Sang Kancil (🐁🦌) is “Run-Event-boosted”, like:

• 1[$]: +2 strength. Use this ability only if a run event is active.

For example, you Bravado their Code-Gate; SK can interface with it for:

• 0[$] if 0–2 strength: like Virtual Service Agent (just 1[$], since SK has base 2 strength too).
• 1[$] if 3–4 strength: like Mestnichestvo (3[$]), M.I.C. (4[$]), Vampyronassa (5[$]), and the new Scatter Field (3[$], if singly-iced) or N-Pot (2[$]–4[$], given the threat-level).
• 2[$] if 5–6 strength: like Attini (5[$]), Valentão (5[$], if the Corp has enough credits), and the new Syailendra (5[$]) or Mycoweb (6[$], if the Corp has enough rezzed ice).
• and only 1[$] more from ice gets +2 strength (like Isaac Liberdade) or icebreakers get −2 strength (like Stegodon MK IV) effects.

TIL it's produced more like “sung khanchill”.

Design

I love breakers that have a temporary (turn-length) benefit. It's either a mini-game (where you plan your heists each turn), or a build-around (where you made sure your deck can easily enable it every single turn). Like:

• 🔴 If you trashed any of your installed cards this turn, … (Boi-tatá)
• 🟢 For each card you've drawn this turn, this ability costs 1[$] less to use.
• 🔵 Whenever you play an event, this program gets +1 strength.

Unlike Aumakua, with which you can spend one turn (re-)charging it, and the next turn using it. CF.:

• This program gets +1 for each successful run you've made this turn. (or even 1[$]: Break up to 1 code gate subroutine for each successful run you've made this turn.)
• This program gets +2 strength as long as you've made a successful run on a central server this turn.

I also love “Run-Events-matter” in general. (“The Ken is dead! Long live the T!”). Which is why..

Custom

..my own (WIP) mini-set had an “Active-Event-boosted” breaker-cycle, to synergize with the dance (“stackable/delayable Run-event”) and uprising (“Runner Lockdown”) mechanics. Like:

Note that Kancil would still count a played Grand Jeté before using Debbie "Downtown" Moreira (in a run where you can spend credits from both!).

Choreographer
[$2] PROGRAM [1mu]: Icebreaker [0s] - Fracter
[criminal 3/5]
This program gets +2 strength for each active event. (Events that have been played but not yet trashed are “active”, including run events.)
Interface → 1[$]: Break 1 barrier subroutine.
2[$]: +2 strength.

Grand Jeté
[$2] EVENT: Run - Dance
[criminal 1/5]
Load 6[$] and [Q][Q] onto this event. It is not trashed until this turn or the next run ends.
During the next run, you can spend or lose hosted counters.
You may run any server.

Ad-Hoc Ransom
[$3] EVENT: Uprising
[criminal 4/5]
Play only if there is no active uprising. This event is not trashed until your next turn begins.
Whenever the Corp installs, advances, or rezzes a card, they lose 1[$]. They may take 1 bad publicity to prevent this effect and trash this event.

Flavor

The stories of Sang Kancil is a series of traditional fables about a clever mouse-deer. He can fool the other animals to escape from trouble.

• Kancil (story)
• Tragulus kanchil (species)