Fujii Asset Retrieval is both protective and proactive: it does 2 net damage
whether either player steals/scores it (just as it raises the threat level
by 3 in either score area).
Design: I really like such agendas (ie. with When this agenda is scored or stolen, …
triggers or … This ability is active even while this agenda is in the Runner's score area.
statics).
Compare:
- Sting! (or ½ Obokata Protocol + Philotic Entanglement): damaging Jinteki agendas.
- SDS Drone Deployment and Bellona: offensive–defensive
5/3
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Note that, because it has a conditional ability and not an additional cost (as @Diogene says), FAR:
- can poison Archives if trashed (like two Shock!’s); but
- cannot defend itself if the Runner already has 4–6 agenda points, even if they only have 0–1 cards gripped (eince the game ended as soon as it was stolen, before the stolen-trigger could resolves).
Synergies:
- in Jinteki: Personal Evolution decks, FAR reads
When this agenda is scored or stolen, do 3 net damage.
. - Neurospike or Punitive Counterstrike: Its trigger contributes 2 points of damage and its agenda point value another 3 points of damage.
- AP (and damage defense): Agendas that protect themselves via damage amplify ice/upgrades that also protect servers via damage. eg. behind a Daniela Jorge Inácio, and an Attini or Saisentan, Fujii is quasi-unstealable. (cf. Ikawah Project with bioroids.)
Flavor: The "assets" are clones and the "retrieval" is re-enslavement.
The Haas Thinktank is an interesting concept, but would already be better than this by virtue of the fact that core damage (whether removed or not) would still have lost the Runner one card. To my knowledge, there has also never in the entire history of the game been an effect that removed core damage. To add one in would feel odd, at least to me, as it would remove the sense of permanency that receiving it instills. Lastly, it thematically doesn't quite add up. A corp could bury their own lead (remove a tag) or sharpen their public image (bad pub) but... how do they forcibly repair the anatomy of the runner?
— Chezni