Yo, love the background research, etymology, etc on the cards. Especially Diviner. That was so cool to learn. Also major props if you discovered that "pi" easter egg.
Fantastic review of both flavour and mechanics! You're thorough and in-depth, while simultaneously remaining easy to follow at every turn. Thank you for this!
Andre, I just want to cmment that I love that you not only explain the usage of the cards in the game, but also their themes and references. Netrunner has such a diverse and interesting field of things it refers to. Unfortunately, cultural myopia does mean that players are liable of missing these, and I include myself in that. I try to put effort unto this, e.g. I looked up what "Karuna" or for another example "Rezeki" means, but for example I had no idea that Diviner had such an interesting theme. I think I saw symbols of the I Ching before, but I didn't even know about the existence of this book before this video.
It's amazing how much effort that NISEI, the artists, and the designers put into these cards. It'd be a shame if people didn't get to see it. And that being said, I'm definitely missing a tonne of cool details. Glad you've been digging the reviews!
I agree! I often look up the titles of Netrunner cards and I usually learn something interesting. For example, I also looked up "Karuna" and learned that it means "mercy." The card makes more sense, and I appreciate how wickedly ironic the title is: mercy is not a term I would normally associate w Jinteki!! Ha!
I always learn so much about how to analyze cards and build tactics and strategy from these. Love it. Also appreciate how much attention you give the themes.
1:10:00 I always understood the flavor text as an euphemism for: "Scoring agandas causes temporary upheaval in our servers, which we will then happily dump into the runner's brain"
A week later and I'm still stressing out when playing against any Jinteki deck, but at least now I know so much more about why the card that messed my game plan up is that flavourful and cool to have in the game :-)
Love the videos and all the work you're putting in. One small call out for Anoetic Void flavor text. You said casualty, which is an injury or death. The actual word is causality, which is the relationship between cause and effect.
Excellent work again, Andrej. I'm a bit sad to see Jinteki becoming what Weyland used to be: the faction with awesome tools that everyone will import from but that few will play. I understand that it would be hard to design Jinteki cards as the balance between strong and too strong (ie Anansi) is thin.
There are a lot of good reasons to play Jinteki! They have the best glacier suite (good ICE, good agendas, good upgrades), and they single-handedly control the trap archetype. I'd say that modernly NBN might just be the most splashed yet least represented faction. They have incredible cards at the 1-influence slot.
When I see Tithe I think it could find a home in some sort of PE Potatoes deck as it's low cost and 'forces' a breaker and eats MKUltra for lunch. With things like Mayfly Wu and Virus MaxX both running on limited resources I feel like it may be decently positioned.
I could see it! I feel like I'd still slot in Saisentans first, and watch MKUltra struggle even more. That Virus MaxX deck is already going to have a rough time - its gameplan is catastrophically halted by Snare!
That's would be dope, but I don't know if I'd have the time to spin it up anytime soon. I'll keep it in mind in the future! I checked out your channel, and you have a great setup! I don't know the Keyforge cards enough to follow along table play, but the Netrunner was easy to follow and fun watch. A really exciting game too! I'd be stoked for more.
@@MetropoleGrid Thanks, just getting back at Netrunner. I really want to focus on live play, we all need a bit of that in this day and age. Building some decks for this weekend. I may need to take some opaque sleeves though to mix the sets.
Such a missed opportunity when you said, between a Pup and a Pop, a Pwap, when you could have gone for "Pope" tying it up to the Catholic overtones of Tithe.
Low key the best channel on TH-cam. Very chill, fun and extremely well thought out all at the same time. Netrunner lives through you and Nisei!
Yo, love the background research, etymology, etc on the cards. Especially Diviner. That was so cool to learn. Also major props if you discovered that "pi" easter egg.
Every time I see your review videos, I end up changing my decks. Thank you for the insight.
I hope you simply added more Neurospikes :P
This may be the best content I’ve seen for any card game.
Fantastic review of both flavour and mechanics! You're thorough and in-depth, while simultaneously remaining easy to follow at every turn. Thank you for this!
Just want to say amazing video, first I’ve seen from your channel and I LOVE it!
Oh cheers, Jamie. That's quite kind! Welcome to the channel.
