Weyland Operation: Transaction – Liability

Play cost: 7 – Influence cost: 2

Gain 14 credits and take 1 bad publicity.

“The boss likes to swoop in at just the last second. You should consider yourself lucky.”

4 stars

I don't think there's much to say actually. I think this card wants be run as a 1 or 2-of in a decent number of non-bad publicity focused decks, and that means it's a pretty good card. Lots of money y'all. If you want more opinions on bad publicity, please read Veronica's piece on this card and Editorial Division.

Neutral Agenda: Initiative

Advancement cost: 4 – Points: 2 – Influence cost: 1

When you score this agenda, you may search HQ, R&D, or Archives for 1 agenda and reveal it. (Shuffle R&D after searching it.) Add that agenda to HQ or the bottom of R&D.

While this agenda is in the Runner’s score area, it is worth 1 less agenda point.

3 stars

Before I talk about Let Them Dream, I need to talk about 5/3s. The job of the 5/3 agenda is to win you the game in 3 agendas, and decks that run 5/3s usually want to score out with any combination of two 2-pointers and one 3-pointer. But the 5/3 has one major vice: they kinda suck. They're so much harder to score out than 4/2s (or 3/2s!), and their payoff usually isn't even worth the work! This is especially true because corps vastly prefer to score out 5/3s as the game-winning agenda, so any "on score" text is irrelevant. If the corp got to choose, they would dedicate the entire power budget of a 5/3 towards hurting the Runner, and none of it on h…

HB Agenda: Expansion

Advancement cost: 5 – Points: 3

As an additional cost to steal this agenda, the runner must spend click.

When you score this agenda, gain click.

“Welcome aboard, Moonsilver Class members. Our express stops today are at New Lovell, Heinlein, and Imamura Station.”

5 stars

Scoring PD is still back baybee! Ikawah Project has been a staple card in scoring PD for about as long as I can find decks of it. (Here's examples from 2021, 2023, and 2024. I have no idea what was going on in 2022.) The only card that's as much of a staple in these decks as Ikawah Project is Global Food Initiative (which might be relevant to my next card review). This might be bringing back enough old tools for scoring PD to make it a top deck in the Vantage Point meta. I know that I'm certainly gonna be playing it.

Anarch Program: Icebreaker – Fracter

Install cost: 3 – Strength: 0 – Memory cost: 1 – Influence cost: 2

Interface → 1 credit: Break 1 barrier subroutine.

1 credit: The barrier you are encountering gets -3 strength for the remainder of this encounter. Spend credits only from stealth cards to use this ability.

There have been many golden ages of piracy, each occurring on stranger and stormier waters.

4 stars

While this can be an interesting breaker that requires support to function, I’m moreso eyeing it as a way to enable ice destruction. Barriers are the most high value targets for Arruaceiras Crew, and Corsair can destroy a Pharos using 3 stealth credits and the tag + 2 credits ability on Crew. Logjam can be even cheaper. All of this depends on the set printing enough stealth support to make that package worth it, since I don’t think just Trickster Taka will be good enough to make you run this breaker. I’m not worrying about this. Stealth as a keyword is a tightly coupled bundle o…

Shaper Resource: Connection

Install cost: 2 – Influence cost: 3

The first time each turn a run begins, you may trash 1 of your other installed cards. If you do, gain credits equal to its printed install cost and draw 1 card.

There are a hundred currencies in the undercity, and Knickknack takes them all. Creds and rupiah get you noodles. For his secret menu, he’ll take your burnt-out rigs, your sterilized virii. But to taste his smoked vatchicken stew, bring him what he values most: your story.

2 stars

With all the FFG cards going out, there was one in particular that I desperately wanted to see get a great reprint. We're saying goodbye to the goat, the OG, a piece of cardboard that my heart can't live without. Aesop’s Pawnshop is, in this girl's eyes, just the best. A real and true mf. Everything from mechanics and viability, to character, vibes and soul—this 1 credit Shaper staple is cut above everything. My absolute favorite card in the entire game.

On paper it lets you trash a…

Shaper Identity: Cyborg

Pronouns: They/She

Minimum Deck Size: 45 – Influence: 15 – MU limit: 4 – Base link: 0

Whenever you discard cards to reach your maximum hand size, you may install 1 program or piece of hardware from among those cards.

Good design is invisible—but I’ll never settle for ‘good’.

4 stars

I love this ID. I love installing cards and I love the incentive to overdraw. A very Shaper ID through and through.

Front Side:

Shaper Identity: Natural

Pronouns: She/Her

Minimum Deck Size: 45 – Influence: 15 – MU limit: 4 – Base link: 0

Whenever you make a successful run, if your MU is full, you may flip this identity and gain 1 credit.

Who else will teach the stories of good and evil?

Back Side:

Shaper Identity: Natural

Pronouns: She/Her

MU limit: 4 – Base link: 0

Whenever you make a successful run, if you have at least 1 unused MU, you may flip this identity and draw 1 card.

We can’t leave the corps’ dirty deeds in the shadows.

2 stars

We got it y'all. The platonic shaper ID: "Oops! All Kickflips!" And just like all Shaper kickflip engines, it’ll probably be meh to bad and everyone will continue playing Lat I guess.

Criminal Identity: Natural

Pronouns: She/Her

Minimum Deck Size: 45 – Influence: 15 – mulimit: 4 – Base 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.

4 stars

MuslihaT is most comparable to Prognostic Q-Loop, since the value is seeing the top card of your stack every turn, and occasionally getting some value from it. I think that’s actually quite good! Occasional free draw is great, and I have high hopes that MuslihaT will be looked upon as the “balanced” version of Hoshiko (They’re both start of turn card draw).

Anarch Program

Install cost: 0 – Memory: 1 – Strength: - – Influence: 2

Access → trash: Trash the non-agenda card you are accessing. If you do, draw 1 card.

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2 star

Bad but a niche kind of bad that means it might seen as a one-of sometimes. What did Imp do to deserve this?

Anarch Program: Icebreaker – Killer – Virus

Install cost: 3 – Strength: 2 – Memory cost: 1 – Influence cost: 2

When you install this program, place 2 virus counters on it.

Interface → 1 credit: Break 1 sentry subroutine.

Hosted virus counter: +2 strength.

"I'm on retainer for monthly purges on thirty-six different servers." —Ratu Maharani, pawang virus

1 star

Overall I think this is a fine and functional killer for Anarchs. While it's not a whole lot to write home about, being able to use GameDragon to get a base 3 strength killer will get you through a bunch of things like Drafter. Unfortunately, it also can guarantee that you eat a brutal sentry with a nicely timed Mavirus, which makes it hard to recommend on its own. Flyswatter and Mavirus being in the Standard format make it hard to recommend over its more reliable fire snake. Cookbook and Hantu would be a nice combo, but I think you'd almost always just rather prefer Audrey V2 as your breaker at that point.