Allele Repression

Allele Repression

This is a card that can let you pick up three used Snares.

Let me emphasize for people in the cheap seats: you can Mushin this out and use it next turn to yank three Snares out of your bin.

Best card.

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You can even do it, after they accepts a successful run on HQ. Yikes! —
You could, but not during the turn after Mushin (just to clarify) in case anyone makes that mistake. This card could be fun in trap-centric Tennin decks, too. —
LLDS Processor

LLDS Processor

You're about to see a lot more of this card. Which is to say you might actually see it played.

The Underway contains Geist and Shiv, which completes the home invasion suite. These cards synergize so well with LLDS Processor it's crazy. Being able to toss a breaker down and get one, two, or even three extra strength is bonkers, they're only one influence apiece, and they're cheap. Clone Chip means you can do this ridiculous crap whenever you want.

Prepare to pour an entire can of Diesel into your rig.

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Plus Chameleon! —
Titanium Ribs

Titanium Ribs

Why?

No, I'm seriously asking. Why would you install this? 1 credit is reasonable for the benefit and so is 2 meat damage, but both? That's a big ask for a card that only sort of helps you with a situation that you don't want to be in to begin with.

Chrome Parlor mitigates most of the issues, but if Titanium Ribs isn't worth it in the first place then it isn't worth including another card just to make it almost playable. And that's not even addressing the fact that one or the other is going to take precious influence that you could spend on good cards.

TL;DR: the worst of the cybernetics introduced in this pack. Sad times.

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Right now? It combos with IHW. If you run 3 IHW, this gives you a) sightly better meat damage protection or b) slightly cheaper draw. Also, if there's one faction that plays vs Jinteki and thinks 'Oh jeebs, please don't net damage my corroder'...it's criminal. Interestingly, not sure how this interacts with Chronos Jinteki. If that ID is popular and it negates the 'corp chooses' ability, it might see play as 1x utility. —
for what its worth pruneface, since they're simultaneous triggers (whenever you take [net] damage) the active player would choose. So if the runner hits a Shock!/Snare!, or takes damage on an Ice, the runner will choose the card. If the Jinteki player uses Ronin, Neural EMP, etc then the corp will choose the card. —
That's not how it works, Pax. The "You" doesn't automatically mean "the active player." It's the same argument as Shell Corp, "It doesn't explicitly say 'bank' so it comes from the corp's credit pool." —
I'd also add that it combines well with Paper Tripping if you are fearing Midseasons. If you have enough down to survive just one turn of meat damage assault then your biggest fear is losing the Paper Tripping from hand during that turn of attack. —
With Titanium Ribs you can use Stimhack and Amped Up without fear, that you lose important cards. —
I think skulljack is far worse than ribs. Ribs could fit in decks with the other cybernetics cards + I've had worse + stimhack and it would be pretty decent in this kind of self-damage style deck —
Does not really only concern this card, but it's worth noting that one could use Muresh Bodysuit to reduce the meat damage costs for all these new cybernetics cards. —
Ryon Knight

Ryon Knight

Ryon Knight is a terrifying man.

It's not uncommon for a runner to cobble together a partial breaker suite for the bioroids they're actually afraid of, then click past an Eli or the like to get to your server's delicious creamy center.

Ryon fills that center with toothpaste. Brain damage is a serious deal, and for a whole two credits you can punish the runner for not having their entire rig up. If they run the server with clicks left over you can bet your shiny metal ass they're going to pay the three to trash him. He's going to die to Drive By when that drops in the next pack, but even that's not so bad when you consider that they're blowing two clicks to take out something you used one click on. You'd much rather he get shot than a Jackson Howard, for example.

He's very much at home in HB. Two influence is a pretty low cost splash, but outside of some Jinteki shenanigans I'm not sure where he fits out of faction. That being said, he's a great fit for Cybernetics Division: Humanity Upgraded and any deck that you want to toss some easy and affordable brain damage into.

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You can run 3-of even though it is unique, because you will only ever rez him just before you pop him. —
in CD, I had a rezzed Turing as the only ICE on my scoring server. My turn was: Install Vanilla over the Turing, Fast Track for Destructive Brainchips, install in the remote. He ran the server first click, using his SMC on the first ice and clicking through the Turing. He was surprised to find Ryon instead of the Fast Tracked agenda waiting for him. BLAMMO! —