Junk-tier, but really fun to play and to play against.

In power level, it is worse than the already lousy Nova. The "one copy only" restriction hits Ampere harder than Nova. The most important runner imports are often breakers, consoles and maybe other programs which could function well on a single copy. Second and third copies of these cards can help ensure you draw a copy quickly but are otherwise dead draws in most matchups. In contrast, the marginal value of some corp cards increases with additional copies. If you have multiple copies of Spin Doctor, it's not a major setback if one gets trashed because Doctor #2 or #3 can recur it. Cards which require planning/support like AR-Enhanced Security might be hard to justify on a single copy. Draining cards like Obokata get more taxing with additional copies. If Jinteki could, they would probably want to slot 7 Obokatas. (Or 20 Stings, heh).

What corps don't have is a ton of high-influence cards like Paperclip or Bukhgalter or Endurance that are clearly superior and would be used widely if influence were not an issue. And most of the clearly superior corp cards are either ice or economic assets, neither one of which work as well on a single copy.

So, what does this mean for Ampere?

• Ampere is extraordinarily inconsistent and vulnerable to RND. If they trash your one Spin Doctor, you likely have no other good recursion in your deck.
• Your long-term economic situation is dire. Your economy options likely consist of like 4 high-value assets (Rashida, Daily Quest, Wall to Wall, Regolith Mining License) and a slew of low/medium impact operations. If you can't find one of your ~4 key economic cards your first several turns will be grim but remember, they don't know right away if your nuclear silos are loaded and most runners will take unrezzed ice/upgrades from Ampere very seriously. (They will not, however, generally respect unguarded servers. You don't have a defensive identity ability like CTM and can't build well around post-run punishment like Hard-Hitting News).
• Deckbuilding: your pool of ice is unusually strong at low numbers. You can put together 8-10 elite ice easily. If you're thinking like 13-15 ice, you either have to look at mediocre ice like Eli 1.0 (which feels like not enough deckbuilding value in most cases) or exotic sucker-punches like Saisentan and Tyr which are inefficient but could gut a runner that can't know what to expect.
• Your upgrade game is elite. A ton of runner value comes from planning and executing run events, which is much harder for a runner that doesn't know what the defensive upgrades look like and is scared to spend the money to find out. If the corp is poor, the worst-case scenario for an unknown upgrade is short-term usually worse for the runner than for an unknown ice. Whatever the runner is planning for this turn, it's hard to work around an upgrade which could be Anoetic Void or Mamegarm or Ganked or some exotic blast like Mwanza or NATO City.
• Your tag-and-bag game is extraordinarily weak. One copy of Boom plus weak recursion, 0-1 copies of kill-supporting agendas, rough. The worse it is, the harder it is to see coming and the more I'm compelled to try it. Tag and bag is the ultimate Champere move. If you land a kill with Meteor Mining, please let me know.
• Horizontal play is not viable without a supporting identity ability. Ampere will never have a shot at doing this well because any card pool where Ampere *could* be good at wide play would make identities like NEH or CTM wildly powerful. (Also, these factions can run 3x copies of key assets and multiple copies of AR-Enhanced Security).
• Your agendas are high-value but unlikely to work effectively with each other or most of the cards in your deck. Obokata is great in a Jinteki deck where most of their cards pile on net damage or benefit from a low hand size. It's still a tempo hit to the runner and a good defensive agenda in Ampere but it probably won't be vastly better than a Degree Mill. I am experimenting with sucker-punch agendas like Regenesis and Meteor Mining and they are WILD in Champere.
• Your fast-advance game is weaker than Weyland's, but Ampere is probably the closest to viable in fast-advance. You'll miss having multiple copies of Hostile Takeover and Audacity but at least you can substitute with inferior 2/1s. Outside of 2/1s, your agendas won't be much *worse* than Weyland's but they will be *bigger*. A 40-card Weyland identity only needs to run one agenda outside of 3/2s and 2/1s. In Ampere, assuming you're slotting exclusively 3/2s and at least two 2/1s from the major factions, you will have 6 points of neutral agendas which all come in awkward sizes. Getting forced to slot like a third of your agenda points in hard-to-score sizes is probably not ideal for FA. You'll miss having an identity ability, but it might not matter as much in FA as it does elsewhere. Your "ability" to pull out strange and unexpected cards might produce early-game value before the runner has an idea what your opening ice look like. Embrace sucker punches like Saisentan and go for it.

