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Snare!
Android: Netrunner, CORE, #70

i started playing netrunner with my girfriend recently. it's an amazingly fun and unique game. originally published as just netrunner, a richard garfield (ph.d., the one and only!) deckmaster game based on cyberpunk 2020, it was soon discontinued. it lived on with fanmade expansions then released again as "android: netrunner" licensed by wotc. android: netrunner is technically just based on netrunner, i'm not quite sure how different they are, but they the core concepts are the same

the gameplay is asymetric, which is not something you see in card games often. one player takes the role of a corporation and plays against a runner, a hacker trying to break into the corp. your decks are different and your play area and play style and actions you can take and win conditions are different, it's a really interesting design space

i'm not quite sure how available it is nowadays, i picked up the original core set on ebay some weeks ago. another cool thing about it, it's distributed as a living card game, meaning you buy the core sets and individual expansion sets and you always get a specific set of cards, no random boosters or anything, which makes it incredibly accessible. this is a great way to release smaller, nicher games like this or v:tes. a lot of expansion content is also designed and sold by fans through drivethru cards

snare! is a whiplash of a card lmao. the first match me and my gf ever played right after we learned how to i won in like two turns kind of by mistake. i installed a snare! and she just never saw it coming. there's a mechanic in the game where a corp can do direct/burn damage to the runner who just... fucking dies if they have less cards in hand than the amount of burn damage. and this just does 4 for just about no cost? how is this not insanely overpowered

well we looked it up and i guess it's just part of the game, you learn to play around it, and boy did we lmao

dollop is an incredibly funny word to me