Echo Memvaults: Reality Reimagined

Identity: Division • Deck: 45 • Influence: 15

Front face: When the Runner’s turn ends, do 2 brain damage (cannot be prevented) and flip this identity.

Back face: The Runner cannot be flatlined.

(If they would be flatlined, instead they take damage equal to the number of cards in their grip.)

Where dreams transcend the flesh.
Haas-Bioroid • Karl Erik Holter via DALL-E • Mind and Mayhem 1
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Echo Memvaults: Reality Reimagined
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Rulings

  • A card with two faces always enters play as the front face. Whenever it is not in play, it is considered to be the front face. When a game effect instructs you to flip it, it is transformed into the card on its other face, and loses all abilities and attributes on its other face.

  • If a Runner decides to pay the additional cost to steal of Ben Musashi (of suffering 2 net damage), the cost is considered to be paid even if Echo Memvaults prevents them from flatlining (even if they did not end up discarding any cards as a result of it).

Reviews
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Echo Memvaults: Reality Reimagined is the 2nd best ID in the game after Engineering the Future, followed by Cerebral Imaging: Infinite Frontiers and NEXT Design: Guarding the Net. The reason is that it has 15 influence unlike ETF, and does not require you to build an otherwise bad deck to utilize the ID ability.

2 brain damage near the beginning of the game is great, the negative tempo of losing cards makes the Runner sad, and they will have to spend their first turn installing their 2 best cards so as not to lose them. Then the tiny handsize for the rest of the game will really annoy them, unless they are on Public Sympathy.

You are very good against brain-me decks, not that anyone ever cares about that.

Adam: Compulsive Hacker with Neutralize All Threats is funny, but he can be very annoying with Always Be Running cracking your non-bioroids and using Synaptic Remodulator on the bioroids to not lose tempo. Also, FA decks hate getting multi-accessed.

You kinda have to be a FA deck because your ability is of very little use in a Glacier deck, as the Runner can recover from getting hit with your ID.

Microtransactions and Nootropics Campaign help with not being ETF, Vulcan 1.0 is a good 1x ice.

8/10 Very good ID.

(Equity and Eternity era)
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