing Viruses for cheap and each one installed is a Psudo "access RND for one card" by trashing it he can easily go into archives and pick them up or just mill the corp out compleatly

Chaos Theory: Wünderkind

Big Rig Events: This kind of deck tends to run 3 breakers and 30+ events with Oracle May Oracle may being the most effective click compression one can find turing one click into 2 credits and a draw. using Test Run to find Garrote , Torch , Corroder and then run where she needs to

Stimhack Workshop: this deck will draw fast doing its best to get out Personal Workshop putting all the hardware and programs onto it then Stimhack to use the credits from the event to install the stuff.

Corp ID's tend to be much more stright forward with what they are trying to do with slight variences

Jinteki: Personal Evolution : Will have very little ice in the deck and is more focused around tricking the runner and hiding agendas with Snare! to flatline the runner. Using Mushin No Shin to put out The Future Perfect, Ronin, Cerebral Overwriter, or sometimes even Psychic Field. (Run HQ and RND, its WAY safer)

Haas-Bioroid: Engineering the Future: This deck has many ways to go about it, but the bottom line is prepare for lots of ice, and not so much flatlineing. 

The first question to ask when your sitting at the netrunner table, full on clicks, is ok...

(Skip to the bottom for Quick guides and Tells)

What do I do this turn?

This is not an easy question to ask or answer. and depends on what side of the board your on. But lets roll back to the main objective on each side. The runner is about assessing the situation and making CHOICES. The corp is about giving the wrong assessment, hiding information, forcing runners into bad spots with hidden assets/agendas/ice. The runner is the hardest one (I think) to get a hold of learning the game so I'll start there with what I'll say are the 3 types of runner turns (first 2-3 turns excluded)

1) The Set-up

This is spending your clicks gaining your encomy, drawing cards, installing your rig. Criminals might have their set up be. Draw, draw, draw, Sure gamble. as a lot of Criminal cards are about thoes big name run events such as Inside Job, Legwork, The Maker's Eye, Account Siphon. If the runner doesn't see easy accesses (RND behind a popup window) this can go for 1-3 turns in a row if they see fit.

2) Big play

The big play is WAY more epic sounding then it really is. And this can come in a large Variety of ways. For example installing the Corroder from hand and now you can account siphon past that Wraparound laughing at you. For Shapers it's more likely Slapping down R&D Interface and running.

The reason why you commonly see "first click install second click run" in big plays is to prevent the corporation from defending the target you wish to hit. If I the corp see a gabe install a Corroder their last click, I'm going to trash Wraparound and put down a Rototurret on HQ to prevent any Account Siphon

3) The Juke

This kind of turn is MUCH less common and takes an inner working of the game to really nail it on the head. This is when you force the corporation too thin and hit multiple places in a turn. For this you have to have a keen eye on the corps credits. A common example of this is to run RND and see if the corp will rez any expensive ice (or not then you get cheap accesses) Now with the corp lower on credits, its harder for them to defend on an Inside job on the scoring remote server unable to rez enough ice to keep the runner out. The easiest way to ever make a "Juke" play is Forged Activation Orders and when you understand the concept does that card suddenly look better.

Why should I pick one of these three and not just "wing it?"

This is where the phrase "don't run last click" comes in. Truth be told you can very well run last click but you zero any options you COULD have. There are a lot of reasons not to run last click in order of importance.

1) YOU GOT TAGGED SUCKER 

When you run last click and you bump into a hunter/shadow/snare and you become tagged on your last click your now open to all kinds of punishment the corp can dish out from trashing that Katie with 9 credits on it. to straight up Losing the game with Scorched Earth Corp

2) You just took a Metric Butt Ton of net/brain/meat damage

Psychic Field. Komainu, Heimdall 2.0, Wall of Thorns, Snare! 

Now on your last click you have no opportunities to draw your hand back up and this makes you highly vaurnable to Neural EMP or Scorched Earth Where the corp would need 2 or 3 of the cards, you now are at so little hand size they can kill you outright.

3) that window is now closed

You just ran HQ last click just because it seemed open, and you doubt you could get into that scoring remote server with The Future Perfect. OH SNAP he Just rezzed a tollbooth, you can get into HQ sure, but now your window to Emergency Shutdown or run the remote server now that he has only 4 credits and cant rez anything scary is no longer an option.

