Android netrunner revised core set

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Announcing a Revised Core Set for Android: Netrunner The Card Game

It is the future. The world has changed. Crime has not.

Welcome to the not-too-distant future of the Android universe. Your ticket? The Revised Core Set for Android: Netrunner The Card Game!

Do you already play Android: Netrunner?

Click here to learn what the Revised Core Set means for rotation and tournament play.

With more than 240 cards, the Android: Netrunner Revised Core Set transports you to an age of sprawling megacities. Here, artificially intelligent bioroids and genetically modified clones work alongside cyborgs, g-modded humans, and naturals. Hoppers pass overhead in their skylanes, and in New Angeles, a Space Elevator most commonly known as the «Beanstalk» dwarfs neighboring arcologies and skyscrapers as it reaches beyond the Earth’s atmosphere and gravity to serve as a low-cost launch for near-space travel.

This is a future in which humanity has colonized the moon and Mars. Gone are the days of the mouse and the keyboard. Most users transfer data via gestural interfaces and virtual displays, but the elite take advantage of the advances in human-machine brain interfaces to «jack in,» connecting their brains directly to their computers, and beyond them, the omnipresent network.

Everyone relies on the network, the all-seeing, all-hearing grid that surrounds Earth and reaches out into the solar system. More data flows through the network every second than was ever expressed in the first five-thousand years of written language. It is a surveillance network, a financial system, and a library. It is the backbone of modern civilization. And it is a battlefield—the scene of countless struggles between the megacorps that want to conceal and secure their agendas and the talented hackers, known as «runners,» capable of breaking, bending, bamboozling, and otherwise bypassing those defenses and stealing those corporate secrets.

Soon, if you have never played Android: Netrunner, the Revised Core Set will offer you the chance to boot up and jack into the greatest game of high-stakes cybercrime the world has ever seen. If you have played, you will find that the Revised Core Set sets a new standard, pushing the game into the future—adjusting the base card pool, altering the battlefield, and aging your favorite characters.

Classic Cyberstruggles—Evolved

The classic Living Card Game® of asymmetrical bluffs, counterbluffs, and economic struggles, Android: Netrunner pits two players against each other in a tense, cat-and-mouse duel for the control of valuable data.

One assumes command of a vast, monolithic megacorporation and its nearly limitless resources while the other steps into the shoes of a talented cybercriminal—known as a «runner»—who hopes to bypass the corp’s defenses and unlock its secrets. In both cases, the goal is to score seven points. The corp scores points by advancing and scoring its agendas. The runner scores points by stealing the corp’s agendas.

But while your goals are clear, your path to victory is shrouded in mystery. Much of the game revolves around the use of hidden information.

If I have the classic Core Set, do I need the Revised Core Set?

The Revised Core Set establishes the new baseline for Android: Netrunner, but it does not introduce any new cards to the game.

Players who already own the Core Set, along with the Data Packs from the Genesis Cycle and Spin Cycle will already own all the cards from the Revised Core Set. The card art and card quantities in the Revised Core Set, however, vary in places from those in the classic Core Set and Data Packs.

The corp plays—or «installs»—its cards facedown, only to «rez» them as the runner crashes into them headlong. These may be the agendas the runner wishes to steal, or they could be the layers of ice with which the corp intends to protect its servers—powerful defensive programs that might end the runner’s attempts at infiltration, tax the runner’s resources, or deal lethal (and illicit) damage. The corp can also build its servers around cards other than agendas, using them to secure valuable assets or to bait runners into damaging traps.

The runner, meanwhile, is always threatening. No server is ever one-hundred percent safe. Even a corporation that protects its HQ with several layers of the world’s most advanced ice may find itself vulnerable to hacks the runner routes through its Archives. As the Corp player, you can only do your best to defend your servers against the programs you can see and the programs and events you think the Runner can play with his or her limited credits. As the Runner, you’ll want to prey upon the Corp’s fears, tempting them to pay for defenses you’ll later ignore or bypass with ease. You’ll need to decide how much early risk you’ll assume in order to gain critical advantages later in the game.

Running against the Corp’s remote server leaves the Runner vulnerable to two of the Corp’s facedown cards—the layer of ice and the card installed in the server. The gambit could pay off, and the Runner could score valuable agenda points. Or it could backfire, leaving the Runner tagged, injured, or even flatlined.

