Crisium Grid

Crisium Grid 3[credit]

Upgrade: Region
Trash: 5
Influence: 1

Runs against this server cannot be declared successful. (This effect does not cause runs to become unsuccessful.)

Limit 1 region per server.

Mars would never have been colonized if not for the Gagarin facilities at Promontorium Agarum.
Illustrated by Camille Kuo
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First Contact (fc)

#48 • English
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System Core 2019
System Update 2021
Rulings
  • Updated 2022-04-24

    Can the Runner play Emergency Shutdown on their second click after they ran HQ with an active Crisium Grid that was trashed during the breach?

    No, the Runner did not make a successful run on HQ due to Crisium Grid’s ability. Trashing Crisium Grid does not retroactively make the run successful.

  • Updated 2021-10-10

    If the Runner uses Jailbreak to run a server with a rezzed Crisium Grid, will they access an additional card?

    No. Jailbreak’s ability that gives an additional access is a delayed conditional ability created by its “If successful” ability. Since Crisium Grid stops the run from being declared successful, that ability is never resolved.

  • Updated 2022-04-24

    If the Runner breaches a server that has a rezzed Crisium Grid, do they access cards as normal?

    Yes. Preventing the run from being declared successful only affects abilities that require a successful run, such as the restriction on playing Emergency Shutdown.

  • Updated 2022-04-24

    If Crisium Grid is active in the root of HQ and the Runner uses Sneakdoor Beta, is the run successful on either Archives or HQ?

    No, Sneakdoor Beta changes the attacked server while step 6.9.5a of the run is imminent, because the expected effects of that step include the trigger condition of Sneakdoor Beta’s delayed conditional ability, which is that the run on Archives would be declared successful. However, once the attacked server is changed to HQ, the imminent step cannot declare the run successful after all because of Crisium Grid’s ability. The Runner will still breach HQ.

  • Updated 2022-04-24

    If Crisium Grid is active in the root of Archives and the Runner uses Sneakdoor Beta, what server does the Runner breach and is the run successful?

    The Runner breaches Archives and the run is not declared successful. Since Crisium Grid’s ability is a static ability and applies immediately, declaring the run successful is never part of the expected effects of step 6.9.5a of the run, so the trigger condition of Sneakdoor Beta’s delayed conditional ability is never met and the ability never resolves.

Reviews

Notable synergy:

  • Off the Grid: As long as Crisium Grid remains on HQ, OTG will not be trashed.

Pros: - 1 influence is always a good thing - 5 trash cost too - Great boost against Criminal if installed on HQ, against Shaper if installed on R&D. Makes the Runner lose a lot of tempo. - With Tennin Institute: The Secrets Within as an ID, it favors the odds of placing advancement tokens each turn.

Many of them are heavily played.

Cons:

(Up and Over era)
289
Great review, but Neural EMP and Power Shutdown are both "Play only if the runner made a run during his or her last turn": Crisium Grid doesn't stop them. —
Hello, Yes I saw this the day after and have tried to edit the review multiple times but it always runs on error. —
**Incorrect** about #neuralEMP ... Neural EMP doesn't care if the run is successful or unsuccessful, it will fire off as long as he made a run —
I believe you are also mistaken about Demolition Run: CG has no affect on it since it doesn't require success. —
One other correction - you can still play Successful Demonstration after an unsuccessful run on a Crisium server. The card only affects *successful* runs on that server. —
You cannot play Successful Demonstration because Crisium Grid makes the run neither successful nor unsuccessful. That wording has a surprising number of effects. —
There is no Anti synergy with Hokusai Grid since they are both Regions —
Does it still prevent those card effects if it is trashed in the same run? Cause it doesnt say so like other upgrades... —
Yes because the run becomes successful or unsuccessful at step 5e of a run while accessing and trashing are at step 5g. Crisium's effect is already applied by the time it is trashed compared to something like Red Herrings or Ben Musashi. —

This is potentially a good counter to a lot of those Eater decks showing up and winning tournaments. The runner can't use Eater to break ice and still trash this. It is also nice that it's only 1 influence.

(Order and Chaos era)
226
Yes, and even #Singularity can't trash it. —

Thanks, in part, to Santa's deck, I have finally found that Crisium Grid is flexible enough to offer the Corp the opportunity to play lame games against Runners who take making successful runs for granted. Now if there is a means for the Runner to do the same to the Corp beyond Clot....

(Rebellion Without Rehearsal era)
50

Question more than a review -- Does this work in synergy with Tennin institute identity. The statement "to be successful or Unsuccessful " indicates neither effect occurs?? Is there a FAQ on this one?

(Order and Chaos era)
26
@Rookie Jr; Tennin requires the runner to "make a successful run" to prevent Tennin ID ability from triggering. Since Crisium states "The run is not considered to be successful" (regardless of the second part), the runner would need to successfully run a non-Crisium server, or trash the Crisium and successfully run that server again to prevent the Tennin ID from firing. The "unsuccessful" clause is in there to prevent Crisium from triggering punitive effects on cards like Autoscripter, John Masanori, or Successful Demonstration. —
Does this also screw sneakdoor runs? —