Scrounge

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Event: Double
Influence: 1

As an additional cost to play this event, spend [click].

Install 1 program from your heap. You may add 1 program from your heap to the bottom of your stack.

“99% of everything is trash. That’s why I pay someone else to search it for me.”
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Illustrated by Amirul Hhf
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Elevation (elev)

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Scrounge pairs an immediate Program-recursion (install from heap) with an “eventual” recursion (bottom from heap), under a non-interactive condition (spending an extra [click] is kinda like making a “non-taxing, auto-succeeding run”).

Design

Doesn't force a shuffle (which saves time). You can still trigger a shuffle if you want to draw it sooner (like by Boomerang), or even tutor for it immediately (like with Mutual Favor or Muse).

Doesn't require a run (unlike NSG's Katorga Breakout, versus FFG's Déjà Vu); but it is a Double, cannot recur Events, and so on.


While “undertucking” (IE. Add 1 _ from your heap to the bottom of your stack.) is frequently irrelevant, it is more relevant in Netrunner than most card games. Which (in a Core set like Elevation), can clue in newer players about how your deck-count changes during gameplay: the rate of card flow, the importance/presence of recursion, and so on. That is:

  • In Dominion–likes (where you redraw a five-card hand every turn, while drawing from smaller decks too), you will reshuffle your discard-pile into your draw-pile every few turns.
  • In Magic: the Gathering–likes (where you draw one card at the start your turn like the Corp, but lack any basic-action to draw more, and won't be playing more than a single card a turn from hand anyways), you almost never “bottom out”, with Ashen Epilogue–style recursion being unplayable outside of a minority of archetypes/formats.

Notes

  • Can (quasi-)reverse Stavka’s double-destruction.
  • Can mitigate a Saisentan.
  • At just 1inf/5, it's very splashable into: Criminal (for not getting locked out, if your singleton icebreaker gets Destroyer's/AP'd); and Shaper (for… all your programs, if necessary).
  • BTW, if you install a Muse and tuck a Coalescence, does it let you Muse for that same Coalescence ?
(Elevation era)

Regarding your final note: I'd say you first resolve the 'install from heap' part and then, after that installation is completed and all on 'on install' triggers are fully resolved, you go on with the 'undertucking'.

@Kramsz IIUC, this is because each period is a separate instruction, you would have to fully resolve the Muse's when-you-install trigger, in between Scrounge’s two sentences, no? or would you be unable to "Muse out" the second program (if Muse couldn't just install from heap itself, that is), even if Scrounge were written with a …, then you may add …?

There's not really a difference between 'A. B.' and 'A, then B._', both are sequencial.

thanks for clarifying!