This card will single-handedly shift the metagame.

This card will single-handedly shift the metagame.

How so?
It is just 1 more credit net gain than Hedge Fund and it costs 5 more credits to play it.
Decent, sure.
Shift the metagame, naaaah.

It's risky.

If you have a huge gain on the runner, this would be a literal slap to the face.

If you have money problems, this card turns to dead weight.

It certainly requires to build arond in any faction other than core Weyland, but this is basically going to make playing more big ice viable again, which is great.

How so?
It is just 1 more credit net gain than Hedge Fund and it costs 5 more credits to play it.
Decent, sure.
Shift the metagame, naaaah.

Yeah, it's probably a bit worse than Hedge Fund, but so many decks would add 3 more hedge funds given the opportunity. This is that opportunity. Sure, you have to build around it, but it's probably worth it for most decks; thus we will see a metagame shift towards decks built around playing this card. Runners will see it in your hand when you have $8 and know that you are less likely to rez ice this turn and will play riskier. Corps will be forced to make tough decisions: Rez Ichi now to inconvenience the runner at the expense of not being able to Restructure for a while, or let the runner in scot free and have tons of money next turn. It's going to be difficult for this card to NOT affect the metagame.

Perhaps even more than build around it, you have to play around it. Corps increasingly playing up around 10 credits instead of around 5 credits represents a shift in the metagame.

As well, Weyland's upcoming new identity, GRNDL (might have messed up the abbreviation there) may do some serious work with this card. I didn't get to play against it at a PI event but I did see guys losing to it, lol

Yeah, it's probably a bit worse than Hedge Fund, but so many decks would add 3 more hedge funds given the opportunity. This is that opportunity. Sure, you have to build around it, but it's probably worth it for most decks; thus we will see a metagame shift towards decks built around playing this card. Runners will see it in your hand when you have $8 and know that you are less likely to rez ice this turn and will play riskier. Corps will be forced to make tough decisions: Rez Ichi now to inconvenience the runner at the expense of not being able to Restructure for a while, or let the runner in scot free and have tons of money next turn. It's going to be difficult for this card to NOT affect the metagame.

I don't think so. Sure everyone would want to add 3 more hedge funds but that's just to guarantee drawing it in their opening hand, not because you always need the crazy burst economy. Restructure is worthless in the opening hand by itself unless you're GRNDL (which is another reason why GRNDL is going to be a beast), so it's difficult to compare it to hedge fund and say it's slightly worse. And if a card shifts a meta for the worse (which in your example it definitely does because if rezing the ichi is the right move without a restructure it should be the right move with the restructure) then why would you want to include it? I don't think it will have that much of an impact on the general meta. Weyland big money will become Weyland HUGE money, but other then that I don't think it will contribute that much to other decks. It just seems like a win-big card and those are never that great.

I'm testing this outside of Weyland right now and works great so far in every faction. I'm not holding back to rez anything more than I'd usually do and it let's you pay for more big ice after you used it.
It's pretty darn good in conjunction with Profiteering which is a great agenda for Jinteki because they don't care about the bad Publicity that much.

I don't think so. Sure everyone would want to add 3 more hedge funds but that's just to guarantee drawing it in their opening hand, not because you always need the crazy burst economy. Restructure is worthless in the opening hand by itself unless you're GRNDL (which is another reason why GRNDL is going to be a beast), so it's difficult to compare it to hedge fund and say it's slightly worse. And if a card shifts a meta for the worse (which in your example it definitely does because if rezing the ichi is the right move without a restructure it should be the right move with the restructure) then why would you want to include it? I don't think it will have that much of an impact on the general meta. Weyland big money will become Weyland HUGE money, but other then that I don't think it will contribute that much to other decks. It just seems like a win-big card and those are never that great.

So, just because this card can't be played in your opening hand makes it not good? Archer can't be used if you have it in your opening hand, does that stop it from being a crazy good piece of ice? Would you cut hedge fund from all your decks if you weren't allowed to play it on the first turn? I certainly wouldn't.

Your Ichi example is flawed. Just because rezzing it is right decision without Restructure does not mean that it is the correct decision with Restructure. And just because having Restructure in your hand prevented you from rezzing Ichi doesn't make it bad either. You phrase your example as if these facts prove your statement, but that simply isn't the case.

I also would not consider this a win-more card, because if you have $10 you still aren't rich. There is very rarely a situation that you can't spend $10 productively during the course of the remainder of the game. If it cost $20 and gave you $27, then I would agree with you since if you have $20 you are pretty rich in the first place and should be focusing on spending your money productively rather than getting more of it.

