Rulings for Limited Edition Corporation Cards

• Note that the card text explicitly breaks the rules by allowing you to rez this card in response to an action of the Runner's, namely using a worm. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
• As with other "you cannot do this" effects, the Runner is flatly prohibited from using worms during runs on that fort, even if the worm would normally require the Runner to use it during that run. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• Though the card text is not specific, you shuffle into R&D all of the cards stored in HQ and the Archives. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• If the difficulty of an agenda is reduced to zero or less, it must still be installed to be scored. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/19/96)
• Scoring multiple Artificial Security Directors produces a cumulative effect (i.e., scoring two will reduce the difficulty of Black Ops agendas by 2). (Sparky on Executive Extraction, Netrunner-L, 6/25/96)

• If the Corp subsequently rezzes a piece of ice, and the Runner refuses to pay the 2 bits, the Runner is not affected by the subroutines on that piece of ice. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/22/96)
• You only encounter rezzed ice, so the decision on whether or not to pay is made after the Corp has rezzed the ice. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 11/18/96)

• ERRATA: Reword as follows: "Bizarre Encryption Scheme may only be installed in a subsidiary data fort. Runner does not score any agenda (or agendas) that he or she accesses from this fort; return the agenda to the fort instead. Runner scores the agenda at the start of his or her next turn if it is still in the fort." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)
• If you re-access Bizarre Encryption Scheme on a second run, the whole card text takes effect again and you can't score the agenda, but if you trash it, then run again, you can score the agenda. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/25/96)
• Under the errata, if the agenda leaves a Bizarrely-Encrypted fort, Bizarre Encryption Scheme loses track of the agenda, and the Runner does not score it. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/13/96)
• An agenda scored at the beginning of the Runner's turn in this way is considered neither stolen nor accessed. Thus, if the agenda is a Fetal AI, then, at the beginning of the Runner's next turn, the Runner will score the Fetal AI without any obligations--no Net damage, no 2 bits to pay. (Skipper Pickle, NR-L, 3/16/98)

• This ability reduces additional costs imposed on installing the ice, such as by Jenny Jett or Restrictive Net Zoning. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• When Crash Everett, Inventive Fixer is in play, you must take a tag or pay [1] for the additional card you draw. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/1/96)
• When using Ronin Around, you don't have to pay because Ronin Around doesn't say draw. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/1/96)
• Yes, we may interrupt the Runner's action to rez City Surveillance (e.g., if the Runner plays Jack 'n' Joe, we may rez City Surveillance to force the Runner to either take three tags or pay three bits or any combination thereof). (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/17/96) The Runner cannot decide not to complete an action because City Surveillance is rezzed during that action. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96) If the Runner draws a card without announcing that action, the Corp can still respond by rezzing City Surveillance; "the fact that the Runner isn't being talkative doesn't allow him to get away with drawing without CS being rezzed. (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 3/11/96)"

• The Runner only loses bits in his or her bit pool; bits stored on installed cards are not affected. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 11/18/96)

• If either one of the two resources is Time to Collect, the Runner can successfully use Time to Collect to prevent the trashing of the other resource. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 11/11/96)

• Multiple Corporate Negotiating Centers work independently of each other; process each one individually as a start-of-turn effect. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/25/96)

• ERRATA: Should read, "When Runner accesses Shattered Remains, trash one piece...." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)

• Cowboy Sysop can uninstall itself. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/27/97)

• Since a Runner can use Pile Driver to break "up to four" subroutines on a piece of ice, the Runner may choose to pay the extra bit only for those subroutines he or she wishes to break. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
• Under Dropp's corrected wording (0: Break all subroutines...) the Runner cannot choose to break only some of the subroutines on a piece of ice. The additional one-bit payment must be made for all or none of the subroutines. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)

