Data Masons

Netrunner Limited

Card Name:	Data Masons
Set:	Netrunner Limited
Language:	en
Number:	317 / 374
Rarity:	Rare
Player:	Corporation
Card Type:	Node
Rez cost:	1
Trash cost:	1
Rules Text:	Cost to rez walls is reduced by [2]. All walls have +1 strength.
Flavor Text:	"'An eye on top of a pyramid'? No, that's not our Net logo; you must have us confused with another outfit."
Illustration:	Sue Ann Harkey
Copyright:	v1.0 © 1996 WotC

Versions of this Card
1	Data Masons	317 / 374	Netrunner Limited (en)	v1.0 © 1996 WotC
2	Fortifications	317 / 373	Netrunner French Unlimited (fr)	v2.0 fr © 1996 WotC

Prototype & Rulings

Player:	Corporation
Card Name:	Data Masons
Card Type:	Node
Rez cost:	1
Trash cost:	1
Rules Text:	Cost to rez walls is reduced by [2]. All walls have +1 strength.

Additional Card Rulings & Errata
	Ruling	Source	Date
	This ability applies to any means of rezzing a piece of ice, not just the standard way of doing so; apply the Data Masons modification before implementing the rezzing effect (e.g., with a Data Masons in play, Olivia Salazar would rez ice for (X-1)/2).	Official Netrunner Rulings	04/21/1997
	While the number of bits you pay to rez a piece of ice is reduced, its actual rez cost is considered unchanged. Thus, Startup Immolator must pay the normal rez cost, Dr. Dreff isn't helped out by this ability, and so on.	Official Netrunner Rulings	04/21/1997

Trivia
Wizards of the Coast employee Glenn Elliott explains the flavor text: "The guy who wrote it was actually thinking of the Free Masons. He did think it was pretty cool when someone pointed out the SJG/Illuminati reference, but it was actually written with the Free Masons in mind." The "SJG/Illuminati" reference comes about because the logo of the various Illuminati products by Steve Jackson Games, including the Illuminati, New Word Order collectible card game, is an all-seeing eye on a pyramid. (Although note that the Illuminati and the all-seeing pyramid were not invented by SJG, but have a long history in themselves outside the gaming world.) Interestingly, it is the incidental SJG reference which seems much more obvious to gamers as the probable source of inspiration for this flavour text than the intended reference to the order of Freemasons. Or maybe it really is a conspiracy...

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Estimated Value
Pricelist	Upper	Median	Lower
SCRYE Issue #16 (SRY 4016, September 1996)	$6.00	$5.50	$4.80
Tuff Stuff's Gamer March/April 1998	-	-	$4.00

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