Rather than shoehorn all of this timely news and information into another episode, we're putting it out in a shorter one. We'll cover the spoilers for the brand-new booster pack -- New Normal -- as well as the latest patch notes (all buffs this time). Finally, we'll wrap up with a winter Worlds report, including a writeup of my own middle-performin…

Eric and Nick are joined by Cobrabubbles to talk about Classique - a format where specific duel decks are chosen from Netrunner's history. The Classique Codex: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EYaeFqWt7r9-44WIktQNHfVnCYafQ8QzChN_k-owcr0/edit?usp=drivesdk ▶PATREON◀⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/neonstatic⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neonstatic…

After reviewing a conversation that lays the groundwork for our analysis of the preconstructed decks, we'll examine one of those decks -- HB Fast Advance -- in depth. We'll also dig into the archives for the third part of Elusive's series on The Skills of Netrunner, focusing on the different types of decks. Presented in four segments: Title card: G…

As was true for the Runners, the Corps each received two original cards in Reflections -- the first booster for the Reboot Project. We'll cover each of those cards in depth, along with analyzing the eight cards that were imported from the latter half of the FFG cardpool, closing with a card that was and then was not... Presented in nine segments: T…

Nick and Eric talk about the new Standard Ban List 25.12! We also talk a bit about our experience at Worlds, local tournaments, and have a good long quality time. Come hang with us! Link to Neon Hustle, our new side channel where we play things like video games and board games and stuff: https://www.youtube.com/@neonhustle ▶PATREON◀⁠⁠⁠https://www.p…

Having reached the end of the primary portion of the Fantasy Flight cardpool, we now accelerate closer to the present to start looking at the booster packs for the Reboot Project. The first one, Reflections, brings in eight Runner cards from the latter half of the FFG cardpool ... and also adds in 6 original Runner designs that are exclusive to Reb…

Data and Destiny concludes the Reboot Project portion of the FFG cardpool. Before moving forward in the podcast, we take a walk down memory lane. In this episode: an overview of the remainder of the cardpool, its competitive scene, and the eventual demise of the game -- including multiple perspectives on why a seemingly-successful game was ultimate…

As has become tradition of late, we'll take a look at a deck for each of the new identities that arrived for the Runners in Data and Destiny. In two of the cases, we have not only writeups by the deck authors but also a review of the deck by a blog at the time; in the third case, I'll present a deck of my very own from the past and subject it to a …

Part two of the Runner analysis of Data and Destiny sees us looking at a few of the buffs that the Reboot Project has made. As usual, we'll also analyze the new breakers and economy cards (including a truly bad one ... and a truly janky deck trying to make it work), plus some of the flavor references the designers and developers may have included. …

Turning now to the Runner side of Data and Destiny, we'll take a look at the focus on the fourth Runner faction in the ... What's that you say? There are only three Runner factions? Well ... what are they going to do for the fourth deluxe box, then? We'll present a comment from lead designer Lukas Litzsinger about their philosophy surrounding this …

As a continuation of last week's episode, this time around we look at a couple of decklists for the third NBN identity released in Data and Destiny: New Angeles Sol, including getting a glimpse at how the first Most Wanted List impacted the meta. We'll also do an analysis of one of the Reboot preconstructed decks. Presented in seven segments: Title…

Eric and Nick talk about what decks they expect to do well at Worlds 2025, talk about what they're thinking about playing, and make some predictions on what IDs will win. ▶PATREON◀⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/neonstatic⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neonstatic ▶DISCORD◀ New Hampshire Netrunners Discord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/SHbcRsgJ6T⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ GLC …

TheBigBoy dropped a morsel of information about the future of boosters in the Reboot Project, so we'll cover that discussion right at the top of the show. But for the bulk of the episode, we have three decks on tap this week based out of two of the NBN IDs from Data and Destiny: SYNC and Spark Agency. The SYNC deck was built and piloted by Timmy Wo…

We have finally arrived at the last piece of the Reboot Project puzzle (for certain definitions of "last"). Data and Destiny is the fourth deluxe expansion for Android: Netrunner and focused on the only Corp that hadn't received the treatment so far: NBN. We'll take a look at the numerous Corp nerfs that Reboot levies, plus the usual tour of some o…

Poised just before the introduction into the 2.1 group of the final Fantasy Flight expansion included in Reboot, we present an interview with the man who is largely responsible for the project being playable: Karl Holter, better known as Klerik. This wide-ranging, show-long episode covers his early days in Netrunner, the genesis of Reboot, and more…

Nick and Eric recap their recent trip to Montréal for the 2025 Americas Continental Championship and discuss their hopes for the upcoming September 17th Standard Ban List update in light of the decks they saw at Continentals. Link to the Crown of Servers Event: https://tournaments.nullsignal.games/tournaments/4142 Link to the Main tournament result…

The last pack of the SanSan Cycle -- which is also the last Data Pack from Fantasy Flight Games that is included in the Reboot Project -- is another Corp-skewed pack. We'll delve into the multiple different options on offer for the Corp. Presented in nine segments: Title card: Expo Grid 2:45 Anonymous Tip: Count your rez costs 7 Things You Can Do T…

