2.1: A Netrunner Reboot Project Podcast

Episode 114: I Am All

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:00:00 CST

After taking a look at the pros and cons of running R&D a lot, we'll dig into the archives for the fourth part of Elusive's series on The Skills of Netrunner, this time focusing on deliberate improvement of your play. We'll also crack open our first Runner preconstructed deck -- MOpus Kit -- and see what makes it tick. Presented in four segments:

Title card: Rielle "Kit" Peddler
1:35 Anonymous Tip: Running R&D
Armitage Codebusting | Kati Jones
7:40 Archived Memories: Sharpening Your Sword
26:35 Same Old Thing: MOpus Kit
Recommended Teaching/Learning Decks, blogpost by TheBigBoy
57:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Mars, part 5
Mars (outside), by Julian Kak

Reboot Project home page
A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point
A collection of information about the preconstructed decks
Reboot Project Discord server
Play online: Reteki.fun
Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman
Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com
Episode transcript
Concise show notes
2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread
2.1 focused Stimhack thread
Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

Episode 113: RooBoom

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:00:00 CST

Runners received 16 new cards in the second Reboot booster: Mind and Mayhem. Of these, 11 are original to the Reboot Project ... and many of these land in the Anarch faction, which receives the spotlight in this pack by gaining a new identity and other tools. But all the other factions (even the minifactions) also get some brand new tools. Presented in seven segments:

Reboot Project home page
A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point
Reboot Project Discord server
Play online: Reteki.fun
Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman
Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com
Episode transcript
Concise show notes
2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread
2.1 focused Stimhack thread
Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

Episode 112: Reality Reimagined

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:00:00 CST

This episode is the first of two covering the second 30-card booster for the Reboot Project: Mind and Mayhem. Unlike the first booster, which was balanced across factions, this one focuses more heavily (though not completely) on one faction for each side. For the Corps, that faction is Haas-Bioroid, which gets eight cards added to its pool, while the other three factions only get two each. In amongst these 14 cards are 9 Reboot originals, which we will cover in full-depth. Presented in seven segments:

Title card: Echo Memvaults
1:20 Feedback Filter: TheBigBoy's comments on a couple of decks
HB Fast Advance preconstructed deck
Mindless Mind (original | my Reboot Worlds version)
6:10 Celebrity Gift: Mind and Mayhem, Corp side
Buffed imports: O₂ Shortage | Armed Intimidation
Unchanged imports: Magnet | Lateral Growth | Amani Senai>
Haas-Bioroid originals: Echo Memvaults: Reality Reimagined | Nostgiologists | Microtransactions | Nootropics Campaign | Vulcan 1.0 / Mind Maze
Jinteki originals: Caterpillar / Monarch | Thicket
NBN original: Talent Scout / Red Carpet
Weyland original: Foxtrot / Blockade
17:15 Matrix Analyzer: Buffs to Armed Intimidation and O₂ Shortage
Armed Intimidation: Oaktown Renovation | Argus Security | Posted Bounty
O₂ Shortage: "Allow Me to Break the Ice", article by SimonMoon
Biotic Labor
"the best deck using O₂ Shortage", by TheBigBoy
Diana's Hunt | Aumakua
BP Redgun, deck by Woody23
34:25 Server Diagnostics: Magnet and other new ice options in Mind and Mayhem
50:15 Restructure: Lateral Growth and three other new economy options in Mind and Mayhem
Nostalgiologists: Corporate War
57:35 NEXT Level Clearance: Original Corp cards in Mind and Mayhem
Nostalgiologists: Project Vitruvius | Geothermal Fracking
Nootropics Campaign: NBN: The World is Yours | Spark Agency
Research Station | Cybernetics Court | Executive Boot Camp
Cerebral Imaging
Echo Memvaults: Shipment from MirrorMorph | Sentinel Defense Program | Accelerated Diagnostics | Shipment from SanSan | Shipment from Kaguya
An Offer You Can't Refuse
Self-Destruct Chips
Housekeeping
Thicket: Eli 1.0 | Himitsu-Bako
Talent Scount / Red Carpet: TGTBT | Enigma | Hourglass | Midseason Replacements
Foxtrot / Blockade: Morning Star
98:25 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Mars, part 3
Tianbian, by Emilio Rodriguez
Mars, by Sarah Webb and Kirsten Zirngibl

Episode 111: Panic Is Expensive

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 06:00:00 CST

Rather than shoehorn all of this timely news and information into another episode, we're putting it out in a shorter one. We'll cover the spoilers for the brand-new booster pack -- New Normal -- as well as the latest patch notes (all buffs this time). Finally, we'll wrap up with a winter Worlds report, including a writeup of my own middle-performing Cybernetics Division deck. Presented in three segments:

Title card: Calling Card
1:45 Precognition: New Normal and patch notes
New Normal: Lab Rat | Calling Card | By Popular Demand | Cerevue Campaign | Zero-waste AgRefineries | Doublespeak | Bowstring | Crunch Time
Patch notes: Caterpillar | P4inappl3 | Glee | Dark Pool | Hype | Communalink Rollout | Project Genesis | Kaede Ueno
15:15 Experiential Data: Reboot Winter Worlds 2025
Gob Lynn Mode's stream | Manta's stream
2025 Reboot Winter Worlds decks
my Cybernetics Division deck
30:15 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Mars, part 2
Reboot Project Discord server
Play online: Reteki.fun
Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman
Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com
Episode transcript
Concise show notes
2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread
2.1 focused Stimhack thread
Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

Episode 110: The Thickest Knots

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:00:00 CST

After reviewing a conversation that lays the groundwork for our analysis of the preconstructed decks, we'll examine one of those decks -- HB Fast Advance -- in depth. We'll also dig into the archives for the third part of Elusive's series on The Skills of Netrunner, focusing on the different types of decks. Presented in four segments:

Title card: Gordian Blade
3:00 Anonymous Tip: Improving at the game
22:30 Archived Memories: Choosing Your Sword
53:10 Dedicated Technician Team: HB Fast Advance
Recommended Teaching/Learning Decks, blogpost by TheBigBoy
88:55 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Mars, part 1

Episode 109: Stronger Under Pressure

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:00:00 CST

As was true for the Runners, the Corps each received two original cards in Reflections -- the first booster for the Reboot Project. We'll cover each of those cards in depth, along with analyzing the eight cards that were imported from the latter half of the FFG cardpool, closing with a card that was and then was not... Presented in nine segments:

Title card: Kwolek
3:00 Anonymous Tip: The Corp ice suite
6:00 Celebrity Gift: Reflections, Corp side
Nerfed imports: Ikawah Project | Exchange of Information | Commercial Bankers Group | IPO
Buffed imports: Political Dealings | Ben Musashi | Fly on the Wall
Unchanged import: Ravana 1.0>
Haas-Bioroid originals: NEXT Level Clearance | Waldemar 1.0
Jinteki originals: Thistle | Anglerfish
NBN originals: Snickerdoodle
Kampala City Grid
Weyland originals: Bouncer | Kwolek
19:15 The Source: Nerfs to Ikawah Project, Exchange of Information, Commercial Bankers Group, and IPO
- Exchange of Information: Breaking News
Commercial Bankers Group: Gagarin Deep Space
IPO: Hedge Fund | Restructure
26:00 Matrix Analyzer: Buffs to Political Dealings, Fly on the Wall, and Ben Musashi
Political Dealings: Industrial Genomics || Global Food Initiative | The Future Perfect | Fetal AI
Fly on the Wall: Butcher Shop v4, deck by jakodrako
Ben Musashi: Hokusai Grid
35:15 Server Diagnostics: Ravana 1.0 and other new ice options in Reflections
51:45 Restructure: Commercial Bankers Group, Snickerdoodle, and IPO
Snickerdoodle: Special Offer
57:40 NEXT Level Clearance: Original Corp cards in Reflections
NEXT Level Clearance: MCA Austerity Policy | Caprice Nisei | Aggressive Secretary
Waldemar 1.0: Haas-Bioroid: Stronger Together | NEXT Design | The Foundry
Thistle: Turtlebacks
Anglerfish: Trick of Light | Satellite Grid | Kakugo | Feedback Filter | Obokata Protocol
Bouncer: Self-modifying Code | Heimdall 2.0 | Enigma
Kwolek: Atman | Inti
93:45 Ghost Branch: Shipment from Tennin
98:50 AstroScript Pilot Program: Partial flavor inserts from revised core set and Reign and Reverie

Episode 108: Check Out My New Ride

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:00:00 CST

Having reached the end of the primary portion of the Fantasy Flight cardpool, we now accelerate closer to the present to start looking at the booster packs for the Reboot Project. The first one, Reflections, brings in eight Runner cards from the latter half of the FFG cardpool ... and also adds in 6 original Runner designs that are exclusive to Reboot. We'll delve into all of that in this oversized episode. Presented in eight segments:

Title card: Sports Hopper
2:45 Memstrips: Early history of the Reboot Project
Reboot Project master spreadsheet
17:35 Satellite Uplink: Reflections, Runner side
Nerfed import: Crowdfunding
Buffed imports: Bhagat | Akiko Nisei: Head Case | Build Script | Sports Hopper
Unchanged imports: High-Stakes Job | Nyashia | Psych Mike>
Anarch originals: Molotov / Blaze | Human Rights Riot
Criminal originals: On the Trail / Moment of Truth | Sniper
Shaper originals: Connect the Dots
Subsidized Processor / Borrowed Storage
51:20 The Source: Nerf to Crowdfunding
Magnum Opus cards
58:10 Quest Completed: Buffs to Build Script and Sports Hopper
Build Script: Easy Mark | Process Automation | Diesel
Sports Hopper: Plascrete Carapace | Deus X
72:00 Sharpshooter: Sniper
76:45 Lucky Find: Crowdfunding, Build Script, and On the Trail
Crowdfunding: Daily Casts
Build Script: Green Level Clearance | Sure Gamble
85:25 Connect the Dots: Original Runner cards in Reflections
Molotov / Blaze: Datasucker
Subsidized Processor / Borrowed Storage: The Professor
Human Rights Riot: Gang Sign | Imp
Sniper: Ken Tenma | Ninja
Connect the Dots: R&D Interface | The Maker's Eye
105:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Luna, pt. 7
Alix T4LBO7, by Diana Martinez
Docklands, by Camille Kuo

Episode 107: What Did You See?

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:00:00 CST

Data and Destiny concludes the Reboot Project portion of the FFG cardpool. Before moving forward in the podcast, we take a walk down memory lane. In this episode: an overview of the remainder of the cardpool, its competitive scene, and the eventual demise of the game -- including multiple perspectives on why a seemingly-successful game was ultimately allowed to end. Presented in one big segment:

Title card: Psych Mike
2:55 Overview of the second half of FFG's cardpool
Kala Ghoda announcement | Cards of Mumbad Cycle
23 Seconds announcement | Cards of Flashpoint Cycle
Cards of Red Sand Cycle
Terminal Directive announcement | Cards of Terminal Directive campaign expansion
Cards of Revised Core Set
Cards of Kitara Cycle
Cards of Reign and Reverie deluxe expansion
Cards from Magnum Opus
25:30 History of Competitive Netrunner (2015-2017), article by Cry of Frustration
ANR History of Archetypes
44:40 Stimhack forum thread: How FFG killed the Netrunner playerbase
54:15 History of Competitive Netrunner (continued, 2017-2018)
61:25 Jacking Out: Announcing the End of Android: Netrunner, news article from FFG
69:10 What is a different perspective to "the agem went downhill after Lukas left"?, Reddit thread
89:10 Damon Stone's comments and insights from Reddit thread

Episode 106: Nothing Comes Out

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:00:00 CDT

As has become tradition of late, we'll take a look at a deck for each of the new identities that arrived for the Runners in Data and Destiny. In two of the cases, we have not only writeups by the deck authors but also a review of the deck by a blog at the time; in the third case, I'll present a deck of my very own from the past and subject it to a more current analysis. Presented in six segments:

Title card: Wasteland
1:30 The Toolbox, part 1: Apex - Eviscerator, deck by Axlotl
Brain Cage
Caduceus
13:00 Archived Memories, part 1: Review of Eviscerator, by Andrew Barrett for Fusion-Haa
Tollbooth | Resistor
Apocalypse Now / Fury Road, deck by LSK
23:30 The Toolbox, part 2: Adam - The Modern Prometheus, deck by Seamus Macleod
version 1
Net-Ready Eyes | Inti | Emergency Shutdown | Demolition Run
Sneakdoor Beta | Wraparound
Easy Mark | Marcus Batty | Keegan Lane
version 1.2
Cyberfeeder
Lotus Field | News Hound | New Angeles Sol
48:40 Archived Memories, part 2: Review of The Modern Prometheus, by Andrew Barrett for Fusion-Haa
55:00 Test Run: Sunny Lebeau
version 1 | version 2.3 | version 3.2.1 | version 4 and report
71:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - Heinlein, pt. 5

Episode 105: Fire Up the Arc Welder

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:00:00 CDT

Part two of the Runner analysis of Data and Destiny sees us looking at a few of the buffs that the Reboot Project has made. As usual, we'll also analyze the new breakers and economy cards (including a truly bad one ... and a truly janky deck trying to make it work), plus some of the flavor references the designers and developers may have included. Presented in six segments:

Title card: Dr. Lovegood
1:45 Anonymous Tip: Adam and his directives
Safety First | Always Be Running | Neutralize All Threats
8:25 Quest Completed: Runner buffs in Data and Destiny
Consoles: Brain Chip | Heartbeat | Security Nexus
Security Chip
25:00 Sharpshooter: New icebreaker options in Data and Destiny
GS Sherman M3 | GS Striker M1 | GS Shrike M2
Cloudburst
Aurora | Peacock | Ninja
36:45 Lucky Find: New economy options in Data and Destiny
Technical Writer | Wasteland | Windfall
Big Girls Windfall Their Monoliths, deck by ila
Big Girls Windfall Their Monoliths at the Angel Arena, deck by ila
51:55 Ghost Branch: Late-FFG minifaction cards
Apex: Reaver | Assimilator | Consume | Reboot
Adam: Find the Truth | Emergent Creativity | Logic Bomb | Algernon
Sunny: Another Day, Another Paycheck | White Hat | Black Hat | Office Supplies
61:00 Enigma: Allusions in the minifaction cards
Harbinger | Apocalypse
Independent Thinking (not Find the Truth)

Episode 104: Bigger, Better, Boom

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:00:00 CDT

Turning now to the Runner side of Data and Destiny, we'll take a look at the focus on the fourth Runner faction in the ... What's that you say? There are only three Runner factions? Well ... what are they going to do for the fourth deluxe box, then? We'll present a comment from lead designer Lukas Litzsinger about their philosophy surrounding this fourth deluxe expansion (the final FFG expansion that is part of the Reboot Project) and take a look at these cards in the first part of our Runner extravaganza. Presented in four segments:

Title cards: GS Striker M1 | GS Shrike M2 | GS Sherman M3
1:45 Anonymous Tip: Don't be afraid to give up points
7 Things You Can Do To Get Better At Netrunner, article by Xenasis
6:10 Satellite Uplink: Data and Destiny, Runner side
Nerfed neutral: Employee Strike
Unchanged neutral: Windfall | Technical Writer
Apex: Invasive Predator
List of virtual resources
Nerf: Apocalypse
Buff: Endless Hunger
Unchanged: Prey | Heartbeat | Harbinger | Hunting Grounds | Wasteland
Adam: Compulsive Hacker
Directives: Safety First | Always Be Running | Neutralize All Threats | Find the Truth
Buffs: Independent Thinking | Brain Chip | Dr. Lovegood
Unchanged: Multithreader
Sunny Lebeau: Security Specialist
Buffs: GS Sherman M3 | GS Striker M1 | GS Shrike M2 | Security Chip
Unchanged: Security Nexus | Globalsec Security Clearance | Jak Sinclair
30:00 The Source: Nerfs to Apocalypse and Employee Strike
Apocalypse: Dyper: An Introductory Text, article by Rotage
Top 30 decks on NetrunnerDB using Apocalypse, sorted by likes
40:35 AstroScript Pilot Program: Flavor insert from Data and Destiny

