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:
some in-faction virtuals:
some out-of-faction:
Links:
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.)