I feel like this card is half of a combo that doesn't exist yet. Wait a minute, have I written this review before?

Compared to every other criminal run event mainstay at the time of writing, you have almost no reason to play this card. Many cards in most criminal decks are cheap, usually 4 credits or less, because criminals don't usually have the money to support a big rig and want to run early, fast and low to the ground. That means that at best, you are getting yourself an Overclock and a card draw, and at worst, you are hitting one of your 1 or 2 cost cards and end up feeling absolutely terrible.

If you want a generalist value run-event, play any of the following, each of them can make you as much if not more money with a much higher consistency. Even Overclock doesn't see much play in Criminal because they have so many other good run events to choose from and getting one extra card draw just isn't enough to make up for this inconsistency and unreliability.

• Bravado
• Carpe Diem
• Dirty Laundry
• Diversion of Funds

So what would make this card playable? Something that sets up the top of the deck obviously, if you can play a pretty Reg Criminal deck, include two disproportionately expensive cards like Femme Fatale, two copies of Concerto and a couple copies of whatever your setup card is, then you might just be onto something.

As far as I see it, there are 3 basic options:

• Something that restructures the top of your deck, like an infaction Making an Entrance reprint
• Something that tutors to the top of your deck, like an infaction Test Run reprint
• Something that lets you put cards from your hand on the top of your deck, like a Criminal version of Mindscaping or Flower Sermon

My personal favourite idea so far is like a Blueberry!™ Diesel near-print, call it say "Grape Diesel" where it says, draw 3 cards, then put one card from your Grip onto the top of your stack. This way, even outside of Concerto you can use it as source of good in faction card draw that then puts your dead draws like a spare copy of your console back on top of your deck for you to bottom next turn with The Class Act or shuffle away with Boomerang.

However, this would also give you a very reliable way to set-up Concerto, say you have a copy of Femme or whatever the equivalent future high cost card is already in your hand as well as a Concerto, the corporation then makes an obvious agenda push in a heavily guarded remote that they're pretty sure you can't get into. It's at this point that you play the Grape Diesel, putting the Femme on top of the deck, then rip the Concerto, giving you a whopping 9 credits to play around with it's quite literally an in-faction DIY Stimhack sans Brain/Core Damage.

Don't get me wrong, this whole thing is clunky, it's a three card combo that requires you to hold quite a few cards in hand in preparation for this. But... as long as each of those other two cards are worth playing in their own right, then Concerto might actually make sense as a big power play that can swing games in the Criminal's favor by giving them a sudden and massive injection of credits.

Will such a set-up card ever be printed, and importantly, will it ever be printed in Criminal? That remains to be seen, but the potential is there, will Stimhack be reborn wreathed in blue, only time will tell...

Tempo positive card at no cost, with high variance! While it is theme for Nyusha "Sable" Sintashta: Symphonic Prodigy, I think this would fit much better with Ken "Express" Tenma: Disappeared Clone, since it would get an extra credit and it does not do anything for the mark mechanic.

Depending on your deck, it should give you 0 to 8 credits to spend on the run. Most probably, between 1 and 5 credits, while drawing you a card. Not bad! Since it basically act like Overclock, it could probably be splashed in a shaper deck to go alongside Self-modifying Code (maybe).

It is not as good as Bravado, but with the draw, it is slightly better than Overclock if you have a good variance of cost in your deck. If you play only cards that cost 3 or less, it might be as good.

This run event would be a great addition to Ken "Express" Tenma: Disappeared Clone deck. It would pair well with Prognostic Q-Loop (usually with Az McCaffrey: Mechanical Prodigy). I could easily see this splashed in a Kabonesa Wu: Netspace Thrillseeker deck.

Art and quote goes well with the name, even if I really feel this could have been targeted toward a different identity. Still, good design and good card for most criminals.