Android: Netrunner

The Corporation goes first. Its normal turn includes a mandatory draw and three clicks; the Runner has four clicks and no automatic draw. Both can spend a click to draw a card or gain a credit, and discard down to their maximum hand size at turn end, normally five.

The Corporation installs agendas, assets, upgrades and ice facedown. A remote server can hold only one asset or agenda, alongside upgrades; ice protects servers. Installing ice costs one credit per piece already protecting that server, separate from its later rez cost. The Runner normally installs programs, hardware and resources faceup, paying their install costs; programs must fit available memory, initially four units.

Rezzing turns a corporate asset, upgrade or ice faceup and active by paying its rez cost, without a click. Use the permitted timing windows: ice normally rezzes as it is approached during a run. Agendas are advanced and scored, never rezzed. Spending one click and one credit adds an advancement token to a legal installed card; an agenda meeting its requirement may be scored in the Corporation’s scoring windows. In a legal paid-ability window, the active player has first opportunity and may use any number of permitted paid abilities, rezzes or scores before opportunities alternate. The window closes when both players decline in succession.

A basic run costs the Runner one click and targets a server. Approach its ice from outermost to innermost. Against rezzed ice, a suitable icebreaker needs at least that ice’s strength and must pay its ability costs to break chosen subroutines. Unbroken subroutines resolve top to bottom. Passing ice does not trash it, and the Runner may let harmless subroutines resolve.

After reaching a server and continuing, the run becomes successful and normally accesses cards: one random HQ card, the top R&D card, all Archives cards, or all cards in the attacked remote server, plus upgrades in a central server’s root. Accessed agendas are stolen, subject to card effects and additional costs; other cards with a trash cost may be trashed by paying it. Success alone does not guarantee an agenda.

The first side with at least seven agenda points wins. The Runner also wins when the Corporation must draw from empty R&D. Net, meat and brain damage trash random cards from the Runner’s grip; damage exceeding available cards flatlines the Runner, and brain damage also permanently reduces maximum hand size. An empty Runner stack alone does not lose the game. A negative maximum hand size at the end of the Runner’s turn also flatlines them.

Construct each deck for one identity and one side, observing its minimum size, influence limit and normally three copies per title. Out-of-faction cards spend influence; cards without an influence value cannot be imported. Corporation decks also need agenda points appropriate to deck size, such as 20–21 for 45–49 cards. Check the agreed edition, card text, errata and format rather than assuming a historical set list remains legal.