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Version 3.0.1 / Effective 1.1.2016

Summary of changes in this version

• New Card Errata, page 2 • NAPD Most Wanted List, page 2

All changes and additions made to this document since the previous version are marked in blue.
 Accessing Archives
When accessing cards in Archives, the Runner turns all cards
faceup in Archives before accessing them. Then he or she
accesses and resolves individual cards one by one, in any order
he wants.

This document contains card clarification and errata, rule If the Runner uses a replacement effect, then he or she does not
clarifications, timing structures, and frequently asked questions turn any facedown cards faceup.
for Android: Netrunner. All official play and tournaments will
use the most recent version of this document to supplement Accessing Multiple Cards from HQ
the most recent Android: Netrunner tournament rules and When the Runner accesses multiple cards from HQ, the cards
core rulebook. are accessed one at a time, and do not return to HQ until the
Runner is finished accessing.
Section 1: Card Errata Accessing Multiple Cards from R&D
This section contains the official errata that have been made The Runner can intersperse accessing cards from R&D with
on individual cards in Android: Netrunner. The most recent any upgrades installed in the root of R&D. The Runner cannot
printings of the cards have corrected text. choose to access the cards in R&D out of order.
e3 Feedback Implants ( 24) Example: The Runner has an R&D Interface installed and makes
Should read: “...you may pay 1< to break 1 subroutine on that a successful run on R&D. He accesses the top card of R&D, and
ice.” (Removed “additional”.) afterward chooses and accesses an upgrade installed in the root of
R&D. The Runner then finishes accessing cards by accessing the
Pawn ( 2)
second card of R&D.
Should read: “Whenever you make a successful run while
Pawn is hosted on a piece of ice, move Pawn to the piece of ice
Scoring and Stealing Agendas
directly after the current ice hosting Pawn, if able...”
Advancement tokens are removed from an agenda whenever it
Q-Coherence Chip ( 52) is scored or stolen.
Should read: “Trash Q-Coherence Chip when an installed
program is trashed.” Terminology
“Additional”
Wireless Net Pavillion ( 108) The word “additional” denotes an ability that modifies another
Should be unique. ability or a game state. The additional ability is resolved
simultaneously with any ability it is modifying, and under the
NAPD Most Wanted List same conditions as that ability.
The NAPD Most Wanted List contains a list of cards with
additional deck building restrictions. Players must adhere “All”
to the NAPD Most Wanted List for all Fantasy Flight Games The word “all” includes the number zero.
tournament play. For more information, see Appendix A in the
Android: Netrunner tournament rules. Example: The Corporation plays an Oversight AI and rezzes a
Woodcutter. The Runner encounters the Woodcutter while it has
zero subroutines. The Runner is considered to have broken all the
Section 2: Rules Clarifications subroutines on the Woodcutter, and the ice is trashed.
This section contains the official rule clarifications and
enhancements for Android: Netrunner. Used in conjunction “Bypass”
with the core set rulebook, these clarifications and When an effect allows the Runner to “bypass” a piece of ice, he
enhancements should enable a player to navigate through the or she immediately passes that ice and continues the run. All
most complex situations that can arise while playing the game. subroutines (including 0) on the ice bypassed are not broken.

Accessing Example: The Runner encounters a piece of ice that she can
When Accessed Abilities bypass with Femme Fatale. The last piece of ice the Runner
A card with an ability that triggers when the card is accessed encountered was Chum, whose subroutine the Runner did not
does not have to be active in order for the ability to trigger. break. The Runner pays to bypass the current piece of ice with
When resolving such an ability, simply follow the instructions Femme Fatale, and takes 3 net damage from Chum’s ability, since
on the card. subroutines on bypassed ice are not broken.

Example: The Corporation does not have to rez Project Junebug “Hosted”
before the Runner accesses it in order to use its ability. “Hosted” is always self-referential and refers to cards and
tokens hosted on that card, unless otherwise noted. Cards are
always hosted faceup, unless otherwise noted.

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“Limit 1 console per player.” without taking into account the consequences of paying play,
This restriction refers only to active consoles. A player can have install, or rez costs or triggering any further abilities.
multiple copies of a console, and even different consoles, in his
or her deck. Example: The Corp cannot play Archived Memories if there are
no cards in Archives.
The limit of 1 console per player prevents the Runner from
installing a second console, even if the Runner wishes to trash Chain Reactions
the first. If during the resolution of an ability another ability meets
its trigger condition, then a “chain reaction” is created. The
“If successful...” ability that just met its trigger condition resolves immediately
Whenever there is an “If successful...” effect tied to the outcome following the active effect on the current ability. If this ability
of a run, the run itself must have been successful against the results in another ability meeting its trigger condition, then that
specified server(s), if applicable. If the Runner initiates a run ability is also “chained.” Resolve all the abilities from the most
against the specified server but ends the run on a different recent trigger condition before continuing.
server, the “If successful...” effect does not resolve when the run
is successful. Example: The Corp makes a successful trace against a Runner
during a run on a server that has ChiLo City Grid installed. The
Example: The Runner plays Legwork on HQ. During the run, Corp also has a scored Sentinel Defense Program. The Runner
a Bullfrog moves the Runner to R&D. Even though the run is has a Spinal Modem installed, and the successful trace meets the
successful, the Runner cannot use the “If successful...” effect on trigger condition for both ChiLo City Grid and Spinal Modem
Legwork because the run was not successful against HQ. simultaneously. Since it is the Runner’s turn, the Spinal Modem
resolves before the ChiLo City Grid. As part of the resolution of
If the ability including “If successful...” does not specify a server, the Modem, the Runner takes 1 brain damage. This means that
then it does not matter if the attacked server is changed during the Sentinel Defense Program has met its trigger condition, and
the run, and the ability resolves as normal. so it is a chained reaction that resolves before the ChiLo City
Grid.
“Normally be Trashed”
Trashing cards that “cannot normally be trashed” only refers to Non-Resolvable Abilities
trashing cards that do not have a trash cost. Conditional abilities resolve after meeting their trigger
condition. However, if the game state advances past the trigger
Installed condition due to simultaneous effects or a chain reaction, then
Events, operations, and identity cards are never installed. the triggered ability cannot be resolved.

Uninstalled Example: The Runner hits a Tollbooth that she can bypass with
Anytime an installed card enters HQ, R&D, Archives, or the Femme Fatale. Both cards have the same trigger condition, but
Runner’s grip, stack, or heap, or is removed from the game, the because it is the Runner’s turn the Femme Fatale resolves first.
card has been “uninstalled.” The ice is bypassed, and since the game state has progressed to
a new step of the run, the trigger condition for Tollbooth is no
“Using” longer valid and the ability to force the Runner to pay credits does
Any time an ability is optional, the player resolving the ability not resolve.
is “using” the ability. This includes all paid abilities and all
optional conditional abilities (triggered abilities that use the Subroutines
word “may” or “allows”). Unless specified otherwise, the Corporation always chooses the
effects of a subroutine, when necessary.
“For each”
Doing something “for each” instance of something never results Example: Ichi 1.0 has “|Trash 1 program.” If this subroutine
in zero of the former; rather, if the condition is not fulfilled triggers, then the Corporation chooses and trashes one of the
then the effect does not resolve. Runner’s installed programs.