• You may use additional bits from your bit pool to rez and install the cards. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/18/96)
• Note that you are not gaining actions in order to construct the data fort, but simply constructing it as a result of scoring Data Fort Reclamation. So this card does not supply actions you can forgo in order to get rid of virus counters, for example. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• This ability applies to any means of rezzing a piece of ice, not just the standard way of doing so; apply the Data Masons modification before implementing the rezzing effect (e.g., with a Data Masons in play, Olivia Salazar would rez ice for (X-1)/2). (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
• While the number of bits you pay to rez a piece of ice is reduced, its actual rez cost is considered unchanged. Thus, Startup Immolator must pay the normal rez cost, Dr. Dreff isn't helped out by this ability, and so on. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• ERRATA: Dr. Dreff should say "Whenever the Runner passes the last piece of ice on this fort or declares a run on it when it has no ice,...." rather than referring to "successful runs." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/9/96)
• If the run is being made on a fort other than the one from which cards are to be accessed, Dreff may be used if he is installed in the fort on which the run is being made. If Dreff were installed in the fort from which cards are to be accessed, he could not be used. So if you want Dreff to defend you from Shredder Uplink Protocol, you need to install in him in the Archives; Dreff in HQ can't help you against Shredder. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/9/96)
• If an effect can remove the ice from play before Dreff trashes the ice (e.g., Marionette), Dreff loses track of the ice and does not trash it. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/31/96)
• When Dr. Dreff forces the Runner to encounter ice, that ice is not considered "rezzed" (e.g., the Corp could not gain 3 bits by having Dreff force the Runner to encounter Misleading Access Menus). (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 2/25/97)
• Ice played via Dr. Dreff is not actually installed anywhere, so there's no such thing as other ice being "outside" it; for instance, if Dreff forces the Runner to encounter a Mastermind, the Mastermind will do zero brain damage and have a strength of zero (unless it is some other ice-strength modifier is in play), regardless of how many layers of ice are installed on this fort. (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 3/11/96)
• The Runner never approaches the ice but goes straight to encountering it, so she doesn't have the chance to play abilities before the encounter. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
• If a card refers to the ice "on" the fort, it is referring to ice installed on the fort. Effects that modify or target ice "on" a fort cannot modify or target ice that Dr. Dreff forces the Runner to encounter. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 11/11/97)

• The actions gained from Edgerunner, Inc., Temps may be forgone to remove Virus counters. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 12/19/96)

• The additional draw provided by Employee Empowerment is a start- of-turn effect separate from the normal draw; the Corp can draw one card and look at it before deciding whether or not to draw another card. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/28/97)

• See Data Masons for related rulings on effects that reduce rez costs.

• If a node that increases the Corp's hand size is trashed, the Corp's hand size is reduced immediately, but no discards are made until the end of the Corp's turn. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/7/96)

• See notes on Artificial Security Directors.

• ERRATA: Should read, "When Runner accesses Experimental AI, trash one program...." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)

• See notes on Chester Mix.

• See notes on Artificial Security Directors.

• ERRATA: Should say "trace value," instead of "trace strength." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)

• If the Runner somehow suffers the first subroutine more than once (for example, it was doubled by Ice Transmutation), the effects apply in parallel, not serially. For example, running into a transmuted Inquisition only affects the Runner's next six actions, not her next twelve. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
• The "six actions" to which Haunting Inquisition refers must consist of actions the Runner actually takes; they cannot be actions that were gained but not taken (e.g., Valupak Software Bundle) or actions that have been forgone. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 8/26/98)

• If the Corporation scores Ice Transmutation and uses it on a piece of ice that is subsequently derezzed but not removed from play, the ice remembers that it was affected by Ice Transmutation. If that same card is uninstalled or trashed and later replayed, it does not remember the change. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
• This effect doubles all subroutines provided by the ice itself, even those that are generated after Ice Transmutation takes effect. It will not double subroutines provided by other abilities; for example, two Ice Transmutations don't double the subroutines the other Transmutation provides. However, it will double subroutines that are not actually printed on the card; for instance, Ice Transmutation will repeat the subroutines generated by the card text on Minotaur (note that this is a reversal of a previous ruling). (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• You can put 2 bits on each Investment Firm for each bit that you choose not to add to your pool. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 12/18/96)
• The bits may come from any source. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 12/19/96) "Note that you don't spend bits to put bits on Investment Firm, but modify whatever effect is putting bits into your pool. So restrictions on spending those bits don't apply. Therefore, you can convert normally-specialized bits into Investment bits." (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/20/96)

