Card reference

Cheapest possible presence: probes traps, contests districts, refunds energy on death.

try: Let it die and watch the +1 energy pop — then deploy it into an enemy [?] district as a paid trap probe.

Durable anchor. Holds a district alone while you play elsewhere.

try: Park it solo in a district and watch your control meter fill while it holds.

Info warfare: enemy traps armed near it lose their anonymity.

try: Deploy it, then watch the enemy's [?] badges in its and adjacent districts turn into card initials.

Self-relocating rotation on a 6s cooldown — control races love it.

try: Click it (⇄ glyph), then a district — free rotation with no card spent. Watch the glyph dim while cooling.

Tempo unit that rewards movement — pairs with Shadow Step and Shadow Rush.

try: Move it between districts and watch the green HASTED pip: its swings speed up for 2s after every move.

High single-hit damage plus stealth spotting — the anti-ambush unit.

try: Station it where stealthed enemies lurk: it sees and attacks what your other units cannot.

District identity: different bonus depending on where it deploys.

try: Deploy one in each district — Rooftops hits harder, Streets is tougher, Underground arrives stealthed.

Hard trap counter: enemy reactions in its district simply cannot fire.

try: Walk into a [?] district with the agent already there — nothing springs. Kill it and the trap wakes up.

Heavy finisher: +2 vs injured targets makes it an executioner, not an opener.

try: Shadow Rush it into a damaged fight: 6 base +5 empower +2 injured = a 13-damage first swing.

Rescue and recycle: despawn a doomed unit for half its cost back.

try: Extract a unit at 1 HP mid-fight — the refund plus the denied kill swings the trade.

Asset denial: 6s blackout for a Beacon, Safe House, Hub, or Portal.

try: Cut an enemy Portal Anchor and watch their cross-map mobility collapse until it reboots.

Swing tool for a contested district: haste plus healing turns even fights.

try: Cast it mid-fight and compare swing cadence before/after via the HASTED pips.

Trap removal for 1 energy: springs a chosen [?] harmlessly.

try: Click it, then an enemy [?] badge — the trap reveals and fizzles (∅ banner) without hurting anyone.

Repositioning: rotate a unit toward the control race or out of a losing fight.

try: Step a unit INTO a district with an enemy [?] badge — move-ins spring Metro Ambush but not Rooftop Snare.

Keyword shutdown: 6s of SILENCED turns off suppression, spotters, predators.

try: Silence a Containment Agent and watch your suppressed trap start firing again.

Underground area denial: punishes both deploys and rotations through it.

try: Arm it, then bait: any enemy unit entering Underground takes 3 and skips its first swing (stun).

Anti-deploy trap: punishes fresh Rooftops deployments with slow + reveal.

try: Verify the trigger rule: an enemy MOVING into Rooftops must NOT spring it — only a deploy does.

Lethal-damage insurance for one unit in its district.

try: Arm it under a low-HP unit: the killing blow leaves it at 1 HP with a 4 shield instead of dead.

Operation counterspell: negates anything cast into its district.

try: Arm it in your key district and watch the bot's Veil Surge fizzle — energy spent, nothing happens.

Punishes lone attackers in districts you hold.

try: Arm it where you have units; when a single enemy walks in, your strongest unit strikes at +3 instantly.

Territory investment: every ~10s, one fresh deploy there gets a 4 shield.

try: Deploy two units in quick succession — only the first gets the blue bar; the hook recharges 10s later.

Standing anti-stealth: floods its district with reveals every 5s.

try: Park it where Hired Specialists keep deploying stealthed underground — they pop into view on the next sweep.

Map-wide mobility: your moves ignore adjacency while it stands.

try: Shadow Step or relocate a unit straight from Rooftops to Underground — then lose the anchor and try again.

Reaction-economy engine: your traps in its district cost 1 less.

try: Arm a trap in its district right after Seal the Breach: both discounts stack to the 0.5 floor.