Noob question: Why buy more than one set?

By zombipuppy, in Android: Netrunner The Card Game

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well i do not think that is really true.. there is not really any such thing as a dead card in a runner deck if you plan for it. Even if you have 3 consoles to get a higher % draw you can always use the other 2 for meat dmg protection. At teh very least. There are other tricks you could build a deck around as well, and as people have said there may come a time that discard/draw effects will pop up or other things… you nvr know.. So while I see your point I simply do not agree. There are arguments that you shouldn't get more than 1 pack, but I think it is obvious that you have more options for creative deck building now and in the future if you have a full set of cards.

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Messenger said:

booored said:

For me the thing that makes these games good is the deck building.. I think that is a major part of what I love about card games. The idea of making 4 decks or w/e and nvr modifying them completely astounds me. It really seams like you are missing the entire point of this type of game..

Who said I was never modifying them? Please don't put words in my mouth. All I said was that I'm making only 1 deck of side. That I look forward to Genesis and other future expansions means I'll be regularly updating and upgrading my decks.

well w/e, regardless of such semantics of if i used the word modify instead of new.. the point stands the same.

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booored said:

well i do not think that is really true.. there is not really any such thing as a dead card in a runner deck if you plan for it. Even if you have 3 consoles to get a higher % draw you can always use the other 2 for meat dmg protection. At teh very least. There are other tricks you could build a deck around as well, and as people have said there may come a time that discard/draw effects will pop up or other things… you nvr know.. So while I see your point I simply do not agree. There are arguments that you shouldn't get more than 1 pack, but I think it is obvious that you have more options for creative deck building now and in the future if you have a full set of cards.

And, no, your point of me making a deck but not modifying it all doesn't stand simply because it's not true at all. I can still tinker with just one core set; with Genesis coming soon, I can modify even though I only have 1 core set.

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Messenger said:

And, no, your point of me making a deck but not modifying it all doesn't stand simply because it's not true at all. I can still tinker with just one core set; with Genesis coming soon, I can modify even though I only have 1 core set.

hmm, i have said it twice now and you still do not understand and completely missing the point.. oh well. guess there is no hope for you… see ya!

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booored said:

Messenger said:

And, no, your point of me making a deck but not modifying it all doesn't stand simply because it's not true at all. I can still tinker with just one core set; with Genesis coming soon, I can modify even though I only have 1 core set.

hmm, i have said it twice now and you still do not understand and completely missing the point.. oh well. guess there is no hope for you… see ya!

Actually, I suspect you're missing his point.

1, Messenger has not denied that a second core set gives more deckbuilding options. This can't really be argued against.

2, Messenger's argument is that these options are either not worth exercising, or are not worth the price of another core on their own.

These are two different things.

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SiCK_Boy said:

It still raises the question of why FFG stubbornly refuses to consider making a "filler" pack that would provide a full playset of cards. I know their main argument for the Core set distribution is that they want to include a large number of cards in it, and I can understand. But seeing as this is their 5th LCG, and all of them (except maybe for CoC with it's 1-of only distribution) have seen this issue rises..

This shouldn't be a mystery. So long as some are willing to shell out an additional $40-80 to fill out those singles and doubles, and the backlash isn't super-high (which it hasn't been since a single set is viable, even if it's not optimal), then FFG is happy to sell more volume at what amounts to a high profit margin.

Each of those triple cards you throw away (because they're not useful to anybody else who has a core set, and the singletons are necessary enough to have at least one of to make "assembling" incomplete sets for people who don't have the game unattractive) cost them pennies to produce, yet you paid full value for them despite not needing them.

Creating a filler pack as you suggest would eliminate the profit margin they're currently making on those trashed cards. You certainly wouldn't pay $80 for a full filler pack, would you?

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booored said:

Messenger said:

And, no, your point of me making a deck but not modifying it all doesn't stand simply because it's not true at all. I can still tinker with just one core set; with Genesis coming soon, I can modify even though I only have 1 core set.

hmm, i have said it twice now and you still do not understand and completely missing the point.. oh well. guess there is no hope for you… see ya!

Let it go. Everyone is free to buy and play the game however they wish. It does not make it more right or wrong, just different.

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mothchoir said:

booored said:

Messenger said:

And, no, your point of me making a deck but not modifying it all doesn't stand simply because it's not true at all. I can still tinker with just one core set; with Genesis coming soon, I can modify even though I only have 1 core set.

hmm, i have said it twice now and you still do not understand and completely missing the point.. oh well. guess there is no hope for you… see ya!

Actually, I suspect you're missing his point.

1, Messenger has not denied that a second core set gives more deckbuilding options. This can't really be argued against.

2, Messenger's argument is that these options are either not worth exercising, or are not worth the price of another core on their own.

These are two different things.

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For what it's worth, I bought 2 copies of the core set for the following reasons:

1: There are enough x2 and x1 cards in the set to make me think that the second copy was just about worth the money.

2: There are several of the x2 cards that I can definitely see me wanting to include at x3 in my decks.

3: The additional copies of the neutral cards (especially the agendas) give me the option to put together 2 runner decks and 2 corp decks at the same time.

I didn't buy a 3rd copy, simply because I didn't consider £25 for 11 cards to be worthwhile. None of the x1 cards in the set strike me as important enough to justify that kind of expense, there aren't any that I'm thinking I need 3 copies of in my deck. If that changes, I can always buy a 3rd copy somewhere down the line.

Anyway, that's my attempt to answer the OP's question.