Gourmand (😈) is the “new Imp”. But:
- It trashes a
non-agenda only.
- It trashes only one card.
- There are fewer trashcan/sacrifice synergies (like Boi-tatá/The Back) than virus synergies (like Cookbook).
- It's “self-Geist’ing” (and
0[$]-cost): you spend a click and a card, you get back an effect and a card.
Design-wise:
- It can't trash agendas like Imp, which could: “snuff out” On-Steals (like Fujii Asset Retrieval and now Next Big Thing); “de-escalate” the Threat-Level and “de-enable” Reprisals (EG. by “archiving” three or four agenda-points and only stealing them at gamepoint).
- It can't trash multiple cards like Imp, each of which could easily trash (even before being recurred): high-impact cards, expensive Assets/Upgrades, win-con Operations, unbreakable ICE, critical Agendas, etc; as well as low-impact/low-value cards, anything you opportunistically accessed that turn.
In particular, against 4[$]-to-trash Assets/Upgrades (like Tranquility Home Grid, Wage Workers, Hostile Architecture, etc), or against a Langit’d 2/3/4[$]-to-trash Asset (like Regolith Mining License, The Powers That Be, etc), Gourmand profits more than a Sure Gamble (four credits plus a card).
Flavor-wise, a gourmand “likes good food and drink”.
en.wikipedia.org
I think this is machine code (i.e. written as 0s and 1s) rather than assembly code (written as human-readable mnemonics). The 0s and 1s are grouped into groups of four bits at a time and writen as the corresponding digit, e.g. 4 means 0100 (and letters a-f are used for 1010-1111), but that's just an abbreviation for the actual 0s and 1s.
— callforjudgement