You should try to use your last click for Econ cards if you dident need it during your turn, drawing to get your hand back up, Trashing assets that you needed to get rid of at some point. (out in the open)

THE CORP -------------------------------------------------------

The corp turn is much MUCH less involved in making choices like the runner will have to in the sense of "deal with the hand given" and the only big question the corp is asking is "What do I think the runner is going to try to do?" Each runner can attack any server she/he wants to but some runners are better at a particular spot mostly due to influence. Shapers have less access to HQ baised cards, Criminals have less access to RND. Annarchs specialize in "being a problem all around" They aren't as good in any particular server run but their job is good at being everywhere.

So when you sit down across of a shaper generally you wanna put your "good" ice over RND, and your "annoying" (I.E. Pup)  ice on HQ

Looking at the situation from the corp

A lot of times its easy to tell if the runner is going to do a Big play or a Set up turn. if a runner took a big hit from net/meat damage they are going to draw the next 3 clicks, or if they are at 3 credits they might spend the turn getting their economy up. If you see a Criminal Mr. Li for a turn straight, has plenty of money, they are setting up for a big run and that's when you install assets in server not agendas to bait out that big run at the wrong time.

There are a few tricks you can play on runners. but one part that seperates good players from Ok ones is using the information the runner has agiesnt him. a Runner runs RND sees the top card, continues his turn, I draw a PAD Campaign it was the card the runner saw, so I get some encon and then go "guess ill put that here" slide it down in a empty remote server. Runner pays no mind its a pad. BAM Braintrust 

Quick Reference guide

Runner - Start of turn

How many agendas statistically should he have in his hand?

Count agendas scored/lost/jacksoned (guess)

Count cards in in their hand

Does the corp have credits to stop what I wanna do, and how can do i assess the situation. (23 credits can drain faster then one would think)

think of the other ice in their deck and think of the WORST ice he can rez against you

Is accesing a central server worth my credits in accesses

Seeing one card is worth it if its close to free to run otherwise wait for mulit access

If they installed in a server, use this guide

What is the BEST agenda they could score, and how much will it bone me if it is.

Guess how much it'll cost to get in the server (see 2.1)

Is it worth draining their credits to make a Juke run on the remote server

ITS OK TO LET THEM SCORE A FEW POINTS

If you think its an NAPD. Let them have it (not all the time) letting them get 3-4 points is ok if you now have time to hit other servers harder/get set up

Corp - Start of turn

How much money will it cost to get into the server I want to protect the most. This is also to figure out if you can drain there credits enough

Can you protect it with credit you have on hand?

If I install / play everything what percentage of cards in my hand are agendas?

Are they preparing for a Big Play? What kind of Big play will they do? (Siphon, Keyhole, Parasite Makers, inside job)

Just gained a lot of credits

Drew a lot of cards

Check what they have used

WHAT DO THEY KNOW ABOUT MY DECK?!

if they know you have an Ash try installing an agenda FIRST just like you would Ash.

Do they think I'm going to scorch them or Fast advance ect ect

What am I going to do next turn

This is important because some times scoring an agenda the turn after will set you low enough on credits where you cant rez protection from that RND Keyhole dig they are about to smack on you

Tells

Every player is different and bluffs in different ways, Some pay zero for 

Caprice Nisei

 some pay 1. This is about the Obvious tells from every player (not 100%)

You're the runner

The corp Rezzed Jackson and drew a lot, discarding a few cards

The runner is looking for a particular card, Biotic labor, San San, Sea/Scorch. Use your knowledge to guess what he's looking for

The corp was flooded with agendas and is shuffling them back into his deck, 

The corp put a 2ed ice down on a remote server nothing in it

He is attempting to set up a scoring window, he most likely has agendas in his hand and is worth running (asses the situation)

He is just finding places to put ice so when he draws an agenda he can put it in that server and leave HQ unprotected. (you can figure this out if hes drawing a lot then installing to avoid discarding)

The corp just did Credit, Credit, Credit

He's in a bad spot and trying to stall the game till he can be in a better position (corps tend to do better late game) To avoid drawing and flood his hand with agendas he cannot score. (check hand and deck size counting cards)

You're the corp

The runner just Drew drew Drew ... (pauses) *anything* *discards*

The runner is in a bad spot looking for an answer he doesn't have and is trying to figure out if discarding more cards is worth it or not.

