Plutus

♦ Plutus 0[credit]

Asset: Deep Net
Trash: 3
Influence: 3

As an additional cost to rez this asset, forfeit 1 agenda or reveal and trash 3 cards from HQ.

When your turn begins, you may play 1 transaction operation from Archives. After it resolves, remove it from the game.

“Rejoice, executives! The Net has sent unto us a profit!”
Illustrated by Adam S. Doyle
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Elevation (elev)

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Plutus (💀🪙🐙) 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:

  • Ploûtos (Plutus) was the Greek “God of Wealth” (transaction); and
  • Ploutōn (Pluto) was the “God of the Underworld” (Archives), AKA. Hades.

en.wikipedia.org

Ploutōn was frequently conflated with Ploûtos, the Greek god of wealth, because mineral wealth was found underground.

en.wikipedia.org

(Elevation era)

With Red Level Clearance or Key Performance Indicators you can effectively fast-advance agendas. The discard 3 to rez "downside" of Plutus is mitigated by powering up Logjam and Armed Asset Protection.

(Rebellion Without Rehearsal era)

also if you trash three transactions (and can protect it for two more turns), the downside becomes an upside (since you're playing those operations clicklessly with Plutus, unlike if you'd played them from HQ).

KPI can NA a 4/2 with Plutus, but not FA anything like RLC can, no?

4-5 credits per turn if left to its own devices. Compare: Bryan Stinson Also can be used to FA as scantrell24 mentioned. Main problem would be you'll have to be BABW to pull this off but 2-3 procs is enough to shift the balance of the game.

List of transctions after elev era: netrunnerdb.com

(Rebellion Without Rehearsal era)

You forgot Downfall in the sets, so your list is missing Red Level Clearance.

Krams is spot-on calling out RLC. That card is huge for being able to fast advance with Plutus (you can't install the agenda, but you can get a four click turn).