My new favorite corp because of the sheer jank you can do with it.

If you want fast advance, you can get :

• Small agendas : Luminal Transubstantiation, Project Vitruvius, Élivágar Bifurcation, Hybrid Release, Longevity Serum, Project Yagi-Uda, 15 Minutes, Post-Truth Dividend, Project Beale, Tomorrow's Headline, Above the Law, Azef Protocol, Hostile Takeover, Project Atlas.
• Fast advance tools : Audacity, Big Deal, Seamless Launch, Trick of Light, Focus Group, Psychographics, Shipment from Vladisibirsk, Oberth Protocol, La Costa Grid, Arella Salvatore, Calibration Testing, SanSan City Grid, Vladisibirsk City Grid.

If you want damage, you can get :

• Damaging agendas : House of Knives, Sting!, Obokata Protocol, Viral Weaponization, Azef Protocol, City Works Project, Show of Force.
• Damaging assets : Cerebral Overwriter, Nightmare Archive, Bladderwort, Reaper Function, Prāna Condenser, Ronin, Snare!, Storgotic Resonator, Urtica Cipher, Dr. Vientiane Keeling, Clearinghouse, Hostile Architecture, Urban Renewal.
• Damaging ices : Fairchild 3.0, Fairchild, Tyr, Aiki, Anansi, Anemone, Bathynomus, Chrysalis, Diviner, DNA Tracker, Ivik, Mganga, Mlinzi, Saisentan, Vampyronassa, Formicary, Mausolus.
• Damaging upgrades : Hokusai Grid, Prisec.

If you want money, you can get :

• Money agendas : Bellona, Offworld Office, Hyperloop Extension, Hostile Takeover, Oaktown Renovation.
• Money assets : Rashida Jaheem, NGO Front, PAD Campaign, NASX, Launch Campaign, Regolith Mining License, Marilyn Campaign, Nanoetching Matrix, Nico Campaign, Refuge Campaign, Bladderwort, Public Health Portal, Daily Quest, Reality Threedee, Tiered Subscription, Ubiquitous Vig, Drudge Work, Roughneck Repair Squad, Wall to Wall,
• Money ices : Pop-up Window, Congratulations!, Wave, Vampyronassa, Authenticator, Loot Box, Special Offer, Anvil, Blockchain, Maskirovka, Mausolus, Veritas.
• Money operation : Hedge Fund, Fully Operational, Red Level Clearance, Celebrity Gift, Attitude Adjustment, Biased Reporting, Nonequivalent Exchange, Predictive Planogram, Standard Procedure, Extract, Stock Buy-Back, Too Big to Fail,
• Money upgrades : Yakov Erikovich Avdakov, Henry Phillips, Tranquility Home Grid, Mwanza City Grid.

One defining advantage of Ampère: Cybernetics For Anyone is that the runner cannot know what type of corp it will be. It is always a surprise.

The potential for janky deck is extremely large.

While the art is beautiful and peaceful, it does not reflect the name of the card or the quote, a missed oportunity. The quote does pair with the name of the identity, which is a saving grace. Still good enough altogether for this really fun corp.

This ID, whilst inconsistent in its draw, has a few hidden or less obvious benefits, which I have discovered after building with it for too long. The main thing is that it is perfectly possible to build an ampere list with a consistent game plan, and doing so makes the ID work much better than "Random BS go". Synergies between cards still exist and are relevant, and certain cross faction synergies that would never happen due to influence costs make the deck more than the sum of its cards, and make the runner have to deal with lines and board states seen basically nowhere else.

