Open Market (🌆), I love its “Slow Drip, Fast Spend” design. IE. by:

• Spending-only: it takes about ~2–4 installs to earn +4[$] (a Sure Gamble profit).
• Dripping-only: it'd take six whole turns to cash out.
• Doing both: you can install OM, install a resource (or two), then take the last credit (or two) next turn (or two).

Notes:

• It can “Career Fair out” any expensive resource: especially The Class Act (with the “un-OM’able” Earthrise Hotel rotating). CF. a [$0] Event: Double to Install 1 resource from your grip, paying 4[$] less.. For example, Q1–OM into Q2–TCA is already (more or less) a Lie Low, with two credits and a card-filtering effect leftover; then Andy’s “Draw 4-of-5” can find a [$2+]-drop for next turn, like Side Hustle or another Open Market.

• It subsidizes connections or jobs: exactly like Az. (Including itself, being a job and non-unique too.)

• Its non-interactive Criminal econ: You earn credits by installing (CF. a faster-but-narrower Environmental Testing), and/or just waiting (CF. a slower-and-poorer Daily Casts). NB. whereas ET wants four cheap installs to cash out (ASAP), OM wants two pricy installs.

Cards:

• The Class Act (4[$]).
• Open Market itself (2[$]).
• Side Hustle (2[$]).
• “Baklan” Bochkin (2[$]).
• Info Bounty (2[$]).
• Hannah "Wheels" Pilintra (2[$], 2inf).
• Tsakhia "Bankhar" Gantulga (1[$], 3inf).
• Dr. Nuka Vrolyck (1[$], 2inf).
• ¿Fransofia Ward? (3[$])?
• ¿¿Red Team (5[$])??

See s:connection|job t:resource o>0 z:standard b:active .

PS. I'm hoping for a tech card with this mechanic, that pairs very slow drip with a very large sum of hosted credits (an “Open Market-ified Miss Bones”). For my Crim mini-set, I had jotted down a No Free Lunch–esque custom card like the following (numbers untested), since I hadn't thought of this mechanic. But implementing it as an Open Market-esque card should(?) push its value more towards the “hate matchup” than a general matchup, which I prefer.

Charlotte Libertador
[$0] ♦ RESOURCE: Connection - Clone
[criminal 3/5]
When you install this resource, load 6[$] onto it. When empty, trash it.
You can spend hosted credits to trash installed cards.
[trash]: Gain 1[$] for every 2[$] hosted (rounding down). Use this ability only if there are at least 2[$] hosted.

Best ressource of the criminal faction. If you play ressources i your criminal deck, there is few reason no to have 3x of this card in your deck. It is just that good.

Comme d'habitude, read D4v1d-Gr43b3r review for the excellent explanations of the mechanics and synergies.

Open Market, in any deck is a 4 gain, equivalent to the best best economic card of the game : Sure Gamble. But it gets better! With this, you can chain install ressources, as long as you have only 2 in hand. In theory, with an amazing first hand, you could install 3x Open Market and The Class Act that would leave you with 5 cards in hand, 3 and a drip of 3 for at least one turn.

This is already awesome. But you can make it even better. How? Just install it clicklessly at a discount, using Barry “Baz” Wong: Tri-Maf Veteran, Sebastião Souza Pessoa: Activist Organizer or Bahia Bands. Then it becomes a 5 or 6 gain.

It would seems slow to get those gain as a drip, and it is. But consider that if you play Open Market, you play other connections or jobs, for which you can pay with Open Market. Want to is install Arruaceiras Crew without using Seb ability, Open Market has you covered. Want be able to install The Class Act without breaking the bank, Open Market is there for you.

Probably the best ressource for criminals provided by Elevation.

Out of faction, this is easy to splash for 2 influences. It compete with Fermenter for the economic slot out of faction in shapers. But for anarch, this is just straight up gas for their engine, if they are not using companions, especially for Sebastião Souza Pessoa: Activist Organizer.

Art is great, with a quote that explains it all, going together well with the name and the effect. Splendid design and awesome work!