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Installing is the action of playing a card onto the table, usually from hand. Both the Corporation and Runner can install one card from HQ/grip as an action during the Action Phase on his/her respective turns. As part of an install action, there is often an option to first trash other cards of similar type, depending on the type of card being installed.

Cards that can be installed[]

Corporation cards that can be installed:

Runner cards that can be installed:

Cards that cannot be installed[]

Certain types of cards are never installed: Events, Operations, and Identities.

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Events, operations, and identity cards are never installed.

Installation Restrictions[]

Each type of Corporation card has its own installation restrictions and associated costs. See each card type for details on the install cost and restrictions for cards of that type. The Corporation must keep the different types of cards, where they are installed, and whether or not they are rezzed clear at all times; s/he cannot rearrange installed cards or attempt to muddle the install order of cards.

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Rezzed and Unrezzed Cards

The Corporation's installed cards have two play states: rezzed, which means that the card is faceup and active, and unrezzed, which means that the card is facedown and inactive. The Corporation can look at his unrezzed cards at any time. To rez an installed card, the Corporation pays its rez cost and turns the card faceup.

Note: Rezzing a card does not cost the Corporation a click.

To organize this hidden information for both players, it is important that the Corporation observes the following rules for card orientation:

  • Agendas, assets, and upgrades are always installed in a vertical orientation.
  • Ice is always installed in a horizontal orientation.
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Note: Installed cards cannot be rearranged or mixed-up by either player except through card effects.

A server cannot be destroyed by installing cards in or protecting it.[1]:Ruling

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The Corp cannot choose to destroy a server when installing cards; at least one card must be installed for other cards in or protecting that server to be trashed.

FAQ 1.2.16[]

From the FAQ. Also numbers 1.3.16, 1.4.16, and 1.5.15

Confirmation that installed cards cannot be purposefully obfuscated by either player.

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Can the Corp rearrange his installed cards within a single server, to obscure the order that he installed them in?
The Corp must keep the order of his installs clear to the Runner, he cannot rearrange cards in servers however he likes.

Installing Multiple Cards[]

When more than one card is installed by an effect, those cards are installed sequentially.

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Whenever multiple cards are installed by the same effect, those cards are installed one at a time.


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Install: This is the game term for playing a card onto the table.
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Installing Cards

For Click, the Corporation installs a single agenda, asset, upgrade, or piece of ice from HQ, placing it facedown on the table.

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When installing a card in a server, the Corporation can first trash any cards already installed in that server. Trashed cards go to Archives faceup if they are rezzed, and facedown if they are unrezzed.
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If the Corporation wants to install an agenda in a remote server that has an asset or an agenda already installed in it, he can install the card but must trash the existing card first as part of the install action. The Corporation does not have to trash upgrades in order to install an agenda or an asset.
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If the Corporation wants to install an agenda in a remote server that has an asset or agenda already installed in it, he can install the card but must trash the existing card first as part of the install action.
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"When installing ice, the Corporation can first trash any ice protecting that server in order to reduce the install cost. Then, he installs the new piece of ice in the outermost position in front of the server.
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Installing Cards

For Click, the Runner installs a single program, resource, or piece of hardware faceup in his rig. An installed Runner card is active and does not have to be rezzed like a Corporation card.

Note: The Runner's cards are always installed faceup and in a vertical orientation.

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The Runner can choose to trash any number of his installed programs at the beginning of an install program action.
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Install: The act of placing an agenda, asset, ice, upgrade, hardware, program, or resource card onto the table. The Runner installs cards in his rig, the Corporation in his servers.

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  1. Working on a Server Ruling
    Suppose Turtlebacks are installed and rezzed, and that I have a second remote server which is empty (only ice). I install a new piece of ice protecting that remote, trashing all the ice already installed. Do I get 1 credit from Turtlebacks, because the server ceased to exist as soon as there were no cards in or protecting it?
    The server does not cease to exist because it is being worked on. It is impossible to destroy a server by installing cards.
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