That's it. Starlight Crusade Funding doubles deck is HAPPENING!

I have no idea if it will actually be viable. Neither this nor crusade are connections, so they can't be tutored. But just imagine this turn: Lucky Find, Lucky Find, Queens Gambit, Power Nap. 24 credit swing in one turn. There is no flaw in this plan. NONE.

One thing people are missing is that this works with stuff like enigma and hourglass. Minor added value to an already pretty good card. Noise wyldside (which I never cut) loves it. I've added 2 to my Noise and its amazing. The cost is a touch high, but it leaves room for expansion. 2 splash is interesting, but probably necessary. I'm testing it in all kinds of decks. 4/5.

Adjusted Chronotype is a niche card, for certain. But the niche it occupies is incredibly interesting.

There seem to be two reasonable paths to success:

1. Starlight Crusade Funding and a mix of Doubles (Hostage, Lucky Find, Queen's Gambit, etc) to allow you to use a cross-section of cards that were effectively deemed twice as good as a regular card (arguably they're 1.5x at best, but...). The upside is that many doubles are worth playing on their own, and currently see play in a reasonable number of decks. When Chronotype and then SLC come out, they get that much better. The downside is that you're effectively playing a 3 card combo that has 2 useless pieces, which is generally a bad idea. All the doubles may be reasonable, but playing AC or SLC alone is a waste of resources.

2. Go with a card like Hard at Work, Wyldside, Qianju PT, etc to get a continuous free benefit each turn that would usually cost a click. Of those, Wyldside seems to be the most valuable of the lot. Hard at Work costs 5 to install, plus 3 for the Chronotype, and nets you 2 per turn. There are a fewother ways to net 2 credits per turn with 2 cards (Underworld Contact, Data Folding, Tri-maf Contact) that aren't quite so expensive, but they all also have drawbacks. I would again argue that you're better off playing 3 of one of those, which benefit you with only 1 in play, than pushing for the combo. Wyldside, though - that's where you start to get some interesting choice. 2 cards a turn for 2 cards played is a pretty good return. You're paying 6 setup cost to get it, and then you're basically set for draws for the rest of the game. Contrast that with Earthrise Hotel, which is 4 cost for 6 cards (say 8 to get 6 turns of drawing), but works with a single card. It's still a toss up, but one that's much more interesting to consider.

The truly extreme versions will combine this with Gene Conditioning Shoppe, and play multiples of those cards. Arguably, that makes the combos more consistent - if you're playing 3 AC, 3 Wyldside, 3 Qianju, 3 H@W and 3 GCS, you can start the combo off easier because 1/3 of your deck is part of it.

It's hard to say if this is another card that looks amazing, but ends up just being average, or whether AC+Wyldside is the new core of a consistent draw engine.

If there were 3-cost resource that said "You gain each turn", everyone would be playing it. It would be like Rachel Beckman for less than half the install and without the pesky tag restriction. It would be amazing.

This card is not that card, and it is not that amazing. Here's why.

First, you don't get five clicks, you just regain a click you already lost. This might seem pedantic, especially for runners who don't need to advance agendas, but the difference between four and five clicks is the difference between being able to click through a Janus 1.0, or drop a Day Job plus run-last-click, and not doing those things.

Second, it needs support. You have to be playing at least one of these cards: Hard at Work, Starlight Crusade Funding, Qianju PT, Beach Party, or Wyldside. (Technically, ICE like Enigma or Hourglass count as well but you won't build your deck around those.)

Some of these cards (Qianju PT, Wyldside) are worth playing on their own. But others, like SCF or Hard at Work are not.

What happens if you draw Hard at Work before you find your Chronotype? Is it worth installing? Maybe, maybe not. But what if you find your Chronotype first? Then it does absolutely nothing until you find the other part. How long you have to wait is a question of both how much you draw, and how many copies you have of each...but, adding in more copies means dead draws (unless you're also using Paige Piper from this data pack).

Now, you could go all in on this, and through in a few copies of Gene Conditioning Shoppe to be able to play two lose-a-click effects at the same time, but then you'll probably want to be running other genetics to maximize your return on the 'shoppe, and with only a few genetics out right now that might not be worth it.