Episode 103: Nothing But the Truth

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:00:00 CDT

As a continuation of last week's episode, this time around we look at a couple of decklists for the third NBN identity released in Data and Destiny: New Angeles Sol, including getting a glimpse at how the first Most Wanted List impacted the meta. We'll also do an analysis of one of the Reboot preconstructed decks. Presented in seven segments:

Title card: New Angeles Sol: Your News
1:30 Anonymous Tip: Analyze your opponent's discarded and played cards
7 Things You Can Do To Get Better At Netrunner, article by Xenasis
5:30 Market Research: Corp currents
Targeted Marketing | Predictive Algorithm | Media Blitz | Surveillance Sweep | Manhunt
Lag Time | Defective Brainchips | Paywall Implementation | Enhanced Login Protocol | Cerebral Static | Housekeeping
10:20 The Toolbox, part 1: Sol -- Better Call Solo Boy, by gumonshoe
Paywall Sol, by TheBigBoy
15 Minutes
Clot | Cyberdex Virus Suite
The All-Seeing I | Fast Track
27:30 Archived Memories: Review of Better Call Solo Boy, by Andrew Barrett for Fusion-Haa
Freelancer
33:10 The Toolbox, part 2: Sol -- Solo Boy Carbonite Edition, by gumonshoe
43:55 Dedicated Technician Team: Tempo Sol
52:25 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - Heinlein, pt. 4
Angel Arena, by Emilio Rodriguez
Docklands, by Samuel Leung

Episode 102: Start the Fire

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:00:00 CDT

TheBigBoy dropped a morsel of information about the future of boosters in the Reboot Project, so we'll cover that discussion right at the top of the show. But for the bulk of the episode, we have three decks on tap this week based out of two of the NBN IDs from Data and Destiny: SYNC and Spark Agency. The SYNC deck was built and piloted by Timmy Wong to a 2016 Regional win (and also piloted by Lucas Li to a win). The Spark decks take two different approaches, with one of them being more dubious than the other. Presented in eight segments:

Title card: Spark Agency: Worldswide Reach
5:25 Breaking News: New preconstructed league and update on future boosters
12:00 Anonymous Tip: Accept that variance happens
7 Things You Can Do To Get Better At Netrunner, article by Xenasis
16:45 The Toolbox, part 1: SYNC -- Info Refinery, by Timmy Wong
Video from 2016 Las Vegas regional: Swiss round 4 | Swiss round 5 | Winner's semifinals | Winner's finals | Grand finals
Psychographics
Resistor | Turnpike
Green Level Clearance | Traffic Accident
Swordsman | SanSan City Grid
Big Brother
Medium | Casting Call
The All-Seeing I | NAPD Contract | Breaking News | Bernice Mai
Information Overload
Exchange of Information
33:10 The Toolbox, part 2a: Spark City Surveillance, by Chris Hinkes
Tollbooth | Viper
Pachinko | Gutenberg
41:10 The Toolbox, part 2b: Spark Despotism - King Beale, by Ehill
Priority Requisition | Restructured Datapool
Archived Memories | Interns
AstroScript Pilot Program (original | Reboot)
55:30 Archived Memories: Review of Spark Despotism, by Josh Wilson for Fusion-Haa
Cyberdex Virus Suite
69:35 Red Herrings: Keegan Lane
24/7 News Cycle | News Team | Data Raven
72:35 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - Heinlein, pt. 3

Episode 101: Yes AND No

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:00:00 CDT

We have finally arrived at the last piece of the Reboot Project puzzle (for certain definitions of "last"). Data and Destiny is the fourth deluxe expansion for Android: Netrunner and focused on the only Corp that hadn't received the treatment so far: NBN. We'll take a look at the numerous Corp nerfs that Reboot levies, plus the usual tour of some of the buffs, the ice, and the economy options that the expansion provides. Presented in seven segments:

Episode 100: How He Does It

Mon, 1 Sep 2025 18:00:00 CDT

Poised just before the introduction into the 2.1 group of the final Fantasy Flight expansion included in Reboot, we present an interview with the man who is largely responsible for the project being playable: Karl Holter, better known as Klerik. This wide-ranging, show-long episode covers his early days in Netrunner, the genesis of Reboot, and more insight into how the technical side of Reboot has been developed.

Title card: Akitaro Watanabe
"I wish I knew how to delete this", deck by presheaf (Klerik)
Rock Paper Shotgun review
Dracō
TheBigBoy's blogpost about Reboot (includes older pics)
Reboot proxy site
Estimating Time (xkcd comic)
The Horde | Flood the Zone | Curator
Blokus (entry on BGG) | Go (entry on BGG) | Star Realms (entry on BGG) | BGG Star Realms League

Episode 99: The Advancement of Humanity

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:00:00 CDT

The last pack of the SanSan Cycle -- which is also the last Data Pack from Fantasy Flight Games that is included in the Reboot Project -- is another Corp-skewed pack. We'll delve into the multiple different options on offer for the Corp. Presented in nine segments:

Title card: Expo Grid
2:45 Anonymous Tip: Count your rez costs
7 Things You Can Do To Get Better At Netrunner, article by Xenasis
6:00 Celebrity Gift: The Universe of Tomorrow, Corp side
Nerf: Team Sponsorship
Buffs: Chronos Protocol: Selective Mind-mapping | Ancestral Imager | Franchise City | Product Placement | Worlds Plaza | Public Support | Expo Grid | The Future Is Now
Unchanged: Cybernetics Court | Genetics Pavilion | Tour Guide
14:40 The Source: Nerf to Team Sponsorship
Accelerated Beta Team article and decklist, from Fusion-Haa
30:20 Matrix Analyzer: Corp buffs in The Universe of Tomorrow
Chronos Protocol: FFG announcment article
Public Support: Rex Campaign
"Gungarin", deck by HuginRonin
"Archer Glacier", deck by zailey
The Future Is Now: "Argus Returns (How is That Fair 2016)", deck by DonutTaganes
"Scorched Imaging", deck by Phrydephisch
48:00 Server Diagnostics: Tour Guide
Caduceus | Susanoo-no-Mikoto | Guard | Architect | Errand Boy
Gagarin Deep Space | Industrial Genomics | Near-Earth Hub
53:15 Restructure: Product Placement and Expo Grid
Product Placement: Turtlebacks
Expo Grid: Gagarin Tax Firm, deck by Saan
58:00 Market Research: 5-influence cards
Director Haas | Escher | Wotan | Chairman Hiro | The Board | Hivemind | Victoria Jenkins
Biotic Labor | Scorched Earth | D4v1d | Apocalypse
68:30 Experiential Data: More 2015 tournament results
Full 2015 tournament summary document
Italian Nats: September 5
Grand finals from Netrunner Italia: Francesco D'Alessio vs Roberto Franco: Game 1 | Game 2
Irish Nats: Septemebr 5
1st place Gerard Prior Wittertainment and Restructured Databull
Finals from Az Drummond: Wayne O'Keefe vs Gerard Prior
Dutch Nats: September 12
Finals from TeamworkCast: Kephalopode vs Stiv
Spanish Nats: September 12
1st place Miguel Dorrego Ken Tenma and Blue Sun
Finnish Nats: September 12
1st place Tomi Leino Faustonomy 2.0 and Blue Sun 5-agenda deck
Slovakian Nats: September 19
1st place Anton Lapygin Reg MaxX and Myasnaya Lavka
New Zealand Nats: September 27
Grand finals (and interview) from ANRNZ: David Withington vs William Turner: Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3
Russian Nats: October 10
Grand finals from Netrunner Russia: Mukhin Anatoliy vs Kovolev Aleksandr
Greek Nats: October 18
1st place Laurie Poulter Prepaid Kate and NEH Team Fastrobiotics
Filipino Nats: October 25
1st place Dale Quimpo Prepaid Kate and RP
56:25 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - Luna, pt. 3 / Heinlein, pt. 2

Episode 98: Diverting Energy Spikes

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:00:00 CDT

This week's episode is centered mainly on the second part of the article series The Skills of Netrunner, as written by Elusive and posted originally on Stimhack; the first part of the series was covered in episode 89, "The Creators." This time around Elusive focuses more on the psychological aspects of Netrunner, as it pertains to each of us individually and being in a good headspace for playing, learning, and improving in the game. Presented in three segments:

Title card: LLDS Energy Regulator
2:40 Anonymous Tip: Plan turns, not clicks
7 Things You Can Do To Get Better At Netrunner, article by Xenasis
6:40 Archived Memories: The Zen of Netrunner
29:50 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - Luna, pt. 2
Schematic of Heinlein from Worlds of Android and original, by Kirsten Zirngibl

Episode 97: A Horde of Zombies

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:00:00 CDT

We have arrived at the last Data Pack of the last cycle in the Reboot portion of the FFG cardpool. This episode focuses on the Runner side of that pack -- The Universe of Tomorrow -- with the final (regular, non-booster) cards for Anarchs, Criminals, and Shapers. This pack also has the most nerfs of any in the Reboot cardpool, which elicits a deep dive into the strategies that the Reboot nerfs try to unwind and moderate. Presented in seven segments:

Title card: DDoS
2:00 Anonymous Tip: Always draw first*
7 Things You Can Do To Get Better At Netrunner, article by Xenasis
9:00 Satellite Uplink: The Universe of Tomorrow, Runner side
Nerfs: DDoS | Fisk Investment Seminar | Wireless Net Pavilion
Buffs: Power to the People | Laramy Fisk: Savvy Investor | DaVinci
Unchanged: Surfer | Bookmark
15:00 The Source: Nerfs to DDoS, Wireless Net Pavilion, and Fisk Investment Seminar
DDoS: Account Siphon
Hyperdriver | False Echo | Leprechaun | Medium | Keyhole
"Dyper - An Introductory Text", article by Rotage
Wireless Net Pavilion: Data Leak Reversal | Fall Guy
The All-Seeing I
Blackmail | Faust | Valencia Estevez
Fisk Investment Seminar: A Fiskful of Dollar$..., decklist by zailey
2 Fisk 2 Furious, decklist by zailey
Express 26th Worlds, by Selverin
47:20 Quest Completed: Buffs to Power to the People and Laramy Fisk
Plugged-In Tour, article from FFG
63:50 Sharpshooter: Surfer
Waverider Kit, decklist by tiedyedvortex
70:15 Lucky Find: DaVinci
75:15 AstroScript Pilot Program: Flavor insert from The Universe of Tomorrow

Episode 96: Fired and Replaced

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:00:00 CDT

Near the beginning of the 2015 regional season, eventual Oxford Regional runner-up and UK Nats top 16 competitor Andrew Hynes (Xenasis) published an article on Stimhack dealing with a competitive player's approach to eliminating various fallacies in Netrunner (and, to a certain extent, customizable card games as a whole). We'll read through that article here. Presented in two segments:

Episode 95: The Windblasted Prairie

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:00:00 CDT

No Data Pack in the Reboot portion of the FFG cardpool has such a skewed distribution between Corp and Runner as Old Hollywood, the fifth pack in the fourth cycle. We'll examine the nerf to the NBN ID in this pack, several of the buffs Reboot gives to help some weaker cards, and more. Presented in eight segments:

Title card: Vanity Project
1:45 Celebrity Gift: Old Hollywood, Corp side
Nerf: Haarpsichord Studios: Entertainment Unleashed
Buffs: Ronald Five | Enforcer 1.0 | It's a Trap! | An Offer You Can't Refuse | Award Bait | Early Premiere | Old Hollywood Grid | Back Channels
Unchanged: Explode-a-palooza | Casting Call | Hollywood Renovation | Vanity Project
9:10 The Source: Nerf to Haarpsichord Studios
TGTBT
"Make shop great again.">, deck by Smokestack
14:45 Matrix Analyzer: Corp buffs in Old Hollywood
Enforcer 1.0: Archer | Dagger | Switchblade
Old Hollywood Grid: Ash 2X3ZB9CY
"Fascism- 'Three' Ways to Win", deck by Empires
"Gungarin", deck by HuginRonin
Award Bait: "Kitsunichord, or Take the Bait", deck by Stranger Danger
An Offer You Can't Refuse: "Lunar Kudzu", deck by Bwob
Space Camp | Medical Breakthrough | Allele Repression
33:50 Server Diagnostics: Enforcer 1.0 and It's a Trap!
Enforcer 1.0: Domestic Sleepers | Hostile Takeover | Oversight AI | Bioroid Efficiency Research
Virtual resources
It's a Trap!: Au Revoir | Snitch
Data Mine
44:40 Restructure: Back Channels
Aggressive Secretary | Project Junebug | Ghost Branch | Cerebral Overwriter | Plan B | Shattered Remains
Mushin No Shin
53:00 The Maker's Eye: Andreas Zafiratos
DeviantArt page
All FFG cards with art by Andreas
54:20 Red Herrings: Rolodex
56:25 AstroScript Pilot Program: Flavor insert from Old Hollywood

Episode 94: My Gerbil

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:00:00 CDT

The penultimate Data Pack in the Reboot cardpool has arrived in the form of Old Hollywood, which is the most corp-heavy pack in the pool. In addition to looking at the mostly-static Runner side of the expansion -- including a long digression about Rolodex -- we'll also check in again with the 2015 tournament season as the national championships swing into full stride. Presented in six segments:

Title card: Film Critic
1:40 Anonymous Tip: Comparing Shapers
7:00 Satellite Uplink: Old Hollywood, Runner side
Nerf: Film Critic
Unchanged: Trope | Spoilers | Drug Dealer | Rolodex | Fan Site | Paparazzi
16:00 The Source: Nerf to Film Critic
NAPD Contract | Fetal AI | TGTBT | The Future Perfect | Red Herrings | Strongbox | Punitive Counterstrike | Midseason Replacements | Jinteki: Personal Evolution | Argus Security | Haarpsichord Studios
21:00 Record Reconstructor: Rolodex and other "surrenders"
Zaibatsu Loyalty | Test Ground | Toshiyuki Sakai | Record Reconstructor
39:10 Experiential Data: More 2015 tournament results
Full 2015 tournament summary document
Australian Nats: August 15
Grand finals from Australian Tabletop Gaming Network: Alex Forndran vs Daryl Russell
Nordic Nats: August 16
1st place Gary Bowerbank Dirty Noise and HB Webz
Canadian Nats: August 16
1st place Jason Deng The Signature Kate and Archer NEH
German Nats: August 16
Grand finals from TeamworkCast: Heinzel vs Mythras
Polish Nats: August 29
Grand finals from TeamworkCast: Prozz vs Marchewa
Weekend 16: August 29-30
Kuala Lumpur:
1st place Bernard Ng Prepaid Kate and RP
Estonia:
1st place Arto Heinonen Prepaid Kate and RP
54:35 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Exploring the Solar System

Episode 93: Whaddya Buyin'?

