Sang Kancil

Sang Kancil

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:

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-tatĂĄ)
  • 🟱 For each card you've drawn this turn, this ability costs 1[$] less to use.
  • đŸ”” 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.

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Mahkota Langit Grid

Mahkota Langit Grid

The Mahkota Langit Grid (đŸ‘‘â˜ïž) makes “local” assets cheaper-to-rez and pricier-to-trash (especially if protected by a cheaper-to-rez EtR too).

Notes:

  • For example (with zero-inf neutrals-only), a Langit’d Regolith Mining License becomes 0[$]-to-rez and −5[$]-to-trash (a four-credit “swing”).

  • Being a region but non-unique, you could even have multiple, lightly-iced MLG remotes. For example (in HB), two 0[$]-to-rez Otto and/or Nico Campaigns, protected by 1[$]-to-rez Scatter Fields (and their own −4[$]-to-trash costs), fueling +5[$] Fully Operationals? Like “DIY Asa Group” (đŸ€ž)??

  • The 2[$/T] ability can pay for ice rez but not install costs.

  • The Persistent ability “upsells” assets in the root of this server (not in R&D, FWIW, even if you installed this upgrade centrally).

  • The Grid can rez a Descent (or Ablative Barrier) for 0[$] on T1, but IDK if it can then rez the Anthill Excavation Contract (or Humanoid Resources) being hastily protected for 1[$] (or 0[$]) by T2. (Do its hosted credits refill soon enough? LMK to edit it in.)

AFAICT, “mahkota langit” means “crown-sky”. (Malay/Indonesian speakers, please correct me, maybe if it's a specific compound like English “rainbow”, a possessive like “sky’s crown”, has some connotation, or so on.)

PS. This card ends up looking very clean (“all two’s”), but my guess is that it was very messy to get there (especially because it increases trash-costs un-influentially). Disclaimer: I haven't played with it yet.

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Poétrï Luxury Brands: All the Rage

Poétrï Luxury Brands: All the Rage

Design-wise, Poétrï splits a When-Scored-or-Stolen trigger (like Sportsmetal) into stronger When-Scored and weaker When-Stolen (without the card-advantage or card-selection) triggers. This incentivizes you scoring agendas out (investing in their installation/advancement/protection/etc), while still compensating you for getting stolen from.

I love that NSG has been doing this more (EG. The Basalt Spire).

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Kessleroid

Kessleroid

We apologize for Kessleroid.

Compare:
- Semak-samun in the same set, which for 1 credit more breaks for 3 on most breakers (excluding Rising Tide with fracters in the bin, Lobisomem, etc).
- Maskirovka, which for 1 credit more refunds 2 credits on the facecheck.
- Akhet, which again is 1 credit more and folds into the advance-able ice suite that can become a pain with Syailendra.
- Ablative Barrier, which aids HB decks in building their board state.
- Ping, which gives the runner a tag and enables NBN: Reality Plus and Synapse Global: Faster than Thought to do their thing,
- Tatu-Bola, an economy and ice correction card wearing a paper mask that says "ICE" on it like the Spy from TF2.

Who gets anything from this? Ob Superheavy Logistics: Extract. Export. Excel. will probably use it in their weird kickflips to find 1 cost cards they'd rather want. This is immune to Arruaceiras Crew and Charm Offensive, but no runner in their right mind would waste those on this. Most breakers can get past this for 2 credits - maybe in a world where runner economy is more specialized and difficult, this will be a relevant number, but right now I don't see it. If you're playing System Gateway + Elevation only, this might get into your decks out of necessity. If you are ABSOLUTELY desperate for a cheap ETR barrier and can't slot Palisade or one of the above ice, maybe go for it.

At least the other two Weyland ice in the set are bangers.

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Plutus

Plutus

Plutus (💀đŸȘ™đŸ™) seems very cool, it both has high intrinsic value and synergizes with multiple identities.

Notes:

  • It re-plays any Transaction, which all earn credits (and some can also draw, install, advance, even gain a click, etc). Any archetype that wants a lot of credits may want this. For example, “flashing Government Subsidy back” brings up to twenty credits (+10[$] for just [click], CARD over two turns).

  • It plays them clicklessly. Thus, any Install 1 card from HQ (Greasing the Palm, Peer Review) or Gain [click] (Red Level Clearance, Petty Cash) lets you fast-advance 3/Y’s; and even Place 1 advancement (Key Performance Indicators) lets you never-advance a 4/Y.

  • You could trash operations while rezzing, to clicklessly play one (immediately). But If you want to play those twice, its additional Forfeit 1 agenda or Reveal and trash 3 cards from HQ cost lets you rez it even before you scored any agendas (or if you just want to keep it). And could be ignored with Eminent Domain.

Synergies:

  • It “doubles” operations, which re-triggers the new Zwicky and Nebula (especially Gemilang), as well as Nuvem (FWIW).

  • It can forfeit a Greenmail, triggering Zwicky.

  • Cards are trashed from HQ, which triggers the new AU Co. ID.

  • Three cards are trashed, which enables the new PT Untaian ID.

  • The cards are trashed faceup, which turns on Armed Asset Protection (a Transaction itself), Logjam, etc.

See: s:transaction t:operation z:standard

Compare:

  • Bryan Stinson ([click]: Play a transaction operation from Archives.)
  • Corporate Town (As an additional cost to rez this asset, forfeit 1 agenda.)
  • Audacity (Play only if there are at least 2 other cards in HQ. Trash all cards from HQ.)

Flavor:

  • PloĂ»tos (Plutus) was the Greek “God of Wealth” (transaction); and
  • Ploutƍn (Pluto) was the “God of the Underworld” (Archives), AKA. Hades.

en.wikipedia.org

Ploutƍn was frequently conflated with PloĂ»tos, the Greek god of wealth, because mineral wealth was found underground.

en.wikipedia.org

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