Agree with this. But now to say something Dan probably disagrees with. Only valid target is sure gamble. The card enforces a threshold that this deck is occasionally annoyed by: always have four credits.
If your goal is to play things that cost four or more cheaply, then get rid of the only similar card that costs you that much. Go to two lucky finds, two gambles and two career fair.
Math is similar to modded. To install a resource, its going to cost you a click and the credits to play the card. So if you gamble -> install. You pay 2 clicks to gain 4 credits and install a card. If you install a resource then you pay 1 click to not pay 3 credits and install a card, leaving you with a click to gain a credit manually (or something else). So its not a bad substitute for gamble if you’re always going to be installing expensive stuff. That said, cash is king and the returns off of career fair are going to be delayed, so your tempo may still suffer.
It’s not the worst thing to splash ever, but I don’t see how it could be worth 2 inf vs 3rd gamble and 3rd lucky find, and I feel like more queens gambit or liberated would be better as well. Yeah, you don’t want to go broke. You don’t want to go broke in Netrunner anyway.
Maaan, I’d have to agree, I wrote Career Fair off initially but I thought someone could have a strong case for it somewhere. I didn’t particularly care for Modded or even Dark Rtiual back in the MTG days.
Lucky Find will help me for those fancy Hotel stays and liberating accounts as it has always done
its definitely good for this deck, but its not the right choice. There are probably lots of other decks it would be great in…the ever looming ‘connections’ criminal deck. And by looming I mean waiting to be viable.
I think it’s a good idea to at least try it out, depending on your resources. If you’re running daily casts, earthrise, liberated accounts, etc. you’d mitigate a bit of that tempo loss when you play them.
I imagine it should be good, modded is hugely underated, and there is less competition (SMC, PW) when it comes to installing resources. Its problem will be that a lot of key resources you want to play early and so won’t want to wait, this deck might be a good fit for it.
I’ve been eyeing modded in comet kate or comet hayley, just a free to play event that works after you’ve blasted off your voicepads on quality time. QT-> free RDI and not have to discard an econ card? Sure!
3x Daily Casts and 3x Earthrise is all you need to justify splashing 3x Career Fair. Plus opening up slots in your hand to draw more cards. And triggering Hayley if you are playing her. I’m in.
(Also maybe 1 Inside Man for a stealth deck with lots of chips)
Edit - Sorry to have brought up a kate deck in the Reina thread. I forgot I was here instead of the other thread where it was mentioned. I can move it or it can be deleted if people want, but I think the ideas can also apply to Reina so I’ll leave it for now.
I’ve been playing a very resource-heavy Kate deck with Supplier for a while now (posted a version of it in the tournament winning decklists thread a few weeks ago).
I think Career Fair really speeds it up a lot. It saves you the three credits lit it always would, but it also gets you the effects a turn sooner compared to supplier and smooths out the early game significantly, which was the roughest period for the deck. Being able to Career Fair an Earthrise for 1 credit and still have Daily Casts pop off Supplier for 1 the next turn and get two cards (to drop even more things on the supplier) turns into a compounding/cascading effect. Every time you use it your future turns are accelerated since you’re getting your long-term cards out 1, 2, or 3 turns sooner.
If Modded were 1 influence, it would be splashed all over the place. I think Career Fair at one influence is really potent for a lot of cards in this deck: Liberated Accounts, Daily Casts, Xanadu. I’d keep the Lucky Finds though.
After a bunch of test games tonight I’m completely sold on the 2 Career Fair. They were a card I was happy to see at any phase in the game and smoothed things out significantly.
The fact that it removes 2 cards from your hand for one action is important. A lot of times when you have them in a lock you’ll draw 2 from Earthrise and 1 from Vigil at the start of your turn, but you still want to run HQ three times with Lamprey. This helps you not have to discard extra cards.
If you have $3, a play like Career Fair Liberated, gain $8, then go broke killing Adonis is great.
In comparison, if you have Lucky Find with Liberated then “Lucky Find, click $1, then go broke killing Adonis” is bad because you can’t play your Liberated after and so is “Lucky Find, Liberated, let Adonis sit because all your money is invested in Liberated”.
With 2 I was able to use it right away every time I drew it, which is nice.
The 2nd Lucky Find is better IMO than the 3rd Career Fair, but you could make the downgrade if you want to fit another 1 influence card in there like Hades Shard. I think the Clone Chips and Crescentus are non-negotiable.
Depends; I don’t use them at all anymore, but for core Headlock they’re integral. I’m so far away from the original list at this point I’ll have to make a new thread when regionals season is over, but there’s more than one way to skin this cat.
I tried Career Fair tonight as well. I used @Kivs list, essentially. They felt pretty good. Passed my expectations
As previously stated, being able to go “broke” trashing econ but still playing econ of your own is huge. And another fair point is being able to to use your cards effectively when you have the hotels and vigil going.
So add one more anecdotal positive experience to the mix!
There’s various builds that were in between all of these things that I don’t have an electric list for. Might be at home, though, I can look. I think I built some of them during the netrunnerdb shutdown. The bottom one had the supplier in it right after that card dropped.
The central theme of any Reina deck, all you need to have a good Reina, is a fluid economy, breakers to get in, and ways to devalue the corps resources. Rook, Crescentus, Parasite, etc. They all work. You could probably even kraken if you wanted to.
I’d say the big thing in this deck now is lamprey. Its the game changer since you move from passive to active economic denial.
Resource (15)
3x Liberated Account (Trace Amount)
1x Scrubber (A Study in Static)
2x Xanadu (Humanity’s Shadow)
3x Kati Jones (Humanity’s Shadow)
3x Daily Casts (Creation and Control)
3x Earthrise Hotel (The Source)
Program (11)
3x Parasite (Core Set)
3x Crescentus (A Study in Static) •••
1x Keyhole (True Colors)
3x Lamprey (Upstalk)
1x D4v1d (The Spaces Between)
15 influence spent (maximum 15)
45 cards (min 45)
Cards up to Order and Chaos
desperado acts as a mini scrubber, helps in the hb matchup. Considering 1 yog just to act as a parasite to every enigma on the board. Lots of yogable code gates lately.
EDIT: Posted the correct list instead of an older one
