Boomerang · NetrunnerDB NetrunnerDB My Decks Decklists Sets Factions Runner Anarch Criminal Shaper Mini-factions Corp Haas-Bioroid Jinteki NBN Weyland Consortium More Play Formats Ban Lists Rotation Reviews Rulings Card Search Syntax Advanced Search Sort by Name Sort by Set Name Sort by Release Date Sort by Faction Sort by Type Sort by Cost Sort by Strength View as a Checklist View as Text only View as Full Cards View as Images only View as Rulings only View as Names only ← Bravado Uprising Mu Safecracker → ♦ Boomerang 2[credit] Hardware Influence: ●●○○○ When you install this hardware, choose an installed piece of ice. Use this hardware only during encounters with that ice. trash: Break up to 2 subroutines. When this run ends, if it is successful, you may shuffle a copy of Boomerang from your heap into your stack. Return to sender. Illustrated by Elizaveta Sokolova Decklists with this card Uprising (ur) #75 • English Startup Card Pool Standard Card Pool Standard Ban List (show history) Standard Ban List 22.09 (active) Standard Ban List 22.08 Standard Ban List 21.10 Standard Ban List 21.06 Standard Ban List 21.05 Standard Ban List 21.04 Standard Ban List 20.09 Standard Ban List 20.06 Standard MWL 3.4b Standard MWL 3.4 Standard MWL 3.3 Standard MWL 3.2 Standard MWL 3.1 Standard MWL 3.0 NAPD MWL 2.2 NAPD MWL 2.1 NAPD MWL 2.0 NAPD MWL 1.2 NAPD MWL 1.1 NAPD MWL 1.0 Printings Uprising Rulings NISEI Uprising Release Notes [NISEI Rules Team] If the ice chosen for Boomerang is derezzed or moved, can Boomerang still be used? Yes. Boomerang can keep track of which piece of ice was chosen as long as both Boomerang and the ice remain installed. If the ice chosen for Boomerang is uninstalled and then reinstalled, can Boomerang still be used? No. Once a card is uninstalled, it is considered a new card. Boomerang cannot tell that ice installed later is the same piece of ice as it chose. If Boomerang is installed facedown and then turned faceup with Assimilator, does the Runner have to choose a piece of ice? No. The ice restriction is created as part of the "when installed" ability. Turning a card faceup does not change its installed status, so in this case the ability never meets its trigger condition and Boomerang can be used during any encounter. If Boomerang is used and the run is successful, but that Boomerang is not in the heap when the run ends, can the Runner shuffle another Boomerang from their heap into their stack? Yes. The phrase "a copy of Boomerang" refers to any card named Boomerang. The game does not distinguish between the copy used to create the ability and any other copy that might be in the heap. If Boomerang is used and the run is successful, and Doppelganger is used to make another run, when is Boomerang shuffled into the stack? Both Doppelganger's ability and the ability shuffling a Boomerang into the stack meet their trigger conditions at the same time. The Runner can trigger the Boomerang ability first and shuffle before making the second run. However, if the Runner triggers Doppelganger first, the entire additional run is resolved before returning to the reaction window where the Boomerang ability is pending, at which point the Runner is able to trigger that ability and shuffle a copy of Boomerang from their heap into their stack. Reviews 6 The single biggest reason why I dislike Boomerang (among many reasons to dislike it) is that it breaks Crim design philosophy. Crims, you see, are Criminals (big shocker there). Their stated goal for why they run is money and their most prominent cards embody this. Paragon (and its more broken predecessor, Desperado) pay you for running. Inside Job and Spear Phishing show how Crims prefer to evade their problems rather than waste money confronting them. Finally, Crims are, well, criminals. They steal stuff. They are especially good at punching Corps in the nose and keeping them down. Crims however don't confront stuff all that well. They're not really supposed to, you see. Their Fracters are either good but conditional, okay, or laughably bad and outdated (meaning they are in real danger of being locked out) and their Decoders are either great but expensive or just okay. Crims splurge on Killers but only because it's the breaker type that prevents their toys from breaking the most. All this, of course, ignores Aumakua, but even that anomaly is run-dependent and thus somewhat forgiven. Simply put, Crims, more than any other faction, do not wish to overstay their welcome. Crims lack longevity, basically. That's reinforced by their pick of the color chart as well. They're supposed to be the