• The Runner may no longer choose to jack out, but effects which end the run still work. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/19/96)
• As with any "you cannot do this" effect, this effect prohibits the Runner from jacking out at all, even through effects such as Smarteye or Speed Trap. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• ERRATA: Jenny Jett should say "Whenever the Runner passes the last piece of ice on this fort or declares a run on it when it has no ice,..." rather than referring to "successful runs." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/9/96)
• If the run is being made on a fort other than the one from which cards are to be accessed, Jenny Jett may be used if she is installed in the fort on which the run is being made. If Jenny were installed in the fort from which cards are to be accessed, she could not be used. So if you want Jenny to defend you from Shredder Uplink Protocol, you need to install in her in the Archives; Jenny in HQ can't help you against Shredder. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/9/96)
• Since Jenny Jett "installs" ice, that ice is affected by effects which modify the normal cost(s) to install ice. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/24/97)

• See notes on Data Masons.

• Yes, you can add all of the advancement counters to the same card. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/28/96)
• The advancement counters do not come from your bit pool; bits and advancement counters are not the same. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/7/96)

• In order to get the benefit of Marine Arcology, you must have two actions immediately available to you; actions must be consecutive and they must all be spent on the same turn. (Sparky on South African Mining Corp, Netrunner-L, 5/16/96)

• If Namatoki Plaza leaves play, deal with the effects immediately. (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 2/4/97)
• If this card is trashed, leaving the fort with too many nodes and/or agendas, the Corp chooses which of those cards are trashed. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• When the Runner trashes multiple cards in a fort, all of them are trashed at the same time; thus, New Galveston City Grid still increases the cost of everything else being trashed. The only benefit of sequential trashing is that the Runner can determine the order in which the cards hit the Archives. (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 7/10/96)

• The Corp cannot rez Newsgroup Taunting at the start of a run; to force the Runner to pay the extra bit, Newsgroup Taunting must already be rezzed when the Runner declares the run. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/16/96)

• Olivia cannot rez ice that Dr. Dreff causes the Runner to encounter, since Olivia only affects "installed" ice. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 12/17/96)
• Multiple Olivia Salazars would enable the Corp to rez more than one piece of ice in a fort for half cost, but could not be used in multiples on the same piece of ice in the same run; the first Olivia would rez the ice, and the others would get there too late. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 12/19/96)

• The Corp can use Omni Kismet, Ph.D.'s special effect after the Runner has activated Smarteye to expose a piece of ice, switching the exposed ice for a piece of concealed ice, which the Runner cannot expose. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 11/11/96)

• The effect only occurs if Omniscience Foundation is in play at the end of the turn. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 4/26/96)

• ERRATA: Add to the ability line "Use this ability only during your turn." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96) Neither player can use effects to gain actions during the other player's turn. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)

• The Corporation chooses the order in which the Runner's hardware cards hit the Runner's trash pile. Any effects caused by the trashing of those cards (for example, the Runner's having to trash programs due to reduced MU after memory chips have been trashed) are handled only after all those cards are trashed. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)

• "At no cost" does not cover additional "above the rez cost" costs (cf. Caryatid or Digiconda), since these are not part of the rez cost. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/5/96) "At no cost" means you waive the normal bit/action cost for whatever the action is, as well as any special costs listed in the text; all outside penalties still apply. (Tom Wylie via Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/6/96)

• The Runner only scores 1 agenda point for stealing Project Babylon, regardless of the number of advancement counters on it. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/22/96)

• Yes, you can add all of the advancement counters to the same card. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/28/96)
• The advancement counters do not come from your bit pool; bits and advancement counters are not the same. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/7/96)

• If the Runner is using an effect that allows the trashing of any card (e.g., Kilroy Was Here), Red Herrings does not prohibit a Runner from trashing an agenda. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/27/96)