Example: The Runner accesses a Cerebral Overwriter from R&D. Replacement Effects
The Runner does not take 0 damage; instead, they take 1 damage Replacement effects can only occur once per trigger. A
for each advancement token on Cerebral Overwriter, which replacement effect uses the word “instead”.
results in nothing happening.
Example: The Runner cannot use two Bank Jobs during the same
Actions and Abilities run. When the run is successful, the Runner may either access
Triggering Actions and Abilities cards or use the ability of a Bank Job. Using Bank Job replaces
A player can only trigger an action or ability if its effect has the accessing cards, so once the Runner triggers one of the Bank Jobs
potential to change the game state. This potential is assessed he cannot trigger the other.

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Using Icebreakers Trashing as a Cost
The Runner can boost the strength of his icebreakers outside of If the cost of a paid ability requires a card to be trashed, then
an encounter with a piece of ice. However, unless the icebreaker preventing that card from being trashed prevents the cost from
says otherwise, its strength is immediately reset to its previous being paid and the paid ability does not resolve.
value.
Example: The Runner trashes Cortez Chip and has an installed
Breaking Subroutines Sacrificial Construct. If the Sacrificial Construct is used to
The Runner can only break the subroutines on a piece of ice prevent the Cortez Chip from being trashed, then the paid ability
during step 3.1 of a run. If step 3.1 of a run is not reached, such on Cortez Chip does not resolve.
as when bypassing a piece of ice, then no subroutines on that
piece of ice are broken. Additional Costs
A player may decline to pay an additional cost, even if he or she
Prevent/Avoid Effects is able to do so.
Prevent/Avoid effects take priority over conditional abilities
that would trigger from whatever is being prevented or avoided, Rez Cost & Play Cost
except when a conditional ability uses the word “additional.” An Rez and play costs are formulas that take into account any
“additional” conditional ability occurs simultaneously with the effects that modify them. They are not just the printed number
trigger condition and can be prevented/avoided along with the on the card.
trigger condition.
Other
A prevent/avoid effect can only be used when the thing it is Choosing Cards
preventing/avoiding is resolving. Unless otherwise noted, a card ability that requires a player to
choose a card can only affect installed cards.
Installing Multiple Cards
Whenever multiple cards are installed by the same effect, those Example: The Corporation resolves a subroutine that says “|The
cards are installed one at a time. Runner trashes 1 program.” The Runner must trash one of his or
her installed programs.
Example: The Runner uses Mass Install to install three programs,
including Scheherazade. The Runner can install the Scheherazade If an ability allows a player to choose multiple cards, all of the
first, and then host the other two programs on it. cards must be chosen before the effect resolves.

Advancing Cards Example: The Runner plays Satellite Uplink. The Runner chooses
A card is only considered to be advanced when the Corp spends two cards to expose, and then both are exposed simultaneously.
1 click and 1 credit on the action of advancing it. Placing
or moving advancement tokens to a card is not the same as Hosting
advancing it. The following replaces the rules on hosting that appear in the
core set rulebook:
Example: The Corporation plays Mushin-no-Shin, choosing to
install an Oaktown Renovation. Because the three advancement “Hosting” is the result of placing a card, counter, or token on
tokens were placed on the card, however, the Corp does not gain top of a card, creating a relationship between the host card and
any credits from the ability on Oaktown Renovation. what is hosted. If a card allows other cards to be hosted on it,
those cards must be hosted on the card when they are installed,
Rezzing Cards unless a card says otherwise.
The Corporation may rez non-ice cards after the Runner
Hosted counters or tokens can be spent without affecting their
approaches any piece of ice. See step 2 of a run on page 13.
host. If a trigger cost requires one or more hosted counters or
tokens, those counters or tokens are “spent” by being returned
Costs
to the token bank from the card the ability appears on.
Memory Cost
For the purposes of card abilities, a program’s memory cost is If a host is trashed or uninstalled, all cards, counters, and tokens
not considered an additional cost. hosted on it are also trashed. This cannot be prevented. If a host
Corp card is derezzed, all cards, counters, and tokens hosted on
Example: The Runner plays a Test Run with no free MU. He will it remain hosted.
have to trash a program to make room for the program being
installed, since the memory cost of that program is not ignored as The state of hosting is distinct (but not exclusive from) the state
an additional cost. of installing. Most cards are hosted on another card when they
are installed. If a card is hosted but not installed, the card is
inactive.

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Destruction of Servers Infinite Loops
The Corp cannot choose to destroy a server when installing If a mandatory infinite loop is created (a player cannot choose
cards; at least one card must be installed for other cards in or to stop resolving the loop) then the player who is resolving the
protecting that server to be trashed. loop chooses a number. The loop instantaneously resolves that
many times, and then ends.
If there are no cards installed in or protecting a remote server,
then the server immediately ceases to exist. If a server ceases Example: The Runner runs into a rezzed Wormhole. The
to exist during a run, then the run ends after any currently only other piece of ice that is rezzed is a Wormhole, and so a
open paid ability windows close. Unless the run has passed step mandatory infinite loop is created where each the Wormholes’
4.4 of the timing structure of a run, it is not considered to be subroutines resolves the other. The Corporation chooses how
successful or unsuccessful. many times this loop occurs, say 2,157 times, and then the
Runner continues the run.
Destruction of Ice
If a piece of ice is destroyed during an approach or encounter If an optional infinite loop is created (a player can choose to
with that piece of ice, then the ice is immediately passed and stop resolving the loop) during a run then the Runner must
the run continues after any currently open paid ability windows jack out unless another card ability prevents him or her from
close. doing so. If the Runner cannot jack out, then it is the Corp’s
responsibility to end the loop by letting the Runner continue
Subtypes the run.
A card has all of its subtypes when it is inactive.
Approaching Ice
Encountering Ice Ice is always approached according to the position it occupies
When the Runner encounters a piece of ice, he or she must protecting a server, ranging from the outermost piece of
resolve any abilities triggered by the encounter before he or she ice to the innermost piece of ice. If there is one piece of ice
can trigger paid abilities or break subroutines. See step 3 of a protecting a server, that piece of ice is both the outermost and
run on page 13. the innermost piece of ice. The Runner always starts at the
outermost position during a run. After passing a piece of ice,
Recurring Credits the Runner approaches the next innermost position, even if he
Recurring credits are placed on a card when the card becomes or she has already approached it, or there is another piece of ice
active, and can be used immediately. Recurring credits do not outside of that position which has not yet been approached.
stack; a player replaces recurring credits up to the number listed
on the card when his or her turn begins. This occurs at step 1.2 Example: During a run on R&D, the Corporation installs a new
of the turn, before any conditional abilities can be triggered. piece of ice in the outermost position protecting the server with
Recurring credits are only ever replaced up to their current an Architect. The Runner does not encounter that new piece of ice
value, not removed. during this run because he has already passed that position.