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 18:00:00 CDT

2015 UK Nationals winner Alex White was so enamored of the Anarch card Street Peddler that was released in The Underway that he wrote an entire article about it; we will present that article in this episode. We'll also update the regionals report that we started in episode 90 with those that were played when The Underway was legal. Presented in three segments:

Episode 92: The Fine Print

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:00:00 CDT

Focusing on the Corp side of The Underway this time around, we'll explore in some depth the nerf to a sysop released in this pack, as well as some fairly extensive discussion around some weaker cards that have been buffed. Presented in five segments:

Episode 91: Everything Has a Price

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:00:00 CDT

Turning the corner into the second half of the SanSan Cycle, the fourth Data Pack -- The Underway -- brings the most nerfs in one pack that we've seen yet: 3 for the Runners and 1 for the Corp. We'll discuss the reasons behind those Runner nerfs as well as running down the other new Runner tools this release provided before taking a look at a Geist deck and a janky Hayley deck with Chameleon. Presented in eight segments:

Title card: Geist
1:15 Satellite Uplink: The Underway, Runner side
Nerfs: Faust | Gang Sign | Hyperdriver
Buff: Muertos Gang Member
Unchanged: Street Peddler | Armand "Geist" Walker: Tech Lord | Drive By | Forger | Shiv | Chameleon
8:15 The Source: Nerfs to Faust, Gang Sign, and Hyperdriver
Faust: "Actually, Parasite is Good and Icebreakers are Bad", by SimonMoon
Gang Sign: Gang Sign Leela
Leela Patel | HQ Interface
Hyperdriver: "Dyper - An Introductory Text", by Rotage
DDoS | False Echo | Medium
16:05 Quest Completed: Buff to Muertos Gang Member
23:10 Datasucker: Criminal consoles
Desperado | Doppelgänger | Blackguard
Logos | Box-E
26:45 Sharpshooter: New icebreaker options in The Underway
Shiv: Spike | Crowbarr
31:50 The Toolbox: Geist
Geist: You're are doing it wrong! [deck by mrdudesir]
The Ghost of Running Past [deck by CodeMarvelous]
Geist Gives it Two Thumbs Up [deck by CodeMarvelous]
Technical Writer | Film Critic | Security Chip
Savoire Faire Geist [deck by monkooky]
Multithreader | Sports Hopper | Curator
41:25 The Toolbox: Chameleon
London Calling [deck by Benjen]
Chameleondon Library v0.1 [deck by Shiiuga]
50:15 AstroScript Pilot Program: Flavor insert from The Underway

Episode 90: A Destination Unto Itself

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:00:00 CDT

Ten years removed from the 2015 regional season for Android: Netrunner, it's time for a trip down memory lane. We'll take a necessarily-brief overview of the season, which was largely contained to the portion of the cardpool that we've discussed thus far, up to Chrome City. Presented in fourteen segments:

Title card: Midway Station Grid
1:50 Rabbit Hole: Compling the 2015 regionals report
12:15 Weekend 1: April 19-20
London:
Joey McMillan (Imrahil) 2nd place report
Zach Eaton 1st place report
20:15 Weekend 2: April 26-27
Manchester:
Tagore Nakomchai (tomdidiot) 2nd place Fried Runner, Sunny Side Up and Stimhack article
1st place Alex White (vinegarymink) The Road to Nationals 2015
Osnabrück:
Grand finals from TeamworkCast (Kephalopode vs Heinzel): Game 1 | Game 2
25:15 Weekend 3: May 2-3
Tulsa:
Final from Team Covenant: Ahmed Abbasi vs Pacer Stringfellow
Dortmund:
Butcher Shop and Vamp Kit
Grand finals from TeamworkCast: Kephalopode vs JanK
Melbourne:
Final from The Winning Agenda: Jan Schroeder vs Wilfy Horig
Copenhagen:
Jake Helms (Terrificy) 1st place report
Paris:
Grand finals from BBQ Team TV: Plume vs rabin
41:30 Weekend 4: May 9-10
Oxford:
1st place Samuel Pay (ApeAsylum) decklist and report
Winners bracket, semifinals, from NeoReading Grid: Andrew Hynes vs Sam Pay
Atlanta:
Grand finals from PeachHack: Zach Cavis vs Michael Norman
49:15 Weekend 5: May 16-17
Sheffield:
1st place Dave Hoyland (Cerberus) Endless Waltz v5 and January writeup
Edinburgh:
Matt Addison (Angedelo) 2nd place report
55:40 Weekend 6: May 23-24
Euregio 3:
Final round from TeamworkCast: Game 1 | Game 2
56:40 UK Nats: May 30
1st place Alex White (vinegarymink) The Road to Nationals 2015 Part 2 - The End of the Road
Grand finals (Alex White vs Tim Fowler) from NeoReading Grid | Netrunners.co.uk
59:00 Weekend 7: May 30-31
Madison:
2nd place spags L4J (Looking for job)
Rochester:
Grand finals from Flower City False Leads (Ben vs Dien): Game 1 | Game 2
Vancouver:
Grand finals from Tabletop Throwdown: Lawson Lim vs James Hollinger
Palm Bay, Florida:
Ve Herrmann 2nd place report
62:50 Weekend 8: June 6-7
Detroit:
1st place ekayohlee Perfection Replicated Fast and Striving for Perfection (Jinteki Q4 2013 Earnings Call)
68:20 Weekend 9: June 13-14
Toronto:
Grand finals from Throne Runner: Aaron Celovsky vs Sungho Lee
Eindhoven, The Netherlands:
Final from TeamworkCast: Michiel vs Decoy
Moncton, New Brunswick:
Grand finals from Northern Gaming: Nick vs Rob
Adelaide:
Alex Fordran (firesa) 1st place report
Grand finals from Adelaide Netrunner: Alex Fordran vs Jesse Marshall
Strasbourg:
Final round from BBQ Team TV: kasskados vs Azeelium
FFG Games Center:
Abram Jopp (TheBigBoy) 2nd place report
71:55 Weekend 10: June 20-21
Philadelphia:
Stimhack thread with live updates and reports
12-hour stream from Apreche
Montreal:
Grand finals from Métropole Grid (Hany Hebisha vs Alexandre Bradley): Game 1 | Game 2
Oslo:
2nd place Elusive Bag of Tricks PE
78:45 French Nats: June 27
Grand finals, match 2 -- Dan D'Argenio postmortem with Calimsha (via BBQ Team TV): Cailmsha vs Ganelon
80:15 Weekend 11: June 27-28
Chicago:
Stimhack thread with reports
Grand finals from Timotei Vaduva (Lucas vs Josh): Game 1 | Game 2

Episode 89: The Creators

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 18:00:00 CDT

Shortly after Worlds 2016, Stimhack author Elusive began posting a series of articles discussing various aspects of the theory and skills in Netrunner. The first article in that series comprises the main portion of this episode. Prior to that we'll review the changes just posted in the first -- and potentially last -- patch for the latest Reboot booster pack. Presented in three segments:

Episode 88: Cyberspace's Strongest Glue

Mon, 19 May 2025 18:00:00 CDT

This episode kicks off with an article from The Winning Agenda about how the Runner can best interact with Corp scoring windows. We'll also dig into a Stimhack thread about a stifling Runner archetype that does just that. Presented in three segments:

Title card: Little Engine
3:35 Anonymous Tip: How Much is a Credit Worth?: The Concept of the 'Critical Turn'
Noise | Global Food Initiative | Wyldside | Adjusted Chronotype | Faust | Adonis Campaign | Breaker Bay Grid
D4v1d | Ash 2X3ZB9CY | Caprice Nisei
Medium | Imp
SanSan City Grid | Nerve Agent
The Maker's Eye | PAD Campaign | Eve Campaign | Marked Accounts
AstroScript Pilot Program | Accelerated Beta Test
17:25 The Toolbox: Headlock Reina
Sam Suied's Macho Man Reina Savage
Stimhack thread Headlock: How to Make Sure Your Opponent Doesn't Get to Play Netrunner
Dan D'Argenio's version | x3r0h0ur's version | Sam's May 4 version | Sam's July 28 version
42:45 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - New Angeles, part 7 (Life in the Undercity, and short story)
Aaron Marrón, by Aurore Folny
Push Your Luck, by Matt Zeilinger

Episode 87: Dreams and Nightmares

Mon, 12 May 2025 18:00:00 CDT

TheBigBoy has said that if you could capture the FFG cardpool at any one point, the release of Chrome City would be the game at its healthiest. So we'll cover the buffs the Reboot Project has made to the Corp cards in this pack (since we haven't seen the bulk of the nerfs from this cycle yet), look at a deck using the latest Haas-Bioroid identity, and -- as usual -- sort the ice along the axes of ETR/taxing and binary/analog. Presented in six segments:

Title card: Little Engine
5:55 Celebrity Gift: Chrome City, Corp side
buffs: Cybernetics Division: Humanity Upgraded | Lab Dog | Oaktown Grid | Ryon Knight | Clairvoyant Monitor | Little Engine
unchanged: Self-Destruct Chips | Lockdown | Oaktown Renovation | Corporate Town | Quicksand
16:40 Matrix Analyzer: Corp buffs in Chrome City
Oaktown Grid: Alix T4LB07 | Red Herrings
Cybernetics Division: Weyland Consortium: Because We Built It | Custom Biotics | Harmony Medtech
IPO
Echo Memvaults
25:35 The Toolbox: Xanatos Gambit
Aggressive Secretary | Back Channels
35:10 Ice Analyzer: New ice options in Chrome City
Data Mine | Whirlpool | Howler | Kitsune | Universal Connectivity Fee>
51:35 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - New Angeles, part 6 (Life at the Top, and Traversing the Districts)
Schematic of an arcology: from Worlds of Android & original, by Kirsten Zirngibl
"Hoppers in New Angeles", by BalanceSheet

Episode 86: Even More Complex Than It Sounds

Mon, 05 May 2025 18:00:00 CDT

Reaching the halfway point on FFG's final cycle of Data Packs in Reboot is the third pack in the SanSan Cycle: Chrome City. This episode will cover the changes that the Reboot Project has made to several of the Runner cards, discuss in a little more detail why one of the cards (Analog Dreamers) needed a buff, and then break down the pros and cons of the new subtype of hardware first introduced in this pack: cybernetic. Presented in six segments:

Title card: Brain Cage
1:35 Breaking News: Spring Champs, patch notes, and Fate and Freedom
zailey's winning decks: Archer Glacier | Scrapper Shrike
my not-as-winnig decks: Sunny LeBeau | TWIY Psychographics precon+
Gob Lynn Mode's stream (time-stamped to start with my match)
10:00 Satellite Uplink: Chrome City, Runner side
buffs: Skulljack | Chrome Parlor | Crowbar | Analog Dreamers | Brain Cage
unchanged: Immolation Script | Turntable ( TBB's Ice Feast deck) | Titanium Ribs | Net-Ready Eyes
16:30 Quest Completed: Runner buffs in Chrome City
John Masanori | Exploratory Romp | Hacktivist Meeting
28:00 Sharpshooter: New icebreaker option in Chrome City
Spike | ZU.13 Key Master
31:40 Datasucker: Cybernetics
Stimhack | Amped Up | Stim Dealer
Scrubber | Paricia | Whizzard
Public Sympathy
47:15 AstroScript Pilot Program: Flavor insert from Chrome City

Episode 85: Let Some Spittle Fly

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:00:00 CDT

The final nine cards have been spoiled for the upcoming 30-card Fate and Freedom, the fifth booster pack for the Reboot Project, including the console for the new minifaction and a new Jinteki identity. Most of the rest of the episode focuses on a glacier archetype out of Blue Sun, as based on a Stimhack article by Ben Blum. Presented in four segments:

Title card: Executive Boot Camp
1:40 Anonymous Tip: Agenda flood
5:15 Precognition: Fate and Freedom spoilers, part 4
12:30 Archived Memories: Bootcamp Glacier
Other versions: Rootcamp, by falseidol | Brussels store champs, by Ron Zacapa | Bar Vader store champs, by Luis Escudero | Nuclear Ice Cream, by licoricemaniac
Oaktown Renovation
D4v1d | Cerberus "Lady" H1 | Emergency Shutdown | Eater | Kati Jones | Clot
Changeling | Patch
VIDEOS v. Prepaid Kate: with Kiv | with Calimsha
v. Valencia: SSCI, falseidol v. Dan D'Argenio
v. Reg Maxx: playtest game | SHL, Nobo715
44:45 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - New Angeles, part 5 (The Districts, part 3)
New Angeles, by Henning Ludvigsen
Guayaquil, by Kirsten Zirngibl

Episode 84: Universal Scholar

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:00:00 CDT

Seven more cards have been spoiled out of the upcoming 30-card Fate and Freedom, the fifth booster pack for the Reboot Project, and we give a brief rundown of all of them, including the breaker suite for the new minifaction and an asset that's similar to Jinteki Biotech. But the bulk of the episode is taken up with an examination of four different decktypes that can be run out of Hayley, the Shaper Runner who was introduced in Breaker Bay: stealth, Pawnshop, econ-heavy, and hardware/resource jank. Presented in six segments:

Title card: Hayley Kaplan
1:40 Precognition: Fate and Freedom spoilers, part 3
8:25 Experiential Data: Stealth Hayley
NeoReading Grid video of 2015 UK Nationals final
Scholar of Stealth
Personal Workshop | Escher | Professional Contacts | Levy AR Lab Access | All-nighter
Dagger | I've Had Worse | Utopia Shard | Net-Ready Eyes | Curtain Wall | Excalibur
BlacKat
23:30 The Toolbox, part 1: The College Try
Version 1: Orbital Assault
Version 2: The College Try
Paricia
38:30 The Toolbox, part 2: Pawnshop Hayley
2017 Worlds runner-up | Shaper is OP (from 2020) | Hyperdriver
ProCo Hayley preconstructed deck
5ccs of Hayley
Crisium Grid
NEH Butcher Shop
Textbook Hayley
Film Critic | Technical Writer | Harbinger
Pitchfork | YouTube video with CodeMarvelous
Chameleon | Hunting Grounds | Fan Site | Artist Colony
67:15 The Toolbox, part 3: London Calling
69:50 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - New Angeles, part 4 (The Districts, part 2)
New Angeles, by Henning Ludvigsen

Episode 83: Owners of Beachfront Property

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:00:00 CDT

Another week, another seven cards spoiled out of the upcoming 30-card Fate and Freedom, the fifth booster pack for the Reboot Project. We also pontificate on the concept of power creep and how Netrunner has been affected over time, before taking a look at the mostly-untouched-by-Reboot Corp side of Breaker Bay, the second Data Pack of the SanSan Cycle. Presented in eight segments:

Episode 82: So Little Time

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:00:00 CDT

With the release of the fifth Reboot booster just a few weeks away, we'll do a brief overview of cards spoiled thus far. Then we'll dig into the Runner side of the second Data Pack in the SanSan Cycle -- Breaker Bay. Presented in eight segments:

Episode 81: Black Sheep

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:00:00 CDT

The fifth Reboot booster pack, Fate and Freedom, is due to launch in May, and we're going to kick off the episode by bringing you the first spoiler from that pack. After that, we'll move on to covering an article by SimonMoon that was published on Stimhack about 10 years ago discussing aggressive Runners. Presented in three segments:

Title card: Mako Shuusei
1:00 Exclusive Party: Mako Shuusei
Core: Demolition Run | Account Siphon | Forged Activation Orders
Genesis: Vamp | Emergency Shutdown
Order and Chaos: Wanton Destruction | Forked | Knifed | Spooned
Boosters: For the Laughs | Smashing Spree | Fuzzing
9:40 Archived Memories: Scaling the Netrunner Aggrocrag, by SimonMoon
40:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - New Angeles, part 2
New Angeles, by Zach Graves

Episode 80: A Little Corporate Restructuring

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:00:00 CDT

The release of The Valley brought the introduction of Clot, which was designed to put the brakes on fast advance. Probably no deck was as ready to incorporate this card as the juggernaut that had become Prepaid Kate. The bulk of this episode will be focused on the infamous Stimhack thread that discusses this archetype, catching us up on its development from Order and Chaos to The Valley. This includes an extensive back-and-forth about whether 46 cards is a reasonable decksize in this case. We'll also finally start digging into the second major section of Worlds of Android with a longer-than-usual flavor section at the end. Presented in two segments:

Title card: Indexing
1:30 The Toolbox: Prepaid Kate, part 15
[Kate] Redefining Shaper Control Decks Stimhack thread
Spreadsheet of version comparisons
PpVP Kate Reboot preconstructed deck
Indexing | The Maker's Eye | R&D Interface
Cyber-Cypher | ZU.13 Key Master
Clot | Legwork
57:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - New Angeles, part 1
The Maurice, by Ben Zweifel
Order and Chaos, by Adam Schumpert

Episode 79: Life Imagined

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:00:00 CDT

Similar to the Runner side, the Corp side of The Valley also contained some groundbreaking cards. While not quite as meta-shaking or -defining, the new Jinteki identity that arrived did present some new game mechanisms. We'll take an extensive look at that ID, plus a roundup of all the other Corp cards in the pack, including the others that have received buffs in the Reboot Project. Presented in six segments:

Title card: Jinteki Biotech: Life Imagined
1:30 Celebrity Gift: The Valley, Corp side
Buffs: Brain-Taping Warehouse | Jinteki Biotech: Life Imagined | Genetic Resequencing | Predictive Algorithm | Capital Investors | Negotiator
Unchanged: NEXT Gold | Cortex Lock | Valley Grid | Bandwidth | Tech Startup
10:45 Matrix Analyzer: Corp buffs in The Valley
Brain-Taping Warehouse: Haas-Bioroid: Stronger Together
Genetic Resequencing: Executive Retreat | Braintrust | House of Knives | Nisei MK II
Predictive Algorithm: New Angeles Sol: Your News
21:20 Ice Analyzer: New ice options in The Valley
NEXT Gold: NEXT Bronze | NEXT Silver
Bandwidth: Universal Connectivity Fee | Information Overload | Muckraker | Keegan Lane
Negotiator: Caduceus
38:15 Restructure: New economy options in The Valley
Capital Investors: Melange Mining Corp. | Private Contracts
46:20 Market Research: Jinteki Biotech
Flippin' Jinteki | Six-Point Exploding Heart Technique
66:20 Feedback Filter: Spike

Episode 78: Turns a Night Owl Into an Early Bird

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:00:00 CST

The Valley is the first Data Pack in the SanSan Cycle, which is the fourth and final cycle of the Fantasy Flight Games' run of Android: Netrunner that is included in the Reboot Project. It was highly anticipated at the time, thanks to a long-awaited tool that promised to slow down fast-advance strategies. We'll cover that card and the rest of the Runner side of this pack, which includes a couple of nerfs imposed by the project. Presented in seven segments:

Episode 77: Maximum Punk Rock

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:00:00 CST

For the second installment based on the Runner side of Order and Chaos, we'll take an approach similar to what we did a couple episodes back with Corp: presenting different decks. In this case, there are just two decks, and they're both out of just one of the identities: MaxX. Similar to last time, both decks are by well-known members of the Netrunner community: we'll look at a deck that uses Account Siphon along with Eater, as presented by SlySquid (of ANR Bad Publicity) from a store championship shortly after this expansion's release, and a more extensive writeup of a "reg Anarch" deck courtesy of then-reigning world champ Dan D'Argenio. Presented in three segments:

Title card: MaxX
4:45 Experiential Data: SlySquids' 'Mother F******* Deck' (Store Championship winner)
14:00 The Toolbox: Going Against the Grain, from Stimhack
NetrunnerDB version
Scavenge
Inject
Day Job
Wanton Destruction | Nerve Agent
Forked | Spooned
R&D Interface | The Maker's Eye
Vigil | Spinal Modem
Reg Val (preconstructed deck) | Siphon MaxX (preconstructed deck)
54:20 AstroScript Pilot Program: Flavor insert from Order and Chaos (part 2)

Episode 76: Nom Nom Nom

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:00:00 CST

The featured faction for the Runner side of Order and Chaos was Anarch. We'll cover the changes made by the Reboot Project -- including a couple of nerfs -- with particular focus on cards like Eater and Edward Kim ... and probably too much attention paid to Sacrificial Clone. Presented in eight segments:

Episode 75: Protection Guaranteed

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:00:00 CST

For the second installment based on the Corp side of Order and Chaos, we present three different decks: one for each of the new identities. These were all posted on NetrunnerDB by content creators around the time of this expansion's release. We'll examine the development of a Titan Transnational fast advance deck from CodeMarvelous, a taxing horizontal deck from Shut Up & Sit Down's Quintin Smith, and an updated version of Supermodernism out of Argus Security from Seamus Macleod. Presented in five segments:

Title card: Argus Security
2:20 Red Herrings: Mark Yale
5:30 The Toolbox, part 1: Titan Transnational: Investing In Your Future
CodeMarvelous' "Our Hedge Funds Are Unsinkable!": version 1 | version 2 | version 3 | version 4
"Our Hedge Funds Are Unsinkable But You Are Not" ("version 5")
18:35 The Toolbox, part 2: Gagarin Deep Space: Expanding the Horizon
Quinns' Tier One Gagarin Deck | Quinns' Tier 1.1 Gagarin Deck | Quinns' Tier 1.2 Gagarin Deck (6th at London Regionals)
33:10 The Toolbox, part 3: Argus Securty: Protection Guaranteed
Seamusmodernism V3 (1st Place Scottish Regional Undefeated)
48:15 AstroScript Pilot Program: Flavor insert from Order and Chaos (part 1)

Episode 74: Investing in Your Future

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:00:00 CST

Order and Chaos was the third deluxe expansion released by Fantasy Flight Games for Android: Netrunner. The Corp side focus of this expansion was the Weyland Consortium, and in this episode we'll review the adjustments that the Reboot Project has made to that portion of the expansion (which includes a nerf to Titan Transnational) as well as examining the ice in this set in a bit of detail. We'll also present an interview with Lukas Litzsinger that FFG posted around the time he stopped being lead developer for the game. Presented in six segments:

Episode 73: The Forge Must Never Run Cold

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:00:00 CST

The release of The Source ended a drought of nine consecutive releases with no bioroid ice. This prompted Nagnazul to develop a deck in the largely-ignored and maligned Haas-Bioroid identity Stronger Together. In addition to revisiting that article, we'll also present a recent discussion from the Reboot Discord server about how to deal with the core set card Snare! Presented in three segments:

Episode 72: Dis es ton auton potamon ouk an emvaiis

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:00:00 CST

A packed episode, kicked off with a post from El-ad Amir about deckbuilding and an FFG interview with developer Dan Clark about the Runners in the original core set, then followed by an examination of the Runner portion of the final pack in the Lunar Cycle, and concluding with a reading of the sixth and final part of the story about Nasir Meidan's trip to the Moon and back. Presented in ten segments:

Title card: Sage
1:45 Anonymous Tip: Deckbuilding tips from El-ad Amir
16:00 Archived Memories: FFG interview with Dan Clark
26:45 Satellite Uplink: The Source, Runner side
Nerfs: Au Revoir | Earthrise Hotel
Buffs: Incubator | Ixodidae | Code Siphon | Collective Consciousness | Sage
Unchanged: Bribery
31:00 The Source: Corp nerfs to Au Revoir and Earthrise Hotel
Earthrise Hotel: Diesel | Quality Time | Wyldside | Duggar's | Professional Contacts | Inject
Au Revoir: Snitch
45:15 Quest Completed: Runner buffs in The Source
Zailey's Dodge This!
Gaslight's CocoNotoKen
52:45 Sharpshooter: New icebreaker option in The Source
Dunsch's Constructed 6
64:30 Lucky Find: New economy options in The Source
Ixodidae: Lamprey | Account Siphon | Vamp | Fester | Corporate War | The Horde | Microtransactions
71:00 The Toolbox: Prepaid Kate, part 14
Run Last Click deck club episode
Reboot Project home page
A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point
Reboot Project Discord server
Play online: Reteki.fun
Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman
Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com
Episode transcript
Concise show notes
2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread
2.1 focused Stimhack thread
Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

Episode 71: Achieve the Impossible

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:00:00 CST

After dusting off some archived memories, we dive into the sixth and final release from the Lunar Cycle: The Source. We have quite a bit to say about one of the two cards that was nerfed, as well as a card that wasn't adjusted for Reboot due to other cards not being part of the Project and assorted buffs. Plus we'll put a bow on the reading of Part 1 of the Worlds of Android book. Presented in eight segments:

Title card: Industrial Genomics
1:30 Archived Memories: FFG interview with Matt Zeilinger
11:30 Celebrity Gift: The Source, Corp side
Nerfs: IT Department | Turtlebacks
Buffs: Helium-3 Deposit | Errand Boy | Markus 1.0 | Shoot the Moon | Troll | Virgo | Utopia Fragment | Self-destruct
Unchanged: Excalibur | Industrial Genomics: Growing Solutions
Mumba Temple | Museum of History | Bio-Ethics Association | Mumbad City Hall
28:15 The Source: Corp nerfs to Turtlebacks and IT Department
The RP Department, by TonyStellato
NEXT King of England v6, by magikot
Master Roshi, ThroneRunner
Hydra, Cerberus
The Many-Headed Loch Ness Monster, by Seamus
37:40 Matrix Analyzer: Corp buffs in The Source
47:45 Ice Analyzer: New ice options in The Source
Markus 1.0: Eli 1.0 | Wall of Thorns
Excalibur: Uroboros
Errand Boy: Caduceus
59:00 Restructure: New economy option in The Source
61:30 The Maker's Eye: Bruno Balixa
ArtStation page | Deviant Art page
Bruno's FFG Netrunner cards | Bruno's NSG Netrunner cards
65:15 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - The Weyland Consortium, part 2
Vulcan Coverup

Episode 70: A Two-Way Solution

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:00:00 CST

The two major segments in this episode are a reading of an interview with Lukas Litzsinger posted a little over ten years ago about competition and the near-term future of the game from back then plus an in-depth look at an Anarch resource denial deck from near the end of the Lunar Cycle. Presented in four segments:

Title card: Data Leak Reversal
2:10 Red Herrings: GAMMANET!
3:20 Archived Memories: Interview with Lukas Litzsinger
30:50 The Toolbox: Breakerless Quetzal
Street Chess | Tropical Jinteki
"Steelskin" | Wanton Destruction | Day Job
Vigil | Activist Support | Xanadu | Queen's Gambit
67:40 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - The Weyland Consortium
Reboot Project home page
A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point
Reboot Project Discord server
Play online: Reteki.fun
Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman
Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com
Episode transcript
Concise show notes
2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread
2.1 focused Stimhack thread
Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

Episode 69: Its Bark

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:00:00 CST

One of the more important icebreakers was released as part of All That Remains, the fifth Data Pack in the Lunar Cycle. As Chaos Theory says, "Its bytes are worse than its bark." We'll also examine the notable Reboot nerf to the Criminal identity Leela Patel and the several buffs to Runner cards in this pack. Presented in nine segments:

Title card: Cerberus "Lady" H1
1:25 Breaking News: 2024 Reboot Worlds champion
GAMMANET's decks: Corp | Runner
Gob Lynn Mode's stream of the finals 3:00 Anonymous Tip: Running on HQ
6:40 Satellite Uplink: All That Remains, Runner side
Nerf: Leela Patel: Trained Pragmatist
Buffs: Ekomind | Cerberus "Cuj.0" H3 | Cerberus "Rex" H2 | Zona Sul Shipping | Cybsoft MacroDrive
Unchanged: Cerberus "Lady" H1 | Utopia Shard
12:00 The Source: Runner nerf to Leela Patel
Gang Sign
16:20 Quest Completed: Runner buffs in All That Remains
Ekomind: Theophilius Bagbiter | Overmind | Sage | Game Day
25:40 Sharpshooter: New icebreaker options in All That Remains
Cuj.0: Mimic | Femme Fatale | Datasucker | Ichi 1.0
Rex: Peacock | Leviathan | Passport
Lady: Eli 1.0 | Scavenge
Corroder | Inti | Snowball | Battering Ram
39:30 Lucky Find: New economy option in All That Remains
Dionysius Bagbiter
42:10 The Toolbox: Prepaid Kate, part 13
Comparison of Kate builds discussed
53:15 AstroScript Pilot Program: Flavor insert from All That Remains

Episode 68: Woe Unto Thee

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:00:00 CST

The fifth Data Pack in the Lunar Cycle definitely brings some sets of cards. For the Corps, we see a set of 3/1 agendas, the final morph ice, some more zodiac ice, and the third main grail ice, along with some of the usual useful tools. We'll also discuss briefly why the rez cost of ice is so finely tuned, and take a look at some of the flavor on HB cards. Presented in seven segments:

Episode 67: The Mod Is the World

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:00:00 CST

Before moving onto the next Data Pack, we'll take another long look at the 2014 World Championship for Netrunner through the eyes of Dan D'Argenio (aka "mediohxcore"), the eventual world champion. Presented in three segments:

Title card: Tinkering
3:40 Experiential Data: Mediohxcore’s 2014 World Championship Report: 1st Place
Corp deck | Runner deck
Final match from FFG
Team Covenant coverage: Winner's bracket final | Final, game 1 | Final, game 2
66:30 Research Station: A Time Traveler's Guide to Netrunner
Spotify | Apple Podcasts
69:15 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - The Network -- part 9, Just Fun 'n Games

Episode 66: Keeping Tabs on the World

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:00:00 CST

Up and Over (the most recent Data Pack added to the 2.1 group) was also the last Data Pack released before the 2014 World Championship for Netrunner. In this episode we'll cover the tournament report provided by spags, who finished top seed in the preliminary rounds of that tournament. Presented in four segments:

Title card: Bernice Mai
Participant breakdown
3:00 Breaking News: Reboot World Championship on December 22
5:30 Experiential Data: The Jank That Gets One Through the Swiss
Corp deck | Runner deck
AstroScript Pilot Program: original version | revised version | Reboot version
43:45 The Toolbox: Prepaid Kate, Part 12
Comparison of spags' three versions
52:50 AstroScript Pilot Program: Flavor text from Up and Over

Episode 65: Do Some Damage

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:00:00 CST

We'll examine the Runner side of Up and Over, the fourth Data Pack in the Lunar Cycle, spending entirely too much time discussing cards that aren't good -- I'm looking at you, Angel Arena -- while also analyzing how best to build around Switchblade in Andromeda. Plus, we'll finish our review of TheBigBoy's classic set of articles on improving as a player. Presented in seven segments:

Title card: Switchblade
2:00 Anonymous Tip: Killers, money, and silver bullets
9:00 Satellite Uplink: Up and Over, Runner side
Buffs: Fester | Autoscripter | Trade-In | Angel Arena<>br> Unchanged: Inject | Origami | Switchblade | Astrolabe
18:00 Quest Completed: Runner buffs in Up and Over
Autoscripter: Savoir-faire | Doppelgänger | Early Bird
Angel Arena: Oracle May | Eureka!
Mr. Li | Quality Time | Professional Contacts | Duggar's
35:30 Lucky Find: New economy options in Up and Over
Cyberdex Virus Suite
38:20 Sharpshooter: New icebreaker option in Up and Over
40:30 The Toolbox: Stealth Andy
2015 Adelaide regional report | Stealth for the Dispossessed decklist
TheBigBoy's recommended teaching/learning decks | Teaching Stealth Andy decklist
Triptych of fragments and shards 58:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - The Network -- part 8, Myths and Legends of the Net

Episode 64: Reasonable Prices

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:00:00 CST

Moving into the second half of the Lunar Cycle, Up and Over provides some powerful cards that see play in a number of decks. We'll explore what cards like Architect and Blue Sun are and why they're good, plus also providing a portion of a strategy article from TheBigBoy about how much ice to include in a Corp deck. Presented in eight segments:

Title card: Blue Sun: Powering the Future
1:20 Anonymous Tip: 17 ICE is a crutch
13:35 Celebrity Gift: Up and Over, Corp side
Buffs: Peak Efficiency | Labyrinthine Servers | Ashigaru | Mamba | Changeling | Hades Fragment<>br> Unchanged: Architect | Reversed Accounts | Universal Connectivity Fee | Blue Sun: Powering the Future | Reuse | Docklands Crackdown
22:30 Matrix Analyzer: Corp buffs in Up and Over
26:55 Ice Analyzer: New ice options in Up and Over
41:35 Archived Memories: Architect
49:30 Restructure: New economy options in Up and Over
60:00 The Maker's Eye: Seage
Triptych of fragments and shards 64:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - The Network -- part 7, Building Neural Bridges (part 3)

Episode 63: I Will Serve You ... For a Time

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:00:00 CST

After the release of Honor & Profit, Jinteki received sufficient tools to make a shell-game, net-damage deck successful. We'll look at the deck that archetype that Chris Hinkes popularized in his win at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, regional in the summer of 2014 ... which was subsequently piloted by Minh Tran to a runner-up finish at Worlds in 2014. Presented in seven segments:

Title card: Ronin
1:45 Experiential Data, part 1: Chris Hinkes, and the Cambridge regional
Decks and videos
BGG discussion thread
The Future Perfect
Yagura | Pup | Eli 1.0
Cerebral Overwriter
Psychic Field
Deus X | Feedback Filter
Mushin No Shin
Snare! | Fetal AI | Shi.Kyū | House of Knives | Neural EMP
Trick of Light | Zaibatsu Loyalty
12:50 Experiential Data, part 2: Jurgen Marx, and the German national
Decks TeamworkCast videos: Elimination round | Final
Shock! | Komainu
14:50 Experiential Data, part 3: Minh Tran, and Worlds
Stimhack forum thread with decks and discussion
Finals: FFG video | Team Covenant video
Project Junebug | Shattered Remains | Sweeps Week | Neural Katana
Chronos Project | False Lead
Archived Memories
29:00 Archived Memories: I am having a hard time beating Stabteki
36:30 Matrix Analyzer: Reboot changes to Cambridge PE
41:00 Research Station: Playing Against Personal Evolution | Shuffling Sleeved Cards and Proper Randomization
45:30 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android: The Network -- part 6, Building Neural Bridges (part 2)

Episode 62: When You Don't Fit In

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:00:00 CDT

Most of the stealth options are available for Runners upon reaching First Contact, and we'll analyze those cards and the other changes made by the Reboot Project to this third Data Pack in the Lunar Cycle. In addition, we'll take a look at representation in Netrunner through the new Anarch identity in this pack: Quetzal. Presented in eight segments:

Title card: Refractor
2:00 Breaking News: Reboot proxies
9:00 Anonymous Tip: Don't run early without threat cards
Datasucker | Security Testing | Lamprey | Imp | Medium | Gabriel Santiago
13:40 Satellite Uplink: First Contact, Runner side
Buffs: BlacKat | Box-E | Order of Sol | Rachel Beckman<>br> Unchanged: Quetzal: Free Spirit | Duggar's | The Supplier | Refractor | Hades Shard
19:45 Quest Completed: Runner buffs in First Contact
Box-E: CyberSolutions Mem Chip | Public Sympathy | Elysium
25:30 Sharpshooter: New icebreaker options in First Contact
Stealth sources: Cloak | Dyson Fractal Generator | Silencer | Lockpick | Ghost Runner
41:40 Lucky Find: New economy options in First Contact
Order of Sol: Nasir Meidan | Personal Workshop
Rachel Beckman: Breaking News | Decoy
The Supplier: Modded | Daily Casts
49:10 Enigma: Quetzal
Breaking Gender and Racial Barriers in Netrunner, from Game Developer | Reddit thread
"Fight Club Quetzal", by presheaf/Klerik
Reddit thread about misgendering
ANCUR page for Quetzal
Morgan ("Anzekay") tweet about Quetzal | Quetzal (from System Update 2021)
67:30 AstroScript Pilot Program: Flavor text from First Contact

Episode 61: Lack of Imagination

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 18:00:00 CDT

We are now reaching the halfway point of the Lunar Cycle, and in this episode we'll examine the Corp side of the third Data Pack: First Contact. We'll also cover the first in a series of Anonymous Tip segments designed to help intermediate players improve, plus explore a detour in the development of Prepaid Kate. Presented in seven segments:

Title card: IQ
5:30 Anonymous Tip: Trust your gearchecks
Architect | Shipment from SanSan | Fast Track
12:30 Celebrity Gift: First Contact, Corp side
Buffs: IQ | Eliza's Toybox | Port Anson Grid | Wendigo | Shattered Remains<>br> Unchanged: Kitsune | The News Now Hour | Manhunt | Crisium Grid | Chronos Project | Lancelot
24:45 Matrix Analyzer: Corp buffs in First Contact
32:20 Ice Analyzer: New ice options in First Contact
Salvage | Ireress
42:00 Restructure: New economy option in First Contact
Melange Mining Corp.
46:50 The Toolbox: Prepaid Kate, part 11
Comparison of Lysander's latest and LeoLancer's
Cyberfeeder | The Personal Touch | Armitage Codebusting
64:25 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - The New Angeles Space Elevator, part 6

Episode 60: Remuda Triangle

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:00:00 CDT

Fresh off the presses are the notes for a new balance patch going into effect, mostly targeting booster cards. We'll also take a brief look at Notorious Daily Quester, a Silhouettehttps://discord.gg/c8SB7vVVy7 regional-winning deck, and continue our exploration of Prepaid Kate. Presented in four segments:

Episode 59: A Single Stone

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:00:00 CDT

The Corps weren't the only ones to get currents, as each Runner faction also receives one in The Spaces Between, which we will explore in this episode. We'll also discuss just how good Cache and D4vid are, plus cover some of the basic -- yet complex -- interactions that can arise when dealing with priority in a paid-ability window. Presented in ten segments:

Title card: D4v1d
1:40 Anonymous Tip: Paid ability windows
1: Tyr's Hand | Corporate Troubleshooter
2: Nisei MK II | Chum || Eden Shard | Power Shutdown | Accelerated Diagnostics
3: Tinkering | Woodcutter | Morning Star | AstroScript Pilot Program | Cloak | Ice Analyzer
4: False Echo
15:40 Satellite Uplink: The Spaces Between, Runner side
Nerf: D4v1d
Buffs: Scrubbed | Three Steps Ahead | Unscheduled Maintenance | Net Celebrity | LLDS Energy Regulator
Unchanged: Cache | Ghost Runner
20:15 The Source: Runner nerf in The Spaces Between
21:15 Ad break: LLDS
LLDS Processor
21:55 Quest Completed: Runner buffs in The Spaces Between
LLDS Energy Regulator: Copycat | Sacrificial Construct | Taurus
Unscheduled Maintenance review on NRDB
26:25 Sharpshooter: New icebreaking option in The Spaces Between
30:30 Lucky Find: New economy options in The Spaces Between
Cache - The Unlikely Hero: Scheherazade | Grimoire | Cyberfeeder | Scavenge | Surge | Djinn | Retrieval Run
Three Steps Ahead: Day Job | Kitsune
Net Celebrity: Pheromones
49:30 Datasucker: Current events
52:15 The Toolbox: Prepaid Kate, part 9
Lysander v3, + Kate Blitz, and spags
58:30 AstroScript Pilot Program: Flavor insert from The Spaces Between

Episode 58: Nothing Is Impenetrable

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:00:00 CDT

A brand new subtype is introduced to the game in the second Data Pack of the Lunar Cycle: current. These operations and events have a longer-lasting effect than others of the same type, and we'll explore current operations along with the rest of the Corp side of The Spaces Between. We'll also look at some suggestions for how to deal with agenda flood based on which Runner you're facing, and continue our exploration of the development of the Prepaid Kate deck. Presented in eight segments:

Title card: Sealed Vault
1:30 Anonymous Tip: Agenda flood
4:15 Celebrity Gift: The Spaces Between, Corp side
Buffs: The Foundry: Refining the Process | Heinlein Grid | Encrypted Portals | Infromation Overload | Lag Time | Will-o'-the-Wisp
Unchanged: Enhanced Login Protocol | Cerebral Static | Targeted Marketing | Paywall Implementation | Sealed Vault | Eden Fragment
13:00 Matrix Analyzer: Corp buffs in The Spaces Between
16:30 Ice Analyzer: New ice option in The Spaces Between
Other variable-subroutine ice: Woodcutter | Tyrant | Salvage | Swarm | Ireress | Komainu
24:30 Restructure: New economy options in The Spaces Between
Gila Hands Arcology | House of Knives | Invasion of Privacy | Amazon Industrial Zone
31:15 Market Research: Current operations
36:00 The Toolbox: Prepaid Kate, part 8
Comparison of 4 decks by Lysander
Cyber-Cypher | Dinosaurus
56:20 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - The New Angeles Space Elevator, part 4

Episode 57: The Realm Beyond

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:00:00 CDT

An important archetype that arrived on the Netrunner scene near the end of the Spin Cycle was a taxing Haas-Bioroid deck with fewer-than-usual agendas. The popularized version of it was presented by user Nordrunner and was dubbed "The Red Coats." We will look at the discussion revolving around this deck ... while also still making time to check in on the other deck that we've been covering (Prepaid Kate). Presented in four segments:

Episode 56: By Referral Only

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:00:00 CDT

This week's episode revolves largely around two extended pieces of analysis. One is from SimonMoon, a high-level player in the latter-FFG period, and the other is an extensive writeup of a successful Shaper deck with Nasir Meidan. Presented in four segments:

Episode 55: Seemed Like the Fiftieth Time

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 18:00:00 CDT

Climbing alongside the last episode is the Runner side of the first Data Pack in the Lunar Cycle (Upstalk). We'll see how some of these somewhat-underwhelming cards have been made a little more palatable by the Reboot Project. We'll also get some comments from Klerik and TheBigBoy about why Netrunner isn't as combotastic as other card games, plus continue our look at the development of the powerful Prepaid Kate deck from 2014. Presented in eight segments:

Title card: Paper Tripping
1:40 Anonymous Tip: Doing The Combo
4:10 Satellite Uplink: Upstalk, Runner side
Nerf: Power Tap
Buffs: Cyber Threat | Paper Tripping | Nasir Meidan: Cyber Explorer | Social Engineering | Leprechaun
Unchanged: Lamprey | Eden Shard
9:45 The Source: Runner nerf in Upstalk
Sunny Lebeau
11:00 Quest Completed: Runner buffs in Upstalk
Paper Tripping: Crash Space | Decoy | Networking | New Angeles City Hall | Lawyer Up
Social Engineering: Reina Roja | Rook | Xanadu
26:45 Datasucker: Dameons, chips, and consoles
Leprechaun: Djinn | Scheherazade
Monolith || Q-Coherence Chip | Akamatsu Mem Chip | Dyson Mem Chip | CyberSolutions Mem Chip
34:20 The Maker's Eye: Smirtouille
Website | DeviantArt page
Executive Wiretaps | Blackguard | Tenma Line | Cerebral Cast | Tori Hanzō | Lamprey
47:10 The Toolbox: Prepaid Kate, part 5
Redefining Shaper Control Decks
prozz' version
Comparison of 7 decks | Direct comparison of 3 decks (Calimsha's 1st, Lysander's 2nd, prozz')
Cruchums CT list | PeekaySK's CT Account Siphon list
Plascrete Carapace | Midseason Replacements
56:20 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - The New Angeles Space Elevator, part 2
Midway Station | Schematic of beanpod

Episode 54: The Buckyweave Grew

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:00:00 CDT

Like an elevator car ascending arrow-straight out of The Root at Volcán Cayambe, we head Upstalk in the first pack of the third cycle of cards in Android: Netrunner to examine the buffs (and one nerf) that the Reboot Project makes to the Corp cards, and look closely at the five pieces of ice included. This comes after some bits of news -- including how you can access a bonus episode of the podcast! -- and some suggestions from TheBigBoy on good decks for absolute beginners. Presented in nine segments:

Title card: The Root
2:15 Breaking News: Summer championships, Equity and Eternity, and bonus podcast content
GAMMANET's winning decks: Jammy. summer champs | Goodstuff CT
5:25 Red Herrings: Sonia Nahar
7:00 Anonymous Tip: Beginner decks and basic heuristics
Beginner decks: Learn 2 Run | Learn 2 Corp
11:30 Celebrity Gift: Upstalk, Corp side
Nerf: Near-Earth Hub: Broadcast Center
Buffs: Mutate | Primary Transmission Dish | Midway Station Grid | The Root | Taurus | Bad Times
Unchanged: Domestic Sleepers | NEXT Silver | Lotus Field | Mother Goddess | Galahad
25:15 The Source: Corp nerf in Upstalk
27:45 Matrix Analyzer: Corp buffs in Upstalk
The Root: Shipment from SanSan | Simone Diego
Bad Times: Sahasrara | Imp | Cache | Self-modifying Code || Closed Accounts | Freelancer | Scorched Earth || Overmind | Exile: Streethawk
35:30 Ice Analyzer: New ice options in Upstalk
Mother Goddess: Rainbow | Deus X | Sharpshooter | Gingerbread
NEXT Silver: Tyrant | TMI
Lotus Field: The Personal Touch | The Helpful AI | Dinosaurus | LLDS Processor
47:10 The Toolbox: Prepaid Kate, part 4
Redefining Shaper Control Decks | Knightman (version 1)
ff0x's Chronos Protocol winner | Lysander's version 2
Comparison of 6 decks
Legwork | Retrieval Run | Doppelgänger
56:20 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android - The New Angeles Space Elevator, part 1

Episode 53: An Up-Front Fee

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:00:00 CDT

The second part of our coverage of the second deluxe expansion -- Honor and Profit -- continues with an examination of the Runner cards. Before that, we'll hit previews of the rest of the new cards from Equity and Eternity, the fourth Reboot booster. Presented in nine segments:

Episode 52: Perfecting the Imperfect

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:00:00 CDT

The second deluxe expansion for Netrunner -- Honor and Profit -- kicks off the second half of the Reboot cardpool. We'll cover the changes to the Corp cards in this episode (which include two nerfs), examining some of the buffs, new ice, and new economy options. We'll also look at seven new cards from Equity and Eternity, the fourth Reboot booster, that have been spoiled over the last week. And we'll continue our examination of the development of the Prepaid Kate archetype. Presented in ten segments:

Episode 51: Algorithms Incomprehensible

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:00:00 CDT

Spoiler season has started for the Reboot Project and its upcoming booster pack, Equity and Eternity. In addition to all the spoilers that have already been revealed in the Discord server, we'll present an exclusive one here. We'll also start a new series examining the Runner deck known as "Prepaid Kate." Presented in six segments:

Title card: Cartographer
1:00 Exclusive Party: Cartographer
Armitage Codebusting | Professional Contacts
13:00 Breaking News: Patch notes
Sniper | NEXT Level Clearance | NEXT Silver | Notoriety
Elysium | Box-E
19:00 Precognition: Equity and Eternity spoilers
30:20 The Toolbox: Prepaid Kate
Redefining Shaper Control Decks | Knightman (version 1)
Prepaid VoicePAD
Pipeline>br> 51:15 Red Herrings: Imp
60:30 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android: The Network -- part 5, Building Neural Bridges (part 1)
Blackguard, by Amelie Hutt

Episode 50: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Mon, 8 Jul 2024 18:00:00 CDT

Poised just before the release of the fourth booster pack for Reboot, we present an interview with the main driving force behind the project: Abram Jopp, better known as TheBigBoy. This wide-ranging, show-long episode covers his early days in Netrunner, the genesis of Reboot, and a handful of somewhat-more-random questions.

