Next Big Thing

Next Big Thing 5/3

Agenda: Initiative

When this agenda is scored or stolen, place 1 agenda counter on it.

[click], hosted agenda counter: Draw 4 cards. Shuffle any number of cards from HQ into R&D. The Corp can use this ability even if this agenda is in the Runner's score area.

That’s so fifteen minutes ago.
Illustrated by Matheus Calza
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Elevation (elev)

#60 • English
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Most of the time, the "next big thing" will be a bullet to the head. This agenda is nice because it lets you hail mary dig for tag punishment after a well-timed Ping rez or Oracle Thinktank theft, or that money/fast advance tech you need. With no risk, as you can shuffle away pesky extra agendas or worthless ICE! (or not, to preserve the thinning out of R&D). I think this will be a staple for yellow combo kills in the future.

(Rebellion Without Rehearsal era)

you can also draw into a YDL for like eight credits

NBT is like a “yellowshifted Bacterial Programming”.

For example, after the Runner steals it (with five-ish cards in hand and just two credits in pool), you can: click it to draw 4 (shuffling away an agenda), play Your Digital Life (netting+$7), then play a kicked Oppo Research (the stolen 5/3 turning on both the Threat 3 and the “Reprisal”).


The agenda-counter templating increases the flexibility (and simplifies the timing) of:

  • When this agenda is scored or stolen, draw 4 cards, then shuffle any number of cards from HQ into R&D.
(Elevation era)