The pause is the fact that he didn't find it. you probably are safe for the moment.

"Draw Credit Credit Credit" 

Check their money, they might be clicking to have enough money to use a Sure gamble or some other econ card you have a good chances of a scoring window

If they are OK on money they are counting credits till their Big Play to install first click then run.

The runner has no breaker to break your rezzed ice, has been balanced between drawing installing and econ.

In Netrunner Tagging is an Odd subject that everyone is familiar with. Some decks try to actively tag you through the game, and some decks just try to tag you just once. *Cough SEA Scorched* The decks that tag you just once are considerably straight forward. Wait for money. Collect pieces, Murder.

Today I'm not talking about that kind of deck. I'm going to be talking about Hunter

Hunter is one of thoes strange cards that are pretty much NEVER included in any deck ever... EVER. its 100% of the time Data Raven if someone is making that kind of deck. And I DO NOT understand why. We'll get into that but first lets understand ... TRACE THREE

Trace 3 is a magic number in netrunner. assuming a runner with no link bumps into a hunter. with no other effects it effectively costs them the same credits to match the trace, as to not match the trace (ignoring click compression) they can spend either 3 credits now. or a click and 2 later. and click = credit so effectivly 3 credits later. For a one rez card this is HIGHLY effective when you just look at only that math. But this card gets WAY more complicated then that. And this is a card that depends on how effective the runner is.

A runner might not care about being tagged as they dont really have imporant resorces and suddenly hunter becomes a blank box.

A runner might have link and now hunter costs 2-0 credits to match the trace

So for hunter to be effective we have to be able to scare the runner into removing tags with cards like Psyographics, bad times, Scorch, closed accounts. 

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Ok so We are scaring them into removing tags. (assuming) but they'll just remove the tag after hunter and deal with it. 

Well that's the fun aspect about tags. Being tagged during their turn puts the runner on a clock. All the things they wanted to do this run now have a MUCH narrower window (and even more so if False Lead involved) Where they might want to inside job or Emergency shutdown, they'll run out of Clicks to remove the tag and have to deal with the punishment. 

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So... Why do people take Data Raven? Well the idea is that there is no way around taking the tag. you HAVE to take the tag to get into the server... Well... no the other option is to just.... Not take the tag, and walk away. Decks that advidly punish using tags might as well take data raven and just make it a ice wall. Thats what it does, it stops people. I follow the mindset of Jinteki when I compare Data Raven to hunter. Let them in and kick them on the way back out. Hunter does not give the runner the OPTION. 

I had recently come accross a card that just Blew my mind. I thought to myself holy! WHY is this card not 5$?! it was 75cents at my local shop and for that I will not stand for it! This card can go in pretty much every deck KNOWN TO MAN and get a HUGE amount of mileage out of it.

Its specifically good with every card in standard that costs more then about 5$ with the exceptions of planes walkers. I know the standard is Super fast red kill kill kill and dont have the spare mana. but I think people will be pleasantly surprised by what they can get out of this card

Conspiracy is a fun interesting with a lot of promise and shenanigans that you can do!

Sadly although it seems like a fun exciting card when you break it down in application building a deck around this card is EXTREMELY hard for two main reasons

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First things first, I build Budget decks, and when I say Budget, I don't mean under 50$ I mean 15$ MAX (I average about 12$ a deck) Magic is about wasting time as a hobby, If I dump money into the game to increase my chances of winning then I don't really enjoy myself. 

As a Hipster I like to make the Neglected shine and on that note

When most people think of draw cards the first thing to come to mind is Blue. although this is true, a SUPER close runner up is Black, but when black draws its generally cheaper and at the cost of something, Life, Graveyard, your draw step, land, And in this case. your creature.

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The game is getting harder and more fun all at once, I just reached a super fun level where I had to go collect Power cores (batteries) in a level with super low gravity, I used the gravity booster to launch myself around the level bouncing around using any sides of objects i could where i had to attempt to outrun swarms of enimes wile shooting at them at the same time

This game is short enough where multiple posts are not required, Aslo theres not much new stuff from level to level. 