This week's episode is centered mainly on the second part of the article series The Skills of Netrunner, as written by Elusive and posted originally on Stimhack; the first part of the series was covered in episode 89, "The Creators." This time around Elusive focuses more on the psychological aspects of Netrunner, as it pertains to each of us indivi…

We have arrived at the last Data Pack of the last cycle in the Reboot portion of the FFG cardpool. This episode focuses on the Runner side of that pack -- The Universe of Tomorrow -- with the final (regular, non-booster) cards for Anarchs, Criminals, and Shapers. This pack also has the most nerfs of any in the Reboot cardpool, which elicits a deep …

Near the beginning of the 2015 regional season, eventual Oxford Regional runner-up and UK Nats top 16 competitor Andrew Hynes (Xenasis) published an article on Stimhack dealing with a competitive player's approach to eliminating various fallacies in Netrunner (and, to a certain extent, customizable card games as a whole). We'll read through that ar…

No Data Pack in the Reboot portion of the FFG cardpool has such a skewed distribution between Corp and Runner as Old Hollywood, the fifth pack in the fourth cycle. We'll examine the nerf to the NBN ID in this pack, several of the buffs Reboot gives to help some weaker cards, and more. Presented in eight segments: Title card: Vanity Project 1:45 Cel…

This episode of Radio Heinlein brings you along to the Nordic Megacity tournament — a hot summer day in Stockholm. Interviews, banlist comments, and tournament report.Guests: hbarsquared, saintis, Council, and PostisLinks:- https://alwaysberunning.net/tournaments/4715/2025-nordic-megacity-championship-stockholmMusic: Add Some Synthwave Excitement w…

The penultimate Data Pack in the Reboot cardpool has arrived in the form of Old Hollywood, which is the most corp-heavy pack in the pool. In addition to looking at the mostly-static Runner side of the expansion -- including a long digression about Rolodex -- we'll also check in again with the 2015 tournament season as the national championships swi…

2015 UK Nationals winner Alex White was so enamored of the Anarch card Street Peddler that was released in The Underway that he wrote an entire article about it; we will present that article in this episode. We'll also update the regionals report that we started in episode 90 with those that were played when The Underway was legal. Presented in thr…

Focusing on the Corp side of The Underway this time around, we'll explore in some depth the nerf to a sysop released in this pack, as well as some fairly extensive discussion around some weaker cards that have been buffed. Presented in five segments: Title card: Test Ground 1:50 Celebrity Gift: The Underway, Corp side Nerf: Marcus Batty Buffs: Defe…

Turning the corner into the second half of the SanSan Cycle, the fourth Data Pack -- The Underway -- brings the most nerfs in one pack that we've seen yet: 3 for the Runners and 1 for the Corp. We'll discuss the reasons behind those Runner nerfs as well as running down the other new Runner tools this release provided before taking a look at a Geist…

Ten years removed from the 2015 regional season for Android: Netrunner, it's time for a trip down memory lane. We'll take a necessarily-brief overview of the season, which was largely contained to the portion of the cardpool that we've discussed thus far, up to Chrome City. Presented in fourteen segments: Title card: Midway Station Grid 1:50 Rabbit…

Shortly after Worlds 2016, Stimhack author Elusive began posting a series of articles discussing various aspects of the theory and skills in Netrunner. The first article in that series comprises the main portion of this episode. Prior to that we'll review the changes just posted in the first -- and potentially last -- patch for the latest Reboot bo…

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This episode kicks off with an article from The Winning Agenda about how the Runner can best interact with Corp scoring windows. We'll also dig into a Stimhack thread about a stifling Runner archetype that does just that. Presented in three segments: Title card: Little Engine 3:35 Anonymous Tip: How Much is a Credit Worth?: The Concept of the 'Crit…

TheBigBoy has said that if you could capture the FFG cardpool at any one point, the release of Chrome City would be the game at its healthiest. So we'll cover the buffs the Reboot Project has made to the Corp cards in this pack (since we haven't seen the bulk of the nerfs from this cycle yet), look at a deck using the latest Haas-Bioroid identity, …

Eric and Nick express their love in terms of how scratchy new Elevation cards are to other new Elevation cards. Like with Rocks. ▶PATREON◀⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/neonstatic⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neonstatic ▶Meme Contest Link◀https://youtu.be/GlBOBpAWI_c ▶DISCORD◀ New Hampshire Netrunners Discord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/SHbcRsgJ6T⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

Reaching the halfway point on FFG's final cycle of Data Packs in Reboot is the third pack in the SanSan Cycle: Chrome City. This episode will cover the changes that the Reboot Project has made to several of the Runner cards, discuss in a little more detail why one of the cards (Analog Dreamers) needed a buff, and then break down the pros and cons o…

