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Crowbar



Crowbar

Crowbar


Type: Program: Icebreaker - Decoder - Cloud
Cost: 1 Memory Units: 1
Faction: Runner Criminal
Faction Cost: 2
If you have at least 2 [Link] , the memory cost of Crowbar is 0, even if it is not installed.
Crowbar has +1 strength for each installed
icebreaker.
[Trash] : Break up to 3 code gate subroutines.
Strength: 0
Set: Chrome City Number: 46 Quantity:
Illustrator: Ed Mattinian
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4 Comments

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KillerShrike
May 29 2015 12:20 PM

I'm interested to see what this set of odd cloud breakers looks like when complete, but the 0 base unpumpable strength just seems like a dead on arrival problem to me.

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theamazingmrg
May 29 2015 06:38 PM
3 of these, 3 Spike and 3 Shiv mean Str 9 breakers that break 3 subroutines a time. Further str boosts with Zu.13 and Creeper. E3 takes care of any extra subroutines. Needs a deck with a heavy focus on recursion but they make a decent breaker suite that is cheap and scales well into late game. These are better than people give them credit for.
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Yeah I think a cloud breaker suite is finally a thing. I tried Spike in an Exile deck this past weekend. It worked out well, and since Zu.13 and all of these new cloud breakers are cheap you will have plenty of cloud programs to boost strength.
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KillerShrike
May 29 2015 09:07 PM

3 of these, 3 Spike and 3 Shiv mean Str 9 breakers that break 3 subroutines a time. Further str boosts with Zu.13 and Creeper. E3 takes care of any extra subroutines. Needs a deck with a heavy focus on recursion but they make a decent breaker suite that is cheap and scales well into late game. These are better than people give them credit for.

 

The first one you use would be at that strength, but the strength of each subsequent one used during a run would cascade down. We'd call that a cascading failure in my line of work, and it's a bad thing. Also, that's terrible tempo, both to build up in the first place and to recur. If they were in-faction Shaper or Anarch it might be doable as both factions get mechanisms to recur programs, but are you really going to import a full recursion suite into criminal just to keep these brittle breakers online?

 

Personally, no. I think they work better as includes over a more durable breaker suite as late game efficiency tricks to score a clutch agenda, and even then I'd rather stimhack or similar. 

 

I mean, we'll see and I'm open to being pleasantly surprised of course. But I remain unconvinced with what we know today.

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