This card needs a fresh review now that Adjusted Chronotype is a thing.

You can get this click right back if you have that AC in play. This means that for 4 and the individual clicks to install, you can make all of your doubles only cost one click.

On paper... YAY!

In reality... :/

There are currently (minus Drive By) 12 Double type cards for the runner. Looking at them all, their effects, and their influence, Criminal stands out as the best faction to try this with. So that's 4 or maybe 6 influence to get a good chance of drawing AC. If you go with Andromeda: Dispossessed Ristie that gives you a pretty good chance of finding this combo in your opening hand.

It's full on Sunk Cost Fallacy. You then obviously have to add doubles to make this combo worthwhile. You splash more influence on Lucky Find and then Power Nap looks nice as well, and suddenly you're playing a deck full of events and no space or influence left to do anything good.

All in all, with the influence and the inevitable dead draws running 3 of this and AC to make the combo easily attainable, and the install clicks, you're better off actually just spending the f***ing clicks on the doubles.

When I was learning the game, this card stuck out like a sore thumb to me. My whole turn for 7? It sounded bad. With Hedge Fund giving you net 4 or Beanstalk Royalties 3, Melange sounded like a bad idea.

How wrong I was. Rezzing this at the start of your turn and getting 7 can be huge. 7 is a lot. an awful lot, and a lot more than it sounds like trading away your whole turn for. Going from 4 to 11 can be the difference between rezzing ICE to keep a runner out and still then not having enough to play key operations on your next turn.

You have to be careful though. You can put it in a protected server, in which case you'll probably have to get rid of it after a little while to play something more relevant to the game state. At only 1, any sensible runner who can get to it to trash it will, and at such a low trash cost, putting it in a naked server "just to see what happens" can be risky.

Simply put, this card is a card about momentum. In the early game, behind some low cost ICE the runner can't get through yet (Wraparound, Chimera, Himitsu-Bako), getting 7-14 credits can set you up extremely nicely, and it has the immediate payout that cards like Adonis Campaign lack.

A solid card, neutral, zero influence, easy new server material for cards like Turtlebacks or Near-Earth Hub: Broadcast Center. Worth thinking about in any deck that could do with an economy boost.

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This card is insane. 4 meat damage for a tag and 3 is amazingly good.

If you're building a deck and that deck includes a good number of tagging options, you need to consider 2 of this card. That's 8 influence outside of the Weyland faction, but what's 8 influence when you can win the game out of nowhere? 6-0 down on agenda points? Flatline victory cares not.

This card is so good, all runners everywhere must respect its existence. Even if you decide to not include it in your deck, the mere fact that this card exists should be a worry for any runner who dares end their turn with a tag. This means woe betide a runner running on their last . Maybe the runner needs to keep 2-4 credits on hand just to get rid of tags in their last 1-2 , making their economy even more tight.

Maybe you bait a taxing run then play a SEA Source on your first , having the cash to easily have the trace be successful, then play two of this on s two and three to win. Maybe you score a Breaking News for two free, mostly unavoidable tags, then Scorch. There's dozens of cards that can tag, many, many more cards that can tag compared to what the runner can do to prevent it, so the options here are limitless. Even if you don't win outright with it, trashing 4 of the runner's cards is still a great boon.

Look, just look at all the deks on NetrunnerDB that include it: netrunnerdb.com. You'll notice it's less common in Jinteki decks though, which is because the J-dog has got its own options for things like this (looking at you Ronin).

Plascrete Carapace was put in the very first Netrunner data pack as a neutral card specifically to give wide access to a hard counter, something that Crash Space was only partially capable of (especially being a resource itself, and thus trashable by the corp if tagged). Paper Tripping also exists for a modest 2 influence if you're fortunate enough to start a new turn with tags, but it's pricey at 4 and more situational than Plascrete.

There's also I've Had Worse which, and I'm prepared to be proved wrong on this, doesn't actually fire if you take more damage than your hand size. You lose before the effect triggers. So if you've got 5 cards in your hand and the first Scorch doesn't hit it, you're still gonna lose to the second one. But that's pretty unlikely, and it also lets you draw 3 cards for 1 and it's 2 influence out of faction, so it's still a mostly great card to splash if your meta is still Scorched Earth centric.

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What is there to say about this card, really? Let's you bypass a piece of ICE either for early game server access, or for late game surprise runs where the corp has done the maths on your programs and think they're safe to advance an agenda. 2 can be a lot cheaper than that outermost piece of ICE after all.

The down sides to this card are that it forces the run by the card's effect, meaning it can't combo with things like The Maker's Eye, but that's a small price to pay for potential and surprise access, and Corp ICE like Data Raven and Matrix Analyzer still proc as the encounter effect is on the card, not the subroutine.

Out of faction, it's a little less attractive at 3 influence and unfortunately doesn't splash with Rielle "Kit" Peddler: Transhuman decks as the ICE is still technically "encountered" meaning the very ICE you're bypassing gets the code gate.