Adrian Seis keywords the Psi Game!

Templatings:

1. You and the Runner secretly spend 0[$], 1[$], or 2[$]. Reveal spent credits. If you and the Runner spent a different number of credits, …; otherwise, …. (cf. Mganga)

2. Play a Psi Game. (Players secretly bid 0–2[$]. Then each player reveals and spends their bid.) If the bids differ, …. If the bids match, ….

The new templating is more readable, much more skimmable, and even has the same length as the old templating (similar word/character counts), counting the reminder text (as @Saracenar said on Stimhack).

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Design: I like that, for the Runner, a psigame “loss” (ie. differing bids) is mostly-but-not-strictly worse than a psigame “win” (ie. matching bids), since that's when--and only when--they can trash him. Psi-Sysops (aka. PsyOps?) add a different, bidding-based variance to the intrinsic, shuffle-based variance of HQ/R&D breaches (and for the Runner, to the ignorance-based variance in remote/archival breaches).

I also like Jinteki mobility (on self-move-ing defensive upgrades like this, self-swap-ping gearcheck ice like Tatu-Bola, and so on), which is like Jinteki trickery that's “softened” (with some “encounter opt-out” or “access opt-out”). For example:

• Midori: You may swap that ice with 1 piece of ice from HQ. (the legerdemain) + The Runner may jack out. (the softener).

• Toshiyuki Sakai: You may swap this asset with an agenda or asset from HQ. (the prestidigitation) + The Runner can choose not to access the new card. (the loosener).

Compare:

• Caprice Nisei, the archetypal (and archetyping) defensive psi clone upgrade; although Adrian, unlike Caprice, is still trashable on failure (cf. the defensive bioroid upgrade Ash 2X3ZB9CY).
• Georgia Emelyov, the original “mobile sysop”: although Adrian is turn-based while Georgia credit-based.

In fact, the Liberation Cycle may have a whole cycle of “nomadic sysop’s” (ie. with When your turn ends, you may move this upgrade to the root of another server.):

• Adrian Seis
• Vovô Ozetti

Slash and Burn Agriculture is the quadruply-advanceable double-advancer: it will be two advancement counters when you need them (eg. when you're holding have fast-advanceable agendas) and it can be two agenda points when you want those (eg. when you're holding fast-advancing operations, or sitting on well-protected servers, or so on).

Compare: A single-click “tutor-or-advance” operation (cf. Pivot), like:

Choose one:
• Place 2 advancement counters on
  1 installed card that you can advance.
• Search R&D for 1 card you can advance
  and reveal it. Add that card to HQ.

While “expending” a piece of ice (Tree Line) or an upgrade (Angelique Garza Correa) costs the draw, “expending” this agenda also risks two agenda points: It's a faceup agenda in Archives!

Compare:

• Audacity (as @RKruler14 says), which also places two advancement counters inexpensively and unconditionally, and can also risk agendas from HQ.
• Success and Oberth Protocol, which forfeit agendas for advancement.
• Hollywood Renovation, an agenda which advances other advanceables.

Flavor: Slash-and-burn agriculture is the cutting and burning of a forest to make a farm, which will (for a year) have richer soil from the ash and fewer weeds or pests.

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Most of the Amazon Rainforest is in Brazil, where there's extreme deforestation for cattle ranches and soybean farms (partially via slash-and-burn).

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Jaguarundi tags and cores.

Design: It pairs a conditional effect (↳ If the Runner is tagged, ….) with the conditioning effect (↳ Give the Runner 1 tag.). cf. a “green Jaguarundi” destroyer, with:

↳ Give the Runner 1 tag.
↳ If the Runner is tagged,
  trash 1 installed program.
↳ If the Runner has at least 2 tags,
  trash 1 installed piece of hardware.

Also, any “click-bribeable” Haas-Bioroid effect acts like a “pseudo-bioroid” subroutine (with infinite strength). I think more non-bioroids should have such “click, or else” ultimatums, and with more “else” effects than just ETR. Such as Jaguarundi's tagging, or:

• blanking: eg. When the Runner encounters this ice, choose 1 installed program. For the remainder of this run, that program loses all abilities unless the Runner spends [click].
• damaging: eg. When the Runner encounters this ice, if they have any [click] remaining, do 1 core damage unless the Runner spends [click].
• installing: eg. When the Runner encounters this ice, you may install 1 card from HQ unless they spend [click]. If you do, they may spend [click] to expose that card.
• purging: eg. When you rez this ice during a run against this server, purge virus counters unless the Runner spends [click][click].

Flavor: The jaguarundi is a wild cat in South America, smaller than a jaguar and larger than a house cat.

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(Context warning: discussion of enslavement below.)

Flavor: There is no bioroid ice in The Automata Initiative, but two-out-of-three Haas-Bioroid ice are still “click-thru-able” (Jaguarundi and M.I.C.). Why? Maybe because in Brazil, while most bioroid people are still in debt peonage or wage slavery (of being Wage Workers), Mercury: Chrome Libertador et alia have liberated themselves from chattel slavery (as of Ansel 1.0’s and Brân 1.0’s).

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Compare: a Resistor crossed with a Funhouse (as @tehepicwin says).

Design: Starlit Knight both gives tags and cares about them (to end the run, like IP Block, Data Ward, Hydra, and so on).

cf. a purple “Starlit Jaguarundi”, with two ↳ Do 1 core damage. subs and X extra ETR subs where X is equal to the amount of core damage the Runner has taken this game..

Phoneutria is an AP that punishes both a small grip (via 2 net damage in the subroutines) and a large grip (with 1 tag in the trigger).

Compare: Kakugo, whose passage trigger was unconditional and whose trigger effect was deadlier in multiples.

Flavor: The phoneutria (« φονεύτρια », “murderess” in Greek) are also known as “Brazilian wandering spiders”, “armed spiders”, or “banana spiders”.

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