Episode 49: Catch-22

Mon, 1 Jul 2024 18:00:00 CDT

Though this should be the episode where we launch into Honor & Profit, we have something special on tap for episode 50, and I didn't want to break up the H&P flow. Instead we will run a modern classic article about analyzing ice, by SimonMoon from late-era FFG. Presented in three segments:

Title card: Tollbooth
3:15 Anonymous Tip: Game commentary by Gob Lynn Mode (and TheBigBoy)
Original video | Gob Lynn Mode's commentary | Discord thread with TBB's comments
5:20 Archived Memories: Allow Me to Break the Ice
Comrades CtM, Worlds 2017
60:30 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android: The Network -- part 4, The Shadow Net
The Shadow Net, by Christina Davis

Episode 48: Through Your Own Mind

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:00:00 CDT

Our discussion of the Corp side of Double Time continues into this episode as we discuss the five new pieces of ice introduced in this pack. Then we move on to a retrospective analysis of the Corp double operations in the Spin Cycle, as well as the different ways to acquire, lose, dodge, and use bad publicity. Presented in four segments:

Episode 47: The Events of June Sixth Through Sixteenth

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:00:00 CDT

In his top 50 countdown of best cards in the Reboot cardpool, TheBigBoy ranked Caprice Nisei as #2, behind only Jackson Howard. Double Time, the final pack in the Spin Cycle, brings Caprice into the cardpool, so we'll spend some time discussing how she works and why she's so good. Presented in five segments:

Episode 46: Exciting Time to Be Alive

Mon, 3 Jun 2024 18:00:00 CDT

On the Reboot Project main page is this comment: "Once you get to around the end of Spin Cycle, every faction should feel viable." Well, we have arrived at the end of the Spin Cycle, the halfway point of the FFG portion of the Reboot Project cardpool. After some relevant feedback from the Reboot community on the last episode, we dive into the Runner side of Double Time, which includes one nerf. Following that, we'll take a closer look at the ten Runner doubles that came in the Spin Cycle and try to figure out how many of them are worth playing. Presented in nine segments:

Title card: Silencer
1:50 Breaking News: Preconstructed League 14
3:05 Anonymous Tip: Runner factions and basic deckbuilding tips
Reg Val precon | Andysucker precon | MOpus Kit precon
6:45 Feedback Filter: TWIY, GRNDL, traps, and Account Siphon
16:15 Satellite Uplink: Double Time, Runner side
Fall Guy
Singularity | Dyson Fractal Generator | Silencer | Savoir-faire | Paintbrush
Queen's Gambit | Power Nap | Lucky Find
21:30 The Source: Runner nerf in Double Time
Data Leak Reversal
24:40 Quest Completed: Runner buffs in Double Time
31:30 Lucky Find: New economy options for Runners in Double Time
Prepaid VoicePAD
41:50 Datasucker: Analysis of sets of cards in the Spin Cycle
Doubles: Eureka! | Frame Job | Hostage | Power Nap | Queen's Gambit | Lawyer Up | Singularity | Executive Wiretaps | Running Interference | Lucky Find
Stealth chips: Dyson Fractal Generator | Silencer | Lockpick
Big programs: Sneakdoor Beta | Keyhole | Paintbrush
57:15 AstroScript Pilot Program: Flavor insert from Double Time

Reboot Project home page
A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point
Reboot Project Discord server
Play online: Reteki.fun
Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman
Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com
Episode transcript
2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread
2.1 focused Stimhack thread
Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

Episode 45: Some Restrictions May Apply

Mon, 27 May 2024 18:00:00 CDT

The preconstructed decks are one of the cornerstones of the Reboot Project. With the introduction of Fear and Loathing to the 2.1 cardpool, one of the Corporation preconstructed decks is (almost) fully viable: TWIY Psychographics. So in this episode, we examine every card choice in this deck and go into detail on how to pilot it. As if that weren't enough, the second half of the episode revisits the Supermodernism archetype now that the Weyland ID GRNDL is available for the 2.1 group. Presented in four segments:

Title card: NBN: The World Is Yours
3:00 The Toolbox, part 1: TWIY Psychographics
TWIY Psychographics (preconstructed)
Precon Corp Analysis doc
Preconstructed decks, with complexity rating and description
Guard | Global Food Initiative
Yellow Flash
TWIY Psychographics (2.1 edit)
37:25 The Toolbox, part 2: Supermodernism v3
BoardGameGeek thread discussing GRNDL version of Supermodernism
Stimhack article with ID ratings after Spin Cycle
Fine-Tuning the Machine: Relearning Supermodernism
NAPD Contract
YOLO GRNDL (preconstructed)
80:25 Feedback Filter: Omega, and Toshiyuki Sakai
R2devo's Kit deck with Omega
Plan B
84:30 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- The Network, part 1
SYNC: Everything, Everywhere

Reboot Project home page
A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point
Reboot Project Discord server
Play online: Reteki.fun
Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman
Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com
Episode transcript
2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread
2.1 focused Stimhack thread
Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

Episode 44: A Real Fine Roller Coaster

Mon, 20 May 2024 18:00:00 CDT

The pack review of Fear and Loathing continues in this episode with the Corp side. Though the Runner side was somewhat underwhelming, the Corp side is ... well, not overwhelming ... but a nice degree of whelming. Presented in six segments:

Reboot Project home page
A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point
Reboot Project Discord server
Play online: Reteki.fun
Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman
Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com
Episode transcript
2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread
2.1 focused Stimhack thread
Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

Episode 43: A Power Beyond Comprehension

Mon, 06 May 2024 06:00:00 CDT

Fear and Loathing has arrived for the 2.1 group, and we'll cover the sort-of-underwhelming Runner side of that pack. The back half of the episode will be a discussion and examination of the also sort-of-underwhelming (but fun!) Professor. Presented in seven segments:

Title card: Blackguard
2:10 Satellite Uplink: Fear and Loathing, Runner side
Blackmail
Hemmorhage | Tallie Perrault | Executive Wiretaps | Blackguard | CyberSolutions Mem Chip | Alpha | Omega
Quest Completed
9:30 The Source: Blackmail
12:10 Datasucker: Runner buffs in Fear and Loathing
Expert Schedule Analyzer
Silhouette: Stealth Operative | Snitch | Infiltration
19:45 Sharpshooter: New icebreaker options in Fear and Loathing
26:20 The Toolbox: The Professor: Keeper of Knowledge
Let's have a chat about The Professor
sirprim's deck and blogpost
PeekaySK's Vivat Academia
Evolution of a Professor Deck
Card review by JAK
Professor: Running in Hard Mode
46:30 The Maker's Eye: Gong Studios
49:50 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- NBN, part 2 (of 2)
Threedee

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Episode 42: Nice All the Year

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:00:00 CDT

After covering the top 10 cards for both Runner and Corp within the purview of the Reboot Project, we'll spend the bulk of the episode discussing the concept of fast advance: what it is, how it's changed in Reboot, and how it differs from rush -- including an article from world champion Dan D'Argenio. Presented in six segments:

Title card: SanSan City Grid
1:50 Anonymous Tip: Top 50 countdown, positions 10-1
14:00 The Toolbox: Fast advance
ANCUR definition and discussion | Reddit thread
23:00 Matrix Analyzer: Reboot changes to fast advance cards
AstroScript Pilot Program | Biotic Labor | SanSan City Grid
Psychographics | Midseason Replacements
Trick of Light
Director Haas | Haas Arcology AI | Efficiency Committee | Shipment from SanSan
31:50 Archived Memories: Slowing Down Fast Advance
Successful Demonstration | Eve Campaign
Marked Accounts | PAD Campaign
Dan D'Argenio Twitch
53:45 Research Station: Reboot preconstructed decks
Archetypes doc
Preconstructed analysis for Corps
58:45 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- NBN, part 1 (of 2)
Victoria Jenkins, CEO

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Episode 41: Target Market

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 06:00:00 CDT

This past weekend was the 2024 Reboot Spring Championship, won by Zailey; we'll discuss her winning decks in this episode. Then, after another check-in with the top 50 countdown (now entering the top 20), we'll cover some of the powerful Corp cards that arrived as part of True Colors. Presented in nine segments:

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Episode 40: Smash On Through

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 06:00:00 CDT

True Colors, the 4th Data Pack of the Spin Cycle, arrives for the 2.1 group, and this week we look into the Runner side of the set. The first quarter of the episode is a little more timely, though, with a preview of the 4th booster pack for Reboot and another set of 10 cards for each side in TheBigBoy's countdown of the top 50 cards in Reboot (up to Data and Destiny). Presented in eight segments:

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Episode 39: Maneuver Warfare

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 06:00:00 CDT

This week's episode goes completely off-format as we bring you a two-part article written by OrangeDevil (a high-level player on OCTGN in the early days of the game) wherein we get to see a play-by-play analysis and commentary of a game of Netrunner.

Title card: Knight
Game 1
Gabriel Santiago: Consummate Professional vs. Weyland Consortium: Building a Better World
GABE splashes:
Anarch breakers ( Corroder/ Yog.0/ Mimic) and Parasite
R&D pressure: The Maker's Eye | Indexing | R&D Interface | Medium
Magnum Opus
Other threats: Account Siphon | Faerie | Emergency Shutdown
WEYLAND: Scorched Earth | Plascrete Carapace
Flatline deck: Posted Bounty | Snare! | SEA Source | Project Junebug
Big ice: Tollbooth | Ash 2X3ZB9CY | Corporate Troubleshooter
Fast advance: SanSan City Grid | Trick of Light | Biotic Labor
Rush: Oversight AI
TURN 1: Forged Activation Orders | Caduceus | Ice Wall | Hedge Fund || Sure Gamble | Easy Mark | Sneakdoor Beta | Rototurret | Grim | Dirty Laundry | Shadow | Enigma
TURN 2: Green Level Clearance
TURN 3: Archer | Hadrian's Wall | Ninja | Femme Fatale | Neural EMP
TURN 4: Hostile Takeover | TURN 5: Inside Job | Priority Requisition | Janus 1.0
TURN 6: Melange Mining Corp. | Jackson Howard | Bernice Mai
TURN 8: Quality Time | Successful Demonstration | Armitage Codebusting
TURN 9: Beanstalk Royalties | Wall of Static | Bastion
TURN 10: Government Contracts | Desperado | Crypsis
TURN 15: Stimhack
TURN 17: Same Old Thing
TURN 18: Datasucker

Game 2
Rielle "Kit" Peddler vs. Haas-Bioroid: Engineering the Future
KIT: Gordian Blade | Cyber-Cypher | Snowball | Battering Ram | Deus X | Aesop's Pawnshop | Personal Workshop | Modded | Escher | Tinkering | Scavenge | Atman
HB: EtF: Chimera | Ichi 1.0 | Aggressive Secretary | Encryption Protocol | Neural Katana
Agendas: Accelerated Beta Test | Gila Hands Arcology | Project Vitruvius | Efficiency Committee | Executive Retreat | Director Haas
TURN 1: Pop-up Window | Professional Contacts
TURN 2: Bank Job
TURN 5: Diesel | Infiltration
TURN 6: Dinosaurus
TURN 7: Archived Memories
TURN 11: Director Haas' Pet Project
CONCLUSION: Breaking News

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Episode 38: Off the Charts

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:00:00 CDT

This week's episode is largely devoted to the Corp side of Mala Tempora, especially focusing on the one nerf in the pack to Accelerated Diagnostics and the reasons behind it. We'll also peek at the next ten entries in TheBigBoy's top 50 countdown of FFG cards in Reboot. Presented in seven segments:

Title card: Accelerated Diagnostics
1:40 Anonymous Tip: Top 50 countdown, positions 40-31
11:15 Satellite Uplink: Mala Tempora, Corp side
Accelerated Diagnostics
Isabel McGuire | Hudson 1.0 | City Surveillance | Snoop | Ireress
Unorthodox Predictions | Sundew | Power Shutdown | Paper Wall | Interns
18:45 The Source: Accelerated Diagnostics
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, by Dan D'Argenio
Cerebral Imaging: Infinite Frontiers | Reclamation Order | Subliminal Messaging | Quandary
Leela Patel | Hades Shard | Utopia Shard | Clot
35:25 Matrix Analyzer: Corp buffs
38:55 Restructure: Sundew
43:50 Ice Analyzer: New ice options in Mala Tempora
54:30 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Clones, part 7 (Predetermination and Cloning, and Clones and Punishment

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Episode 37: Run With the Best ... Again

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:00:00 CDT

Going off-format a bit this time around (and postponing the Corp side of Mala Tempora until the next episode), we devote about half the episode to an article examining the Andromeda decks from 2013 Worlds. We'll also pick up the next section of TheBigBoy's top 50 countdowns, and check out the latest patch notes for Reboot. Presented in five segments:

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Episode 36: Playing the Same Game

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:00:00 CDT

With the arrival of the third Data Pack in the Spin Cycle, this second cycle of expansions is half complete! After poring over the new Runner cards available, we'll give over half the episode to a concept that caused a big stir during the original release of the game by looking an article by Steven Wooley of Team Covenant about what makes Anarchs Anarchs. Presented in seven segments:

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Episode 35: All the Reason One Needs

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:00:00 CST

After a couple of small housekeeping segments, we turn over the majority of this episode to the seminal article "Playing the Opening" from the prolific Alex Rockwell, a discussion of specific gameplay approaches in the first few turns of a game of Netrunner, largely focused on what the Runner wants to try to do, but with plenty of lessons and advice for Corp players. Presented in four segments:

Title card: Prepaid VoicePAD
2:10 Anonymous Tip: Top 50 countdown
4:45 Red Herrings: Errata from last episode
Muckraker | Wotan
8:30 Archived Memories: Playing the Opening
INTRODUCTION: Economy ice: Pop-up Window | Caduceus || Cheap ETR ice: Ice Wall | Enigma
Runner economy cards: Kati Jones | Wyldside | Personal Workshop | Daily Casts | Professional Contacts
EXAMPLE 1: Bastion | Indexing | Neural Katana | Archer | Hadrian's Wall | Tollbooth | Swarm | Data Raven | Grim | Rototurret | Shadow
EXAMPLE 2: Flare | Ichi 1.0 | Hunter | Melange Mining Corp. | Inside Job | Tinkering
EXAMPLE 3: Haas-Bioroid: Engineering the Future | Sneakdoor Beta | Corroder | Emergency Shutdown | Parasite
EXAMPLE 4: Jinteki: Personal Evolution | Yog.0 | Sure Gamble | Plascrete Carapace | Fetal AI | Snare! | PAD Campaign | Himitsu-Bako
EXAMPLE 5: Andromeda | Desperado | Dirty Laundry | Datasucker | Ninja | R&D Interface | Adonis Campaign | Wall of Static | Eli 1.0 | Heimdall 2.0 | Account Siphon | Forged Activation Orders
CONCLUSION: Hedge Fund | Gabriel Santiago | Bernice Mai | Celebrity Gift
Medium | The Maker's Eye | Noise | Chaos Theory | Snowball | Atman
51:35 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Clones, part 5 (Clonal Health Maintenance, and The Novice's Guide to Clonership)

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Episode 34: The Gibson-Akamatsu Test

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:00:00 CST

A handful of cards from Style and Slander (the third Reboot Booster) have been hit with the nerf hammer; we'll cover those along with the other cards that have received some slight adjustments ... including an improved Akiko. Then, after a brief detour through 2013 Worlds -- with more to come later -- we dive into the Corp side of Second Thoughts. Presented in seven segments:

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Episode 33: I've Got a Surprise for You

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:00:00 CST

Second Thoughts is the second Data Pack in the Spin Cycle, the second cycle of the FFG version of Netrunner. This episode looks at the Runner side of the cards in this pack, including one that couldn't be salvaged by the Reboot Project. We'll also share a brief article that tries to remove some of the fear of running early. Presented in six segments:

Title card: Eureka!
4:15 Archived Memories: Aggressive Running
Neural Katana | Hunter | Dracō | Caduceus | Pop-up Window
14:00 Satellite Uplink: Second Thoughts, Runner side
Bishop | Hard at Work | Recon | Copycat | Leviathan | Eureka!
Scheherazade | Record Reconstructor | Prepaid VoicePAD
19:15 The Source: Record Reconstructor
22:30 Matrix Analyzer: Runner buffs in Second Thoughts
5-cost: Magnum Opus | Crypsis | Professional Contacts || 6-cost: Yog.0 | Liberated Account | Leviathan || 7-cost: The Toolbox | Morning Star || 8-cost: Torch || 9-cost: Femme Fatale | Blackguard || 12-cost: Monolith
21:30 Datasucker: New icebreaker option in Second Thoughts
33:15 AstroScript Pilot Program: Flavor insert from Second Thoughts

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Episode 32: Huge Amounts of Energy

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST

Style and Slander has been released, and we'll cover the final set of spoilers for this third booster for the Reboot Project. Then the majority of the episode is turned over to multiple segments presenting, analyzing, and discussing the Supermodernism deck and its Reboot Project descendant. Presented in nine segments:

Title card: Geothermal Fracking
2:00 Breaking News: Style and Slander released
3:30 Precognition: Style and Slander (part 3 -- Criminal)
9:10 The Toolbox, part 1: Supermodernism
TheBigBoy's Archetypes document
14:00 Experiential Data, part 1: Version 1 (before Opening Moves)
38:30 Experiential Data, part 2: Version 2 (after Opening Moves)
Agendas: False Lead | Geothermal Fracking | Government Contracts | Hostile Takeover | Project Atlas
Assets: Snare!
Operations: Anonymous Tip | Beanstalk Royalties | Green Level Clearance | Hedge Fund | Scorched Earth | SEA Source
ICE: Archer | Bastion | Chimera | Enigma | Grim | Ice Wall | Wall of Static
48:30 Archived Memories: Raging Bull blogpost (from Satellite Uplink)
62:40 The Toolbox, part 2: YOLO GRNDL (Reboot preconstructed deck)
66:30 Research Station: Run Last Click (podcast)
Episode 14: Feeling Supermodernism
68:55 AstroScript Pilot Program: Flavor insert from Opening Moves

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Episode 31: Perfect Companions

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST

In addition to some more spoilers for the upcoming third Booster for Reboot -- Style and Slander -- we will cover the other half of Opening Moves with the Corporation cards, including more than you ever wanted to hear about Jackson Howard. Presented in ten segments:

Title card: Jackson Howard
1:30 Precognition: Style and Slander (part 2 -- NBN)
5:45 Feedback Filter: Winter Worlds, and technical issues
7:45 Satellite Uplink: Opening Moves, Corp side
Jackson Howard
Project Ares | Character Assassination | Invasion of Privacy | Geothermal Fracking | Swarm | Grim
NEXT Bronze | Celebrity Gift | Himitsu-Bako | Cyberdex Trial
14:15 The Source: Corp nerf in Opening Moves
15:00 Matrix Analyzer: Corp buffs in Opening Moves
21:30 Ice Analyzer: New ice options in Opening Moves
28:45 Mandatory Upgrades: Jackson Howard
38:10 Archived Memories: Stimhack article on Jackson Howard
65:15 Enigma: Damon on Jackson
67:40 AstroScript Pilot Program: Victoria Jenkins (and Jackson Howard)

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Episode 30: The Connections Are Clean

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 18:00:00 CST

A new year, a new season of the preconstructed league, a new Booster Pack for the Reboot Project (soon), and a new cycle of Data Packs to ingest for the 2.1 group. Presented in eight segments:

Title card: John Masanori
1:50 Breaking News: Winter Worlds and Preconstructed League
TheBigBoy's stream | Gob Lynn Mode's stream
3:00 Precognition: Style and Slander (part 1)
13:50 Satellite Uplink: Opening Moves, Runner side
Pawn
Frame Job | Rook | Hostage | False Echo
Gorman Drip v1 | Lockpick | Motivation | John Masanori
24:00 The Source: Runner nerf in Opening Moves
Exile
Street Chess
29:00 Matrix Analyzer: Runner buffs in Opening Moves
39:35 Enigma: Flavor on three cards in Opening Moves
46:40 Feedback Filter: Cloak
48:35 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Clones, part 3 (Tenma Line)

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Episode 29: I Can Make That Work

Mon, 25 Dec 2023 17:00:00 CST

We return again to the massive Creation and Control well to draw out the Runner cards. We'll also start to explore one of the cornerstones of the Reboot Project -- the preconstructed decks -- by taking a closer look at one featuring a new Runner ID in this expansion, as well as a dive into the winning Runner deck from the huge GenCon tournament in 2013. Presented in nine segments:

Title card: Exile
1:30 Successful Demonstration: Reboot preconstructed decks
7:50 Satellite Uplink: Creation and Control, Runner side
Creation and Control listing on RetekiDB 23:40 The Source: Runner nerfs in Creation and Control
Clone Chip | Atman | Same Old Thing
27:00 Matrix Analyzer: Runner buffs in Creation and Control
Exile | Monolith | Cloak | Borrowed Satellite
33:30 Datasucker: New economy and icebreaker options
Freelance Coding Contract | Dirty Laundry | Professional Contacts | Daily Casts
Stimhack article on Professional Contacts
Inti | Cyber-Cypher | Dagger | Atman
48:40 Experiential Data: 2013 GenCon Tournament
Decklists and discussion | Report and discussion
Team Covenant videos:
Semifinals, Match 1, Game 1 and Game 2
Semifinals, Match 2, Game 1 and Game 2
Finals, Game 1 and Game 2
Interviews with champion Justin Kopinsky and runner-up Jimmy Risk
54:45 Successful Demonstration, part 2: FCC Exile (2.1 version)
61:30 Feedback Filter: Zed 1.0
66:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Kit

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Episode 28: Disappointing His Mother

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:00:00 CST

Creation and Control, the first deluxe expansion, crashes into the 2.1 group as this week's episode is mostly turned over to discussion of the Corp side of this massive influx of cards. Presented in six segments:

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Episode 27: The Human Touch

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:00:00 CST

The centerpiece of this week's episode is the article on Jinteki and work compression written by Geoff Hollis around the time of Future Proof's release. We'll also explore a couple of successful regional decks from June 2013 that use Andromeda and a "tag me" style. Presented in five segments:

Title card: Jinteki: Personal Evolution
2:00 Anonymous Tip: Netrunner jargon
The Jargon of Netrunner, by D Tse
10:20 Archived Memories: Jinteki and work compression
My Secret Love Affair with Jinteki: Personal Evolution, by Geoff Hollis
Wall of Thorns | Akitaro Watanabe | Dedicated Server
Project Junebug | Edge of World | Jinteki: Replicating Perfection
Public Sympathy | Net Shield | Crypsis | Darwin | Gabriel Santiago | Archer
33:15 Experiential Data: Tag-me Andy
ANCUR definition of Tag Me
Justin Dugger's Andromeda: More Money (Decklist | Report)
Alex Rockwell's Datasucker Andromeda (Decklist | Report)
47:30 The Maker's Eye: Reza Ilyasa
Deviant Art page | Art Station page
R&D Interface | Dedicated Response Team | Burke Bugs
49:50 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Clones, part 2 (Henry line)

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Episode 26: Delectable Sauerkraut

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:00:00 CST

The first half of this week's episode focuses on the new tools for the Corp that Future Proof provided. In the second half, we examine a couple of strong decklists -- along with the current state of the meta at this point in the original release of the game -- with the help of a lengthy article from Alex Rockwell. Presented in six segments:

Title card: Ruhr Valley
1:55 Satellite Uplink: Future Proof, Corp side
Midseason Replacements
Ruhr Valley | Midori | NBN: The World is Yours | Flare | Dedicated Response Team | Burke Bugs | Corporate War
Eli 1.0 | Ronin | Project Beale
6:40 Matrix Analyzer: Nerfs and other comments
NBN: The World is Yours: Breaking News | SEA Source | Big Brother | Psychographics | Market Research
Ruhr Valley: Enhanced Login Protocol || Heimdall 1.0 | e3 Feedback Implants | SanSan City Grid | Biotic Labor | Accelerated Beta Test
13:55 Datasucker: New ice options
17:00 Mandatory Upgrades: Eli 1.0
Allow Me to Break the Ice: A Guide to Analyzing Ice in Netrunner
19:50 Archived Memories: Two Future Proof Decklists, by Alexfrog
NBN Flytrap deck
Andromeda's Interfaces
49:20 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Clones, part 1

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Episode 25: Do You Believe in Faeries?

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:00:00 CST

As a special treat for this quarter-century episode, we investigate the changes to the Runner side of the final Data Pack in the Genesis Cycle: Future Proof -- including two nerfs to powerful cards. There are also lengthier discussions on R&D Interface and a classic blogpost from Cry of Frustration for new players. Presented in six segments:

Title card: Faerie
1:20 Anonymous Tip: New player mistakes
Cry of Frustration Compendium of Netrunner Newbie Mistakes
Melange Mining Corp. | Jinteki: Personal Evolution | Magnum Opus | Inside Job
ANCUR (Android: Netrunner Comprehensive Unofficial Rules
16:15 Satellite Uplink: Future Proof, Runner side
Data Leak Reversal | Indexing
Darwin | Mr. Li | Deep Thought
Retrieval Run | Faerie | R&D Interface | New Angeles City Hall
21:50 Matrix Analyzer: Nerfs and other comments
25:10 Datasucker: New icebreaker options
Ninja | Crypsis
Building a Darwin deck
32:45 Mandatory Upgrades: R&D Interface
The Long Game: R&D Control
Medium | Grimoire | Surge | The Maker's Eye
Future Proof Set Review
Replicator | Modded
44:30 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Chronos Protocol

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Episode 24: The Most Notorious Research Facility

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:00:00 CDT

The Reboot leagues are gearing up for another season! And we've reached the point in the history of Netrunner where the venerable Stimhack was launched, so we'll present a classic article on card combos, along with a sprinkling of other items. Presented in six segments:

Title card: Hokusai Grid
1:30 Breaking News: Reboot Leagues
3:00 Anonymous Tip: Early-game protection for Corps
Security Testing | Grifter | Account Siphon
7:00 Research Station: Stimhack
10:00 Archived Memories: The Difference Between Good and Bad Combos, by Alexfrog
Sneakdoor Beta & Emergency Shutdown | Underworld Contact & Rabbit Hole | Akitaro Watanabe & Cell Portal (& Sunset
Scorched Earth & Project Atlas vs. Plascrete Carapace
Aesop's Pawnshop | Noise: Hacker Extraordinaire
34:30 The Maker's Eye: Ed Mattinian
Reboot cards
Home page | DeviantArt page
37:45 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Jinteki (with Chairman Hiro)

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Episode 23: A Job Done Right

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:00:00 CDT

Another patch has arrived for Reboot, so the episode starts off by covering the newest buff, nerfs, and a reversion before tackling the Corp side of Humanity's Shadow through the main part of the episode. Presented in eight segments:

Title card: Simone Diego
1:20 Breaking News: October 2023 patch notes
Fisk Investment Seminar
Marked Accounts | IQ | Silencer | Cloak | Cerberus "Lady" H1 | The Horde: Defiant Disenfrancistos | System Outage
11:00 Anonymous Tip: Defending against Criminal
Account Siphon | Inside Job | Forged Activation Orders
Hostile Takeover | Posted Bounty | Zaibatsu Loyalty | Satellite Uplink
18:00 Satellite Uplink: Humanity's Shadow, Corp side
Eve Campaign | Rework | Hokusai Grid | Data Hound
Salvage | Simone Diego
Whirlpool | Bernice Mai | Foxfire
22:00 Matrix Analyzer: Corp buffs and comments
Emergency Shutdown | Midway Station Grid
28:00 Datasucker: New ice and economy options
Cell Portal | Bullfrog
Woodcutter | Tyrant
44:25 Mandatory Upgrades: Eve Campaign
Waldemar 2.1 (updated through Humanity's Shadow)
46:00 Enigma: Allusions and flavor in Humanity's Shadow
54:10 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Anti-bioroid politician stump speech; bioroid awakening

Episode 22: Run With the Best

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 17:00:00 CDT

Andy! Andy!! Andy!!! Yes, Andromeda arrived in Humanity's Shadow, and a large bulk of this episode is presented to discussing her: why she's good, why and how she was slightly nerfed in Reboot, a decklist for her from a regional in 2013, and even her flavor text. Presented in six segments:

Episode 21: Engineering the Modern Workforce

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:00:00 CDT

A change of pace this week, especially for fans of the AstroScript Pilot Progam (segment, not the card). Contained within The Worlds of Android book is a "newspaper" feature article. Not seeing any good way to break it up across multiple episodes, I have decided to give over an entire episode to it instead. Presented in one segment:

Pages 2 and 3
Page 6
Page 9 and Guest Editorial
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Episode 20: Time Just Slips Away

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:00:00 CDT

This time around we have a special treat: an archive audio interview of Android: Netrunner lead designer Lukas Litzsinger, presented by one of the first strategy columnists for the game -- Geoff Hollis. Around this centerpiece we also have an exploration of the runner-up decks from the second BoardGameGeek OCTGN tournament, along with some other small segments along the way. Presented in seven segments:

Title card: Hourglass
2:20 Anonymous Tip: Runner deckbuilding
R&D Interface | Imp
3:45 Experiential Data: BGG OCTGN Tournament #2, runner-up
Weyland deck | Criminal deck
Ash 2X3ZB9CY | Scorched Earth | Grimoire | Desperado (original version)
Waldemar 2.1 deck
Stimhack | Forged Activation Orders
"Best card" tournament
23:15 Archived Memories: Geoff Hollis interview with Lukas Litzsinger
Discussing Android: Netrunner with Lukas Litzsinger (from Android: Netrunner Strategy blog, by Geoff Hollis)
56:00 e3 Feedback Implants: Tyrant
Tennin Institute: The Secrets Within
58:00 Red Herrings: Hourglass
60:15 Research Station: At-a-glance Data Pack reviews
A Study in Static: Scrubber | Deus X | Underworld Contact | Oversight AI | False Lead
66:15 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Cynthia Haas

Episode 19: The Highest Level of Security

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:00:00 CDT

After a couple of new-player-friendly opening segments, we dive into the Corp side of A Study in Static and examine the large number of adjusted cards, including the four new pieces of ice and where they fit into the scheme that we've developed over the last several episodes. Presented in eight segments:

Title card: Green Level Clearance
1:40 Anonymous Tip: Running early
Neural Katana | Wall of Thorns | Fetal AI | Snare! | Account Siphon
4:10 Archived Memories: Ice/icebreaker-type design
From a design standpoint, why are there different types of Ice/Icebreakers?
Special Order | Test Run | Wyldside | Diesel
11:50 Satellite Uplink: A Study in Static, Corp side
Oversight AI
Green Level Clearance | Hourglass | Dedicated Server
Bullfrog | Uroboros | Net Police | Weyland Consortium: Because We Built It | Government Contracts | Tyrant
False Lead
17:00 Matrix Analyzer: Comments on Corp nerf and buffs
Blue Sun: Powering the Future | Woodcutter | Gila Hands Arcology
31:20 Mandatory Upgrades: Green Level Clearance
33:10 Datasucker: Sorting ice
40:45 The Maker's Eye: Mauricio Herrera
List of cards by Mauricio Herrera in Reboot
Home page | DeviantArt page | ArtStation page
42:10 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Bioroids

Vitruvian Bioroid

Episode 18: Looking Out for Your Interests

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:00:00 CDT

This time around, we crack open another Data Pack: A Study in Static, the fourth part of the Genesis Cycle. We'll see which Runner cards the Reboot Project buffed (and which they didn't), then talk at some length about the two new icebreakers in this pack and what's up with Underworld Contact. Presented in seven segments:

Title card: Big Brother
1:40 Anonymous Tip: The Buff Bracket
HQ Interface | Armitage Codebusting
Ken "Express" Tenma | Red Herrings
Big Brother | NBN: The World Is Yours
Hourglass | Posted Bounty
Fetal AI
10:15 Satellite Uplink: A Study in Static, Runner side
Disrupter | Force of Nature | Doppelgänger | Inside Man
Scrubber | Crescentus | Deus X | All-nighter | Underworld Contact
15:00 Matrix Analyzer: Comments on Runner buffs
Kate "Mac" McCaffrey | Rabbit Hole
Desperado
20:10 Datasucker: Icebreakers
Project Junebug | Snare!
31:50 e3 Feedback Implants: Listener comments
Sherlock 1.0
34:30 Enigma: Flavor on three cards
Underworld Contact (revised core set)
42:10 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- It Is the Future; Haas-Bioroid (Current Projects)

Episode 17: Colors You Can't Imagine

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 17:00:00 CDT

Now that we've sorted our ice, it's time to see how it can be best utilized in a particular basic deck archetype for Corps: glacier. Presented in five segments:

Episode 16: One Big Headache

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:00:00 CDT

The last few weeks on ice placement have been building to this: We go through every piece of ice in the current 2.1 cardpool (up to Cyber Exodus) and figure out which are binary or analog and which are ETR or tagging. Presented in five segments:

Title card: Chimera
1:55 Breaking News: Reboot Worlds Champ 2023
TheBigBoy's Twitch channel
Klerik's Runner deck (and link to Corp deck in comment)
3:00 Anonymous Tip: three FAQ entries
5:40 Datasucker: Ice placement, part 4
Barriers:
binary ETR: Ice Wall | Wall of Static
on-the-bubble ETR: Snowflake
analog ETR: TMI | Wall of Thorns | Heimdall 1.0 | Hadrian's Wall
Code Gates:
binary ETR: Enigma
binary taxing: Pop-up Window
analog ETR: Tollbooth
analog taxing: Viktor 1.0 | Viper | Cell Portal
combo ETR: Sensei
combo taxing: Chum
Sentries:
binary ETR: Rototurret
binary taxing: Shadow | Caduceus | Neural Katana | Matrix Analyzer | Woodcutter
on-the-bubble taxing: Data Raven | Dracō | Hunter
analog ETR: Archer
analog taxing: Ichi 1.0 | Sherlock 1.0 | Janus 1.0
Data Mine
A chart with all of the ice in the current pool 46:45 Mandatory Upgrades: Pop-up Window
49:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- The City That Never Stops and Building a Better Tomorrow

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Episode 15: Try to Close It

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 17:00:00 CDT

Reboot Worlds is coming up soon! Also: This week switches to an analysis of the Corp cards in Cyber Exodus, which is the third Data Pack in the Genesis Cycle, especially as adjusted by the Reboot Project. We also continue our exploration and analysis of ice by looking at where certain types of ice are best placed. Presented in ten segments:

Title card: Pop-up Window
1:30 Breaking News: Reboot Worlds
2:45 Anonymous Tip: vs. Account Siphon
Account Siphon | Desperado | Parasite | Self-modifying Code | Caprice Nisei
SanSan City Grid | Shipment from SanSan | Eli 1.0
8:20 Archived Memories: Ice placement, part 3
Is there an ice placement guide or a resource?
Ice placement and strategy
21:30 Satellite Uplink: Cyber Exodus, Corp side
buffs: Edge of World | Woodcutter | Private Contracts | Chimera
unchanged: Project Vitruvius | Viper | Sunset | Marked Accounts | Pop-up Window | Commercialization
24:45 Matrix Analyzer: Comments of Corp buffs
32:45 Datasucker: Comparing Corp economy options post-Cyber Exodus
Private Contracts vs. Melange Mining Corp.
Marked Accounts vs. Adonis Campaign vs. PAD Campaign
44:30 Mandatory Upgrades: Project Vitruvius
47:10 Enigma: Project Vitruvius
49:00 The Maker's Eye: Emilio Rodriguez
ArtStation | Instagram | InPrnt
51:40 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- The World Is Yours and The Network

Episode 14: Have You Met Dinosaurus?

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:00:00 CDT

Another month, another Data Pack added to the 2.1 group. This time around it's Cyber Exodus, the third Data Pack in the Genesis cycle. We'll take some time to examine the Runner cards in this pack, including the changes made by Reboot and some of the reasoning behind those changes. We'll also pick up the discussion from episode 12 about ice and discuss a blogpost made by TheBigBoy several years ago that discusses its placement. Presented in eight segments:

1:30 Anonymous Tip: FAQ about ice
4:40 Archived Memories: 19 ICE is a crutch
Architect | Wraparound | Mandatory Upgrades
Waldemar HB
19:45 Satellite Uplink: Cyber Exodus, Runner side
buffs: Nerve Agent | Muresh Bodysuit | Chaos Theory | Dinosaurus | Test Run | Public Sympathy
unchanged: Joshua B. | Emergency Shutdown | Snitch | Personal Workshop
24:45 Matrix Analyzer: Comments on Runner buffs
Nerve Agent: Medium
Muresh Bodysuit: Net Shield | Scorched Earth | Plascrete Carapace
Dinosaurus: The Toolbox
Chaos Theory: Desperado | Battering Ram | Hyperdriver
31:40 Mandatory Upgrades: Personal Workshop
Reddit thread about Noiseshop
Personal Workshop + Wyldside + Aesop's Pawnshop
40:15 Enigma: Andromeda
42:30 e3 Feedback Implants
45:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Chaos Theory

Episode 13: One of These Things Is Not Like the Others

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:00:00 CDT

Breaking format this week, we're going completely with current information about the Reboot Project due to the recent release of the second booster pack, Mind and Mayhem, announcement about the online Reboot Worlds, and more. Presented in four segments:

2:00 Breaking News
- Mind and Mayhem release (on RetekiDB and a collage of all the cards in the set)
- Reboot Worlds
- 6th Constructed League
- balance patch:
nerfs: Singularity | High-Stakes Job | Sniper
buffs: Information Overload | Komainu | Subsidized Processor
13:15 Precognition: Mind and Mayhem, week 6
Vulcan 1.0/Mind Maze | Echo Memvaults: Reality Reimagined (front)/(back) | Magnet | Lateral Growth | O₂ Shortage | Talent Scout/Red Carpet | Amani Senai
21:20 e3 Feedback Implants
24:15 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Noise (and Femme Fatale vs. HB (pages 24-25)

Episode 12: Peace and Violence

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:00:00 CDT

This week's episodes kicks off with another set of spoilers for the upcoming Mind and Mayhem booster pack as we finish off the Runners and dig into the Haas-Bioroid cards. The bulk of the episode is devoted to digging into a better understanding of the types of ice -- and no, I don't mean barriers, code gates, and sentries. Presented in six segments:

Episode 11: Retro

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:00:00 CDT

An exclusive spoiler for Mind and Mayhem -- the upcoming booster pack for the Reboot Project -- starts things off, followed by another set of four spoilers, featuring the new Anarch ID. Roo-boom, indeed. Also featured are the changes made to the Corp side of the second Data Pack in the Genesis Cycle: Trace Amount. And this week's long segment discusses the timing structures governing turns and runs. Presented in eight segments:

0:45 Freelancer: Nostalgiologists
4:30 Precognition: Mind and Mayhem, Week 4
The Horde: Defiant Disenfrancistos | Termite | Glee | P4inappl3
9:00 Anonymous Tip: Tempo
14:40 Research Station: Timing structures
Timing structure of turns | Timing structure of runs
48:10 Satellite Uplink: Trace Amount, Corp side
Buffs: Sherlock 1.0 | Fetal AI | Sensei | Big Brother | ChiLo City Grid | Amazon Industrial Zone | Executive Retreat | Freelancer
Unchanged: Encryption Protocol | Replicating Perfection | Trick of Light | Power Grid Overload
53:00 Matrix Analyzer: Comments on Corp buffs
56:45 e3 Feedback Implants: e3 Feedback Implants and Adam
61:15 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Personal Evolution, and Replicating Perfection (pages 16-17 and 20-21)

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Episode 10: A Routine Rebuttal

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 17:00:00 CDT

Another set of four spoilers for the upcoming release of Mind and Mayhem kick off the show, this time featuring the mini-factions. Also featured are the changes made to the Runner side of the second Data Pack in the Genesis Cycle: Trace Amount. And the long segment in this episode discusses the concept of archetypes in Netrunner. Presented in seven segments:

Title card: Experiential Data
2:45 Precognition: Mind and Mayhem, Week 3
Repurpose | Cloudburst | Synaptic Remodulator | Stim Graft
7:00 Anonymous Tip: Timing is everything
11:30 Experiential Data: Archetypes
What are the basic deck archetypes?
Archetype analysis, by TheBigBoy
ANR History of Archetypes
36:45 Satellite Uplink: Trace Amount, Runner side
Vamp
Satellite Uplink | Compromised Employee | Snowball | Dyson Mem Chip
Liberated Account | e3 Feedback Implants | Notoriety
40:15 Matrix Analyzer: Comments on Runner nerf and buffs from Trace Amount
Dyson Mem Chip: Akamatsu Mem Chip | Access to Globalsec | The Helpful AI | Rabbit Hole
Snowball:
other fracters: Corroder | Morning Star | Aurora | Battering Ram
some barriers: Ice Wall | Wall of Static | Hadrian's Wall | Heimdall 1.0
49:40 Enigma: Foreshadowing future Runners
Snowball | Chaos Theory
Satellite Uplink | Leela Patel
Notoriety | The Maker's Eye | Wall of Static | Ele "Smoke" Scovak
e3 Feedback Implants | CyberSolutions Mem Chip
52:30 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Floyd 2X3A7C (pages 12-13)

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Episode 9: A Different Breed of Machine

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:00:00 CDT

Another set of four spoilers for the upcoming release of Mind and Mayhem kick off the show. This is followed by a few short segments about Parasite, counting cards, and consoles, before moving onto a couple of lengthier articles. The first of these is a deep dive into the past to look at how the sequence of choices a Runner makes in their first turn can provide information. The second is about how a Corp deck is constructed, especially if you want to see a certain type of card more frequently. Presented in seven segments:

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Episode 8: Eyes Forward

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:00:00 CDT

With the upcoming release in July of the second booster for the Reboot Project, we get a glimpse of some spoilers for Jinteki and Shaper. We also take time to pull back from the tactical and take a step into the strategic space of Netrunner, along with a few other bits and pieces. Presented in seven segments:

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Episode 7: Victos dracones numquam deride

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:00:00 CDT

This is the second episode to cover material from the first Data Pack expansion for Android: Netrunner, namely, What Lies Ahead. Here, we cover the changes made by the Reboot Project to the Corporation cards in that expansion. As a companion piece to the previous episode, there is also a large segment devoted to covering fundamental advice for being a more effective Corporation. Plus, with the impending release of the second booster pack for the Reboot Project -- coming in July -- there is a segment covering the first booster pack, Reflections. Presented in eight segments:

Title card: Dracō
2:25 Anonymous Tip: How precious are agendas?
6:00 Archived Memories: Beginning corp advice
I Keep Losing as the Corp | Basic Strategy
Chum | Cell Portal | PAD Campaign | Snare!
Datasucker | Jackson Howard | Account Siphon | Adonis Campaign | The Maker's Eye | Medium | SanSan City Grid | Shadow | Caduceus | Neural Katana | Chimera | Hadrian's Wall
26:40 Lemuria Codecracker: What Lies Ahead, Corp side
32:15 Matrix Analyzer: Comments on Reboot buffs for Corp cards
37:00 Mandatory Upgrades: Project Atlas
39:30 Precognition: Reflections
52:20 Enigma: Worlds of Android | news articles about Worlds of Android
60:25 Enigma (continued): Worlds of Android, Table of Contents
63:05 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Foreword and Introduction

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Episode 6: The Ultimate Game

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:00:00 CDT

Moving beyond the original core set for Android: Netrunner, this is the first episode to cover material in a Data Pack expansion, specifically: the changes made to the Runner cards in What Lies Ahead by the Reboot Project. There is also a large segment devoted to covering fundamental advice for being a more effective Runner. Presented in eight segments:

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Episode 5: All the Money

Mon, 29 May 2023 17:00:00 CDT

This fifth and final episode focused on the core set of Android: Netrunner (as modified by the Reboot Project) goes in-depth on economy cards, looks at a tournament-winner from 2012, and highlights one of the most iconic card artists for the game. Presented in seven segments:

1:40 Anonymous Tip: Calculating economy
Easy Mark/Beanstalk Royalties | Sure Gamble/Hedge Fund | Infiltration | Magnum Opus | Armitage Codebusting
11:15 Sure Gamble: PAD Campaign
15:40 Datasucker: Comparing economy options
27:55 The Toolbox: How much economy? | Team Covenant: "Learning Netrunner: Basic Deckbuilding Guide (Revised Core Set)"
32:30 Experiential Data: BGG OCTGN Tournament #1: Finals Game 1 | Game 2
1st place | 2nd place
Champion decklists on Stimhack | Runner deck on RetekiDB | Corp deck on RetekiDB
46:30 The Maker's Eye: Matt Zeilinger: ArtStation | InPrint | mattzeilinger.com | Article on art creation process
49:55 AstroScript Pilot Program: Gabe (revised core set)

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Episode 4: Please Stay Connected

Mon, 22 May 2023 18:00:00 CDT

This fourth of several episodes focused on the core set of Android: Netrunner (as modified by the Reboot Project), highlights some tips about when not to play cards, performs a deep dive on the 2012 Worlds final, and analyzes the graphic design of the cards. Presented in nine segments:

2:00 Breaking News: Reboot leagues
5:20 Anonymous Tip: When not to play cards
10:50 Sure Gamble: Stimhack
13:00 Experiential Data: 2012 Worlds final
Team Covenant video (Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3)
World Champion decklists | Runner deck on RetekiDB | Corp deck on RetekiDB
BoardGameGeek synopsis and commentary thread | Jeremy Zwirn's comments at FFG site
30:45 ad break
31:15 Matrix Analyzer: TheBigBoy comments on Corp nerfs for NBN and Weyland
35:40 The Maker's Eye: Graphic design of cards | Card viewer on Reteki
44:45 Enigma: SEA Source
48:20 Research Station: Why I Run
54:40 AstroScript Pilot Program: NBN

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Episode 3: Would You Like to Play a Game?

Mon, 15 May 2023 18:00:00 CDT

This third of several episodes focused on the core set of Android: Netrunner (as modified by the Reboot Project), continues the particular emphasis on ice (this time from the Corp perspective), a breakdown of the other half of the Corp cards in the core set that have been adjusted, and the flavor text from the rulebook on Noise and Weyland. Presented in eleven segments:

1:45 Anonymous Tip: The Corp and ice
8:10 Datasucker: Comparing ice
16:10 Sure Gamble: Tollbooth
Thoughts on every corp card
Allow Me to Break the Ice: A Guide to Analyzing Ice in Netrunner
Tech Talk - Tollbooth
19:45 The Toolbox: How much ice?
23:30 The Maker's Eye: Liiga Smilshkalne (ArtStation | Instagram)
Conversation with Adam S Doyle
26:15 ad break
27:10 Lemuria Codecracker: Core set, Corp side (NBN, Weyland, and neutral)
32:30 Matrix Analyzer: TheBigBoy comments on Corp nerfs for HB and Jinteki
37:30 Red Herrings: Corrections on Viktor 1.0 and Pipeline
38:50 Research Station: RetekiDB
41:15 Special Order: Magnum Opus vs. Armitage Codebusting
47:10 AstroScript Pilot Program: Noise, Weyland

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Episode 2: A Very Literal Mind

Mon, 08 May 2023 18:00:00 CDT

This second of several episodes focused on the core set of Android: Netrunner (as modified by the Reboot Project), has a particular emphasis on ice, a breakdown of half the Corp cards in the core set that have been adjusted, and the flavor text from the rulebook on Jinteki and Gabe. Presented in nine segments:

1:45 Anonymous Tip: The Runner and ice
5:44 Sure Gamble: Magnum Opus
9:21 Datasucker: Icebreakers
18:43 Enigma: g00ru, Yog.0, Ice Carver
23:10 Experiential Data: 2012 GenCon Icebreaker tournament
Session report from 2nd-place finisher
Finals, match 1
Finals, match 2
31:42 ad break
32:50 Lemuria Codecracker: Core set, Corp side (Haas-Bioroid and Jinteki)
37:10 Matrix Analyzer: TheBigBoy comments on Runner nerfs
45:00 Research Station: Reboot Project Discord server
48:12 AstroScript Pilot Program: Gabe, Jinteki

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Episode 1: Are You Listening?

Mon, 01 May 2023 18:00:00 CDT

Some tips for beginners about card draw and a couple of basic cards to include in every deck, plus a comment from the archives, and the complete breakdown of how the Reboot Project has adjusted the Runner side of the core set. Presented in nine segments:

1:20 Anonymous Tip: Draw early
4:08 Sure Gamble: Sure Gamble/Hedge Fund
6:10 The Toolbox: Core decks; deck size
11:17 Archived Memories: Larger Decks for Corp Players (August 13, 2012)
13:40 Datasucker: Runner factions
17:53 ad break
18:25 Lemuria Codecracker: Core set, Runner side
25:05 Matrix Analyzer: Runner identities
30:33 Research Station: Reteki
32:29 AstroScript Pilot Program: Kate, Haas-Bioroid

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