Search Faceup Agendas

If a player is searching for a card, he or she must find the card, Faceup agendas are not rezzed or unrezzed. If an agenda’s text
if able. If a player is unable to fulfill the condition of the search, instructs the Corp to install it faceup, that agenda’s abilities are
then nothing happens, but the deck is always reshuffled. active while it is installed

Revealing Cards Facedown Runner Cards

If a Corporation card is not visible to the Runner when it is Runner cards that are installed or turned facedown do not
trashed or discarded, then it is sent to Archives facedown. If a have a type or a subtype, and their abilities are not active. The
Corporation card is visible to the Runner when it is trashed or Runner can look at his or her facedown cards at any time. If
discarded, it is sent to Archives faceup. a facedown Runner card is trashed, it is turned faceup when
entering the heap. A Runner card turned facedown is not
If a specific card or card type in an inactive state is chosen considered to be uninstalled.
by a card effect, the Corporation must show that card to the
Runner without changing its faceup or facedown status. The Self-References
Corporation only reveals the card if it was facedown and the If the card title referenced on a card matches the title of that
effect says he must reveal it. card, and the reference is not plural and/or does not include an
additional modifier (e.g., “other copies” or “all”), then the card
Negative Strength title only refers to that copy of the card, and not to any other
Ice and icebreakers can have negative strength. copies of it.

Card Memory If a card copies the text of another card, and the copied text
Whenever a card is uninstalled, there is no memory of its includes a self-reference, the copied text does not function
previous state and it is considered to be a new copy of the card. unless it explicitly says so.

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Example: The Runner uses Media Blitz to copy the text of a
Private Security Force in the Runner’s score area. Because the self-
reference in Private Security Force does not match the title of the
card Media Blitz, the ability has no effect.

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Section 2: Card Clarification 20 Forged Activation Orders
• The Corp cannot rez Akitaro Watanabe in response to a
This section addresses rules interactions with regard to specific
Forged Activation Orders being played. The effect of Forged
cards. The cards are sorted by set and then card number.
Activation Orders is immediately resolved unless prevented
Core Set or avoided.

25 Femme Fatale
• Femme Fatale does not need to match the strength of a piece
of ice in order to bypass it.

• The Runner can spend the credit from Cyberfeeder to pay for
the bypass ability.

• If Femme Fatale is uninstalled, the Runner cannot bypass the

ice chosen by the Femme Fatale when it was installed; the
1 Noise ability is no longer active since the card is no longer active.
• Cards trashed by Noise’s ability are placed facedown in Even if that copy of Femme Fatale is re-installed, it is treated
Archives. as a ‘new’ copy and cannot bypass anything other than the ice
chosen when it was just installed.
2 Demolition Run
• The Runner can trash an agenda accessed with Demolition 26 Sneakdoor Beta
Run, instead of stealing it. • If Sneakdoor Beta is trashed during a run it initiated, the run
is still treated as a run on HQ if it is successful.
9 Djinn
• The Runner cannot move other installed programs to Djinn 29 Bank Job
when it is installed. • The Runner can take credits from Bank Job if he or she made
• When the Runner installs a program, he or she has the choice a successful run on an empty server.
of installing it directly into his rig or on Djinn. He cannot
move programs onto Djinn at a later point. 45 Net Shield
• Net Shield can prevent a single point of net damage each
10 Medium turn. It does not prevent all net damage from a single source.
• Before accessing cards from R&D at step 4.5 of a run, the • Multiple Net Shields cannot prevent more damage.
Runner chooses how many cards he or she wants to access
when using Medium. 47 Aesop’s Pawnshop
• Aesop’s Pawnshop can only trash a single card each turn.
12 Parasite
• Parasite cannot be hosted on Djinn. A card or counter can 57 Aggressive Secretary
only be hosted in one place at a time, and Parasite has the • The programs are trashed at the same time.
restriction that it must be installed on a piece of ice.
• The Corporation cannot choose to trash the same program
• If a piece of ice hosting Parasite is derezzed, the Parasite more than once.
continues to collect virus tokens, but the hosting ice has no
strength while derezzed and therefore cannot be trashed by 75 Chum
Parasite unless it is rezzed again. • If the Runner jacks out immediately after encountering a
Chum and not breaking its subroutine, the Runner does not
13 Wyrm take any damage.
• The Runner can only use Wyrm to lower the strength of a
currently encountered piece of ice, and only if Wyrm is of • Chum deals its net damage the first time either of the
equal or higher strength than that ice. following occur during an encounter with the next piece of
ice:
18 Account Siphon 1) step 3.1 of a run closes and there is an unbroken
• The Runner can choose to not use the ability on Account subroutine on the piece of ice.
Siphon when accessing cards, and if so does not take any tags. 2) step 3.1 of a run was skipped or did not resolve because the
encounter/run ends (if 3.1 does not happen, no subroutines
• If the Runner ends up running successfully on another server can be broken). This applies even if the piece of ice has 0
than HQ, the “If successful...” effect on Account Siphon subroutines.
cannot be triggered.

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90 Tollbooth 33 Trick of Light
• If the Runner cannot pay 3< when encountering Tollbooth, • Trick of Light can only be used to move advancement tokens
then the run ends without the Runner paying any credits. from an installed card to another installed card.

• The Runner must pay 3< if he or she is able to do so, even by 34 Sensei
spending temporary credits (such as bad publicity credits). • Sensei only adds a single “End the run.” subroutine after
all of the other subroutines on the next piece of ice, not a
91 Red Herrings subroutine after each subroutine on the ice.
• If the Runner accesses an agenda from R&D and does not pay
the additional cost to steal it, he or she does not reveal it to 41 Nerve Agent
the Corp. • Before accessing cards from HQ at step 4.5 of a run, the
Runner chooses how many cards he or she wants to access
97 Aggressive Negotiation when using Nerve Agent.
• Aggressive Negotiation can be played if the Corp scores an
agenda during step 1.1 of his draw phase. 45 Snitch
• If the outermost piece of ice on a server is unrezzed, the
101 Archer Runner can use Snitch to look at it and then decide to jack
• If the Corp has an overadvanced Braintrust scored and rezzes out before encountering it.
Archer, forfeiting Braintrust, Archer gains the discounted rez
cost. • If the expose effect is prevented, the Runner can still jack out.

Genesis Cycle 48 Dinosaurus

• If there is an icebreaker already installed on Dinosaurus, the
Runner can install a different icebreaker onto Dinosaurus,
trashing the previously installed icebreaker.

