Project Ingatan

Project Ingatan 3/2

Agenda: Research

Dividends 1 (When you score this agenda, place 1 agenda counter on it for each excess advancement counter.)

When your discard phase ends, you may remove 1 hosted agenda counter to install 1 card from Archives, ignoring all costs.

Illustrated by Kira L. Nguyen
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Elevation (elev)

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  • Updated 2025-06-29

    If the Corp discards cards in their discard step, can they use Project Ingatan's ability to install a card they just discarded?

    Yes.

  • Updated 2025-06-29

    The Corp has a remote server with a rezzed SanSan City Grid and a copy of Project Ingatan with 3 hosted advancement counters. When they score the Project Ingatan, does it get an agenda counter?

    Yes. Project Ingatan had an advancement requirement of 2 when it was scored, so it had 1 “excess” advancement counter.

Reviews

While I'm not quite confident in my assessment of this card yet, I'd just like to jot down my early thoughts on this card before I forget.

Like the other 3/2 agendas introduced in this set, this is a Dividends card inspired by the meta-defining "projects" of the FFG era, nearly all of which were reprinted in System Update 2021: that is to say, Projects Atlas, Beale, and the direct predecessor of this card, Vitruvius (sorry, Braintrust).

However, all of the new 3/2s are somewhat different in effect from their predecessors.

First of all, they are all triggered at the end of the turn, giving the Runner a chance to react.

Off the Books is the closest, the only other difference being that it comes with a free install.

Embedded Reporting is the most different, losing Beale's ability to be a 5/3, 7/4, or other higher value agenda in exchange for allowing you to topdeck 2 operations per excess advancement.

Ingatan falls between these two. Least relevant, but still thematically notable, is that this is the only one to retain the name Project and the subtype Research. With the rotation of the Archivist, this is now mostly irrelevant, but who knows what NSG will print in the coming cycles?

More importantly, though, the bonus here specifies that the new card must be installed, naturally precluding use of this for operations. This is probably to minimize the possibility of Precision Design-esque shenanigans; most infamously PD's beloved Seamless Launch recurrence on every agenda score. Of course, PD's ID ability means it never needed that particular bonus, but this change hopefully means that this combo will remain limited to PD.

Obviously, though, it's more directly meant to mesh well with the new HB ID, Poetri Luxury Brands, whose ability enables further installations with every agenda that is scored or stolen. Being able to clicklessly reinstall trashed cards is quite the bonus in asset spam, allowing the Corp to demand even more of the Runner's time and energy if they want to challenge the corp's growing asset economy. It also combos well with the valuable but time-limited campaigns that HB is well-known for; the Nico and Otto campaigns can easily be recurred the moment they expire with this agenda, although the fact the Runner knows exactly what the new card is (assuming it wasn't facedown in Archives) might make it less likely to survive.

Alternatively, in Glacier decks, it could find a great use in saving ICE trashed by the Arruaceiras Crew or the newly introduced Charm Offensive. Defensive upgrades are another choice for recurring: forcing the runner to constantly run through the Manegarm Skunkworks or making the most possible use of a few copies of Jinteki's incredibly inf-taxing Anoetic Void or Adrian Seis are eminently possible with this card. The fact that Adrian Seis can be accessed (and thus trashed) if the corp wins the Psi Game makes recurring him particularly useful.

Overall, I think that these changes are a mixed bag for HB. With the ban on (and now rotation of) Archived Memories, HB's recursion has taken quite the beating. While saving the install click is valuable, I think I'll miss being able to recur Biotic Labors; sorry, Nanomanagements, and always being able to call the most relevant Operation back to hand.

Of course, in the end, any discussions about the changes are likely to be somewhat moot. It's a 3/2 in the faction with Biotic Labor (sorry, Nanomanagement) and Bass Chiriboga; and that's more powerful than most agenda texts can ever hope to be.

(Elevation era)

Edited to split the discussion of installables between Asset Spam and Glacier sections, and added links.