It’s been a long time coming but after many a candle-lit vigil FFG have answered my prayers. Golly, my knees are sore from such long entreaties – but it’s all been worth it because everyone’s favourite feline terror Hellion Alpha Test now has a tag team partner. In Netrunner, the cats herd you – into the path of Weyland’s renovators! I think that’s some home improvement we’d all like to watch …accompanied by the smell of burning flesh.

Sherlock might even barely be playable... nah. —
nice synergy, though I question whether it's easier to just snatch and grab? —
You know what else brings the #StackAttack? Kala Ghoda TV —

The Flare that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Marcus.

The 1980s weren't nearly as good as everyone thinks, although they were certainly better than the '90s. Nothing went right in the '90s outside of the birth of CCGs and the golden age of Sportcenter. Like everyone else I ushered in the new millennium a year early just to be grateful to flush away a grungy, ten year old flannel-wrapped, turd.

If you're not old and grumpy like I am, you may not be aware of just how massive of an Easter egg Marcus Batty is. You probably won't care - which is fine because everyone gets sick of old people telling them in one breath how easy they have it at the same time as saying how much better things used to be.

Not only is he the sort of card that makes you immediately do a t:ICE search just to see how much evil you can pull off (66% of the time, it works every time!) but he happens to share the surname with Roy "I want more life, fucker" Batty from Blade Runner WHILE being a direct call back to Dr Dreff, a sysop upgrade in the original Netrunner CCG. Dreff himself was a call back to Dr Emmett Brown of the Back to the Future franchise (still leeching money from Gen X pockets today!), who was in turn a call back to Albert Einstein. That's three layers of call back regression in one great, great card. Lastly if I'm not mistaken our good man Batty bears more than a passing resemblance to John "Cyrus the Virus" Malkovich. I may be reaching with that though.

The best and funnest card in a little while for me. Until Turbeau Delacroix v2 comes out with Data and Destiny at least. I know you're in there!

The best review I've read in ages. Delightful. —
This card is too strong... —
Isn't Turbeau Delacroix v2 basically Bernice Mai? I mean, sure it's not trace 10, but trace 5 is very respectable. —
How would this work with the Kitsune? Would it basically allow me to use Kitsune potentially 6 times instead of only max of 3 (3 copies of each assuming no recursion)? —
For the benefit of anyone fortunate enough to have avoided the 1980s, I would like to state that the 1990s were objectively better than the 1980s in every possible way. This does not apply if somehow, you enjoy listening to Kajagoogoo while wearing head-to-toe stonewashed denim and praying that you don't die in a nuclear holocaust. *insert something about Netrunner here* —

Firstly, Faust rhymes with ‘browsed’, not ‘forced’. As the leading source of objective truth in this world, Wikipedia describes:

“Faust and the adjective Faustian imply a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term.” Fits the card pretty nicely.

Apparently Faust himself was a bored German (well, Württemberg-er, probably at the time) who decided to scale the heights of the “All Time Worst Ideas’ list by inking a pactum (promise) in blood with the devil’s bagman, Mephistopheles (later a successful shoe salesman, also in Germany) for 24 years of earthly knowledge & pleasure. So… basically, Bedazzled with less Hurley and more pork knuckle.

Strangely, at some point Faust gave financial backing to Gutenberg, although it appears that in the world of Android he decided he really needed to know Faust's home address rather than develop something useful, like a printing press.

'Faust' rhymes with 'joust', not 'browsed'. :3 —
I think Gutenburg's tag can be visualized as the ability to replicate / copy information at a higher rate (thanks to the printing press), therefore allowing an easy method of tagging. The R&D interaction is probably to support NBN play. —
Overall I like this breaker as a backup, there are times when I've been credit poor but grip rich and it's nice to have a constructive way to burn dead draws. That being said using this as your primary breaker, especially if you're using a Faust customized deck with resources/programs to expand grip size means that running into a Komainu can ruin your day pretty quickly. —