• If the Runner has no free MU but a Dinosaurus that is not

currently hosting an icebreaker, he can install an icebreaker
on Dinosaurus without trashing a program. Declaring where
a program is hosted is part of the install action, and so the
memory cost of the program does not need to be taken into
account.
11 Mandatory Upgrades
• If Mandatory Upgrades is forfeited, the Corp loses the 49 Personal Workshop
additional click immediately. The Corp cannot choose to • The Runner may use the first ability on Personal Workshop to
spend the additional click before the forfeit, except as part of host a program or a piece of hardware on it. Cards hosted by
his last action (at which point it has already been spent, and this ability are not installed, and therefore are inactive.
there is nothing left for the Corp to lose). Each player spends
clicks from a pool of available clicks, and does not spend each • The Runner can pay to remove a power counter from a
click individually. card hosted on Personal Workshop as a paid ability. A
program installed from Personal Workshop follows all the
17 TMI normal install rules; the Runner must trash already installed
• TMI can be rezzed multiple times while the Runner programs to make room for the new one, if necessary.
approaches it. Timing structure of a run 2.3 is a window that
allows the approached piece of ice to be rezzed. There is no • When there are no power counters on a program or a piece
limit to the number of times a Corp can rez an approached of hardware that has a play restriction on it that cannot be
piece of ice if it is derezzed during this window. met (such as a Parasite with no rezzed ice to be hosted on
or a console when there is already a console installed), that
24 e3 Feedback Implants program or piece of hardware is trashed instead of being
• e3 Feedback Implants triggers itself, so the Runner can installed.
break all subroutines on a bioroid ice by paying credits after
• If Personal Workshop is uninstalled, all cards hosted on it are
spending a single click.
trashed and all counters on those cards are removed.
• If multiple subroutines are broken at the same time, e3
Feedback Implants triggers once for each subroutine. 54 Sunset
• When resolving Sunset, the ice must be rearranged in such a
32 Fetal AI way that the Runner knows which pieces of ice moved where.
• The Runner must pay the 2< to steal Fetal AI from Archives. The Corp cannot conceal the rearrangement of the ice.

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79 Oversight AI • Ice on Awakening Center are in the server and do not count
• Playing Oversight AI does not give Haas-Bioroid: as ice protecting the server.
Engineering the Future 1< for an install.
34 Scavenge
• Oversight AI is treated as a condition counter, and is no • The Runner can trash a program as an additional cost, and
longer an operation, while it is active. then reinstall that same program.
• Oversight AI is trashed to the Archives if the host ice is • As part of the install action, the Runner can trash installed
uninstalled. programs.

80 False Lead 54 Same Old Thing

• False Lead cannot be forfeited unless the Runner can lose 2 • The Runner cannot use Same Old Thing to play priority
clicks. events.
• The Corp can forfeit 2 copies of False Lead at 1.1 to force the
Runner to lose 4 clicks. The turn advances to the Runner’s
Spin Cycle
discard phase after 1.2 resolves and the Runner has no clicks.

81 Disrupter
• Disrupter cannot be used once the Corp has bid during
a trace attempt. It must be used when the trace is being
initiated, and it prevents the entire trace before re-initiating it
with a base trace strength of 0.

83 Andromeda
• When the Runner mulligans with Andromeda, he or she 2 Pawn
draws another starting hand of 9 cards. • Pawn can move onto a piece of ice hosting another caïssa,
but other caïssa programs cannot move onto a piece of ice
113 Midori hosting Pawn.
• Midori can only be used at timing structure of a run 2.
• The Runner cannot choose the Pawn that is being trashed as
• Ice that is swapped is installed, but the install cost of the ice the program to install with Pawn because the trash and install
being swapped does not have to be paid. are part of the same effect.
• If the Runner exposes an ice with Snitch, Midori can still 3 Rook
swap the ice unless the Runner jacks out with Snitch. • Rook can only move to another server if there is another
• Midori must already be rezzed before the run in order to use piece of ice in the same “row” as the ice Rook is hosted on,
her on the first piece of ice protecting the server. counting up from the innermost piece of ice protecting each
server.
• Ice installed with Midori can be rezzed with the Amazon
Industrial Zone. • Rook can be hosted on any piece of ice if it is already hosted
on another non-ice card.

Creation and Control 21 Bishop

• Bishop only moves from a piece of ice protecting a central
server to a piece of ice protecting a remote server, and vice
versa.

• Bishop can be hosted on any piece of ice if it is already hosted

on another non-ice card.

24 Recon
• The Runner can jack out the first time he or she encounters a
piece of ice with Recon, even if it was not the outermost piece
21 Awakening Center of ice protecting the server.
• Ice hosted on Awakening Center can be rezzed through other
card effects, but a rezzed piece of ice cannot be encountered 25 Copycat
unless it was rezzed by Awakening Center. • If a piece of ice is bypassed, Copycat still triggers since the ice
is also passed.
• Only one piece of hosted ice on Awakening Center can be
encountered per run.

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27 Eureka! • If Keyhole is trashed during a run it initiated, the replacement
• The Runner can install the card even if he or she cannot lower effect is still resolved.
the install cost by 10 credits (the “if able” only refers to the
install action). 77 RSVP
• The Runner can spend zero credits after the subroutine on
36 The Cleaners RSVP resolves to trash cards or trigger paid abilities.
• The Cleaners adds an additional point of damage to the
source of the damage before any damage is prevented. 92 Toshiyuki Sakai
• The card that is swapped with Toshiyuki Sakai is installed.
• The Cleaners can add unpreventable meat damage if the
source is also unpreventable. 94 Restoring Face
• The Corp can trash a facedown card, but must reveal it to the
43 Knight Runner. The card is still trashed facedown.
• Knight cannot move to a piece of ice that is vertically adjacent
to the ice that it is hosted on. Knight can move to a piece of 100 Subliminal Messaging
ice protecting any other server without restriction. • When adding a facedown Subliminal Messaging in Archives
to HQ, the Corp must reveal it to the Runner.
• Knight can be hosted on any piece of ice if it is already hosted
on another non-ice card. 108 Paintbrush
• If the Runner does not make a run during the turn he or she
52 Accelerated Diagnostics uses Paintbrush, then the condition no longer applies and the
• Looking at the top 3 cards of R&D does not remove the cards ice loses any subtypes gained from Paintbrush.
from R&D. The cards are still in R&D and able to be affected
by operations played with Accelerated Diagnostics. 114 Caprice Nisei
• Caprice Nisei’s ability triggers at step 4 of a run.
• Each operation the Corp looks at can be played in any order.
The Corp does not have to play the topmost operation first. • If there is no ice protecting the server, Caprice Nisei’s ability
still triggers if she was rezzed before the run was initiated.
• When the Corp plays an operation, he or she fully resolves it
before playing another one or trashing the rest of the cards.
119 NAPD Contract
• If any of the 3 cards looked at are no longer in the top • If the Runner accesses NAPD Contract from R&D and does
3 positions of R&D (as determined when Accelerated not pay the additional cost to steal it, the NAPD Contract is
Diagnostics was played), then those cards cannot be played. not revealed.

• The Corp can only play and look at the top 3 cards (as Honor and Profit
determined when Accelerated Diagnostic was played). Even
if other cards are moved into the top 3, those cards are not
eligible to be played/looked at by the Accelerated Diagnostics.

• If one of the operations played shuffles R&D, the remainder

of Accelerated Diagnostics’ effect is ignored.

