I think this is a great card. Very thematic, but maybe hard to use successfully. I tried to make this work with Noise: Hacker Extraordinaire or even Null: Whistleblower but I finally got this to work (somewhat) consistently out of Shaper, particularly Chaos Theory: Wünderkind

The ability is pretty strong, but to use it to its full potential you need to have all six in your hand, and enough clicks to burn enough cards to get a win. That's where Shaper comes in! Draw your whole deck! Get a ton of clicks with Hyperdriver and BURN DOWN R&D!

Decklist & strategy is here: netrunnerdb.com

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I disagree. I've got great value out of this + comet + same old thing. You're almost never going to get the full 6 value. But multiple turns of 3 or 4 values hits? Much scarier. —

This is the card that has gotten my Nero Severn: Information Broker deck to work. As others have mentioned, it pairs well with Au Revoir and Snitch but it's even better when you take it one step further with Reflection

Bounce off R&D or HQ for credits, power counters, and card reveals. When you see something you want with Reflection, go get it from HQ by spending a bunch of power counters.

This also works well with Jak Sinclair for free runs. You can't use Snitch with these runs, but if they left a sentry as outermost ice against Nero you can just bounce off that. Even if there is just a hard ETR as the outermost ice, you can just run into it for free power counters even if you don't get to trigger Au Revoir and Reflection

One other thing: a scored Nisei MK II makes this card very sad. Watch out for that.

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Yeah this and snitch is disgusting, I've been facing it all day on jinteki.net and it's a pain. —
I can't believe that this activates even if the run is unsuccessful. The whole snitch/au revoir/turning wheel thing is really broken. —

Very excited for this card. Here's how I foresee this being used:

  1. Let a runner steal Restructured Datapool or another 5/3 that you would ordinarily be unable to score. Maybe even Vanity Project if you're feeling saucy.
  2. Fast advance Breaking News
  3. Swap Breaking News for the 5/3

If you want to be extra rude, have 15 Minutes scored already and swap the 5/3 for that, then shuffle it back into your deck on your next turn.

Can also use SEA Source if you're rich.

This is very strong tag punishment, even against runner decks that have ways to deal with killshots.

Also can't wait for the inevitable back-and-forth vs. a Turntable deck.

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I was sitting browsing through the data pack and the thought of the 15 Minute shennanigans I could cause with this made me squee. —
If you swap a Breaking News in the same turn you score it, does that mean the runner keeps the two tags after the turn ends? —
Yup. —
Can i swap an Agenda for a trashed/stolen Victoria Jenkins? Does she then end up in my Score Area beeing in effect? —
Fairly certain that assets aren't considered to be active if she's in your scoring area. will be delighted if I'm wrong though! —
Grotesque with "Government Takeover" —
I recently got EOI'd for a round time loss when I was up 2-1. So, there's that. —