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Reddit mentions of Android Netrunner LCG
Sentiment score: 14
Reddit mentions: 18
We found 18 Reddit mentions of Android Netrunner LCG. Here are the top ones.
- New life for the classic card game by Richard Garfield
- High-stakes futuristic gambles and intrigues in a cyberpunk setting
- Exciting asymmetrical game play pits a corporation player against a runner
- Four corporations and three runner classes spark imaginative deck designs
- The Living Card GameTM format promotes regular, organic growth
Features:
Specs:
Height | 3 Inches |
Length | 11.75 Inches |
Release date | August 2012 |
Weight | 2.65 Pounds |
Width | 11.75 Inches |
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Thanks for the tip! Just FYI - with shipping, it's $30. You can get it for that price from Amazon as well.
http://www.amazon.com/Android-Netrunner-Living-Card-Game/dp/1616614609/
Just wanted to add a few more deals.
Netrunner [$29.78]
The Witcher Adventure Game [$33.36]
Marvel Legendary [$39.83]
And remember, free shipping for order over $25.
Android Netrunner is a Living Card Game. It's packaged more like a board game.
The core set comes in a big box... but once you learn how to play it, you can easily put 1 or 2 decks in deck boxes and and the extra bits in another one, and leave everything you won't use inside the box.
As others have mentioned, Magic can be very expensive. I know how to play, it's quite fun, but never spent any money on it.
However, board games and card games are very cool! And offer great opportunities to hang out and get along with other people. I would recommend also giving your son another game to try and tangentially redirect his interests a bit. There are some quite nice two-player games that you could play against him at, providing a great opportunity to spend time with him.
Netrunner is a quite good 2-player game, where both players play completely differently from one another (I forget the phrase for this). Tash-Kalar, while sounding quite strange, is a rather enjoyable game in which you have to position minor units in order to spawn larger units. Galaxy Trucker (another Vlaada Chvatil game) makes you build your own spaceship then recklessly pilot them into asteroid fields and lasers to make a cargo delivery.
But no matter what you do, there's one thing to keep in mind. If your son is interested in the game and wants to play it, then get HIM to learn about the game and teach it to YOU. Otherwise, make sure that YOU learn about it first and teach HIM about it (and be excited about it!). If you're both apathetic about it, it probably won't go anywhere.
I'm glad you posted, as you bring a valuable perspective to the conversation. You may be getting downvotes because you're not addressing the whole "hate" issue. You believe MtG is not as good as other games - Netrunner for example - and you have your reasons, but it doesn't sound like you'd ridicule or "nerd-shame" someone for playing Magic. In fact, OP mentions friends who play Catan all night will laugh at him/her for playing Magic. Catan is even worse than Magic for resource-screwing you out of productive gameplay! So poor game mechanics is not the reason for the Magic-hate in the original post.
That's all I got. As an aside, I bought Netrunner (base game? I dunno. it's this product) this past year, have yet to play it. It looks fun, and as soon as I find someone willing to sit down and learn it with me, I will play!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Android-Netrunner-Card-Game-Core/dp/1616614609/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417704403&sr=8-1&keywords=netrunner
25 pounds! You should be okay.
And as far as needing the data packs go, you do not need them. I play with a friend who is pretty skilled and there is a TON of game here. In this box alone, there are 3 Runners and 4 Corporations, meaning 12 matchups alone. Each matchup is very different and interesting as well. There are also 2 different sides to play in this game. You can either play as the aggressive and nimble runner or the slow and brooding corporation.
It is a very intense game and one of my favorites.
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite_sec.asp?eidm=207&esem=2
You can typically find the core set at any CCG or Amazon.
Is he playing on OCTGN at least??
Great way to scratch the itch if you're having trouble finding/affording cards.
But the Core will only cost you $30 on the US Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Android-Netrunner-The-Card-Game/dp/1616614609/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370732931&sr=8-1&keywords=netrunner
Space Cadets - really fun co-op game, much lighter but very long.
Agricola - Farm themed worker placement, Longer game as well, very component heavy and very fun (If you happen to go anywhere near this, be sure to tell your giftee hes going to hate this game with a passion until he understands the rules)
Android Netrunner - Very in depth game from my understanding. I havent played it But my boyfriend and his circle of friends love it and say it's a very good game. (They're all D&D players)
CitOW Expansion: the horned rat - I don't know much about this game, but from what I've read ill be checking it out, this is the first expansion I believe.