54 Sundew
• The credits are gained when the Runner spends a click to
initiate an action that does not make a run on the server 3 Tennin Institute
Sundew is installed in, before the click is resolved. • The Tennin Institute cannot place advancement tokens on
itself, since ID cards are not installed.
• If the Runner plays a run event to initiate a run on the server
Sundew is installed in, the Corp does not gain 2 credits. • The Tennin Institute can place advancement tokens on
Runner cards.
58 Power Shutdown
• The Corp must choose X before trashing cards from R&D. 22 Tori Hanzō
• The first net damage can be prevented/avoided before Tori
• The Corp cannot choose a number that is greater than the Hanzō’s replacement ability resolves.
number of cards in R&D.
• If the first instance of net damage is prevented by another
• The Corp can play Power Shutdown even if the Runner has effect or replaced with Tori Hanzō’s own effect, Tori Hanzō
no installed cards. cannot trigger for the remainder of the run.
61 Keyhole
• The card trashed by Keyhole is trashed faceup.

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28 Iain Stirling 48 Crisium Grid
• If Iain Stirling has a negative agenda point total, then he • The run is considered neither successful nor unsuccessful
has fewer agenda points than a Corp with 0 or more agenda for the purpose of future card abilities, even if Crisium Grid
points. is later trashed. (e.g., Tennin Institute will trigger if the only
successful run the Runner made was against a server with a
48 Security Testing rezzed Crisium Grid).
• If Security Testing is uninstalled after a server is chosen, its
ability cannot replace accessing cards if the first run on the • Restrictions which require a successful run (e.g. Emergency
chosen server is successful; the ability is no longer active Shutdown, Data Leak Reversal) cannot be used if the
since the card is no longer active. successful run was against a server with a rezzed Crisium
Grid.
53 Overmind
• Overmind is installed, and its MU counts against the 56 The Supplier
Runner’s memory limit, when it gains power counters. • The Runner cannot use any “when your turn begins” abilities
on cards that are installed by The Supplier until his next turn.
Lunar Cycle
58 Order of Sol
• The Runner gains 1 credit even during the resolution of
another ability (e.g., paying the cost to play a Sure Gamble
with 5 credits in the credit pool).

83 Hostile Infrastructure
• Hostile Infrastructure does not resolve when the Corp trashes
his or her cards, even as a result of a Runner ability (e.g.
Noise forcing the Corp to trash the top card of R&D).
9 Taurus
• If the Corp’s trace strength is 5 or greater, Taurus trashes a 86 Daily Business Show
piece of hardware even if the trace was unsuccessful. This also • If the Corp has multiple copies of Daily Business Show
applies to Gemini, Sagittarius, and Virgo. installed, the abilities stack on top of each other (e.g. two
copies result in the Corp drawing 3 cards and adding 2 to the
10 Mother Goddess bottom of R&D).
• Mother Goddess only gains the subtypes of other ice while it
is rezzed. • The Corp does not have to tell the Runner whether he or she
kept the first or second card drawn. The Corp must keep the
12 Bad Times two cards discrete from the rest of his or her hand, though,
• The Runner can choose which memory to lose (e.g., memory when deciding; the Corp can shuffle the two cards together to
from Deep Red). obscure which card was taken.

17 Nasir Meidan 93 Ekomind

• Nasir loses any bad publicity credits he has when his ability • The memory limit from Ekomind is modified by other card
resolves. abilities (e.g. a Runner with 5 cards in his or her grip and an
Akamtasu Mem Chip installed has 6 MU).
• An ice is considered “just rezzed” for Nasir’s ability if it is
rezzed at any time during timing structure 2 of a run. 95 Leela Patel
• If Leela steals an agenda while accessing multiple cards from
• Abilities which increase the rez cost of ice give Nasir more
HQ, she adds a card to HQ before continuing to access more
credits when his ability resolves. Likewise, abilities which
cards.
reduce the rez cost of ice give Nasir fewer credits.

• Abilities which require the Corp to pay an additional cost

to rez ice do not give Nasir more credits when his ability
resolves.

21 The Foundry
• The Corp must find a piece of ice searched for, if able.

26 Targeted Marketing
• The Corp can choose to gain 10 credits when the Runner
plays a current that trashes Targeted Marketing (if the current
was named when Targeted Marketing was played).

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103 IT Department 28 Edward Kim
• Once triggered, IT Department results in a constant ability • If the first operation Edward Kim accesses is in Archives,
that continually tracks how many power counters are on the then he cannot trash another operation with his ability that
card. turn.

• IT Department always gives a piece of ice +1 strength due to 32 I’ve Had Worse
the token spent to activate the card ability, even if there are • The Runner trashes all cards from the damage before drawing
no other counters left on the card or IT Department is no for I’ve Had Worse.
longer installed.
• I’ve Had Worse cannot prevent the Runner from being
Example: There are 5 tokens on IT Department. If the Corp flatlined if the Runner takes more damage than the number
spends 1 token, the ice has +5 strength (1 for the initial token of cards in his or her grip.
+ 4 for the token still on IT Department). If the Corp spends
another token, now the ice has +8 strength (2 for the initial 33 Itinerant Protesters
tokens + 3 for each of the two instances of the ability). If the • The Corp does not lose the game if he or she has a negative
Corp spent a third token, now the ice has only +9 strength (3 hand size.
for the initial tokens + 2 for each of the three instances of the
ability). 40 Eater
• If the Runner access Archives after using Eater, all cards are
112 Self-Destruct turned faceup but no individual cards are accessed.
• Self-Destruct does not count itself as one of the cards trashed
in order to establish the trace value. SanSan
Order and Chaos

5 Enhanced Vision
2 Gagarin Deep Space • The revealed card is no longer revealed during the access
• The Runner can decline to pay the 1 credit to access a card. phase; it immediately returns to its unrevealed state after the
Corp shows the card to the Runner.
5 Glenn Station
• If Glenn Station is forfeited, any card hosted on it is trashed. 43 Turntable
• Agendas switched with Turntable keep any hosted counters
• Glenn Station can only host a card through its click ability. or cards on them, but their text is not active.

9 Mark Yale 73 Allele Repression

• If the Corp spends an agenda counter for Mark Yale’s paid • Allele Repression can add itself to HQ as part of the
ability, he or she also gains 1 credit from his conditional resolution of its effect.
ability.
86 Film Critic
13 Wormhole • After Film Critic’s ‘when accessed’ ability resolves, any
• The subroutine that resolves is not considered to be on remaining ‘when accessed’ abilities are non-resolvable.
Wormhole (e.g. when the Corp uses Wormhole with cards
like Data Raven or Viktor 2.0, the power counters are placed • An agenda hosted on Film Critic is not considered to be
on those cards and not Wormhole). stolen. An agenda added to the score area from Film Critic is
not considered to be stolen.
20 Housekeeping
• If the Runner has 1 card in his or her grip and installs it, • The Runner cannot voluntarily trash an agenda hosted on
Housekeeping has no effect and does not prevent the install. Film Critic, even if the Runner accesses another agenda.
(Only forced trashing through damage can result in a • Film Critic can only host an agenda through its ‘when
flatline.) accessed’ ability.
24 The Twins
• The Runner cannot jack out before encountering the ice
again.

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96 Casting Call • Archangel is not considered to be rezzed during its
• Agendas installed faceup with Casting Call are not active encounter, and cards that interact with rezzed cards, e.g.,
(unless those agendas can be installed faceup through their Datasucker, cannot affect it.
own abilities).
20 Ad Blitz
• If the agenda hosting Casting Call is uninstalled, Casting Call • The Corp must both install and rez any advertisements
is trashed. chosen by Ad Blitz.