• The action is gained immediately (e.g., if the Corp rezzes Remote Facility after its third action, it can take a fourth action). (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/9/96)
• If, during the Corp's turn, the Corp trashes Remote Facility prior to using the extra action it provides, the extra action is lost. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/27/96) When a card states that you will get an extra action per turn, you must declare when you use it. If something trashes a Remote Facility during the Corp's turn and the Corp has not declared that it had used the Remote Facility's extra action, the action is lost. In 'formal' play, it's not assumed that the first action taken is the bonus action. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/26/96)

• The Corp still rolls for Rio even if effects allow the Runner to pass a piece of ice "automatically" (e.g., Inside Job). (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/7/96)

• ERRATA: "This fort may be run only if you installed a card or added an advancement counter to a card inside or on this fort during your last turn." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/10/96)
• Cards installed during the Runner's last turn (e.g., with Pavit Bharat) do not allow the fort to be run. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/20/96)

• If a node that increases the Corp's hand size is trashed, the Corp's hand size is reduced immediately, but no discards are made until the end of the Corp's turn. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/7/96)

• The fort gives the bonus to ice installed on it before and after Security Net Optimization is scored. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/18/96)

• "At no cost" does not cover additional "above the rez cost" costs (cf. Caryatid or Digiconda), since these are not part of the rez cost. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/5/96) "At no cost" means you waive the normal bit/action cost for whatever the action is, as well as any special costs listed in the text. All outside penalties still apply, so the Purge still has to account for Restrictive Net Zoning and similar cards. (Tom Wylie via Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/6/96)
• If the Corp scores Security Purge when there are fewer than three cards left in R&D, the Corp shows as many cards as there are in R&D to the Runner and fulfills as much of the Purge effects as possible; since the effects do not require the Corp to "draw" the cards, the Corp player cannot lose the game by scoring this agenda. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 7/17/98)

• If Setup! has been installed and is accessed from a subsidiary data fort, the Corp must rez it for it to take effect (as a result, the Runner may activate Speed Trap in response and escape its effects). (Tom Wylie, Pacificon, 9/1/96)

• The Runner may not choose to jack out, but effects which end the run still work. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/19/96)
• If the Runner does not encounter any more ice on the fort, the Runner may not jack out for the remainder of the run. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 12/11/97)

• See notes on Data Masons.

• In order to get the benefit of South African Mining Corp, you must have three actions immediately available to you; actions must be consecutive and they must all be spent on the same turn. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/16/96)

• Barring interaction >from other cards, the Corporation will have four actions per turn for the remainder of the game, including during the turn in which Subsidiary Branch is scored. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)

• Yes, you can add both advancement counters to the same card. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/28/96)
• The advancement counters do not come from your bit pool; bits and advancement counters are not the same. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/7/96)

• When the Corporation plays Team Restructuring, we cannot put both advancement counters on one card. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
• The advancement counters do not come from your bit pool; bits and advancement counters are not the same. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/7/96)

• If TRAP! has been installed and is accessed from a subsidiary data fort, the Corp must rez it for it to take effect (as a result, the Runner may activate Speed Trap in response and escape its effects). (Tom Wylie, Pacificon, 9/1/96)
• You can pay the 4 bits only once each time the Runner accesses TRAP! (Sparky on Pattel Antibody, Netrunner-L, 9/27/96)

• Tutor does not modify itself, unless the Runner encounters it again later in the run (cf. Vacuum Link). (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)

• If there aren't enough pieces of ice on the fort, the Runner simply returns to the outermost piece of ice. This might be Vacuum Link itself. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• The Corporation can use this special function at the same time it can rez a card. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)

• The Runner chooses the program(s) to be trashed. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/9/96)

• If it is installed and rezzed, Virus Test Site does 2 Net damage per advancement counter on it; if it has no advancement counters on it, it does 1 Net damage. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/23/96) It must be rezzed to do 2 Net damage per advancement counter; if it has advancement counters, but the Corp chooses not to rez it, it still does 1 Net damage. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• See notes on Artificial Security Directors.

Back to The Rulings Page
Back to The Main Page