Firstly, its agenda game is elite and as good as more conventional corps, as long as you can keep it close to 8. As long as at least half the corp factions have a solid 5/3 agenda (Ikawah Project, Bacterial Programming, Fujii Asset Retrieval, City Works Project, SDS Drone Deployment,The Basalt Spire), and a 1 pointer can be slotted that works with the agenda factions already chosen, it can very easily create a 9 agenda suite of premium agendas (three 5/3s, five 2 pointers and a 1 pointer, which is good for random access reasons), by including the 3 (RIP Luminal Transubstantiation) system gateway "limit 1 per deck" 3/2s (Above the Law, Longevity Serum and Tomorrowʼs Headline along with likely OffOff or SAM as the 9th neutral). These are all strong agendas with proactive effects, and give the deck very strong NA potential similar to PD or a rush Built to Last, as long as you can include some support for scoring the 5/3s and occasional 4/2.

This makes scoring its agendas an appealing idea to ampere, as trying to make a glacier agenda suite (6 5/3s and a 2 pointer) requires at least five 5/3s somewhat spread across all factions when considering SAM, and misses on at least 2 of the 3 gateway agendas. And more agendas than 9 means running more worse neutral agendas.

Secondly, its at its best when your deck can take full advantage of all 4 (or at least 3) factions cards to build towards a singular game plan, or likes having their big power/tech cards. With HB core damage and click taxing, Jinteki net damage and etr effects, NBN credit taxing and tagging, and Weyland meat damage retribution and trashing installs, you can make a solid rush tag and bag deck that will make it hard for the runner to both access the remote and then keep safe afterwards, due to clicks lost and damage/tags taken during the run. Ampere is able to easily run every trick/tool any faction has, if its good enough.

Thirdly, unknown facedown ice and installs are scary, since there's very little giveaway on what any particular card is. Amperes inconstant draw makes the runners ability to plan ahead as hard as the corps, maybe harder, since if you know what cards are in hand and are already on the table, whereas they have to deal with it. This is also with Jinteki ice trashing cards in hand and Weyland ice trashing from board, there is no true safe place to put critical cards before the runner gets their breakers if they want to face check. NBN will hurt their early econ, and clicking through a bioroid isn't viable if they get tagged afterwards. This means most runners will play much more passively in the early turns, which can give you a bit more time to set up. And if they face check recklessly they could suffer a lot, losing hand size, credits, resources, their rig and tempo. Or it could just say stay out. They don't know.

This is in addition to being able to run a ton of strong unique upgrades, that can all stack in the remote similar to some Ob decks. The longer the runner leaves the remote due to the unknown ice, the worse it will be for them when they get there. (Light the Fire! isn't a real card and can't hurt this strat).

Fourthly, a lot of corp cards either aren't fully unique in what they do and their role in a deck, or you generally only want a single copy anyways. Ice of all types helps keep the runner out at various points in the game, gain credit operations and assets all make money, agendas need to be scored/ kept safe. Even staple cards like Spin Doctor or Rashida Jaheem are workable as one offs when considering all the other power cards in the deck. Either run some recursion (Restore, Corporate Hospitality, Ablative Barrier, Drafter) to get them back or have some alternatives (Gatekeeper, Attitude Adjustment, Descent, Longevity Serum, Sprint). And whilst cards like End of the Line or Public Trail are singles in some decks anyways, and there's some tutor effects as well (Gaslight, Pivot) to increase consistency if a single card is that important.

And finally, this ID is pretty good for trying to match the runner meta, using cards that work well vs the meta runners, or adding silver bullet tech cards that can outright win certain matchups, whilst still being ok enough in others (SDS Drone Deployment vs Lobisomem Kit” and Criminals, Crisium Grid vs Deep Dive/Steve, Eru Ayase-Pessoa, Mavirus vs Aumakua, Botulus and Physarum Entangler) as examples.

Is this ID hard to play? Yes, since every game will be different. Is it fun to play? Absolutely, since every game will be different. Is it better than people think? I personally think so, it has merits and is a near complete unknown to any meta. Is this ID good overall? Probably not, its hard to build for and play, and therefore in tournament settings auto pilot when tired will generally go poorly. And the lack of an active ID ability and only 1 Rashida Jaheem means it will be slower than other corp for as long as that card is legal, since it has no passive value to supplement its cards/game plan.

So I look forward to seeing how this ID changes with Elevations release, when all corps lose a ton of known power cards, including Rashida.