Design: Valentão is a “soft” illicit that drains credits before comparing credit pools.
- You can detag to skip the badpub (unlike “hard” illicit's).
- You'll end the run if, for example, you had
$4
and they had$7
before the encounter, (because you'll reach$6
and they'll drop to$5
). Which is like a “pseudo-trace-attempt” (cf.↳ Trace [4]. If successful, end the run.
).
Compare: Whitespace crossed with a Veritas (and a Muckraker).
Flavor: In Brazilian Portuguese, “valentão” seems to mean “bully”.
PS. A Jinteki Valentão could “drain” cards (like Vampyronassa does) before comparing hand sizes: ↳ Do 1 net damage. ↳ You may draw 1 card. ↳ If there are more cards in HQ than in the grip, end the run.
(EDIT) Piranhas has been printed in this (mini?)cycle, which is also a $5/6s/3↳
codegate, also with take 1 bad publicity or remove 1 tag
illicit-ness, and that also ‘drains’ a value (from the Runner to the Corp) before comparing those values; but it's in NBN and it drains cards-in-hand.
Right on the money. Only in NBN instead of Jinteki
— NewPuldrix