by fameros
Very frequently players ask here whether the same click triggers multiple copies of the same card. The classic example is the question: will two copies of Magnum Opus give me four credits for a single click? (No, they are redundant.) The last example is this.I believe that the source of this common question is the misunderstanding of a click as a unit of time, because it represents an action point and actions take place in time.
A CLICK IS NOT A UNIT OF TIME. IT IS A RESOURCE.
Just like a credit. Only a different kind. If it helps, think of a credit as silver and a click as gold. At the beginning of his turn, corp gains three free gold pieces and a card, while the runner gains four gold pieces. Initially, both players can freely buy 1 silver for 1 gold, not the other way around, but it is bad business. If a runner installs a Magnum Opus, he doubles that starting exchange rate and he can now convert 1 gold into 2 silver pieces. Converting gold into silver is much easier and frequent, but the opposite can happen (e.g. Biotic Labor).
The third resource is, of course, cards. Netrunner can be understood as a race to build the most efficient exchange rate machine, in order to buy a particular set of cards (agendas) with both silver and gold, in a sequence of very complex auctions (the servers) which are build by the corp player using imperfect information. The rest is theme.