Mahkota Langit Grid

Mahkota Langit Grid 2[credit]

Upgrade: Region
Trash: 2

Influence: 0

2[recurring credit] (When you rez this upgrade and before your turn begins, refill to 2 hosted credits.)

You can spend hosted credits to rez assets in the root of this server and ice protecting this server.

Persistent → The trash cost of each asset in the root of this server is increased by 2[credit].

Limit 1 region per server.

Illustrated by Marlon Ruiz
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  • Updated 2025-06-30

    If the Runner accesses and trashes an unrezzed Mahkota Langit Grid, does its persistent ability apply?

    No. The persistent flag only indicates that an active ability can remain active beyond its source card. The ability must be active to begin with in order for it to persist.

  • Updated 2025-06-30

    Can the Corp refill the recurring credits on Mahkota Langit Grid and then spend them to rez Anthill Excavation Contract in time to resolve its “turn begins” ability?

    No. There is no paid ability window in between recurring credits refilling and “turn begins” abilities meeting their trigger conditions.

Reviews

The Mahkota Langit Grid (👑☁️) makes “local” assets cheaper-to-rez and pricier-to-trash (especially if protected by a cheaper-to-rez gearcheck too).

Notes

  • For example (with zero-inf neutrals-only), a Langit’d Regolith Mining License becomes 0[$]-to-rez and −5[$]-to-trash (a four-credit “swing”).

  • Being a region but non-unique, you can have multiple, lightly-iced MLG remotes. For example (in HB), two 0[$]-to-rez Otto and/or Nico Campaigns, protected by 1[$]-to-rez Scatter Fields (and their own −4[$]-to-trash costs), fueling +5[$] Fully Operationals? Like “DIY Asa Group” (🤞)??

  • The 2[$/T] ability can pay for ice rez but not install costs.

  • The Persistent ability “upsells” assets in the root of this server (not in R&D, FWIW, even if you installed this upgrade centrally).

  • The Grid can rez a Descent (or Ablative Barrier) for 0[$] on T1, but IDK if it can then rez the Anthill Excavation Contract (or Humanoid Resources) being hastily protected for 1[$] (or 0[$]) by T2. (Do its hosted credits refill soon enough? LMK to edit it in.)

PS. This card ends up looking very clean (“all two’s”), but my guess is that it was very messy to get there (especially because it increases trash-costs un-influentially). Disclaimer: I haven't played with it yet.

Flavor

AFAICT, “mahkota langit” means “crown-sky”:

(Malay/Indonesian speakers, please correct me; maybe if it's a specific compound like English “rainbow”, a possessive like “sky’s crown”, has some connotation, or so on.)

CF. The Fountains of Paradise (1979, Arthur C. Clarke):

Due to many technical issues, there are only two locations on Earth where the Orbital Tower can be built. One is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and the other is Sri Kanda (a thinly veiled reference to Adam's Peak , in Sri Lanka). However, there is a Buddhist temple on the island, and Mahanayake Thero, the head of the order, refuses to give permission to begin construction.

Unlike NSG’s framing of this conflict, Clarke frames the conflict as "science vs. religion".

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