The Outfit: Family Owned and Operated

The Outfit: Family Owned and Operated

Identity: Subsidiary
Deck size: 45 • Influence: 15

Gain 3[credit] whenever you take at least 1 bad publicity.

We do things our way.
Illustrated by Emilio Rodríguez
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Reign and Reverie (rar)

#50 • English
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  • Updated 2023-09-14

    ANCUR UFAQ 24 [Michael Boggs]

    If The Outfit is playing against Valencia Estevez, does the Corp start the game with 1 bad publicity and 8?

    No. The Corp does not "take" a bad publicity from Valencia, they simply start the game with the bad publicity.

Reviews

How is it possible that this ID does not have a review? One of the most fun IDs to both play against and as, The Outfit asks the Corp player to give the Runner +1 credit per run to gain 3 credits now. Given that the Runner needs the most credits during runs, whatever benefit the ID provides the Corp player is already balanced out. Thanks to RegCap, the Corp is incentivised to keep at least four bad pubs, leading to some really desperate games where the Runner, provided that he is using SMC and Simulchip, is always dealing with more than he would otherwise expect against other IDs. There are, of course, alternative means of handling runs, but the runs themselves, the showcase of the entire game of Netrunner, are what make The Outfit one of best IDs to tinker with.

(Rebellion Without Rehearsal era)