I don't know, seems pretty good.

I've been excited about NBN for a while now (ever since I saw Psychographics), and the idea of unbreakable ice is definitely appealing. Scorched Earth only costs 4 influence, so I figured dropping 3 in an NBN deck might be a good idea.

But wait! Data Raven is only TWO influence! So you could throw three of those in a Weyland Consortium deck and have plenty of breathing room. Plus you can tutor up either of those with Aggressive Negotiations. That seems insane!

Suffice it to say that if I ever have to lower myself to Running, I won't be spending my last click on a run against an NBN player!

 Lower yourself to running? The entire point of being the runner is running…

DeathByLiche said:

I like playing Corp. ;) 

 Ah I see. I am right there with you, I like playing and building decks for the corp more too. :) But you still have to be able to play both. 

 That you do. I'm looking pretty hard at Shaper and Criminal right now. But, as I said, it seems like a really bad idea to make a run your last action against NBN, since you won't be able to ditch any tags.

It's usually a bad idea to run as your last action, precisely because of these cleanup problems.

Even not running with your last click doens't save you from data raven's counter. I think it would be wise to include some cards like decoy - trash to avoid receiving a tag.

Don't wanna ruin your fun - but there will be only ONE Data Raven per box. If you wanna add 3 you gotta have to buy three boxes.

 You sure? The image of Data Raven that I have seen on BGG shows it as a 3 per set card

The card itself indicates that there will be 3 Data Ravens inside the Core Set.

But we don't know yet how many Scorched Earth cards there will be. They didn't update the image.

Opps -my fault. The card has a the 3 copies sign on it… (damm - sorry)

stahlkralle said:

Although others have noted the 3-of thing already, I have four boxes on the way, so I am covered no matter what! *Steeples fingers, chuckles in a sinister tone*

I suspect there will be 1 or 2 Scorched Earth in the Core Set (leaning toward 2), but who knows? I am no expert on these things.

Is it just me, or do these pieces of IC with "when encountered effects" seem way overpowered?

I'm pretty sure I saw one that was "when encountered, you may advance any card that could normally be advanced". Wow, uh, 3 of them please.

AussieKSU said:

That was my original point exactly! NBN is like, well, our ice sucks, except for the fact it's bah-roken.

AussieKSU said:

I believe this is the bad boy in question:

Only 1 to rez and a faction cost of 2, so it could splash into any deck it wants to reasonably well. I have a feeling these may turn up in Weyland decks ;)