Why?
No, I'm seriously asking. Why would you install this? 1 credit is reasonable for the benefit and so is 2 meat damage, but both? That's a big ask for a card that only sort of helps you with a situation that you don't want to be in to begin with.
Chrome Parlor mitigates most of the issues, but if Titanium Ribs isn't worth it in the first place then it isn't worth including another card just to make it almost playable. And that's not even addressing the fact that one or the other is going to take precious influence that you could spend on good cards.
TL;DR: the worst of the cybernetics introduced in this pack. Sad times.
Right now? It combos with IHW. If you run 3 IHW, this gives you a) sightly better meat damage protection or b) slightly cheaper draw. Also, if there's one faction that plays vs Jinteki and thinks 'Oh jeebs, please don't net damage my corroder'...it's criminal. Interestingly, not sure how this interacts with Chronos Jinteki. If that ID is popular and it negates the 'corp chooses' ability, it might see play as 1x utility.
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pruneface
for what its worth pruneface, since they're simultaneous triggers (whenever you take [net] damage) the active player would choose. So if the runner hits a Shock!/Snare!, or takes damage on an Ice, the runner will choose the card. If the Jinteki player uses Ronin, Neural EMP, etc then the corp will choose the card.
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PaxCecilia
That's not how it works, Pax. The "You" doesn't automatically mean "the active player." It's the same argument as Shell Corp, "It doesn't explicitly say 'bank' so it comes from the corp's credit pool."
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Riconosuave
I'd also add that it combines well with Paper Tripping if you are fearing Midseasons. If you have enough down to survive just one turn of meat damage assault then your biggest fear is losing the Paper Tripping from hand during that turn of attack.
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Cliquil
With Titanium Ribs you can use Stimhack and Amped Up without fear, that you lose important cards.
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alex_monk
I think skulljack is far worse than ribs. Ribs could fit in decks with the other cybernetics cards + I've had worse + stimhack and it would be pretty decent in this kind of self-damage style deck
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DGB123
Does not really only concern this card, but it's worth noting that one could use Muresh Bodysuit to reduce the meat damage costs for all these new cybernetics cards.
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tendermovement