Naturally, as your struggles are so highly influenced by the cards your opponent plays, has played, or could play, the pool of available cards makes a tremendous impact. And, here, the Revised Core Set sets the tone with a collection of 247 player cards, 133 Corp cards, and 114 Runner cards.

These card pools are further divided among the game’s seven standard factions, each of which brings its own style, strengths, and weaknesses to the table.

Corporations

Amid the future’s breath-taking developments, four giant corporations tower above the rest as paragons of industry.

• Haas-Bioroid leads the work replacement revolution with its bioroids, humanoid machines possessing artificially intelligent minds developed from careful braintaping.
• Jinteki is their main rival in the labor solutions market. Jinteki excel at producing genetically-engineered clones, some of which are even capable of working in the vacuum at the top of the Beanstalk.
• NBN owns what you think and dream with the largest and most pervasive media network ever conceived by man streaming everything from music to threedee, news to sitcoms, and classic movies to sensies.
• The Weyland Consortium has expanded since its construction of the space elevator; the Consortium now leads the way in construction of cutting edge facilities on Earth, the Moon, and Mars.

Runners

While the corps are identified by their achievements and ambitions, the game’s runners are identified by their motives. They don’t build up. They tear open. But they don’t all run for the same reasons.

• Anarchs like Reina Roja are inspired by their hatred for corporate corruption. Some might say they champion the oppressed and the downtrodden, but they’re just as likely motivated by the pleasures of ripping apart corporate lies and spreading their viruses to hinder the corporate machine.
• Criminals like Gabriel Santiago are in it for the credits. They get paid for the secrets they uncover. Consummate professionals, these runners believe in taking as few risks as possible, and never the ones they consider unnecessary.
• Shapers like Chaos Theory are considered idealistic naifs by many. They’re not in the business to tear down corporations nor for personal gain. They run because they can. There are freedoms they enjoy on the net that they can’t find elsewhere, and they may take joy runs simply to see what they can do with new combinations of hardware and software. Their tech is almost always among the most modded and sophisticated in use.

Our upcoming previews will provide you more information about these factions, their strengths and weaknesses, the ways they interact with the other factions, and the design choices guiding their Revised Core Set card pools.

Break the Ice

The different factions and asymmetrical game play of Android: Netrunner create entirely different experiences for corporations and runners, and from faction to faction, but in all cases, you gain an unprecedented amount of control over the flow of the game. Tension builds immediately from the very outset as you and your opponent maneuver through your turns. And the deeper you dig, the more you’ll find your bluffs, calculated risks, and assumed losses all coming to bear.

In the future of the Android universe, megacorps and runners vie for control of reality. You’ll soon have your chance to make a difference. The time is coming to boot up and run. The time is coming to break the ice.

The Revised Core Set (ADN49) is your ticket to the world of Android: Netrunner and its high-stakes cybercrime. Head to your local retailer to pre-order your copy, or click here to pre-order your copy from our webstore!

Based on the classic card game designed by Richard Garfield, Android: Netrunner The Card Game is a game for two players set in the dystopian future of Android. It pits monolithic megacorps against subversive netrunners in a high-stakes struggle for the control of valuable data.

Netrunner is a TM of R. Talsorian Games, Inc. Android is TM & ©2018 Fantasy Flight Games. All rights reserved. Netrunner is licensed by Wizards of the Coast LLC. ©2018 Wizards.

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Android netrunner revised core set

Learning Netrunner is a series of tutorial videos and blogs designed to teach the Android: Netrunner Living Card Game. Get ready to explore a vibrant sci-fi universe and engage with what may be the best game mechanics ever created.

As of 06/08/18, the end of official support for Netrunner has been announced.

Before we jack into the net, a few important points:

1. Android: Netrunner is a living card game (LCG). This means that a) the game is played using cards and b) new cards are consistently released over time.

2. Every living card game starts with what is called a Core Set – and in the case of Netrunner, a Revised Core Set. The original Netrunner Core Set was released in 2012, and then updated in 2017. When it was updated, it was renamed to the Revised Core Set. Anyone interested in playing Android: Netrunner will need at least one Revised Core Set, as it contains the cards, rulebook, tokens, and components needed for the game to function. Buying a Revised Core Set is like buying a traditional board game – you can open it, learn the rules, and play it for as long as you would like.

3. A Netrunner Revised Core Set contains 247 cards to be used during the game, split among 8 factions. Many of these cards only have a single copy included in the Revised Core Set. When building a deck of cards for the game, you can include a maximum of three copies of any card. Therefore, many players buy three Revised Core Sets in order to get three copies of every card.

