Fantasy Flight Games has announced plans to release a
Revised Core Set for
Android: Netrunner The Card Game. Along with a revised core set will come significant changes to tournament play.
Based on the original card game by legendary designer
Richard Garfield, Android: Netrunner The Card Game remains an asymetrical two player card game set in a dystopian Android future where subversive netrunners face off against the monolithic megacorps in an effort to control data.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
The concept of Android: Netrunner remains the same. one player assumes control of a monolithic megacorporation and it's near infinite resources. A second player take on the role of a "runner," a cybercriminal attempting to bypass the megacorporation's defenses and steal data. Corps gain points by advancing agendas, while runners steal points by stealing agendas from the corps. Both sides attempt to gain their points through clever card play and use of hidden information.
What cards are available to you and to your opponent set the stage for this showdown. The Revised Core Set will include 247 player cards, 133 Corps cards and 144 Runner cards to do battle with.
What's New?
While the Revised Core Set creates a new entry point for Android: Netrunner, it does not introduce any new cards into the game. Players who own the original Core Set along with the Data Packs available in the Genesis Cycle and the Spin Cycle will already own everything available. While card art and quantities of cards vary from those in the Core Set and Data Packs, the actual card abilities and text will remain the same.
Changes to Tournament Play
With thousands of cards now in the Netrunner universe, the incredible growth of the game has also created a card pool so large it has created a barrier to new players and in developing new strategies. Similar to other LCG and CCG formats, Netrunner Tournament Play has introduced a
system refresh system that will mean older products will no longer be tournament legal as new cards are introduced.
For Netrunner Standard Play, five to seven cycles of Data Packs will be the limit to what is now legal. Whenever an eighth cycle would be added to the standard pool, the two oldest cycles are rotated out of Standard Play.
The new changes to legal play take effect October 1st. Effective October 1st tournament play will consist of the new
Revised Core Set and the following expansions:
- Creation and Control
- Honor and Profit
- Order and Chaos
- Data and Destiny
- Terminal Directive (player cards only)
- Lunar Cycle Data Packs
- SanSan Cycle Data Packs
- Mumbad Cycle Data Packs
- Flashpoint Cycle Data Packs
- Red Sand Cycle Data Pack
5 Years of Running
Android: Netrunner the Card Game has only been around for the past 5 years, released in 2012. While a reimplementation of the original 1996
Netrunner game by Richard Garfield, the 2012 edition proved much more popular. Award for the new game included:
Dice Tower Top 10 lists that have featured the revised game over the past 5 years include:
