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Netrunner Introduction Tournament
Android:Netrunner is an LCG (living card game) by FFG, set in a cyberpunk theme. It's an assymmetric two player game where a hacker (the runner) tries to outsmart a big business (the corp) and get away with their dirty plans, while the corp tries to keep the runner out and carry out said plans. Both sides build decks for this, but moreso than magic there's also deception going on. The assymmetry goes further than having an attacker and a defender, corp also gets to lay traps, keep information about his deck hidden, while the runner can target the corps pile, discard pile, or even hand for attacks to see what's what.
As it is, there's a nice community online and there's even a free browser implemented version of the game where they come together. A couple of us already play there. Apart from the rules, which are unreadable and makes the game seem way more complex than it is, the barrier for entry to this game is as low as it's ever been. The online version keeps track of most stuff for you, and after a single game you'll understand what the rules were unsuccesfully trying to explain to you. Not saying you shouldn't read the rules, but one readthrough is probably enough, then you should try it
Now the cardpool has grown over time, and although it's not as bad as it looks on first sight, I get it could be intimidating. It's not as bad as it looks, because runner and corp cards are subdivided into factions. When building a deck, you'll largely use neutral and cards from the faction you chose. There are 4 types of corp, and 3 types of runner, so in every case you'll be looking at less than half of the card pool when you've found a runner or corp you want to play with. But this being a beginner tournament, it's best to be conservative, and play only with cards from the core set and the first 6 data packs (boosters). Core set only is a bit of a limited experience, the first cycle was designed together and while the meta changed, the game didn't after that.
Now if I've interested you, but you want to look at cards and or other info before you dive in, there's some links that could help you. For one, I do not advise using the jinteki.net deckbuilder. Cardgamedb's or netrunnerdb's have neat search functions which also with a couple of clicks let you limit it to the core set/first cycle, and they count the cards for you. After that, all that's needed to be done is to get the text-list of cards from them, and copy that into jinteki's deckbuilder. Netrunnerdb also has peoples opinions about individual cards, but the decks it shows are all for the full cardpool. For older examples of decks, stimhack.com kept track of tournament winning games, and otherwise this site features as the community hub anyway. The link you probably won't need initially, but should you ever be unable to figure out a certain cards interaction, is project ancur's which keeps card clarifications and rules.
So I wondered, if this was maybe something for you guys in mishmash. Maybe you've heard of the game, never tried it, or maybe it just sounds cool now. Then this is the opportunity to learn an amazing new game with friends! Catch me in sitechat if there's anything you want to ask!
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Tournament wise I kept options open till I had a clue how many people we had. If it stays at 4 round robin is probably sensible, everybody gets 3 matches. With more people that probably means too many games.
Deck wise, core+genesis (what lies ahead, trace amount, cyber exodus, a study in static, humanity's shadow, future proof) should be managable, the packs are small and tend to give 1-2 cards per faction (but some of those are agendas and give you the ability to actually do a little bit of deckbuilding).Surrender, imagine and of course wear something nice.- Zorblag
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*nods* So for now, in Troll's "spare time" *chuckles* Troll should start putting together both a corp deck and a runner deck?
Troll just no be sure what matches look like in a tournament like this. Best of three with each pairing for both sides, playing for best overall corp and runner records separately, or what? There probably be more elegant ways to go about it but Troll has thought about it before now from a tournament perspective.
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oh, sorry, I should have been more clear. I'd plan to have a match be both sides. In official tournaments nowadays they play one side against one opponent, the other against the next opponent etc, but that seems boring. The older systems had matches of two games (one each) and then had to figure out a tiebreaker if it was a knockout game. If we have a group phase of sorts, we can do away with all that and just have some fun games on either side, where a win is a win and it gets a point.
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It might work
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In post 10, Elekitu wrote:Myko is holding my family hostage"Some things are hard to understand, like jellyfish. Do you understand jellyfish? People are like jellyfish for me : I don't understand"~ Rin Tezuka, Katawa Shoujo
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btw, I'd take the cardgamedb deckbuilder. There's a recent change in the current meta where the NBN agenda "astroscript pilot program" has been limited to one copy. Netrunnerdb enforces this, even for casual formats. And in this format, NBN becomes challenging, I suspect, without it's main agenda in that time. 3 copies of it are allowed.Surrender, imagine and of course wear something nice.- mykonian
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also with 6+ people, group is probably too much, and swiss is probably better. Magic tournaments tended to have issues as well with people staying interested etc, so 3 full matches is probably plenty.
There is the issue that as this is a beginner tournament, it's probably better to let people bring whatever deck they want to every match, and not go for the competative integrity of forcing decklists. That way people get to update their deck if it got exposed badly and won't be stuck with their initially thrown together list. But maybe you guys disagree?Surrender, imagine and of course wear something nice.- Killthestory
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Troll be glad to see that others be in.
Troll will plan on sticking with the decks Troll throws together initially, but Troll has no problem if others want to change between matches. Troll wants to give whatever decks Troll comes up with a couple tries to see how them go and 3 matches seems like a good test run.
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ok, lovely!
We have a solid group now, I'd like to start the tournament on monday, so you can get your decks ready over the weekend. Don't hesitate to ask rules or other questions via sitechat if you catch me there, to some fellow helpful scummers..Surrender, imagine and of course wear something nice.- Luna Fox
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OK, tried a corp deck in the browser and both learned how it works (more or less, some parts are still confusing,) and got destroyed because somehow not all the players be just using cards up through the Genesis cycle.
Will we have moderators for the matches? That seems like a good idea to Troll given that first game.
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