Andre, I just want to cmment that I love that you not only explain the usage of the cards in the game, but also their themes and references. Netrunner has such a diverse and interesting field of things it refers to. Unfortunately, cultural myopia does mean that players are liable of missing these, and I include myself in that. I try to put effort unto this, e.g. I looked up what "Karuna" or for another example "Rezeki" means, but for example I had no idea that Diviner had such an interesting theme. I think I saw symbols of the I Ching before, but I didn't even know about the existence of this book before this video.
It's amazing how much effort that NISEI, the artists, and the designers put into these cards. It'd be a shame if people didn't get to see it. And that being said, I'm definitely missing a tonne of cool details. Glad you've been digging the reviews!
I agree! I often look up the titles of Netrunner cards and I usually learn something interesting. For example, I also looked up "Karuna" and learned that it means "mercy." The card makes more sense, and I appreciate how wickedly ironic the title is: mercy is not a term I would normally associate w Jinteki!! Ha!
Jinketi means "human" in Japanese.
I always learn so much about how to analyze cards and build tactics and strategy from these. Love it. Also appreciate how much attention you give the themes.
1:10:00 I always understood the flavor text as an euphemism for: "Scoring agandas causes temporary upheaval in our servers, which we will then happily dump into the runner's brain"
Whoa. That's most definitely what it is. Thanks!
A week later and I'm still stressing out when playing against any Jinteki deck, but at least now I know so much more about why the card that messed my game plan up is that flavourful and cool to have in the game :-)
Ahahah. Just cave, and slot the No One Home. You can still enjoy the flavour behind your safety resources :p
Just recently got into netrunner with system gateway, and these videos are amazing! Great job my dude!
Welcome to the game! Glad you're enjoying the videos!
Was waiting for the next installment of the series! Amazing content!
Thank you; that was remarkable!
Love the videos and all the work you're putting in. One small call out for Anoetic Void flavor text. You said casualty, which is an injury or death. The actual word is causality, which is the relationship between cause and effect.
Check that out. That makes a lot more sense in the context of 'anoetic'. Thanks for pointing that out!
Excellent work again, Andrej. I'm a bit sad to see Jinteki becoming what Weyland used to be: the faction with awesome tools that everyone will import from but that few will play. I understand that it would be hard to design Jinteki cards as the balance between strong and too strong (ie Anansi) is thin.
There are a lot of good reasons to play Jinteki! They have the best glacier suite (good ICE, good agendas, good upgrades), and they single-handedly control the trap archetype. I'd say that modernly NBN might just be the most splashed yet least represented faction. They have incredible cards at the 1-influence slot.
Thanks for the video! :)
When I see Tithe I think it could find a home in some sort of PE Potatoes deck as it's low cost and 'forces' a breaker and eats MKUltra for lunch. With things like Mayfly Wu and Virus MaxX both running on limited resources I feel like it may be decently positioned.
I could see it! I feel like I'd still slot in Saisentans first, and watch MKUltra struggle even more. That Virus MaxX deck is already going to have a rough time - its gameplan is catastrophically halted by Snare!
What days do you usually play Andre? I’m always on there would love to play your big brain strategy’s bro! Keep on running my friend!
I'm just about always on jinteki.net Thursday evenings while streaming, from 9PM until midnight (EDT). I'd be excited to get a game in!
Love the content. Have you considered an audio-only format, like a podcast?
That's would be dope, but I don't know if I'd have the time to spin it up anytime soon. I'll keep it in mind in the future!
I checked out your channel, and you have a great setup! I don't know the Keyforge cards enough to follow along table play, but the Netrunner was easy to follow and fun watch. A really exciting game too! I'd be stoked for more.
@@MetropoleGrid Thanks, just getting back at Netrunner. I really want to focus on live play, we all need a bit of that in this day and age. Building some decks for this weekend. I may need to take some opaque sleeves though to mix the sets.
Code Gates are the wacky uncles of Netrunner ICE. Since they don’t have one clear thing they do, they tend to do the most fun, goofy stuff.
It's me, ClaIrVoYanT mOnitOr :}
Such a missed opportunity when you said, between a Pup and a Pop, a Pwap, when you could have gone for "Pope" tying it up to the Catholic overtones of Tithe.
Pray up!
Tithe: pronounced "tide", right? 10%
I've only heard pronunciations like 't - eye - th'. But it is derived from the Old English for 'a tenth'!
I've always heard it with a different th sound, like the one in "this" rather than the one in "thin". Softer, buzzier, a touch longer.
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