116 Worlds Plaza 22 The All-Seeing I

• Worlds Plaza may be accessed and trashed, thereby trashing • The Corp does not have to have a bad publicity in order to
all of its hosted cards, before the cards hosted on it are play The All-Seeing I.
accessed.
33 Endless Hunger
Data and Destiny • Endless Hunger can only break subroutines that read exactly
“| End the run.” It cannot break subroutines that use the
words “end the run” as only part of its effect, e.g. on Tsurugi
or Pop-up Window.

35 Hunting Grounds
• The prevent ability on Hunting Grounds is optional; because
it can only be triggered “once per turn” it is the Runner’s
choice as to when to trigger it.

39 Brain Chip
13 Archangel • If the Runner has negative agenda points, Brain Chip does
• When encountering an Archangel during access, the Runner not lower his or her hand size or MU: these cannot be
follows timing step 3 of a run, ignoring the portions about increased by a negative number.
approaching ice/the server.
41 Always Be Running
• If Archangel is encountered while accessed and it is moved • Programs that make a run, such as Sneakdoor Beta, Keyhole,
from its position as determined when accessed (e.g., from etc., fulfill the requirement to make a run on Always Be
R&D being shuffled during the encounter or from Archangel Running.
being trashed from HQ by Utopia Shard during the
encounter), then the encounter immediately ends and any
currently open paid ability windows close.

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Section 3: Frequently Asked There is a Parasite with 1 virus counter hosted on a rezzed
Enigma, and the Runner has an Ice Carver installed. If the
Questions Runner encounters Chum, does not break its subroutine, and
This section answers some of the more frequently asked then continues the run and encounters Enigma, is the Enigma
questions that arise while playing Android: Netrunner. trashed?
No. Chum’s ability is a required conditional effect that creates
If the Runner steals an agenda from Jinteki using the core set a constant +2 strength effect. When the Runner encounters the
identity, but has no cards in hand, who wins if the agenda ice, both modifiers (Chum at +2 and Ice Carver at –1) apply at
gives the Runner his seventh point? the same time and the strength of Enigma would be 2.
The Runner wins the game. Whenever a player has 7 or more
agenda points in his score area, the game immediately ends. The If the Runner takes 4 brain damage from a single source, how
game ending takes precedence over any conditional ability that many brain damage tokens would he get?
triggers when an agenda is stolen. The Runner takes 1 brain damage token for each point of
brain damage he suffers, even if it was suffered all at once. The
When a piece of ice allows the Runner to break subroutines Runner would get 4 tokens to mark the brain damage he has
on it by spending clicks, does the Runner have to match the suffered.
strength of the ice before using this ability?
No. The Runner does not have strength, only icebreakers have Where is an upgrade installed in a remote server?
strength and an icebreaker must match the strength of a piece An upgrade is installed in a remote server in the same position
of ice to interact with it. This ability allows the Runner to break as an agenda or asset. The Runner should not be able to tell
subroutines by spending clicks without using any icebreakers. what type of card is installed in a remote server by its position.
This is different than installing an upgrade in a central server,
If the Corp rezzes an illicit piece of ice during a run, can the where it is always installed in the root.
Runner spend the bad publicity credit immediately?
No. Bad publicity credits are only gained at the beginning of a Can the Runner use multiple icebreakers on a single piece of
run. ice?
Yes, although there are few situations where this is beneficial.
Can the Runner use Datasucker to reduce the strength of a But the Runner cannot use one icebreaker’s strength to allow
piece of ice before an ability on that ice triggers when it is another icebreaker to interact with the ice.
encountered (such as a Tollbooth)?
No. Tollbooth ends the run unless the Runner pays 3< before Does the Corp know what cards the Runner accesses from HQ?
the Runner has the opportunity to use a paid ability. See step 3 Yes. The Corp should know what cards are accessed and in what
of a run on page 13. order.

Can the Runner combine multiple effects to make a run, like Can the Runner trash an accessed card with Demolition Run
using both Sneakdoor Beta and Account Siphon? before any ‘when accessed’ conditional abilities resolve?
No. Using each of those cards is an action, and a player cannot No. The card must be accessed before Imp, Demolition Run,
take an action during the resolution of another action. or any other similar effect can be used to trash it, just as if the
Runner was paying its trash cost.
The rules state that “The Runner cannot jack out while
approaching the first piece of ice during a run.” Can the
Runner jack out after the subroutine on Cell Portal resolves
and he is approaching the outermost piece of ice protecting the
server?
Yes. “The first piece of ice” refers to the first time a piece of ice
is approached during a run, and not the ice itself. The Runner
approaches the ice and has the opportunity to jack out.

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Can the Runner install a program if he has no more available memory units?
Yes. The Runner can trash any number of already installed programs before
installing a new one (and must if there is not enough space for the new program).
So if the Runner has no free MU, he can initiate an install action, trash any
number of programs to free up MU, and then install the new program.

The Runner chooses an unrezzed Archer as the target of a Forged Activation Orders.
Can the Corp choose to rez Archer, but then decline to pay the additional cost of
forfeiting the agenda?
No. If the Corp chooses to rez Archer, then as part of this choice he must pay 4< and
forfeit an agenda. Otherwise, the ice is trashed.

Can the Corp rearrange his installed cards within a single server, to obscure the
order that he installed them in?
The Corp must keep the order of his installs clear to the Runner; he cannot
rearrange cards in servers however he likes.

If the Runner gains a click with Joshua B. and then trashes the card
using Aesop’s Pawnshop, would he still take a tag at the end of the turn,
considering Joshua B. is no longer active?
Yes. The Runner would still take the tag, even though Joshua B. is no
longer active, because “If you do...” is part of the same ability. Once an
ability is triggered, it remains active and resolves unless prevented or
avoided.

Can the Runner use New Angeles City Hall to avoid the tags from an
Account Siphon if they have 0 credits when the ability resolves?
No. The gaining of the credits and the taking of the tags resolves at
the same time, so the Runner cannot use those credits to avoid
the tags.

If the Corp uses Efficiency Committee for extra clicks,

can she then play Shipment from Kaguya and Trick of
Light to place/move advancement tokens during
that turn?
Yes. Placing or moving advancement tokens
on a card is different than advancing
it, and Efficiency Committee
only stops the Corp from
advancing cards.

The Runner
does not break a subroutine
that specifies “Trash 1 program.”
Who chooses the program to trash?
The Corp chooses which program to trash.
Unless otherwise noted, each player makes the
choices required by the effects on his cards.

Can the Runner use the recurring credit on Cyberfeeder

to pay for using Femme Fatale’s bypass ability or Darwin’s
gaining counters ability?
Yes. Triggering any ability on an icebreaker is considered to be
using it.

