♦ Caprice Nisei

Upgrade: Clone - Psi • Rez: 3 • Trash: 1 • Influence: 4

Whenever the Runner passes all of the ice protecting this server, you and the Runner secretly spend 0credit, 1credit, or 2credit. Reveal spent credits. If you and the Runner spent a different number of credits, end the run.

The first clone to serve as an NAPD detective.
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Caprice Nisei
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Welcome to Reviewing the Little Boot Icon, an unfortunately named series of reviews for Reboot-modified cards. Today's review: Caprice Nisei, the best card.

  • Changes: Rez cost 2<3.

  • Pros: As with Jackson Howard, let me go more in-depth on this card, since she deserves it.

    • Caprice on the surface is an upgrade that has a 2/3 chance of ending the run for a small fee. If she doesn't end the run, she usually dies without Ash 2X3ZB9CY in the same server to protect her.

    • However, psi games are complicated. I'm not going to tell you how to play them, because I'm not good at them. Playing against her as , though, bid 0 most of the time to deny econ. If the Corp is broke, they can't really use her. Nisei Division: The Next Generation can get around this by never losing on psi games.

    • With Breaker Bay Grid, you can insta-tax the Runner. Bonus points if you stack an Ash 2X3ZB9CY and Red Herrings so that if they beat the psi game and Ash trace, they can't steal or trash stuff without a big bank account.

    • Caprice single-handedly makes : RP Glacier and : EtF Glacier decks playable by making sure you don't automatically lose to a Runner who gets a ton of money and just runs the remote when you put something in it, like MOpus Kit, since they can burn large amounts of money only to lose the psi game. You could build a Runner deck that assembled enough money with breakers to reliably get through Caprice, but you would probably forfeit your entire match-up against fast-advance decks and asset-spam. Also, you would probably just get baited by Jackson Howard to open a scoring window.

    • Decks that utilize Caprice include, among others: nrdb.reteki.fun which uses Breaker Bay Grid to rez her for nothing, nrdb.reteki.fun which uses the RP ID to make sure the Runner has less chances to win the psi game each turn, nrdb.reteki.fun which never loses money on Caprice and so can rush Corporate Wars and Nisei MK IIs really fast. She is also good in Industrial Genomics: nrdb.reteki.fun for example.

  • Cons: Marcus Batty can trash a program with Rototurret and then trash another one and end the run when the Runner fails to break it. Even though he is one-shot, Chronos Protocol: Selective Mind-mapping prefers him greatly. Any rigshooter deck should slot him over Caprice. Caprice is also very expensive against a competent Runner, make sure your deck can afford her if you aren't Nisei Division: The Next Generation. 1 trash cost is pitiful.

10/10 The game literally does not work without this card, because only Blue Sun: Powering the Future can do Glacier without her.

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