The final nine cards have been spoiled for the upcoming 30-card Fate and Freedom, the fifth booster pack for the Reboot Project, including the console for the new minifaction and a new Jinteki identity. Most of the rest of the episode focuses on a glacier archetype out of Blue Sun, as based on a Stimhack article by Ben Blum. Presented in four segme…

Seven more cards have been spoiled out of the upcoming 30-card Fate and Freedom, the fifth booster pack for the Reboot Project, and we give a brief rundown of all of them, including the breaker suite for the new minifaction and an asset that's similar to Jinteki Biotech. But the bulk of the episode is taken up with an examination of four different …

This episode of Radio Heinlein is the final episode in the Awaiting Elevation series, leading up to the release of Elevation. The episode features two exclusive card spoilers.We explore the history and gameplay impact of two long-standing agendas and examine how their newly revealed counterparts may shape the post-rotation landscape. The discussion…

Another week, another seven cards spoiled out of the upcoming 30-card Fate and Freedom, the fifth booster pack for the Reboot Project. We also pontificate on the concept of power creep and how Netrunner has been affected over time, before taking a look at the mostly-untouched-by-Reboot Corp side of Breaker Bay, the second Data Pack of the SanSan Cy…

With the release of the fifth Reboot booster just a few weeks away, we'll do a brief overview of cards spoiled thus far. Then we'll dig into the Runner side of the second Data Pack in the SanSan Cycle -- Breaker Bay. Presented in eight segments: Title card: Beach Party 1:50 Anonymous Tip: Variance 7:20 Precognition: Fate and Freedom spoilers, part …

Nick and Eric talk about the 25.04 Banlist, released 4/7/2024, as well as the new cards that have been spoiled for the upcoming set Elevation. ▶PATREON◀⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/neonstatic⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neonstatic Eric and Nick don their investigative fedoras (not really) and chat (investigatively) with Lilli (NSG Design) and Safe…

The fifth Reboot booster pack, Fate and Freedom, is due to launch in May, and we're going to kick off the episode by bringing you the first spoiler from that pack. After that, we'll move on to covering an article by SimonMoon that was published on Stimhack about 10 years ago discussing aggressive Runners. Presented in three segments: Title card: Ma…

In this episode we continue exploring the impact of Elevation — the upcoming Netrunner core set — and the major rotation of the remaining FFG era cards that goes along with the set release.The discussion focuses on how the lore Netrunner universe could be affected, and what different directions Null Signal Games can take the lore.Guests: Remy (Aweb…

The release of The Valley brought the introduction of Clot, which was designed to put the brakes on fast advance. Probably no deck was as ready to incorporate this card as the juggernaut that had become Prepaid Kate. The bulk of this episode will be focused on the infamous Stimhack thread that discusses this archetype, catching us up on its develop…

Similar to the Runner side, the Corp side of The Valley also contained some groundbreaking cards. While not quite as meta-shaking or -defining, the new Jinteki identity that arrived did present some new game mechanisms. We'll take an extensive look at that ID, plus a roundup of all the other Corp cards in the pack, including the others that have re…

In this episode we continue exploring the impact of Elevation — the upcoming Netrunner core set — and the major rotation of the remaining FFG era cards that goes along with the set release. The discussion focuses on Haas-Bioroid, the impact of the rotation of Rashida, along with general thoughts about the corp side of the game.Guests: Bridgeman, Mi…

The Valley is the first Data Pack in the SanSan Cycle, which is the fourth and final cycle of the Fantasy Flight Games' run of Android: Netrunner that is included in the Reboot Project. It was highly anticipated at the time, thanks to a long-awaited tool that promised to slow down fast-advance strategies. We'll cover that card and the rest of the R…

For the second installment based on the Runner side of Order and Chaos, we'll take an approach similar to what we did a couple episodes back with Corp: presenting different decks. In this case, there are just two decks, and they're both out of just one of the identities: MaxX. Similar to last time, both decks are by well-known members of the Netrun…

The featured faction for the Runner side of Order and Chaos was Anarch. We'll cover the changes made by the Reboot Project -- including a couple of nerfs -- with particular focus on cards like Eater and Edward Kim ... and probably too much attention paid to Sacrificial Clone. Presented in eight segments: Title card: Eater 1:15 Satellite Uplink: Ord…

For the second installment based on the Corp side of Order and Chaos, we present three different decks: one for each of the new identities. These were all posted on NetrunnerDB by content creators around the time of this expansion's release. We'll examine the development of a Titan Transnational fast advance deck from CodeMarvelous, a taxing horizo…

This episode of Radio Heinlein covers the implications of the upcoming Netrunner core set, Elevation, together with the major rotation that removes all remaining Fantasy Flight-era cards. The discussion focuses on the Runner side, primarily Shaper, examining key rotating cards, potential replacements, and the faction's future direction.Guests: Aksu…

Order and Chaos was the third deluxe expansion released by Fantasy Flight Games for Android: Netrunner. The Corp side focus of this expansion was the Weyland Consortium, and in this episode we'll review the adjustments that the Reboot Project has made to that portion of the expansion (which includes a nerf to Titan Transnational) as well as examini…