Thunderbolt Armaments: Peace Through Power

Thunderbolt Armaments: Peace Through Power

Identity: Division
Deck size: 45 • Influence: 15

Whenever you rez a piece of AP or destroyer ice during a run, that ice gets +1 strength and gains “[subroutine] End the run unless the Runner trashes 1 of their installed cards.” after its other subroutines for the remainder of that run.

Strength in the palm of your hand.
Illustrated by Emilio Rodríguez
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Rebellion Without Rehearsal (rwr)

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I'm editing this review because I've had a change of heart on T-Bolt. Not in Standard, it doesn't stand a chance there, but in Startup. You can score the new 3/1, derez a Tithe, and make your nastiest ice all the better. Just good wholesome purple fun.

(Rebellion Without Rehearsal era)
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This ID may be bad, but at least it shows Null Signal have some interesting ideas. I’d rather they took a swing and missed than played it safe with constant variations of ‘gain 1<span class="icon icon-credit"></span>’.

For sure

Posted early, thanks mobile! I want to be clear that this was in standard. I actually really like T-bolt in Startup, you can do some nasty things and runners are less capable of fully circumventing it.

Consistently thought of as a mid-tier, if not an outright bad, ID, Thunderbolt Armaments is, in reality, the HB version of Earth Station: SEA Headquarters. Of course, whether Earth Station is a mid-tier ID is, in itself, another conversation to be had, but the idea is the same: tax the runner's first run on a remote. This means that the central servers can be made into money generators, but, when it is time for the pressure, it must hurt and annoy the runner, while not bankrupting you along the way. K2CP continues to let the runner wreak havoc in the current meta's late game (as many, no doubt, say like the runner should), and early pressure is the only viable way of having the credits needed to fight back. Diversification pays, but any tempo hit is going to mean Game Over. Hence, the right response. I don't know about making it work with Reduced Service, but I know there is a viable deck there, perhaps just as inseparable as Vulnerability Audit is from A Teia now. Definitely needs NEXT lockdown to keep your deck viable. On to something less straightforward for me.

(Rebellion Without Rehearsal era)