Blood Bowl: Team manager - This is probably my favorite game to date, plays up to 4. Fantasy themed fantasy football basically. It sounds really silly, but the game play and the actual idea is amazing. It's really easy to pick up and a pretty fun quick game.
Hope that helps, if you come across any games you have questions about, let me know :) and if I think of anything else I'll let you know!
But you are literally saying the exact same thing xTheOOBx was saying other than "I don't agree".
If the game is well stocked, it is significantly cheaper than local stores. If it isn't well stocked, it is only a little bit cheaper than your local stores. The only exception is MayFair games, where they have a cap on their retail discount.
And for what it is worth:
BGG Top 10
Some other games I just stumbled across.
24% Off,
31% Off, 34% Off
It looks like when I said "frequently between 30% and 40%, I was pretty damn close. It's okay to want to support the local game stores, as we all have said, they provide something more than just the game. I visit the same exact stores you do, and I know "not that much cheaper" is down right false. Buying games online is almost a buy 2-3 get 1 free - and that's not considering any significant sale.
In 2013, US dollars were exchanged to canadian dollars almost 1 to 1 (0.94). Today, a canadian dollar is worth 70 cents. So Troyes went up from 35 dollars to 45?
It was also highly anticipated reprint in the middle of a boom of interest in boardgaming we are having right now, so the first wave was sold at a high price. Looking at a UK pricetracker you can see both how anticipated it was before the reprint and how the price right now is far from stable, being 35 pounds in february and 60 right now.
Android netrunner, if anything, seems to have gone down in prices for the UK at least, and the UK and american amazon usually track each other pretty well. Castles from Burgundy is stable for the last five years, Jamaica is falling.
It seems like it's either a canadian problem or maybe you were really good at picking prices when they were low back in 2013 and now you are comparing them to randomly chosen prices now?
Netrunner it's really is.
To buy the core set (or any other xpacs) just add it to your amazon wish list and check back. I picked a core set up 3 weeks ago off Amazon for $30. Right now, it shows 9 left at $49.99.
http://www.amazon.com/Android-Netrunner-The-Card-Game/dp/1616614609/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1376511683&sr=8-2&keywords=netrunner+android
Some Android: Netrunner boxes are discounted as well, with Free Shipping over $25 on all of these:
Core set - $36.38
Creation and Control - $24.62
Honor and Profit - $23.38
Also a couple of Data Packs for around $12~13:
A Study in Static, Mala Tempora, look around for more :)
It's not too expensive ($30 on amazon), but a really fun 2 player card game is Android: Netrunner. I've only had a chance to play it a couple of times but I've found it to be quite a lot of fun.
This discussion comes up a lot, and is very repetitive. I'm sorry for assuming that you were already familiar with the arguments on the other side of it. The short version:
Incidentally, the MSRP is $40 US, which Google says is about 34 euro. Amazon France has the original core for EUR 35,50. So your costs are a bit high.
The core set is currently only $30 on Amazon (I've seen it as low as $26 on there). Super cheap considering the amount of play you'll get out of it. Pick it up.
I know this is probably not the thing you want to hear, but maybe considering something other than Magic.
Magic is really good when
These things make the game incredibly fun; but they also make it not really great for two players to play against each other on a low budget. It's unlikely with the amount that you drop that you will be able to ever compete with your local playgroup as they have inevitably spent much, much more. Not to mention you lose out on many aspects that make mtg fun at such a low budget - you're not playing competitively in pickup games with other mtg players, you're stuck playing the small amount of cards you have against each other.
I would recommend something like Android: Netrunner (https://www.amazon.com/Android-Netrunner-The-Card-Game/dp/1616614609). For $30 you're getting a complete card pool as it's a CCG - there isn't the booster pack aspect of spending money on random cards, you just get every card in the set and can buy expanding sets if you'd like. You can play with each other and aren't limited by cards you don't have, and you can incorporate other players as well.
If you really wanna stick to mtg, two intro decks or deckbuilders toolkits will give you a pretty deep pool to entertain yourself for a while. I have to say though that going this route, you're going to chafe the edges of your cage pretty quickly - mtg isn't really a game designed for what you're looking for.