My, my, my, yet another strong card with no review! Whatever shall we do? hehe

A wise person once told me that if you are going to play a 3/1, it had better have a crazy strong effect. Eminent Domain has a craaaaaaaazy strong effect.

When scored, you can search your deck for a card and install and rez that card IGNORING ALL COSTS, three of the most important words in the game, up there alongside End The Run and Do X Meat Damage.

In other words, you can, as part of scoring this agenda, compress the effects of an overadvanced Project Atlas, a weaker Timely Public Release and Send a Message. Yikes! That's a lot of value.

So let's cut to the chase and run through some of the best targets for this card because if you're going to use it, you'll probably want to be using it in a deck with at least a couple of expensive high-value cards. After all, money saved is money made from the perspective of total net expenditures, so the more valuable a card you can install and rez, the more value you get from Eminent Domain.

If we sort by cost a few things immediately jump out at us, first off, the most expensive cards are almost exclusively big pieces of ICE, for example, the 5 most expensive corp cards in standard at the time of writing are (tied for first place at 10 credits each):

• Seraph
• Hydra
• Tyr
• NEXT Diamond
• Cloud Eater

Unfortunately, a lot of these cards are deceptively anti-synergistic, half the value of Cloud Eater is in the rez during an encounter so rezzing it with Eminent wastes potential value. Seraph and Hydra are surprisingly weak, even within NBN and provide questionable value to Weyland. NEXT Diamond is explicitly designed to be played with a bunch of other NEXT ICE so importing it on its own is meh. Tyr is a strong card but 5 influence is a lot to ask for, and like the Diamond, this card is strongest when synergized with other bioroid cards like Hákarl 1.0, Trieste Model Bioroids or Ravana 1.0 where they can feed off of each other to maximise value and try to guarantee the core damage.

Next on the list is Tithonium, which is banned... moving on.

Conundrum is of little value in a faction that just got Hammer but Anansi and Tollbooth are interesting considerations since they are pricey yet of high value.

It's also worth noting that all of the 8 cost cards, as well the banned 9 cost Tithonium as well as Hydra and NEXT Diamond will rotate with Dawn. So it will be very interesting to see what new high-end, pricey cards enter standard to fill this niche, perhaps Weyland will get their own large monstrosity but for now, the targets are somewhat unremarkable.

Sure... you can use it to find and rez a Pharos or an Oduduwa or a Blockchain but instead of running through all of the seven costs cards and boring you to death let's get to the good stuff.

Archer, is probably the best target for this card. To answer the question that might already be running through your head, yes, sacrificing an Agenda is treated as a "cost" that Emiment ignores. This means you can search for, install and rez an Archer, without sacrificing anything.

If you're not already familiar with Archer, this card HURTS.

• Carmen does it for an excruciating 8 credits
• Num does it for 8 too
• Ika does it 8 assuming you have to move
• Echelon with 2 other Icebreakers does it for a soul-crushing 10 credits
• Revolver does it for 4 credits and 4 power counters, which means you can never fully break it more than once
• Odore does it for a surprisingly tolerable 6 credits if you have all your companions
• Mimic just cries
• Only Orca breaks it relatively efficiently for 4 credits (and that says more about Orca than Archer)

One of the most brutal things I encountered was a Weyland player who used this card to find and rez an Archer, then installed another Archer and sacrificed the Eminent to rez it. With just a single 3/1 Agenda you can now efficiently rez, not one but two Archers. Runners should be afraid, I know I was, I was playing shaper and got absolutely locked out of R&D :(.

Outside of ICE, there are a handful of other Weyland cards that require sacrificing an Agenda which you might want to consider, Corporate Town is top-tier if you can afford to protect it. Allowing you to trash a Runner resource each turn, no tags, clicks or credits required, which can wreck resource-dependent Runners cough cough Hoshiko Shiro: Untold Protagonist, but also just like Arissana Rocha Nahu: Street Artist because of Urban Art Vernissage and Aesop’s Pawnshop. Or even just picking off Tsakhia "Bankhar" Gantulga or Arruaceiras Crew or The Twinning or other high-value resources.

Oberth Protocol is another potent card that can serve as a kind of in-faction SanSan City Grid if you are looking for fast advance that doesn't require you to discard your entire hand, while simultaneously helping you stack your advanceable ICE sky high.

The "Expend" effect is a little bit more niche, in fact, it's one of only two expendable Agendas released ever, alongside Slash and Burn Agriculture, and one of only 5 total Expendable cards, including Tree Line, Descent and Angelique Garza Correa. The five of which are themselves a new mechanic released in the Liberation cycle. Definitely an interesting econ card, assuming you have something that'll cost 5 or more to install and rez you save yourself a net of 4 credits, aswell as the click-compression on the install, which is respectable. The real challenge of course is then getting it back out of Archives, as you'll only ever really want to use this effect so long as you have a Descent in hand or a Spin Doctor on standby.

But it's the theme of this card that is what takes it from good to perfect for me. The discarded Oliveira Family Farm sign lying off to the side, as it's stepped over. The massive floating banner descending from the sky, what almost looks like armed guards in the distance as large machinery is trucked in. "Young Gael Oliveira agreed to stay on and manage the farm, for a fee" so simple and yet so ominous, quintessential Weyland, they'll shake your hand and tell you they're doing you a favour as they milk you dry. They'll claim to be the small businesses, the wholesome family-run shop but at the end of the day, it's all just Weyland.