Reboot

Reboot 1[credit]

Event: Run
Influence: 5

Run Archives. If successful, instead of breaching Archives, install up to 5 cards from your heap facedown.

Remove this event from the game.

I LIVE AGAIN
Illustrated by Liiga Smilshkalne
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Reign and Reverie (rar)

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I don't play Apex to win, I play Apex for the weirdness. In that vein, a massively important flavour note: the Baudot code on Reboot says "I LIVE AGAIN". Rather more positive than the Baudot code messages on Apocalypse and Harbinger.

(Reign and Reverie era)
10
Ten times more creepy, too! —
I just wish the ffg design team got their act together in designing Apex. This wasn't nearly enough. —
Even when Apex was weak, why oh why did they make it cost 1 and remove from game?! —

I've been tinkering with an Apex deck for quite some time, to some effect, and one of the biggest challenges aside from assembling combo pieces was sustaining in the endgame. I blow through my deck really quickly to pick up everything I need, but the endgame gets really stagnant, and if your key breakers end up in the bin, it's often difficult to recover.

Until now!

Reboot looks pretty simple - it's a Retrieval Run, but instead of one program face-up, it's five face-down. This has some obvious interactions with:

Previously, Aesop Apex had no decent way of getting bin stuff back en masse, so this is a big deal for that archetype in particular.

I don't know of any way to get face-down events back to your hand on the Runner side, but there could be applications there.

It does count as a run on Archives, so there's some slight synergy with Apocalypse - with an Assimilator in hand you can bring some of your trash back, nuke the board and start setting up next turn.

You can even throw out a couple of these in a turn to get a whole bunch of burst installs... but be really careful of Death and Taxes.

Overall it's a cheap card that has wide applications within Apex.

(Reign and Reverie era)
114
Apex can't install non-virtual resources. So, no pawnin' with Aesop there. It might potentially enable Chop-Bot as a semi-reliable draw engine, so... —
As Reboot installs cards face-down, you could use the card to install non-virtual resources face-down and then Assimilate them up. —
I don't know what to say. What a sick, sick thing. —