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When you're down to it, I'd say Charlatan is on par with Crypsis which, while not great, isn't as awful as some make it sound. I ws just mentioning it it because
>when you approach the next piece of ice, if it is a code gate and this breaker's strength equals to or is higher than it, bypass that ice
Was basically a specialized Charlatan - icebreaker efficiency making or breaking the effect.
I love Keung, both in effect and fluff. I like to think the retirement home netrunner anecdote was a seed in his making.
Brandon Adams
>retirement home netrunner anecdote I must know more
Can you really ignore efficiency when making the comparison though? Flashbang is technically a bypass tool, but the comparison to Charlatan definitely isn't obvious.
Blake Scott
>Can you really ignore efficiency when making the comparison though?
If anything I'm saying the contrary: it's the efficiency of the breaker attached to that effect that would make or break the card.
Thing that bothers me is that, again Charlatan is basically on par with Crypsis, and I feel Crypsis should act as some form of standard to AI efficiency. Not in that it's good, but in that it's fair given the power/threat of an AI Icebreaker. We've had it way too good on that front, and maybe, just maybe, thinking back on it and all the issues AI cards have posed, it would be better in the future if AI fell back to that level.
Charlatan shouldn't be considered *bad*, if the card pool was healthier. Not top of the line, but not bad.
I mean, when some AI breakers are just plain more efficient than dedicated ones, we have a problem, don't you think? And sure, when you have AI breakers like the Deva, or even better example Alpha & Omega (those were honestly balanced - hardly anyone played them) that come tied to a very strong downside or over-specialization in breaking targets, it can be fair to have that superior level of efficiency. But I don't think we want that to be standard.
Lincoln Lewis
I'm working on testing some fast advance Jemison and a Chaos Theory deck using Ankusa, Egret, Tinkering, and Network Exchange to make ice installation too expensive for centrals and make easy runs on HQ and R&D.
On a side note; I'm hoping that L5R will reinvigorate the LCG scene in my town and maybe more people will begin to play Netrunner. I'm enjoying playing some L5R, but my heart will always belong to Netrunner.
Kevin Myers
The problem with such inefficient 'solutions' is that with the economy in the dumps for non-MO runners, using them is actively beneficial for the corp, since even a successful run using them could easily begger the runner and open up a new window for be corp to score important things and/or do things like HHN.
