Thoughts on the "NAPD Most Wanted" List
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knowthemeta.comPosted Jan 4, 2016, 1:26 PM UTC
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Thanks, fixed.
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PPVP under the TL;DR should be "too" haha
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Well done!
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Nice article. My only disagreement is with your last point - I think Gagarin is going to supplant Blue Sun as the tournament Weyland, but that's only barely related to the MWL :)
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Gagarin has a great ID ability (though probably not as good as BS). Unfortunately you're still playing Weyland. If it's going to work, why now? I can see Uncorrodable-style decks getting a boost from Clone Chip being penalised, but that's a deck that wants to rush and makes more sense in GRNDL, no?
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I feel like I'm missing something. Most of the reactions I've read are talking like this is a banned list. Honestly, I'm dubious over how much this will actually change things. Surely the MWL cards are still going to get played, influence will just be a little tighter for other cards!
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Traditional PPVP Kate decks are now going to need to free up 9ish influence. That is going to completely change how the deck works. Same thing for a butcher shop NBN deck. You can no longer get all the kill cards you need as well as astro + sansan making them not be able to threaten fast advance to force the runner to be sloppy.
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Yeah. The main thing it seems will happen is other cards in there will be in faction, while the main MWL cards will be more important to the deck.
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I really hope this does turn into "Rise of the Professor", because that would be hilarious
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Damon actually gives a point by point on why each card made the list in the most recent "Winning Agenda Podcast"; probably worth checking out.
It's a really good interview, especially the points about the MWL being as much about freeing up design space as it is about balance.
Yeah, I think that's something that people don't necessarily consider a lot but is absolutely true. The point that he made about Yog.0 impacting code gate design really underscores it well.
Especially true for ppvp. Imagine all the great econ events we haven't gotten, because the designers thought it would be too good out of Prepaid Kate.