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The Third Draft Pool for Android: Netrunner Is Now Available

“Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Whatever doesn’t stop your run is very likely going to kill you.”
    –g00ru

Dial the tension of Android: Netrunner up to eleven with System Crash, the third pool of cards for Android: Netrunner Draft Play! System Crash Draft Starters, Corp Draft Packs, and Runner Draft Packs for Android: Netrunner Draft Play are now available via FFG’s in-house manufacturing!

Consisting of 199 randomized cards collated from across the whole network of Android: Netrunner products, System Crash incorporates more than forty cards downloaded from the upcoming Order and Chaos deluxe expansion and SanSan Cycle. When you play System Crash drafts, you’ll be able to add these cards to your rig or HQ before they’re even released in standard LCG® products!

In addition to providing fans some sneak peeks at upcoming cards, System Crash introduces new draft play challenges for both Corps and Runners. Your servers are more porous, your rigs are less stable, and every run can result in disaster for one side or the other. Flooded with destructive effects, the System Crash card pool is all about bluffing, timing, and tension. You need to keep your opponent under pressure, but can you afford to keep pressing?

Constant Pressure

In System Crash, Corps and Runners both find themselves under constant pressure. Corps find fewer ice that end the run, but they benefit from a plethora of destructive effects that can trash the Runner’s rig… or simply trash the Runner. Meanwhile, Runners find plenty of ways to trash Corp cards, but fewer consistent breakers. The result is a uniquely harrowing Android: Netrunner experience.

  • No Safety. With every run, Runners risk having their rigs blow up on them, or suffering massive bursts of net damage. On the other hand, Corporate servers are constantly under assault by programs and events that destroy ice or assets, or even entire servers. In System Crash, every run is full of danger for both parties, and nothing is safe.
  • Risk and Reward. There are very few expose effects but many destructive ice, meaning that Runners assume a great deal of risk with every run. Every time, you have to ask yourself, “Is that a three-point agenda, or a trap that will kill me?”
  • Targeted Recursion. In System Crash, everything’s constantly at risk of exploding. But for each of your programs or ice that are destroyed, there is also a way to recover it.

For more about how System Crash Draft Starters and Draft Packs allow players to participate in an alternative and exciting draft play format for Android: Netrunner, visit our Android: Netrunner Draft Play description page.

What Do I Need to Play?

Each player participating in an System Crash draft will need to bring three items: a seventeen-card Draft starter and two forty-card Draft Packs, one each for Corp and Runner. Alternatively, groups with even numbers may split so that half the players draft only Corp cards while the other half drafts only Runner cards. In such drafts, each player only needs the System Crash Draft Starter and a single Draft Booster.

Draft Starters: The System Crash Draft Starter is a fixed collection of rules and fourteen utilitarian cards that include a draft-only Corporate identity, The Shadow, and a draft-only Runner identity, The Masque.


These “Draft format only” identities are not legal in standard play.

Apart from the identities, these cards all differ from those that appear in the Cyber War and Overdrive Draft Starters. Their agendas, icebreakers, and economy cards all place Corp and Runner at constant risk, heightening the tension of your cyberstruggles and ensuring that your System Crash games enjoy a distinctive feel. Additionally, all Draft Starter cards are clearly distinguished from both the larger Android: Netrunner card pool and the cards in the System Crash Draft Packs, allowing you to collect them after your games and prepare for your next draft. Because these Draft Starters are reusable, you only need one, no matter how many System Crash drafts you play!


All draft cards are clearly identified by a new icon, and starter pack cards are further distinguished from draft cards by color.

Draft Packs: Randomized System Crash Draft Packs for Corp and Runner are compiled according to a custom algorithm from a card pool of 199 cards called System Crash.

To learn more about how System Crash Draft Packs are created, visit the Android: Netrunner Draft Play description page.

All cards found in System Crash draft products, except for those marked “draft format only,” are legal in standard tournament play as soon as they are tournament legal and released within the standard LCG format. Accordingly, each card from Order and Chaos and the SanSan cycle will become legal for tournament play once the LCG Data Packs in which it is contained goes on sale at retailers. However, because of variations in production color and card-stock resulting from our in-house manufacturing, players using draft cards in tournaments must sleeve their cards with opaque or art sleeves.

Running in the Face of a System Crash

How quickly can you process the myriad challenges of Android: Netrunner Draft Play? Compile your cards, advance your agendas, and launch your runs in the exciting System Crash draft pool for Android: Netrunner!

Pick up your System Crash Draft Starter, Corp Draft Pack, and Runner Draft Pack today!

Note: Android: Netrunner draft products do not serve as a replacement for the standard Android: Netrunner LCG® model. Instead, Android: Netrunner draft products allow players to enjoy the game through an additional format of play. Orders for products printed via FFG's in-house manufacturing may take 10 – 14 days to ship.

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