{"product_id":"inactive-android-netrunner-lcg-fear-the-masses","title":"Android Netrunner LCG: Fear the Masses Data Pack","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\"Clean yourself up, and play the game. Play the part like you always have, and maybe you’ll survive. Frag this up, and you’ll wish you’d never been born.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e–Ibrahim Salem\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eElection Day is here! And the impression its events are about to leave upon the citizens of the Indian Union will carry forward for many generations. Featuring some of the most potent and deck-defining cards from the whole \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eMumbad Cycle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFear the Masses\u003c\/em\u003e carries the cycle to its climactic conclusion… but leaves it to you to deal with the fall-out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eAmid the Data Pack's sixty new cards (including a complete playset of nineteen different cards), you'll find plenty to excite fans of both NBN and those Runners who identify themselves as Anarchs. As \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFear the Masses\u003c\/em\u003e pushes the \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eMumbad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e Cycle\u003c\/em\u003e into the streets of Navi Mumbai, Mumbad's entertainment capital, NBN gains a new identity, a new \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eregion\u003c\/span\u003e upgrade, and two potentially game-changing assets. Meanwhile, as they march against Corp HQs, the Anarchs rally the masses toward dissent and high-pressure discard strategies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/3c\/6c\/3c6c6b9a-4f6c-4b5f-9266-b7d89ca41527\/adn35_sample.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/3c\/6c\/3c6c6b9a-4f6c-4b5f-9266-b7d89ca41527\/adn35_sample.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eOf course, there's plenty for every faction, including neutral cards for the Runner that give you good odds of bypassing Corp ice for free and a neutral agenda for the Corp that's worth two agenda points, but requires only three advancement to score.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: #333333; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 25px;\"\u003eFull Immersion RecStudio\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/56\/d0\/56d06e26-7efb-4ee1-9261-2da3d9a36d39\/full_imersion_recstudio.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eThere's an old adage that suggests you shouldn't keep all your eggs in one basket, but whoever came up with that one hadn't had an opportunity to visit a\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/56\/d0\/56d06e26-7efb-4ee1-9261-2da3d9a36d39\/full_imersion_recstudio.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003eFull Immersion RecStudio\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFear the Masses\u003c\/em\u003e, 108).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eWhen you install Full Immersion RecStudio into a server, it offers you the rare ability to double-down on that server, loading it with agendas and assets that play off each other and guarantee that your server is bound to result in something good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eYou want to advance an ambush like \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/59\/10\/5910080f-96d4-40d8-8369-10f93a548efd\/project-junebug.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003eProject Junebug\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eCore Set\u003c\/em\u003e, 69), hoping to bait the Runner into a face full of net damage? With Full Immersion RecStudio, you can refresh the lure, as well as the threat of net damage, by installing a \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003ehostile\u003c\/span\u003e asset like \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/4a\/89\/4a89be60-a76c-4da4-97a0-aa5ae8b8fd6e\/ronin.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003eRonin\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFuture Proof\u003c\/em\u003e, 112) and advancing both assets at intervals.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eOf course, you can also hedge your bets by installing a trap alongside an agenda. It always hurts to triple-advance your \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/08\/35\/0835c4b2-7b6d-4f9f-8e80-9cd9fdd656e4\/napd-contract.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003eNAPD Contract\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eDouble Time\u003c\/em\u003e, 119) only to watch the Runner steal it. However, it hurts a lot less if the Runner doesn't just have to pay the four credits to steal your NAPD Contract, but also has to access your triple-advanced \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/6f\/0f\/6f0fe4c9-1b0b-4b51-84c5-89a2ae39254d\/cerebral-overwriter.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003eCerebral Overwriter\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eCreation and Control\u003c\/em\u003e, 9) and suffer three brain damage.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eSo, if you play your Full Immersion RecStudio properly, you win whenever the Runner accesses the cards it hosts. But you also win if the Runner accesses the Full Immersion RecStudio and trashes it without first accessing its hosted cards. In this case, the Runner might not spring your \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eambush\u003c\/span\u003e, but any hosted agendas go to Archives… where they don't fuel the Runner toward victory. A little bit of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/7e\/3a\/7e3a130d-3752-44b0-85e0-c9bbd52604d9\/jackson-howard.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003eJackson Howard\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eOpening Moves\u003c\/em\u003e, 15) magic, and you can tuck those cards safely back into R\u0026amp;D—far, far, far away from prying eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eAnd what does the Runner get for all of this? The Runner gets to pay the nine credits it costs to trash a Full Immersion RecStudio with two assets and\/or agendas hosted on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: #333333; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 25px;\"\u003eBhagat\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/63\/90\/6390b6d8-2818-4c0a-b0ec-2b7ec8ad924d\/bhagat.