So, just because this card can't be played in your opening hand makes it not good? Archer can't be used if you have it in your opening hand, does that stop it from being a crazy good piece of ice? Would you cut hedge fund from all your decks if you weren't allowed to play it on the first turn? I certainly wouldn't.

No, all I was saying is that because this card can't be played in the opening hand makes it much worse then a hedge fund. Therefore your argument that everyone would want to add 3 more hedge funds to their deck and this is just like a hedge fund so everyone should add restructure because it's basically a hedge fund is false since it has a glaring flaw in it's inability to be played early. Not everyone relies on burst economy as thier main source of income. Hedge fund is awesome in that if played on turn 1 it scares the runner away from facechecking ice because of what hedge fund allows the corp to rez. In a lot of my decks as the game ges by the Hedge Fund loses it's value and the Addonis's/pad campaigns or even marked acounts takes over. So for those decks restructuring is not that great.

Your Ichi example is flawed. Just because rezzing it is right decision without Restructure does not mean that it is the correct decision with Restructure. And just because having Restructure in your hand prevented you from rezzing Ichi doesn't make it bad either. You phrase your example as if these facts prove your statement, but that simply isn't the case.

I think people get too caught up in "click" efficiencies and econ advantages so much that they start to not see the forrest for the trees. The point of the game is to win. If there is a situation where rezing an ichi will help you win you should rez the Ichi instead of saying "oh boy but next turn I can have 15credits instead."

I also would not consider this a win-more card, because if you have $10 you still aren't rich. There is very rarely a situation that you can't spend $10 productively during the course of the remainder of the game. If it cost $20 and gave you $27, then I would agree with you since if you have $20 you are pretty rich in the first place and should be focusing on spending your money productively rather than getting more of it.

This card magnifies all the drawbacks of Hedge fund (needing 10 creds over 5) while the advantage (5 cred gain over 4) is pretty negligible. In NBN and Jinteki it's not that rare that a hedge fund is a dead draw because I only have 2 or 3 creds and I don't have the tempo to click for creds to get up to 5. How often do you think that will happen with Restructure. It's pretty much a dead draw everytime unless you're at 8creds. Of course it's a great card in Big Money Big Ice decks but to say that it will shift the meta and every deck wants 3 of these just like the hedge funds is wrong.

Seriously, try to build a deck with it in mind. Go heavy on burst econ, play a mixture of very small and very big ice (you don't want stuff like Bastion or datapike in there), maybe splash for Celebrity Gift. It works great. This ism't definitely only made for Weyland.
I believe it will shift the meta. It won't dominate it, but you'll have to take it into account. It's a great two-off in non-Weyland.

Played this last night in NBN Fast Advance, which is most certainly not a "Big Money, Big Ice" deck, unless you count three tollbooths and every other Ice at a cost of 3 or less being Big Money, Big Ice.

This card is very valuable to that deck. Fast Advance is expensive, and adding 15+ credits to the deck changes the way you can use a card like Draco.

Restructure changes the game because it represents 15 extra "safe" credits in a deck, that can allow you to get the economic upper hand against the runner in a way you never could with just the 12 credits from x3 hedge fund.

Previously, the only way to even have a shot at the economic upper hand was to play slow, trashable assets. Even then, the upper hand would typically mean having 8 credits to the Runner's 4 after they trashed a PAD Campaign. Yes, you'd have more money, but not enough the secure your position. Restructure changes all that. Being at 20 to 10 is much better for most corps than being at 8 to 4, even though the ratio is the same.

@Frybender: I'm not going to argue with you. You can go ahead and underestimate it at your own peril. Don't say I didn't warn you when you discover that most tournament winning decks will contain it, though.

I think people get too caught up in "click" efficiencies and econ advantages so much that they start to not see the forrest for the trees. The point of the game is to win. If there is a situation where rezing an ichi will help you win you should rez the Ichi instead of saying "oh boy but next turn I can have 15credits instead."

The point is that having 15 credits next turn could help you win more than rezzing Ichi now.

I think this card will be great, because the corps are getting the ability to actually use it consistently. Sure it can't be used first turn, but it's not super hard to be able to play it consistently a few turns in. Especially with Profiteering.

Fits nicely in Weyland with transaction oiented mechanic, considering it gives +6 there and it is reusable with JH.

I'm really digging the idea of a deck that plays just Melange, operations, and Pop-Up Window for economy. Makes running centrals really frustrating.

There is no need for Melange and Pop-Up. Operation economy has become sufficient on its own.