Phoenix is giving “Red Mercury”, “interactive Esâ”, and “flexible MERChant”.

She synergizes with:

• Subroutine-“Rewriting”: like Bankhar.
• Subroutine-“Melting”: like Banner and Shred.
• other Subroutine-Resolution rewards: like Raindrops Cut Stone.
• and ‘other’ Sabotage: like Chastushka.

Design

His quasi-Sabotage is a pseudo-multi-access, like Mercury’s (true) multi-access, but where you must resolve subroutines, not just bypass or derez over them. (And his a successful run targets any server, like Hoshiko’s access, not just centrals.)

IMHO, “Resolved-Subroutines-matter” is much healthier than “Unbroken-Subroutines-matter”. Letting the Corp resolve their (non-EtR) subroutines is more interactive than “just don't break ice” or “just touch a card”.

PS. This is my favorite spoiled Runner ID (before playing with any).

Cards

Bankhar in Phoenix is extremely synergistic:

• sets up the a subroutine resolved check.
• helps with a run becomes successful check.
• lets you flexibly attack any server with an outermost, single-sub, rezzed ice (if available).

Banner can “melt” past most Barriers, like Kessleroid’s two ↳ End the run’s. (Will we sleeve up a Banner alongside two Rising Tide? I WANT TO BELIEVE.)

A Shred can “melt past” a singular gearcheck (Tatu-Bola, Ablative, Ping, Descent, Flyswatter) unless the Corp suffers “1 HQ damage”, while still triggering Phoenix (since the ↳ End the run was not broken and yet the Barrier was still passed), thus forcing the Corp to either suffer “1 HQ sabotage”. CF. a The Corp trashes (1 card at random or) 1 card of their choice from HQ. fork.

Raindrops in Phoenix feels kinda like Bravado in Baz.

And Chastushka will mill (at least) 2 cards from R&D, if Phoenix has bonked the Corp down to 2 cards in HQ. (That is, the smaller HQ is, the weaker R&D gets: their “Forced-Discard” synergizes with Sabotage.)