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…

The release of The Source ended a drought of nine consecutive releases with no bioroid ice. This prompted Nagnazul to develop a deck in the largely-ignored and maligned Haas-Bioroid identity Stronger Together. In addition to revisiting that article, we'll also present a recent discussion from the Reboot Discord server about how to deal with the cor…

A packed episode, kicked off with a post from El-ad Amir about deckbuilding and an FFG interview with developer Dan Clark about the Runners in the original core set, then followed by an examination of the Runner portion of the final pack in the Lunar Cycle, and concluding with a reading of the sixth and final part of the story about Nasir Meidan's …

After dusting off some archived memories, we dive into the sixth and final release from the Lunar Cycle: The Source. We have quite a bit to say about one of the two cards that was nerfed, as well as a card that wasn't adjusted for Reboot due to other cards not being part of the Project and assorted buffs. Plus we'll put a bow on the reading of Part…

The two major segments in this episode are a reading of an interview with Lukas Litzsinger posted a little over ten years ago about competition and the near-term future of the game from back then plus an in-depth look at an Anarch resource denial deck from near the end of the Lunar Cycle. Presented in four segments: Title card: Data Leak Reversal 2…

One of the more important icebreakers was released as part of All That Remains, the fifth Data Pack in the Lunar Cycle. As Chaos Theory says, "Its bytes are worse than its bark." We'll also examine the notable Reboot nerf to the Criminal identity Leela Patel and the several buffs to Runner cards in this pack. Presented in nine segments: Title card:…

The fifth Data Pack in the Lunar Cycle definitely brings some sets of cards. For the Corps, we see a set of 3/1 agendas, the final morph ice, some more zodiac ice, and the third main grail ice, along with some of the usual useful tools. We'll also discuss briefly why the rez cost of ice is so finely tuned, and take a look at some of the flavor on H…

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Before moving onto the next Data Pack, we'll take another long look at the 2014 World Championship for Netrunner through the eyes of Dan D'Argenio (aka "mediohxcore"), the eventual world champion. Presented in three segments: Title card: Tinkering 3:40 Experiential Data: Mediohxcore’s 2014 World Championship Report: 1st Place Corp deck | Runner dec…

Up and Over (the most recent Data Pack added to the 2.1 group) was also the last Data Pack released before the 2014 World Championship for Netrunner. In this episode we'll cover the tournament report provided by spags, who finished top seed in the preliminary rounds of that tournament. Presented in four segments: Title card: Bernice Mai Participant…

Eric and Nick use their biggest feelings to talk about cards that are about to rotate from the Standard format. ▶LINKS◀Baa Ram Wu's UK Nats Streams: Swiss Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/live/FVTfT8HQGTY Swiss Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/live/qEaLwHsqvVI Top 16 - https://www.youtube.com/live/NE9Lu8Td_Kg Finals - https://www.youtube.com/live/z…

We'll examine the Runner side of Up and Over, the fourth Data Pack in the Lunar Cycle, spending entirely too much time discussing cards that aren't good -- I'm looking at you, Angel Arena -- while also analyzing how best to build around Switchblade in Andromeda. Plus, we'll finish our review of TheBigBoy's classic set of articles on improving as a …

Moving into the second half of the Lunar Cycle, Up and Over provides some powerful cards that see play in a number of decks. We'll explore what cards like Architect and Blue Sun are and why they're good, plus also providing a portion of a strategy article from TheBigBoy about how much ice to include in a Corp deck. Presented in eight segments: Titl…

Nick and Eric talk about their experience going to the 2024 Netrunner World Championship in San Francisco! ▶PATREON◀⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/neonstatic⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neonstatic▶PODCAST◀https://anchor.fm/neon-static▶DISCORD◀New Hampshire Netrunners Discord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/SHbcRsgJ6T⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GLC (Null Signal Games) Discord: …

After the release of Honor & Profit, Jinteki received sufficient tools to make a shell-game, net-damage deck successful. We'll look at the deck that archetype that Chris Hinkes popularized in his win at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, regional in the summer of 2014 ... which was subsequently piloted by Minh Tran to a runner-up finish at Worlds in 201…