Individual decks get a group playing quickly, while full playsets provide more rebuilding freedom. Use this guide to choose based on format, players, duplicate demand, and organization.
Organize a shared printed Netrunner collection into ready decks, an active building pool, testing cards, and archives while tracking formats and print sources.
Startup is Netrunner’s smaller rotating format. This guide covers its dated card pool, balance rules, rotation model, deck checks, and card-acquisition options.
A practical framework for deciding when matchup-specific cards deserve space in a Netrunner deck—and what you give up by including them.
TLDR A Netrunner deck can survive a mediocre tech card. It can survive a slightly clumsy breaker suite. What it usually cannot survive is being broke all game. That is why Netrunner economy cards deserve real deck space instead of whatever five slots happen to remain after you add all the exciting cards. Credits determine … Read more
Last updated: August 5, 2026 TLDR Learning how runs work in Netrunner is the point where the game stops looking like a pile of cyberpunk nouns and starts behaving like a system. A run is not one action with one result. It is a sequence of choices involving servers, ice, credits, subroutines, hidden information, and … Read more
Last updated: August 5, 2026 TLDR Getting the Netrunner factions explained early makes deckbuilding much less mysterious. Each faction has recognizable tools and preferred ways to create pressure. But a faction is not a fixed character class. Criminal does not have to run every click, and Jinteki is allowed to install an agenda without surrounding … Read more
Teaching Netrunner is its own little puzzle. The game is not impossible to learn. The basic idea is actually very clean: the Corp is trying to score agendas, and the Runner is trying to steal them. The problem is that Netrunner has a lot of small pieces that all sound important at the same time. … Read more
How does commander tax work in mtg? Here is the rule you actually need: every time you cast your commander from the command zone, it costs 2 more for each previous time you cast it from the command zone that game. That is it. Once you really get that part, most of the weirdness around … Read more
Netrunner ice and icebreakers are where a lot of new players hit the brakes. The Corp installs a card face down. The Runner installs a program with a strange subtype. Then somebody says “strength check,” somebody else says “break two subs,” and the whole table starts sounding like an IT department arguing inside a noir … Read more