Your a Taxi Driver when the apocalypse happens. Your an AWESOME Taxi Driver who knows how to take out zombies with style, and have no clue about the city. Your job is mostly to go save people around the city and the more zombies you take out along the way gives you money, Heres a quick image of what it looks like to help you get an idea

This game is surprisingly fun. the longer you play the better you get at it and start doing maneuvers that make you giggle on the inside. As you progress though the story, you can upgrade your car to be better at ramming, speed, and overall armor. You pick up different cars along the way, from Buses to sports cars you pick the right car for the job (I mostly stuck with the police car) You aslo pick up weapons and weapon upgrades. Machine gun, Flame thrower, Rail gun, nitro ect. This helps you plow though enimes when you get bogged down by to many zombies (running them over slows you down)

My ONE downside to the game is with the super overhead camera and no mini map, you will find yourself constantly running into dead ends because you a taxi driver don't know the city. and considering there are bridges in the game. you will find yourself trying to dive into the river because that's where the marker is telling you to go, then have to back track to find the bridge... FIND THE BRIDGE

Story

The story is simple. As you start picking people up, they "hint" (blatantly tell you) That the government doesn't care about saving anyone and its a big conspiracy for something. Fact of the matter is, your too busy side swiping zombies and shooting rockets at the same time to really care. You cant do anything about it your job is to save people not stop the government from not saving the people your already and currently saving

The ending (ya knowing spoilers makes story better so keep reading) is actually kinda cute. You end up saving a vet and her experiment at one point and mentions that it attacked you. in the last few levels people start to mention you "don't look so good" The title of the game is quite litieral. at the end your a Zombie Driver.

You found friends! They are not all dead! Hooray!

This game is starting to get more and more hetic, enimes have shown up with super natural powers like flight, teleportation, and head lasers. and with these new fights you have to start using the terrain more then anything diving behind corners, launching yourself up and over hills to avoid the guy about to shoot all the bullets its absorbed into his face. its emphasizing the overall theam of the game that its more about movement then shooting.

The story line is starting to get more about you being the hero in your group of scientists

This was the level you had to go find the super beings who could create a black like hole, absorb all of your shots, then toss them back at you.

You have found a broken communications aray and your job is to kill everyone that could harm your teammates, its 4 large warriors who have a spear head the size of your entire body, can teleport, and shoots a long laser if you stay out of range of him too long. The game is starting to get a wee bit more intense and I like every bit of it

One large problem im noticing with the game. is the fact that a lot of times they dont really tell you how some things work, or how to destory an idol. I end up spending a crap ton of time dieing to things I shouldent be. One part is a tunnel that shoots arrow darts at you and theres no way to stop it. --- Untill you figure out the stupid alt fire of the flame thrower can repel projectiles.... or trying to figure out how to break an idol that you cant shoot

So the missions start to varies from "start -- > end" keeping it from being just a shoot everything Action. one thing I'm going to mention is the "Feel" of this game. Everything seems to be on par... The world fits, the action is smooth, and the story doesn't suck

--The Word Fits--

All the alians you fight either Tribal or monsters are obviously fair weaker then your gun toting future laser cannons but you are one and they are many. they are adapted to their world and your a stranger to it. This is super conveyed by the world itself, lets take a look

There are two monsters in this screen shot, one to the right and one directly under me. the one to the right is a tribal and him being a heavy one shoots some kind of green matter (feels like bio matter) the one under is a feral creature who stays low and moves fast. he BLENDS with the surrondings and a lot of the times, you will easily lose track of him in the chaos of doging bullets and being knocked around. they put some MASSIVE thought into this and i appreciate it

--The action is Smooth--

When your dodging cannon fire, and trying to avoid mosters from grabbing onto you. you will get bounced around a lot in this low gravity planet. But everything is predictable and you have a LOT of air control. so Despite being thrown around, a lot of the time you use that to your advantage. They give you a Energy shot thats free and point blank that will launch projectiles or yourself. I tend to use it to Throw myself around the map in long leaps wile shooting at the enimes

--The story doesn't suck--

Here is a story with no words. and is one of the best conveyed.at;around mission 3. you have to find one of the crew members. hes the only one you been tracking as he left a message and you know he was taken underground. you shoot up the level killing monsters left and right to come to this

"You are trapped on a planet that hates you, Your alone and there is no help" This is the kind of artwork that I truly enjoy as you put your own wording into it. Quickly in the next level it gives you a goal and something to work for. you know what your character is doing, and WHY