faction with powerful Events and Resources but little in-faction recursion, and the wisdom of that design decision really shows in Boomerang. Boomerang's self-recursion ability propels it from good to just plain obnoxious. Crims are the Runner faction that emphasize the early game, with a playstyle defined by tempo, control, and resource denial. Crims are supposed to hit fast and hard, getting away with anything, but needing help to reach their goals honestly. Boomerang breaks that mold entirely. Its recursion is infinite, allowing for cheap, endless, strength-ignoring breaking, fodder for endless installs, and its trash ability allows for endless profits. Boomerang on its own defines Crim endgame strategy in that the Crim endgame is simply 'infinite Boomerangs.' 'Infinite Boomerangs' is, in fact, so good and reliable an endgame strategy that other factions import it in. The faction that's supposed to have the weakest endgame is now having their endgame strategy imported by other factions... Let's hope that easy, infinite self-recursion isn't something pursued in the future. We already have two cards like that, both of them in Crim. One of them is Boomerang and the other one is banned. Note that the banned card has much more stringent recursion conditions than Boomerang. 11 Jan 2021 (Salvaged Memories era) KoRayven 126 Well, there are things that prevent (in different levels of mastering the game) that makes boomerang less hard — valerian32 11 Jan 2021 I mean, you can (as a runner) choose a bad ice that it's not going to be rezzed. As a corp you have not many, but there are other ways to prevent the run to end successfully. (Border control, crisum grid) Also the multi sub ice is more common nowadays so you can get only 2 subrutines out. Also you can't have more than 1 boomerang on the table. — valerian32 11 Jan 2021 Aside from the fact that all of the ways you mentioned to make Boomerang 'less hard' are reliant on the runner with minimal room for reaction from the Corp (BC and Crisium Grid have to be installed beforehand), my main issue has always been that Boomerang adds a specific powerful effect to a faction that lacked those particular effects for good reason. — KoRayven 13 Apr 2022 Add a comment 3 Boomerang is a very interesting Icebreaker-alternative. It's too early for me to have done a full analysis on the new hardware, but it seems like a very useful tool in any deck that wants to run hardware and trash cans (so Az and Geist). It can outright let you walk through some of the most annoying ICE in the game for a mere 2 credits and an install. It doesn't matter if your surveyor has 30 strength--Boomerang breaks it for 2 . [Edit in light of clarification on hardware uniqueness thanks to Mezuzi] There is a bit of Corp counterplay though that Boomerang users should be wary of. It's unique, which means you can only have one installed at a time. If you use it to mark an unrezzed piece of ICE that the corp can afford to leave unrezzed (or even over-install the next turn) then your Boomerang just has to sit there, doing nothing until you spend another 2 , a card and a click to overinstall a new one. This now means that in total you've spent 2 (4 if you count each card draw as a click), 2 cards and 4 credits to bypass 1 piece of ICE -- definitely not a good deal, especially if it means some of your hardware/trash can triggers were delayed at the same time. The icing (ICEing?) on the cake is that it also can't recur itself, so the Runner is down 1 Boomerang in their deck. Of course, they probably have recursion somewhere that brings it back, but early on it might be an option to nab a scoring window. I'm sure new ideas and better analysis will be discovered as time goes on, but for now I would say this is a strong and fun card to have to in the pool. ...if you're a Runner. 6 Feb 2020 (Uprising era) Chezni 70 Both Corps and Runners are allowed to install multiple unique cards in general - it's just that older unique cards get trashed during the next checkpoint. Your friend might be misremembering the "Limit 1 console per player." rule that is written on consoles that would prevent the start of an install of another console. — Mezuzi 7 Feb 2020 @Mezuzi -- Thanks for the clarification! I've updated the review to reflect this. — Chezni 9 Feb 2020 Add a comment × Add a ruling Preview. Submit × Edit a ruling Preview. Submit × Delete a ruling Confirm deletion? Delete ← Bravado Uprising Mu Safecracker → About API Integration Donators Clear data Designed and built by @alsciende. Maintained by NISEI. 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