From Passive Aggressive Memo Megathread:
Reasons I like Contract Killer:
- Kills Film Critic, Kati, and Aesop’s. There’s a few other important to kill Connections that are good, too.
- Occasionally kills fools that end a turn on 1 card in hand. Like after a big Faust turn or something. (This happens very rarely in tournaments/against capable opponents.)
- Lets me bluff a GFI or NAPD. Too often the Runner can realize they only need to get into my scoring server one more time, and given enough money they can definitely do that… But if I can fake an Agenda and get them to waste their effort, I can follow up with the real thing shortly after. I could use GRNDL Refinery for this purpose, but I’ve found I don’t need money that badly, and Refinery doesn’t do the other two things.
I’ve been very surprised at him, given that he was a sort of whimsical ‘Eh, let’s try this out’ that I made the night before the tournament when looking for things to replace The Root/Turtlebacks. Best use of him during the tournament was killing Hayley’s Aesop’s Pawnshop on turn 3, right after she’d found it and installed a Cache.