This card is actually kind of cool. Sure it's no Angelique, but it is a good combo with City Works Project in a killer Weyland deck. I've been trying to upgrade stack it with an Overseer Matrix to get the EOTL kill.

You can also put it on HQ if you get flooded, cos its each time, not first time per turn.

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Flip Switch has seen a renaissance with the rise of Ob decks using the nasty Stavka plus Hafrún combo. This unassuming little tech card could be the thing that keeps your rig from being blasted. If you expect to run into nasty Ob players, consider packing 1x of these in your deck. And hey, it ain't useless in other situations either.

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So, this card is part of one of the most disgusting combos in the game right now

Toss one Hafrún into a Ob together with some Stavka and have anything with a rez cost of 3 rezzed

When the runner approaches Stavka, you rez it, trash the 3-cost card and use Ob to bring Hafrún into the same server as Stavka is. At that moment you can trash one card from HQ to have one of their breakers stop working. If they only have one kind of breaker that can break it, then they're in very bad waters.

There's a few ways to survive this combo.

One of them is, of course, having more than one way of breaking a sentry. Maybe you have your killer, but you also have an AI.

Another way is using something like Flip Switch or Laser Pointer

The other big brain way of getting around this is using Simulchip to reinstall your malfunctioning breaker

But yeah, this combo exists in Startup at the time of this writing, and Simulchip/Flip Switch don't

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[FFG Kitchen Table Meta Perspective] Probably my favorite purple identity so far. Aside from the "thousand one-point storm" (a strategy strongly suggested by some companions in the box), I simply love the Tempo Symphony you can generate with this ID, and two amazing upgrades. Just imagine the dream situation: score a good agenda (itself rich in tempo ofc), Sports trigger for 2 cards, with a little luck one of them will be an ice (maybe the beast or a humble synergizer) that you will install with Jinja (in God knows what position), and finally Arelle can place the following agenda on the train (or perhaps anything else if you suspect that the runner can answer your remote next turn)... Congratulations, you've generated a crazy amount of value (clicks & credits) with a trivial but meaningful (it brings you closer to your goal after all) action. That's just peak Fair Netrunner to me. Go Fast or Go Home!

[FFG Kitchen Table Meta Perspective] Pretty sick card. I mean, literally. At first glance it seems like an interesting piece, tutor for a funny alliance tribal deck, there are very good ones. But then you read it a second time and you understand that isn't only a tutor but also an "executor", so the click compression sky-rockets. And if you add an alliance that is itself a tutor, then the whole pack becomes ridiculous, even without taking into account the rest of non-alliance cards that can support this madness. The only positive thing I have to say about this aberration is that at least it can't do a "MTG Brainstorm+Fetch" effect with Heritage :D

Luckily, it got restricted/banned. Phew