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How does Rielle “Kit” Peddler’s ability interact with bypassing What happens if the Runner has a Blackguard installed and
a piece of ice? Is there any way to bypass a piece of ice and plays a Satellite Uplink?
make the next piece of ice a code gate? Both cards are exposed simultaneously, and the Runner chooses
There is no way to bypass a piece of ice and then make the the order that the Blackguard triggers resolve in.
next piece of ice a code gate. Rielle “Kit” Peddler makes the
first piece of ice encountered a code gate, and this is a constant The Runner has Blackguard installed and exposes an Archer.
ability. The Runner encounters any ice bypassed, and cannot Is the Corp forced to rez the Archer?
choose to resolve the bypass ability before Kit’s constant ability, Blackguard only forces the Corp to pay the rez cost, if able. The
because the constant ability is always active. Corp does not have to rez the Archer and pay its rez cost
because he can decline to pay the additional cost of forfeiting an
If the Runner has installed The Source and plays a Notoriety, agenda.
does the clause “Add Notoriety to your score area as an
agenda” cause The Source to be trashed? The Corp has two copies of Director Haas installed, one rezzed
No. Adding Notoriety to the Runner’s score area is not the same and one unrezzed. The Corp spends four clicks and then rezzes
as scoring or stealing an agenda, and so does not trash The the second copy. Does the Corp have an additional click to
Source. spend?
No. Clicks are tracked as a running total and not individually.
The Runner encounters Heimdall 1.0 and uses a click to break The Corp still has 4 clicks to spend on his turn, and he has
the first subroutine. If the Corp rezzes a Tyr’s Hand and uses spent 4 clicks, whether or not the additional click came from a
its ability to prevent that break, can the Runner spend another different card.
click to rebreak the subroutine?
Yes. Tyr’s Hand prevents a subroutine from being broken once, If the Runner did not break a subroutine on Hudson 1.0
but the Runner can break the subroutine again. and accesses an installed Toshiyuki Sakai, can he access the
swapped-in card?
If the Runner encounters a Heimdall 2.0 and spends two No. The Runner cannot access the card swapped with Toshiyuki
clicks to break the first two subroutines, and the Corp uses Sakai because it is a new card and he has reached his access
Tyr’s Hand to prevent one of them from being broken, can e3 limit.
Feedback Implants be used to break that subroutine again?
Yes. Both subroutines are broken at the same time, and so the Can the Runner spend credits to boost the strength of an
Runner can respond to the broken subroutine with e3 Feedback icebreaker, or break a subroutine on a piece of ice, if she is
Implants. about to encounter a Tollbooth during step 2.3 of a run?
The Runner cannot break subroutines outside of step 3.1 of a
The Runner encounters Heimdall 2.0 and spends two clicks run, but he or she can boost the strength of an icebreaker.
to break both of the first two subroutines. She then uses e3
Feedback Implants to break the third subroutine, but has The Runner has Security Testing and Aesop’s Pawnshop
that break prevented by Tyr’s Hand. Can the Runner use e3 installed. At the start of his turn, the Runner names a server
Feedback Implants again, or has the chance to use it now for Security Testing, then sells it to Aesop’s Pawnshop. The first
passed? time he makes a successful run on that server, does he gain 2
Yes, the Runner can use the e3 Feedback Implants again. credits instead of accessing cards?
No. A conditional ability can only resolve if it the card it is on is
How does Project Ares interact with Sacrificial Construct? active when the trigger condition is met, and Security Testing
Can the Runner choose to trash a Sacrificial Construct, and is no longer active after it is trashed. Security Testing has two
then trash that Sacrificial Construct to prevent another card conditional abilities on it (like Femme Fatale), unlike Joshua B.,
from being trashed by Project Ares? who has one.
Yes. All installed cards being trashed by Project Ares are
chosen at the same time, and the prevent ability on Sacrificial The Runner uses Femme Fatale to bypass a Komainu for 0
Construct can be resolved to prevent another card from being credits. If there is a Chum installed before the Komainu, are
trashed. the 0 subroutines on Komainu broken, or does the Runner take
the 3 net damage?
Can the Runner use Copycat after breaking the subroutine on The subroutines are not broken because the ice was bypassed,
Paper Wall? and the Runner takes 3 net damage.
No. Both pieces of ice must be rezzed to use Copycat.

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If Security Testing is used on HQ and the Runner plays an What happens if the Runner uses Eureka! to install Angel
Account Siphon, can she choose which replacement effect Arena?
to use? If Angel Arena is installed using Eureka!, then the X value the
No. Security Testing triggers at step 4.4 of a run, and replaces Runner chooses to pay is lowered by 10. So if the Runner paid 0
the access. Security Testing is also a required ability and the credits he or she gets 0 power counters, because X was lowered
Runner cannot choose to not use it. Account Siphon does not from 10 to 0.
trigger until step 4.5 of the run, at which point Security Testing
has already resolved. If the Runner has a Hivemind with 1 virus counter on it and
an Imp with no virus counters on it, can he use Virus Breeding
If the Runner uses a Tinkering on a Wendigo with one Ground to move 1 virus counter to Imp?
advancement token on it, is the Wendigo a code gate? Yes. Imp is considered to have the virus counters on Hivemind
Yes. Gaining and losing subtypes are tracked as a running total, on it.
but having the subtype is a binary state. In this scenario the
Wendigo had two code gate subtypes and loses one, meaning it What happens if the Runner steals an agenda worth 3 points,
is still a code gate. and the Corp plays Punitive Counterstrike with The Board
rezzed? Does the Runner take 2 or 3 meat damage if the trace
If the Corp has an active Enhanced Login Protocol, does it is successful?
trigger the ability on a Heinlein Grid? The Runner would take 2 meat damage if the trace is successful,
No. The additional click is spent to initiate the run, and is not since the 3 point agenda is currently worth 2 points.
spent during the run.
Can the Runner use Incubator to move all the virus counters
If the Corp uses the ability on The Foundry during the on Hivemind to another card? If so, does the Runner have to
resolution of an Accelerated Beta Test, what happens? move all the virus counters or can he pick how many to move?
Each piece of ice is installed and rezzed one at a time. So the Yes, the Runner can and must move all virus counters from
Corp installs the first piece of ice and then uses The Foundry to Hivemind to the chosen card when using Incubator.
search R&D for another copy. This results in shuffling the other
two looked at cards into R&D (they neve actually leave R&D), Does Pheromones get a credit on it immediately if installed
preventing them from being installed or trashed. with a Grimoire out?
Pheromones does not get an immediate credit on it with
Can the Corp add subroutines to a piece of grail ice in any a Grimoire installed. Pheromones becomes active before
order (by using other grail ice)? the conditional ability on Grimoire resolves, and when it
Yes. The Corp can add subroutines to grail ice before or after becomes active the recurring credits (0) immediately appear.
any subroutines, including the subroutine printed on the card. Pheromones still gains the virus token from Grimoire, but the
credit for it does not appear until the next turn when recurring
If Valencia Estevez is playing against GRNDL, how much bad credits are replaced.
publicity does the Corp start with?
The Corp starts with 1 bad publicity. If the Runner accesses a Cyberdex Virus Suite from HQ, does
the Cyberdex Virus Suite purge virus counters first or can the
Runner use a virus counter on Imp to trash it before the purge?
If the Runner has 2 credits and an active Net Celebrity, does he
have to pay 3 credits (including the Net Celebrity credit) when The Cyberdex Virus Suite removes the virus counters from Imp
encountering a Tollbooth? first; the Runner cannot trash a card accessed with Imp until
after all of the “when accessed” abilities are resolved.
Yes. Cards with recurring credits (like Net Celebrity) or
temporary credits (like Ghost Runner) have to be used if the
requirement to use the credits on the card is met and an effect Does Blacklist prevent the Runner from using Same Old Thing
requires credits to be paid. to play an event from the heap?
Yes. The event must leave the heap when played using Same Old
If the Runner chooses Archives for Security Testing, and the Thing, so while Blacklist is active it prevents the Runner from
Corp has Crisium Grid installed there, can Security Testing be using Same Old Thing.
used?
When the Runner makes a run on a server with Crisium Grid, Can the Runner use Sacrificial Construct to prevent the
the run is still successful but it is seen as neither successful or trashing of a program on London Library?
unsuccessful for the purposes of card abilities. Security Testing Yes. Programs on London Library are installed, the Library’s
does not see that a successful run occurred. If the Runner effect is a conditional ability that resolves at the end of each of
trashes the Crisium Grid and then successfully runs Archives the Runner’s turns. So Sacrificial Construct will delay the trash,
for a second time, the Security Testing triggers because it but London Library will attempt to trash it again at the end of
believes the first run was not successful or unsuccessful. the Runner’s next turn.

