For single Core Set players there are only two available, after all. What's more, since runners often chase after it with such gusto, they (may) have binned their fallbacks while hunting for it in a hurry.
Even when they don't reaaaally need it anymore, sniping Magnum Opus from their board can be very demoralising. This indirectly gives some added potency to your Ichis, your Rototurrets, your Archers etc. That will, with luck, take some time.Īnother implicit weakness is that Magnum Opus is precious, and therefore runners tend to be more cautious about face-checking in the early game, for fear of losing it. Its one explicit weakness is that at 2MU it will need set up to bring the runner's full rig into play. It will allow the runner, even at low link, to comfortably contend with most traces.Īnd it will, barring any mistakes, never run out, thus putting the Corp on a slow but steady countdown to being royally f*cked. It will, with worrying speed, put even the most exorbitant toys within reach. It will remove most of the lasting tax from your early-game ICE. Then along comes Magnum Opus and says, "Those are nice ways of making money and all, but here's the thing.I am money."Īnd it's not lying. As most games start out, you will put down a few assets, maybe play a cheeky hedge fund and advance some agendas, all behind some basic but affordable ICE to tax the runner and keep them in check as you contend for an advantage. Deprived of all the fancy options players get in later cycles, Magnum Opus shines through in the Core Set like a gigantic glowing middle-finger to Corps who not only think they can be ahead on money, but also that they can rely on the sheer presence of ICE to protect then.
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