Compare: Hostage × Calling in Favors

Design

Criminal can (in the “blue slice of color pie”) tutor for different, specific subtypes of some cardtype; like how Special Order (Mutual Favor) got icebreaker programs, or Planned Assault got run events, and Hostage got connection resources.

Interestingly, in the limit:

• If your deck has just one, overpowered virtual that this can tutor for (as “copies four to six”), MoM will be overpriced at -$3 (=-$4, +$1).
• If your deck is built around twenty, different connections that this can tutor for, even if none of them are super powerful, MoM can be efficient (-$0, given three other connections already in grip).

Note that MOST resources are either a connection or a virtual. For example, The Twinning (one of the most powerful resources in standard) is a virtual, as are Crowdfunding and DreamNet (two cards banned from standard).

Also note that the companions (which are like “non-human connections”) are all virtuals (see below for some examples of MoM-tutorables). Also note that if you already have two (or three) other “on-type” resources in hand, its credit cost is mostly (or fully) reimbursed.

Related:

• Gachapon: another virtual-resource “(semi)tutor”.
• Mutual Favor: another criminal “subtype-tutor”.

Usage

Synergies:

• Connection/Virtual Resources (duh): Especially “one-of's” like hate-cards (e.g. Miss Bones, against asset-spam) or restricted-cards (e.g. DJ Fenris, which reads Limit 1 per deck.).

• Card-Draw/Extra-Max-Hand-Size/Discard-Step-Skips/etc: the more cards you have—and can hold—in hand, the more cash you will get back. e.g. The Class Act.

some in-faction connections:

• “Baklan” Bochkin
• Miss Bones
• Aeneas Informant
• The Class Act

some in-faction virtuals:

• Backstitching
• Slipstream
• Caldera
• No One Home
• Amelia Earhart

some out-of-faction:

• The Twinning
• Arruaceiras Crew
• DJ Fenris
• Paladin Poemu
• Logic Bomb
• Kasi String

Links:

• s:Connection|Virtual t:Resource z:standard

Flavor

Adam (always be runnin') 🤝 Merc (always be killin')

(I really love that Adam is their supportive big brother, and Merc is his self-actualizing little sibling.)

Fantastic review of D4v1d-Gr43b3r! I'm adding some synergies and utilities for this fun tutor.

First, Meeting of Minds is now the only card that tutor ressources (limited to connections and virtual). This is because World Tree has been banned.

Then, is this card worth it in faction? Yes! Because it let you spend less influence on important ressources, and still be able to find those resources, in exchange for a bit more credits. Here are some ressources that can really shine if you find them early.

• Tsakhia "Bankhar" Gantulga
• Arruaceiras Crew
• Pauleʼs Café
• The Twinning

A special note about DJ Fenris, which could let you import Sebastião Souza Pessoa: Activist Organizer and play a ressources/connections centric runner, especially good with Az McCaffrey: Mechanical Prodigy.

Out of faction, at 3 influences, it is possible to imagine using one copy of it to have a 4th of many connections used in the deck archetype, thus getting an insurance on finding the ressource early, such as the ressources stated above.

The art is amazing and is worthy to make a playmate of it, which encapsulate the theme and ability of this card, along with its name. First class job.