MuslihaT: Multifarious Marketeer

MuslihaT: Multifarious Marketeer

Identity: Natural
Deck size: 45 • Influence: 15 • Link: 0

When your turn begins, look at the top card of your stack. If that card is an icebreaker or a run event, you may reveal it and add it to your grip.

Peer pressure works.
Illustrated by Marlon Ruiz
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Batching two “run-based subtypes” (run and icebreaker), MuslihaT can draw a card a turn! (And she's the only such Crim ID in Standard, without Geist or Liza.)


Given 15–19 run-events and 3–4 breakers, she should draw on 40–50% of turns. For example (in-faction):

plus:


Design-wise, it's an interactive effect with a non-interactive trigger:

  • The benefit requires interaction, since the cards drawn either initiate runs, or can only be used during runs*; except for a minority of cards with optional-runs (like Carpe Diem), or some hypothetical “econ breaker” (like a new Gingerbread, that could only break Observers, but which could be trashed like No Free Lunch to detag).
  • But the condition itself (BoT) is non-interactive. Even if you can't make a single run this turn (you need to remove tags after an Oppo Research, draw back up after a Fujii Asset Retrieval, find some hate card, or so on), your ID will still trigger and you might still draw a card (setting yourself up for next turn).

Such “predicated”-draw is also card-selection:


Cards: s:run|icebreaker .

She also cross-synergizes with:


IIUC, her name is a pun:

  • muslihat”: means trick/fraud in Indonesian/Malay.
  • “Musliha”: is a female name (from Arabic).
  • (CF. a “Patricia Kaplan” nicknamed “TricK”, but even smoother.)
(Rebellion Without Rehearsal era)

Good catch on the name!

@StaticSky It was /u/CallMeStair (who's from Malaysia, IIRC) who mentioned the pun on Reddit! I just Googled it for links.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Netrunner/comments/1jzp1b3/comment/mnagamj/