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 Can the Runner use Immolation Script during a run in which What happens if the Runner accesses an Archangel from R&D
Eater was used to break a subroutine? during an encounter with a Shiro?
No. Eater stops the Runner from accessing any individual cards, If the Corp pays 3 credits, then the Runner encounters
and so there is no access to replace with Immolation Script. Archangel; while encountering Archangel, the Runner is not
considered to be encountering Shiro again until the Archangel
If the Runner trashes a Worlds Plaza that is hosting The access ends. Then the Runner continues the previous encounter
Board, does the Runner add The Board to their score area? with Shiro, resolving any other of its subroutines, if necessary,
and continuing the run from that position.
No. Since The Board is not currently being accessed, it is not
added to the Runner’s score area.

If the Runner takes net damage while both Titanium Ribs and
the Chronos Protocol are active, what happens?
If it is the Runner’s turn, then Titanium Rib resolves and the
Runner chooses which card to trash. If it is the Corp’s turn, then
the Corp chooses which card to trash.

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simultaneous effects trigger.

If the Runner plays Drive By and the Corp uses Zaibatsu

Loyalty to prevent the card from being exposed, can the card
still be trashed if it is an asset or upgrade?
No. The effect does not resolve because Drive By cannot
confirm the card to be an asset or an upgrade.

If a Runner with no tags accesses a Quantum Predictive Model

that hosts Casting Call, does the Corp score the Quantum
Predictive Model?
No. The Quantum Predictive Model does not resolve if the
Runner is not tagged when the access occurs.

If the Runner trashes a Worlds Plaza that is hosting a Hostile

Infrastructure, how much net damage does the Runner take?
The Runner takes 1 net damage from trashing the Worlds Plaza.
The Hostile Infrastructure is trashed by the game (according to
the rules for hosting) and not by the Runner.

If a run initiated with Dorm Computer is unsuccessful while

John Masanori is installed, does the Runner avoid the tag?
No. Dorm Computer’s ability only applies during the run, and
John Masanori does not trigger until the run has unsuccessfully
ended.

Can a Runner playing as Kate “Mac” McCaffrey use a DaVinci

with 1 power counter on it to install a 2-cost card like Clot?
No. DaVinci’s ability looks at the install cost of the card while
it is in the Runner’s grip, before it is installed by triggering the
trash ability.

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Section 4: Updated Timing
Structures
The following pages contain updated timing structures. These
timing structures have been created to make the order of
the game framework and card abilities easier to understand.
Each line is its own period of time, and anything on the same
line of text can be triggered in any order. Updated from the
first printing of the rulebook is the addition of step 2.1 under
Timing Structure of Turns, clarification that the Corporation
can only rez ice at a specific time, restructuring of step 2 under
Timing Structure of a Run, and smaller changes to improve the
charts’ readability. Updated from FAQ 2.1 is the addition of a
paid ability and rez window at step 1.3 of the Runner’s turn.

Timing Structure of Turns

= Paid abilities can be triggered = Non-ice cards can be rezzed = Agendas can be scored

1. Corporation’s Draw Phase

1.1
1.2 Turn begins (“When your turn begins” conditionals meet their trigger conditions)
1.3 Draw one card

2. Corporation’s Action Phase

2.1
2.2 Take actions
• After each action:

3. Corporation’s Discard Phase

3.1 Discard down to maximum hand size
3.2
3.3 End of turn

1. Runner’s Action Phase

1.1
1.2 Turn begins (“When your turn begins” conditionals meet their trigger conditions)
1.3
1.4 Take actions
• After each action:

2. Runner’s Discard Phase

2.1 Discard down to maximum hand size
2.2
2.3 End of turn

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 Timing Structure of a Run

= Paid abilities can be triggered = Non-ice cards can be rezzed

1. The Runner initiates a run and declares the attacked server.

• If the attacked server has one or more pieces of ice protecting it, go to [2]. If the attacked server does not
have ice protecting it, go to [4].

2. The Runner approaches the outermost piece of ice not already approached on the attacked server.
2.1
2.2 The Runner decides whether to continue the run.
...Either the Runner jacks out: go to [6] (cannot jack out if this is the first ice approached this run)
...Or the Runner continues the run: go to [2.3]
2.3 Approached ice can be rezzed,
2.4 Players check to see if the approached ice is rezzed.
• If the approached ice is rezzed, go to [3]. If the approached ice is unrezzed, the Runner
PASSES it: go to [2] if there is another piece of ice protecting the server, go to [4] if there is not
another piece of ice protecting the server.

3. The Runner encounters a piece of ice. (‘When encountered’ conditionals meet their trigger conditions)
3.1 Icebreakers can interact with the encountered ice,
3.2 Resolve all subroutines not broken on the encountered ice.
...Either the run ends: go to [6]
...Or the run continues: if there is another piece of ice protecting the server, go to [2]; if there is not
another piece of ice protecting the server, go to [4].

4. The Runner approaches the attacked server. (‘When the Runner passes all ice’ conditionals meet their trigger conditions)
4.1
4.2 The Runner decides whether to continue the run.
...Either the Runner jacks out: go to [6]
...Or the Runner continues the run: go to [4.3].
4.3
4.4 The run is considered to be Successful. (‘When successful’ conditionals meet their trigger conditions)
4.5 Access cards, then go to [5].
• If an agenda is accessed, the Runner steals it. If a card with a Trash cost is accessed, the
Runner may pay its trash cost to trash it.
• All accessed cards not stolen or trashed are returned to the server in their previous states.

5. The run ends.

6. The run ends and is considered to be unsuccessful. (‘When unsuccessful’ conditionals meet their trigger
conditions)

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