Rising Tide is a Shaper card that shapers need to pay influence for. With DZMZ and breakers installed, Principia is functionally a "click to sell to knickknack later" card. Will I ever use this thing to break ice? Almost never, but I see it in a few decks for the econ aspect, being sold later when I don't need duplicate breakers to boost Echelon's base strength or something. That said, don't use this for breaking ice in a faction that has Propeller. It's not worth it. You deserve better.

Arissana got a new toy.

Let’s compare it to Pelangi. is this better than Pelangi? Yes. Pelangi’s once per turn requirement is not ideal, and Chromatophore wants to be slapped on a problematic ice and then you run that server over and over now that you’re free of the burden of having to actually deal with the ice.

Notably, it doesn’t work with Physarum Entangler, since Physarum depends on the ice being not a barrier, and not being a subtype other than a barrier. Speaking of which, it’d be nice to have an anti-Chromatophore, which removes all subtypes on host-ice.

With Ritual replacing Diesel, fans of energy drinks everywhere must mourn. For we have lost the baseline Diesel, the only energy drink that can fuel our caffeine jittered runs is Blueberry Diesel. Unfortunately I hate blueberry flavored drinks, so the Diesel that'll course through my veins will be underwhelming in flavor. NSG wasted a perfect opportunity to print Ultra Guava Hype Diesel, or a variety of other phenomenal flavors, and that we instead are stuck with the same tea is a sheer disappoint to me as I grow older and realize my caffeine tolerance is tanking faster than the S&P 500. On a more serious note, Ritual is a fine Diesel replacement if you play it first click. Otherwise it's remarkably mediocre and not worth playing. If you want more reliable "Draw 3 cards", Dr. Nuka is there with charge tokens ready for burst draw. But for those of us used to buying crates of Diesel from our local Costco, we mourn.

First I want to talk about the art, which fucking whips. The card looks cool, and I’m going to try my absolute hardest to get top 4 at a megacity tournament just so I can own a Clean Getaway playmat. It’ll be peak.

What about the card itself? It’s literally Dirty Laundry but in Blue with an additional influence cost if you want to play it outside of Blue. Given the additional influence, it’s probably not justifiable to run out of faction unless you want a run-based econ package. It does make sense why new Dirty Laundry was printed in Crim, since their whole econ suite is mostly run-based.

Will Clean Getaway be good? I mean yeah. It’ll be as good as Dirty Laundry was in Crim. It’s not exactly an exciting rating, but that’s okay. They put all the excitement in the art.

Probably a niche utility card? Derezzing an ice seems good, but I don’t think it’s worth a click, a credit, and a successful run on HQ. It’s one of those cards whose effect is terrible on its own, but gets upgraded to becoming merely okay once you have other cards to extract value from derezzing or rezzing ice.

This ID is absolutely bonkers good. I swear someone on the NSG team forgot the "Once per turn" flag when finalizing the text on this. But in all seriousness, Baz feels phenomenal to me. Fun fact: you can fit 3x Devil Charm and 3x Arruaceiras in a nice 15 influence. If they rez some ice, you either Boomerang it, or trash it. SDS isn't real, you don't need programs. 5/5 bringing the crime back to criminal was worth it.

It’s a free 1 or 2 influence. You’d be dumb not to run it in every non-Jinteki deck that runs Mavirus.

Also the flavor text is great.

I don’t think it’s a bold prediction to say that I think almost every Weyland deck will want to run 3 copies of Key Performance Indicators. It is such a cheap and flexible card that even the weakest KPI will still do something for you, and that something will be good.

Also, it can be pulled out of the grave by Plutus to fast advance a 4/2, as if Plutus wasn't already good enough.

There is no world where Plutus is a mediocre card. There's only two possibilities for it once it hits the table: either Plutus warps the game around it, becoming the main enabler of the corp's current strategy and the number one priority target for the runner, or it is unplayable garbage that requires too much investment for not enough payoff and actively hurts the corp's game.

Yeesh. Look at the chin on that guy.

The value of this card is based entirely on if you'd be willing to constrain two of your clicks to "clicklessly" do maybe 2 pseudo-damage to the runner. Is that worth it? Let me tell you: it would be if that 2 pseudo-damage was in any way consistent. Then this could be part of a Measured Response kill combo. Unfortunately, you'd have to be able to ensure that the runner had 2 of whatever card type you're calling out. (How hard could it be? There's only 3 card types in the game!) Outside of that, I don't think this is good enough to see play as targeted hand removal. Very NBN card tho.