I really don’t know how to feel about this card. It’s exceptional on turn 1, giving you the entire turn in one click, but I think it’s kind of dogshit outside of turns 1 or 2. I’d ask myself, “Would people be willing to run three copies of this card to maximize their chance of getting a free turn in turn 1?” but the answer is immediately and obviously “Yes”. We’ve seen time and time again in multiple card games that people are willing to trade a lot to get a really strong first turn.

I’m going to remain mixed on this card until it either sees massive play or no play. I’m currently betting on no play, but I’m fully accepting the reality where it’s run in every single HB deck.

Maybe just read Veronica’s Writeup on it. She’s got good thoughts on this card.

The online TCG Hearthstone has a statistic called drawn winrate. Drawn winrate, to keep things simple, is a measure of what the expected winrate of a deck is in games where you have drawn this card. Another way of viewing this can be, "How much more likely would I be to win if I drew this card right now?"¹ All of this brings me to Rashida Jaheem, so let's talk about her.

One of the great failings of Rashida Jaheem is, I would venture to say, she has a high drawn winrate. An early Rashida can really give you the gas you could ever need, and then some, and if you never draw her, you can find yourself struggling to get the cards and money you need to get your game plan going. Now imagine the drawn winrate for two Rashidas, or three Rashidas. I think you can see my point. Rashida Jaheem is just one card with a lot of concentrated swing potential, and whether or not you can draw that one card early enough can often be the difference between winning or losing. I think it can be easy to say that Null Signal does not want to repeat the mistakes of Fantasy Flight and print a card that puts that much winning into a single package.

Anthill Excavation Contract is, in my opinion, an attempt to print a worse Rashida. When played like Rashida, it only gives you 1 credit and 1 draw, which isn't great, but the turn afterwards, it will give you 4 more credits and a second draw, which is a bit better. Is it as immediately good as Rashida? No. But I think that's the point. Rashida was too good, and this is worse. This should result in slower games, with less swing value from drawing an early Anthill Excavation Contract, while still giving the corp some gas.

Will Anthill see play outside of Weyland? I doubt it. I think there'll be some decks that reach for it, but it's very likely that it'll stay a Weyland-only card, albeit a very commonly played one.

Cheap facecheck dropped. We’re losing Ice Wall, so this will be appreciated. I have no idea if they’re going to print a replacement for Border Control as well, but cheap ice always see play, and it doesn’t hurt that this is immune to the currently (and likely futurely) very powerful Arruaceiras Crew.

Huh. Weyland is losing only one good code gate, and that’s Hortum. Is this playable over other code gates? I don’t think so. It’ll see play in the sense that every new Elevation card will see play, but I don’t think it’s going to make a splash. Cool art though.

Wooo! I'm excited to be back to doing card reviews, and now I can do everything with regular css and js without any hacks (rip cohost ;-;). I'm planning to review every single card in Elevation, the newest set for Netrunner, which is coming out in April 24th of this year. Now that there's a functioning card element, I'm also planning on backporting my previous Netrunner card reviews over to this site when I can find the time. Either way, I hope you're excited! This is gonna be a lot of hype!

We are entering a post-FFG world, and this makes card reviews really tricky. You can’t exactly compare cards to the current meta, since so many staple cards are going to disappear. According to some searches on NetrunnerDB, the card pool will shrink from 804 cards to 447 cards (plus the size of Elevation). 357 cards are leaving the meta. (Here are all of them right here!) Obviously, not all of these are good, and there’s a number of repeats or reprints, but that’s still a lot of cards going away. What will this mean for Rising Tide? Well…

Rising Tide wants you to be running a lot of fracters. It is most comparable to Corroder, coming out 1 credit cheaper, but 1 base strength lower. It comes with the potential upside of gaining more and more strength as you trash more and more extra fracters, something runners already want to do since there’s no point in having more than one breaker of each type on the board. But there’s the question: How many fracters will players be running in a post-FFG world? Nobody runs more than one fracter in our current hell-meta, but looking back at slower metas, runners used to run around 2 or 3 copies of a breaker. I think losing around half of the card pool might slow down the meta enough that Anarch decks will run maybe 2 or 3 breakers, and that I think will make Rising Tide a compelling alternative to Cleaver.

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