Charlotte Caçador

♦ Charlotte Caçador 0[credit]

Asset: Clone
Trash: 2
Influence: 2

You can advance this asset.

When your turn begins, you may remove 1 hosted advancement counter to gain 4[credit] and draw 1 card.

[trash], hosted advancement counter: Gain 3[credit].

“They offered me a desk job, but dammit, I just love working in the field.”
Illustrated by Marlon Ruiz
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Rebellion Without Rehearsal (rwr)

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  • Updated 2024-05-27

    If Charlotte Caçador has no hosted advancement counters when your turn begins, can the Corp place an advancement counter on her with a “start of turn” effect, such as La Costa Grid, and immediately remove that counter with Charlotte Caçador to gain 4c and draw a card?

    Yes. Charlotte Caçador’s ability is marked pending even if there are no hosted advancement counters at the start of turn.

Reviews

"I love the kind of woman that could kick my ass."

She might seem innocuous but this clone bounty hunter pulls a lot of weight. At first, I dismissed her as merely an in-house alternative to the much-loved NGO Front: a cheap way to drag a runner through a nasty server and make a buck out of it. What makes Charlotte Caçador so much better than NGO Front is that wasting the runner's money and time is the floor for her effectiveness. If left unchecked, she becomes a value engine that just keeps hauling in bounty heads while you wait for something good to put in her server. Put her down behind a cheap gearcheck and tick her once turn 1. The runner has a couple options:

  • Ignore Charlotte and run centrals hunting for a lucky agenda (or faceplanting into an unlucky Snare!)
  • Ignore Charlotte and money and install up
  • Run Charlotte and bounce off your gearcheck
  • Use a trick card to get into Charlotte's server, you pop her and recoup the effort.

In the first three scenarios, Charlotte lives for sure, and you get a Hedge Fund's worth of value. You spend two clicks as you wish, then you click Charlotte again. The runner has the same choices but now they know running her will be a waste of time, but also know you getting extra draws and Hedge Funds is not viable for long term success. She's an NGO Front you can use every turn, allowing you to draw into Agendas or punishing cards while simultaneously netting you the funds you need to play and rez nasty ICE or pay for other cards. Give her all the field work she wants -- you won't regret it.

(Rebellion Without Rehearsal era)

This card is OP over the hills and far away. Include it in every Corp deck

Charlotte Caçador, probably the best card that came out with RwR (the other one was banned). For the low price of 2 influence, you get another kind of NGO Front. You never lose with this card.

This asset combine really well with La Costa Grid, Mitosis, Kakurenbo and Cohort Guidance Program, which get you advances clicklessly in faction. But it also combine with cards like Business As Usual. There are other cards that can put advances, but those are really specialized for fast advances (like Seamless Launch and The Holo Man).

But this combine really well with two identities : Weyland Consortium: Built to Last and Pravdivost Consulting: Political Solutions. BtL makes the action of putting an advance on Charlotte a positive action, while Pravdivost get a free advance on it when the runner interact with the corp.

Into an glacier type of deck (a deck that score behind multiple ices), Charlotte is perfect. You get credits and draw, while the runner must either spend a precious card like Pinhole Threading to take it out or spend lots of credits to force you to trash it (in which case, you just do not lose any credits).

Finally, at 2 influences, this card can be splashed easily out of faction. What a bargain.

Art wise, it not only represent a nice scene in the world of netrunnner, but is also used as a cover image for the most watched stream. All of which synergize with the name (Caçador means hunter in portuguese) and quote. Fantastic work!

(Rebellion Without Rehearsal era)
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