RIP. Banned less than two months after release. For anyone who never had the pleasure of playing against this card and is wondering why it got banned, look no further than here: netrunnerdb.com

At first glance, this seems like a modest deterrent to the Corp trying to do small amounts of damage, as it won't help you if you're dead. On closer inspection, the following things become apparent:

1. This trashes cards equal to the total amount of damage taken on a turn, not just the most recent source.
2. The Runner does not have to pay per card trashed, this is just a straight up trash ability.
3. This does not specify damage done by the Corp, which means the runner can trigger this ability by damaging themselves.

This resulted in an archetype where the runner plays solitaire until they have all their combo pieces, and then self-damages enough such that triggering all three copies of this card will mill around 30 cards in one turn.

This was a stupid, frustrating deck to play against, and very little counterplay was available other than trying to score out before R&D gets nuked.

If this strategy had been caught during playtesting, some minor tweaks (only counting damage done by the corp for example) may have balanced this card, but I'm not sad it's banned outright.

Clearly FFG needs more degenerate playtesters to catch combos like this.

Spiderweb's younger sibling. The Quandary to the Enigma.

Compared to Spiderweb, one less credit to rez, one less subroutine, one less credit for the runner to break every time. Also strangely two more influence. I'm not sure if this is worth the deckslot.

Seems good, and definitely synergizes with Obokata Protocol, but I get the feeling that Film Critic is going to be an auto-include again soon, limiting effectiveness.

Although if someone doesn't have it, between this, Obokata Protocol, Prisec, Kakugo, and Hokusai Grid, you could make a server that does 9+ damage to steal an agenda. Not bad.

It's cool that they are printing more NEXT ice, especially because NEXT Bronze and NEXT Silver are rotating soon. However, this ice does not seem very good as printed. Without a "May" in front of install, this ice would require you to dump your entire hand if there are a few NEXT ices installed. Maybe Cerebral Imaging: Infinite Frontiers will like this? I can't think of any other ID that would use it as is.

HB fast advance just got another tool, because there was not enough of that already. If you have this installed at the beginning of your turn, you can:

• FA a 3/2 with Subliminal Messaging
• FA a 4/2 with Biotic Labor or Subliminal Messaging and Jeeves Model Bioroids
• FA a 5/3 with Biotic Labor and Jeeves Model Bioroids

Then if you have Team Sponsorship you can get it right back! If not, Friends in High Places will do just fine.

This is another 4 trash cost must-trash asset for HB asset spam. High influence cost will mean this is likely not going to see play outside of HB. HB asset spam is probably going to be one of the strongest archetypes for the foreseeable future.