Welcome to Reviewing the Little Boot Icon, an unfortunately named series of reviews for Reboot-modified cards. Today's review: Janus 1.0, the best strategy guide printed on a card other than Always Be Running.

8/10 Best mammoth sentry, even outside of Cybernetics Division: Humanity Upgraded or Echo Memvaults: Reality Reimagined.

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Welcome to Reviewing the Little Boot Icon, Identity Crisis! an unfortunately named series of reviews for Reboot-modified cards. Today's review: Haas-Bioroid: Stronger Together, one of those non-EtF HB IDs.

  • Changes: Minimum deck size. 45>40. Increased consistency. Influence limit 15<20. You don't need to or want to import ice, so grab some fast-advance help for your Biotic Labors, some econ to make up for the loss of EtF, or just random jank!

  • Pros: Setting up a bunch of Elis, Viktor 1.0s, Waldemar 1.0s, and Ravana 1.0s, is more effective and taxing than ever. Great statline.

  • Cons: You are not Engineering the Future, a hefty though undeserved hit. You can't really run NEXT ice, or anything other than Bioroids.

  • Playstyle: Install a bunch of cheap bioroids and watch Corroder pay 7 to get through your Waldemar 1.0. Score Project Wotan and tax them even more. Rez Brain-Taping Warehouse and rez your ice for pennies. In Soviet Russia, Corp tax Reina headlock!

7/10 Better than Cybernetics Division: Humanity Upgraded or Custom Biotics: Engineered for Success.

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Welcome to Reviewing the Little Boot Icon, an unfortunately named series of reviews for Reboot-modified cards. Today's review: Dracō, one of the top reasons to play Helium-3 Deposit. Yes, I typed that with a straight face.

  • Changes: trace strength 2<3. Now less of a weak face-check.

  • Pros: Customizable cost ice! Early in the game when you're broke you can add few or no power counters, and later when you're rich you can make it really big. Ends the run, which is nice on a sentry.

  • Cons: If it's low on power counters, the Runner can break it cheap. If you put a bunch on, they might just pay through the trace. You'd probably rather have Caduceus, Searchlight, or Hunter.

4/10 Si te usas Draco, me te derideo.

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Welcome to Reviewing the Little Boot Icon, an unfortunately named series of reviews for Reboot-modified cards. Today's review: Cortez Chip, funny blue card. Unlike most funny blue card, it bad.

  • Changes: Increases rez cost by 2<3, this makes it better, but still bad, as I'll explain in a minute.

  • Pros: Free to install, gives Armand "Geist" Walker: Tech Lord a card when used. Sometimes works as poor man's old Blackmail or Inside Job.

  • Cons: You have to know what the ice is for it to really be good, they might not want to rez it anyway. This would require expose effects or derezzing it. You would probably rather hit it with a derez after breaking unless the ice is really cheap.

4/10 Niche, but usable.

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Welcome to Reviewing the Little Boot Icon, an unfortunately named series of reviews for Reboot-modified cards. Today's review: Braintrust, Jinteki's only 3/2, which are the best agendas stat-wise.

  • Changes: Effect requires 2>1 extra counters for each rez cost reduction. Now you can score it as a 4/2 and actually get an effect.

  • Pros: Can be never-advanced for 2 points, or you can score it as a 4/2 or 5/2 for Akitaro Watanabe on all your ice. You can use the Greenhouse from Jinteki Biotech: Life Imagined to get -2 rez cost on all your ice for the rest of the game, letting you tax the Runner for pennies.

  • Cons: Not as good as Philotic Entanglement, Fetal AI, or Nisei MK II.

6/10 Decent for decks with expensive ice.

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