The Shell TradersNetrunner Unlimited
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| Card Name: | The Shell Traders |
| Set: | Netrunner Unlimited |
| Language: | en |
| Number: | 3 / 6 |
| Rarity: | Promotional |
| Player: | Runner |
| Card Type: | Resource |
| Installation Cost: | 0 |
| Rules Text: | Remove one Shell counter from one card at the start of each of your turns.
 : Choose a program or hardware card from your hand. Set that card aside, and put a number of Shell counters on it equal to its installation cost. When the last Shell counter on that card has been removed, install that card, at no cost.
[1]: Remove one Shell counter from one card. |
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| Illustration: | David Ho |
| Copyright: | v2.0 © 1996-1999 WotC |
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Prototype & Rulings
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| Player: | Runner |
| Card Name: | The Shell Traders |
| Card Type: | Resource |
| Installation Cost: | 0 |
| Rules Text: | Remove one Shell counter from one card at the start of each of your turns.
: Choose a program or hardware card from your hand. Set that card aside, face up, and put a number of Shell counters on it equal to its installation cost. When the last Shell counter on that card has been removed, install that card, at no cost.
[1]: Remove one Shell counter from one card. |
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Additional Card Rulings & Errata
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The removal of a Shell counter at the start of a turn is mandatory. |
Wendy Wallace
Netrunner-L |
05/02/1996 |
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When the last Shell counter is removed, the program or hardware must be installed. |
Wendy Wallace
Netrunner-L |
05/02/1996 |
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You can pay to remove Shell counters and install cards set aside by The Shell Traders in the middle of a run, whenever special effects may be used by the Runner.
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Sparky
Netrunner-L |
05/06/1996 |
| ERRATA |
"A Choose a program or hardware card from your hand. Set that card aside face up, and put a number of Shell counters on it equal to its installation cost. When the last Shell counter on that card has been removed, install that card, at no cost. "1 Remove one Shell counter from a card. "Remove one Shell counter from one card at the start of each of your turns." |
Sparky
Netrunner-L |
05/19/1996 |
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At the start of a turn, each copy of The Shell Traders can remove one counter from any one card that has them. |
Sparky
Netrunner-L |
05/19/1996 |
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If Shell Traders is removed from play, any cards with Shell counters on them remain 'in limbo' and can have their counters removed by subsequent copies of Shell Traders. |
Sparky
Netrunner-L |
05/19/1996 |
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"At no cost" means the regular bit cost of a card. If a card states that it has additional installation costs, you must pay them. If another card indicates that additional costs must be paid to install the card being processed by Shell Traders, you must pay that cost. |
Sparky
Netrunner-L |
05/19/1996 |
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If you remove the last counter from a program and don't have any free MU, you MUST overwrite an existing program. |
Sparky
Netrunner-L |
05/19/1996 |
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If you remove the last counter from a card that has additional costs to install and you have those resources, you MUST spend them and install the card.
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Sparky
Netrunner-L |
05/19/1996 |
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If you CANNOT pay the additional costs, you lose the opportunity to install that card, and it slips into limbo permanently; remove it from the game. |
Sparky
Netrunner-L |
05/19/1996 |
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Remember that the Runner cannot react to the Corporation's rezzing of an ice card by using his or her own special effects. |
Netrunner FAQ v.1.0 |
05/22/1996 |
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You cannot activate Shell Traders in response to the Corp's trashing it. |
Sparky
Netrunner-L |
07/30/1996 |
Trivia
All of the icons floating around the humanoid in the artwork are taken directly from the illustrations in the Chrome Book 1 expansion for Cyberpunk 2020. The Shell Traders are a group of program traders who set up shop in the Pacifica region. They buy and sell code, but not in the normal way. To quote Rache Bartmoss' Guide to the Net, page 35:
"They don't deal in electronic information, they sell disks! Disks, for god's sake, that they send through the mail! Have they no concept of modernization?" - overheard in the Eurotheatre. Despitee the attitudes of these Runners, distributing software on such "fixed transfer media" allows for much better security than file transfers on the Net; it also means that, as what they have is stored on floppies and not on their hard drives, they don't have to worry too much about Net security. |
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