4. Living card games are “living” because they slowly expand over time. For Netrunner, this is primarily achieved through Data Pack expansions. These packs generally release once a month, and contain three copies of twenty new cards (with each faction getting 1-3 new cards). The contents of these packs are fixed, with no randomness or rarity involved (anyone who buys the Sovereign Sight Data Pack, from now until the end of time, will get the exact same cards) . Players of a living card game typically buy a single copy of the new pack every month.

5. Data Packs are conceptually bundled into “cycles” of six packs. A cycle explores a particular theme in the game and fleshes out various new concepts. So Data Pack #1 through Data Pack #6 will be the first cycle. Data Pack #7 through Data Pack #12 will be the second cycle. Data Pack #13 through Data Pack #18 will be the third cycle, and so on. Packs of the same cycle have matching color schemes that make them easy to recognize (the first cycle might have red packaging, second cycle blue packaging, etc).

6. In addition to monthly Data Packs, living cards games occasionally release bigger expansions often referred to as Deluxe Expansions (we also call them Box Expansions). These Deluxe Expansions generally contain three copies of sixty new cards, with a self-contained theme. Think of each Deluxe Expansion as a bundle of three Data Packs released all at once.

7. If you intend to fully collect Android: Netrunner (getting all possible cards for maximum deckbuilding options), you should plan to purchase a Data Pack ($14.97) every month and a Deluxe Expansion ($29.97) once or twice a year. If it sounds annoying to pay attention to every new release and purchase packs every month, we created a subscription service to solve this problem. You sign up and enter your payment information, and then we charge you for every new Netrunner release and send it right to your door. You can find out more about subscriptions right now, or come back to it after learning the game!

8. If you decide to start playing Android: Netrunner, you will notice that there is a catalog of past Data Packs and Deluxe Expansions for the game. Netrunner uses a rotation system to keep the card pool limited, which means that as new expansions come out, older expansions are discontinued and no longer legal for official play. Before you buy products beyond the Revised Core Set, read up on how rotation works. If you want to buy all legal Netrunner expansions and have all possible cards at any given time, the total cost is around $500; but this is rarely done. Instead, most players will build a few decks with the Revised Core Set and then slowly buy expansions to make them better.

We created a solid deck for every faction that can be built from one Revised Core Set, one Deluxe Expansion, and one Data Pack – so you can choose your favorite deck and enter the fray for around $80. Those decklists are included in the faction-specific blogs below!

Though it may sound a bit complicated, a living card game is basically just a board game with a mini expansion every month and a big expansion a few times a year. You can collect the game as seriously or casually as you like.

With the fundamentals covered, the next logical step is to actually learn how to play the game! We created a pretty extensive tutorial for the game that covers the basics of play and includes a full gameplay walkthrough. It is rather difficult to capture the magic of playing Netrunner through a video like this, so we encourage you to watch a few of our additional gameplay videos after watching the tutorial. Each video explores a different faction and exhibits various styles of play.

Both of the decks we used in the above video were built from a single Revised Core Set. If you are already convinced that you would like to give Netrunner a shot, hop over to our store or click below to buy a Revised Core Set (or three)!

Once you have the cards from your Core Set(s) on the table and organized, it can be overwhelming and confusing to make a deck for the game. While deck customization is one of our favorite aspects of a living card game, it is undoubtedly the biggest barrier for new players. Before you throw your hands up, check out our Core Set Deck Building Guide! This video will give you a quick, foolproof method for building your first deck – regardless of your faction.

Of course, deck building is much more complex than what we present here, and the depth of a card game is found in the myriad options available for expressing your desired strategies and tactics. If you are interested in diving into a more developed deck, check out the linked blogs below. Each one features more intricate strategies, general tactics when using the deck, and a video in which we use the deck in a real game.

If you want to take your decks even further, we also have an Advanced Deck Building Guide that you can watch below. We go over higher level concepts that are helpful as you actually begin creating powerful decks for Android: Netrunner.

We truly hope you will join us on your journey through Android: Netrunner, and start playing the game with friends or at your local game store. Be sure to read through everything and watch the videos in order – Netrunner is a pretty unique card game, and it can take a few interactions with it before things make sense. Once it clicks though, life will never be the same.

If you have any questions, please comment below and we will be happy to help as best we can.

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