Public Sympathy+6brain damages+tag'n'trash=?

By vorask, in Android: Netrunner Rules Questions

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I everybody, i'll try to make my question clear but english isn't my mothertongue.

So let us imagine a situation in wich the runner got 6 brain damages and public sympathy Your maximum hand size is increased by 2 (yes it's wierf who would do that).

At this point everything goes "fine"with 1 card in hand, but then the corp manage to tag the runner and wisely decide to trash public sympathy.

What happens according to rules ?

my guessings are:

-As no damage has been dealt runner keep his card in hand

he is free to play it during his turn.

- At runner discard phase, runner has to met his maximum hand size so he discard to get -1 card in hand ?! :blink:

runner can't do that he looses.

subquestions:

Runner can go on playing with 5 brain damages, he can draw cards at his turn to play them then discrad any card left in his hand during discard phase, right ?

Depending of what rules will state for the public sympathy case what if it's last card is another public sympathy? can runner play it like nothing happened ?

Thanks for you patience,Have a nice day.

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Rulebook, page 20:

"If the Runner takes more damage than the number of cards in his grip, or if he has a maximum hand size of less than zero at the end of his turn, then he is flatlined and the Corporation wins the game." (emphasis mine)
So yes, you pretty much analyzed everything correctly. A maximum hand size of 0 allows the runner to keep playing. He can draw during in his turn and discard down to 0 cards in his grip at the end of his turn.
In your example: if, following the corp turn during which his Public Sympathy was trashed and his maximum hand size went below zero, he manages to draw a Public Sympathy and install it, he can "recover" even from a maximum hand size below zero and keep playing.
Edited by Saturnine