Weyland Operation: Transaction – Liability

Play cost: 7 – Influence cost: 2

Gain 14 credits and take 1 bad publicity.

“The boss likes to swoop in at just the last second. You should consider yourself lucky.”

4 stars

I don't think there's much to say actually. I think this card wants be run as a 1 or 2-of in a decent number of non-bad publicity focused decks, and that means it's a pretty good card. Lots of money y'all. If you want more opinions on bad publicity, please read Veronica's piece on this card and Editorial Division.

Neutral Agenda: Initiative

Advancement cost: 4 – Points: 2 – Influence cost: 1

When you score this agenda, you may search HQ, R&D, or Archives for 1 agenda and reveal it. (Shuffle R&D after searching it.) Add that agenda to HQ or the bottom of R&D.

While this agenda is in the Runner’s score area, it is worth 1 less agenda point.

3 stars

Before I talk about Let Them Dream, I need to talk about 5/3s. The job of the 5/3 agenda is to win you the game in 3 agendas, and decks that run 5/3s usually want to score out with any combination of two 2-pointers and one 3-pointer. But the 5/3 has one major vice: they kinda suck. They're so much harder to score out than 4/2s (or 3/2s!), and their payoff usually isn't even worth the work! This is especially true because corps vastly prefer to score out 5/3s as the game-winning agenda, so any "on score" text is irrelevant. If the corp got to choose, they would dedicate the entire power budget of a 5/3 towards hurting the Runner, and none of it on h…

HB Agenda: Expansion

Advancement cost: 5 – Points: 3

As an additional cost to steal this agenda, the runner must spend click.

When you score this agenda, gain click.

“Welcome aboard, Moonsilver Class members. Our express stops today are at New Lovell, Heinlein, and Imamura Station.”

5 stars

Scoring PD is still back baybee! Ikawah Project has been a staple card in scoring PD for about as long as I can find decks of it. (Here's examples from 2021, 2023, and 2024. I have no idea what was going on in 2022.) The only card that's as much of a staple in these decks as Ikawah Project is Global Food Initiative (which might be relevant to my next card review). This might be bringing back enough old tools for scoring PD to make it a top deck in the Vantage Point meta. I know that I'm certainly gonna be playing it.

Anarch Program: Icebreaker – Fracter

Install cost: 3 – Strength: 0 – Memory cost: 1 – Influence cost: 2

Interface → 1 credit: Break 1 barrier subroutine.

1 credit: The barrier you are encountering gets -3 strength for the remainder of this encounter. Spend credits only from stealth cards to use this ability.

There have been many golden ages of piracy, each occurring on stranger and stormier waters.

4 stars

While this can be an interesting breaker that requires support to function, I’m moreso eyeing it as a way to enable ice destruction. Barriers are the most high value targets for Arruaceiras Crew, and Corsair can destroy a Pharos using 3 stealth credits and the tag + 2 credits ability on Crew. Logjam can be even cheaper. All of this depends on the set printing enough stealth support to make that package worth it, since I don’t think just Trickster Taka will be good enough to make you run this breaker. I’m not worrying about this. Stealth as a keyword is a tightly coupled bundle o…

Welcome back to Netrunner scoops season! This one is gonna start low and slow, since Vantage Point isn't going to be out until Q1 2026. As per usual, I will be trying to review as many cards as I can until the set finally comes out. Here's hoping I can review them all.