Warm Reception

Warm Reception 1[credit]

Asset: Political - Ritzy
Trash: 2
Influence: 2

When your turn begins, you may install 1 card from HQ. You cannot score that card this turn. If this server is not protected by ice, you may derez this asset to derez another installed card.

“I missed you last week! Come, we have lots to talk about. How was little Sarita's piano recital?”
Illustrated by Matheus Calza
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Rebellion Without Rehearsal (rwr)

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  • Updated 2024-05-27

    When can the Corp derez Warm Reception to derez another installed card, assuming there is no ice protecting it?

    The ability to derez is part of the “turn begins” conditional ability. It resolves directly after the Corp installs (or declines to install) a card from HQ with the previous part of Warm Reception’s ability.

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While Wage Workers can allow you to install a 4th card on the board in a turn, this is almost as good. You get to install something on the board (anywhere!) clicklessly. Talk about click efficiency.

On top of this, Warm Reception is obviouly made to combo with Working Prototype, with its derez ability. But it also combo with assets like Spin Doctor, Malia Z0L0K4, Marilyn Campaign, Regolith Mining License, Drudge Work.

It also powerup harmonic ices like Echo in theory, but that is kinda expensive, unless you are playing Vovô Ozetti. Better to use it on Gatekeeper, Ablative Barrier. If you want to be spicy, you could derez Anemone, Magnet, Ping, Unsmiling Tsarevna or Stavka.

The issue is, as always, card slot priority. Because you could get the same effect with Red Level Clearance and Wage Workers has more uses. Still, this card could easily go into asset spam deck like Near-Earth Hub: Broadcast Center. In NBN, trashing this asset would make Oppo Research enabled, which is what you want anyways. At only 2 influences, it is really easy to splash out of faction.

A banger of a card. Art, quote and name of the card all go together, along with the effect of the card. Kudos to the devs!

(Rebellion Without Rehearsal era)
4224

One of these days, I shall make an asset grinder deck with this, econ, advancements, and net damage, protect them all with meat damage threat, and throw so many goon squads the runner's way for touching it that he is left cowering for the rest of the game while you calmly win.

(Rebellion Without Rehearsal era)

Eventually the day will come when Dr. Vientiane Keeling gets unbanned, that very day she'll get a Warm Reception from me. By that time I'll learn if I can rerez her between resolving two "when your turn begins" effects. But even if I can't, my jank senses are still tingling.

Sounds like something really evil is brewing there...