Bling

♦ Bling 2[credit]

Hardware: Console
Influence: 3

+1[memory unit]

Whenever you install a card without spending credits, you may host the top card of your stack faceup on this hardware. (It is not installed.)

You can play or install hosted cards as if they were in your grip.

When your discard phase ends, trash all hosted cards.

Limit 1 console per player.

Illustrated by Martin de Diego Sádaba
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Elevation (elev)

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Bling (💎) “quickdraws” whenever you creditlessly install. For example:

  • Gachapon can double-trigger Bling, by installing a ≤2[$]-drop (and costing 0[$] itself).
  • Topan can trigger Bling each turn, it being their Console.

Design:

  • It has “turn-length momentum”. Thus, its unbounded Whenever you … trigger (vs. a bounded The first time each turn you …) has a safety-valve. Even if you trigger it four times in a turn, you might only get one benefit. CF. a “complementary” effect like Whenever you …, look at the top card of your stack. If it has printed install or play cost 0[$], you may reveal it and add it to your grip..
  • At best, it can draw every installation (including the hosted cards). At worst, it just mills you every installation.
  • as if they were in your grip: The hosted cards can be cheapened by Topan.
  • install a card without spending credits: It doesn't trigger off Paladin Poemu (not reading from your pool), which I like; it (not reading from your grip) does still trigger off heap-installs like The Price or set-aside-installs like Gachapon.

Synergies:

See o:0 t:resource|program|hardware d:r z:standard b:active and x:paying|reduc|lower|ignor x:credit|cost s!console d:r z:standard b:active .


EDIT I mistakenly suggested the following synergy...

  • trash all hosted cards: If you've “quickdrawn” a Steelskin Scarring or Strike Fund, then you can clicklessly “play” them at EoT (which add them to the bottom of your stack wouldn't trigger). In particular, because it tastes Steelskin when your discard phase ends (not action phase), you can pass the turn with a seven-card hand.

...but as @getmemy says in their comment, Bling shouldn’t trigger them:

  • Bling doesn’t say TREAT hosted cards as if they were in your grip.
  • SS/SF don’t say When this event is trashed from ANY LOCATION except the play area, …
(Elevation era)

I'm pretty sure Steelskin and Strike Fund don't get triggered when trashed from Bling, since they both specify they trigger when "trashed from your grip or stack" and cards on Bling aren't actually in your grip, you can just play them as if they were.

I think getmemy is onto something here ... But that's just a very unintuitive non-interaction in-faction! Kinda a slip in the design :(

@getmemy Good catch! Edited the review.