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eIn Hinduism, bhagats are holy men who lead humanity toward faith and point out the world's injustices. In \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eAndroid: Netrunner\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/63\/90\/6390b6d8-2818-4c0a-b0ec-2b7ec8ad924d\/bhagat.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003eBhagat\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFear the Masses\u003c\/em\u003e, 96) arrives as a three-cost Anarch \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003econnection\u003c\/span\u003e with an influence cost of four and artwork that depicts a shirtless protestor standing atop an abandoned vehicle while fires blaze in the background.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eWe don't know much about this \"Bhagat\" character, except that he wears a gas mask and holds a megaphone, which he uses to crank up the volume during the protest, in the hope that the chaos and volume may force the targeted Corps to pay attention. Certainly, if his presence within the game's fictional world is much like his presence within the game, this Bhagat is bound to succeed:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\"The first time you make a successful run on HQ each turn, force the Corp to trash the top card of R\u0026amp;D.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eIn \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eAndroid: Netrunner\u003c\/em\u003e, the Corp player loses if he ever needs to draw a card after his deck (or \"R\u0026amp;D\") is reduced to zero cards, so when your Bhagat is discarding one card from the top of his R\u0026amp;D each turn—and you're eating away at his maximum number of available turns—the Corp player is bound to feel constrained. Ideally, this may help you install a bit of fear or panic into your foe, but even if it doesn't, you're adding cards to Archives that may be agendas that you can access there later in one big points grab.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eThis is how one typically plays a \"mill\" deck, such as one runs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/04\/f1\/04f1b29b-d543-41da-8d78-d36dfe6add3f\/noise.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003eNoise\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eCore Set\u003c\/em\u003e, 1) and a host of \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003evirus\u003c\/span\u003e programs, and to that end, Bhagat can serve as another piece of the puzzle. However, because he typically likes to spend click after click installing his \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eviruses\u003c\/span\u003e, rather than running, Noise isn't necessarily the best Runner identity for your Bhagat. And even when Noise does run, it's not as often against HQ as it is against R\u0026amp;D or Archives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eIndeed, your Bhagat, despite his Anarch tendencies, might well be best placed within a Criminal deck, such as one featuring savvy investor \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/99\/4c\/994cb2f1-c4f4-4cc3-92e8-d608e2caf998\/laramy-fisk.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003eLaramy Fisk\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe Universe of Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e, 104). After all, Criminals are notorious for their runs against HQ, a well-documented pattern of behavior that dates all the way back to the \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eCore Set\u003c\/em\u003e and Criminal identity\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/ba\/24\/ba2462b0-5ce2-490e-9455-0a3b84729b1b\/gabriel-santiago.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003eGabriel Santiago\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eCore Set\u003c\/em\u003e, 17) and one that owes largely to the fact that the Criminal event \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/1d\/14\/1d148620-a8b8-45f2-ae7c-166899f43611\/account-siphon.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003eAccount Siphon\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eCore Set\u003c\/em\u003e, 18) requires successful runs on HQ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/b9\/d3\/b9d3a8cd-f463-4087-901d-6764ff13c3f9\/fear_the_masses.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eSo with Bhagat and Account Siphon, you get double-duty for your runs on HQ; you're stealing credits and milling cards. And if you add Laramy Fisk to the mix, you're not just milling one card, you're effectively milling two. Then, you add a few copies of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/69\/96\/69965cb8-a54b-466b-a55a-89daac934a34\/fisk-investment-seminar.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003eFisk Investment Seminar\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe Universe of Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e, 105), and you're immediately putting the Corp player on a very short timer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eOf course, if you choose to run Bhagat in a Criminal deck, you will probably want to make room for a few copies of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/46\/96\/46960e8a-1f6f-4d09-aae9-52d7adb2e726\/hostage.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003eHostage\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eOpening Moves\u003c\/em\u003e, 4), rather than using up all your influence on multiple copies of Bhagat. Even so, you won't have enough influence for the full six-card playset of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com\/filer_public\/b9\/d3\/b9d3a8cd-f463-4087-901d-6764ff13c3f9\/fear_the_masses.png\" data-colorbox-rel=\"ffg-lightbox\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003eFear the Masses\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFear the Masses\u003c\/em\u003e, 96) that you could potentially pair with Bhagat in an Anarch deck, which begs the question: once we arrive to the end of the \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eMumbad Cycle\u003c\/em\u003e, are we more likely to see Criminal decks that \"mill\" like Anarchs, or Anarch decks that target HQ like Criminals?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantasy Flight Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48010571023,"sku":"841333100360","price":14.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1704\/1809\/products\/INACTIVE-Android-Netrunner-LCG-Fear-the-Masses.jpg?v=1758142694","url":"https:\/\/store.401games.ca\/products\/inactive-android-netrunner-lcg-fear-the-masses","provider":"401 Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}