Sure, if you compare this indian roulette to any other multi-access on R&D or HQ, one may argue that it's better to hit one of these server hard and tough than browsing from one to the other for accessing 1 more card every other run.

The Turning Wheel is certainly not very good on its own, but it strongly supports any kind of R&D or HQ pressure. The obvious use is for Criminals and Shapers, who are overspecialized in HQ and R&D hitting respectively, and struggle to put some pressure on the other.

The usual way to do is to import R&D Interface in criminal decks and Legwork in shaper decks. Now, they can either put 2 Turning Wheels for the same influence and find it earlier, or just one and free 1 influence point. Of course, you've got to keep your other in-faction pressure and multi-access. But now you can hit the other server more steadily than with your imported The Maker's Eye or Legwork, and for cheaper than with R&D Interface and HQ Interface.

Now, the question is if it is worthy in Anarch deck. Not that this matters in the current meta, but hey, the wheel is turning!

Few thoughts :

• In an asset-heavy meta, I can't see this card not being good.

• Also, Patron+Jak Sinclair is basically a Wyld-cake. It's influence-free for nobody, though, but it's more affordable for Shapers or Sunny than importing a full Wyldcake.

• Against glacier, it's at least a good archives pressure, something Shapers don't have much.

• Kit with a Yog.0 or a Refractor and some stealth money may be able to trigger Patron for free until late-game against a glacier.

• I don't feel it works well with Security Testing. They're both expensive to splash, and don't stack on the same .

• I would totally play it along Astrolabe. I never draw enough.

Leaving the dream... The Corp has :

• Lakshmi Smartfabrics rezzed with 1 power counter,

• either one Accelerated Beta Test or Project Vitruvius in HQ,

• at least 7 credits.

Then, an unprepared runner encounters an unrezzed Architect.

The Corp rez Architect, reaches 2 counters on Lakshmi, spends them to show the Agenda in hand, and installs it when the 2nd subroutine triggers. Then scores next turn.

So Lakmish increases Architect efficiency by about 1.06, odds of Film Critic and Imp included. This, plus the utility as a partial distant HQ protection if fully setup, plus the combo that involves a pair of agenda in HQ. Definitely a card of choice for decks that are so good they can afford some jank for unlikely situations.

Efficiency Committee saw popularity when fast-advance was the bread and butter of every single Corp deck. The plan was : drop 3x Shipment from SanSan in your HB deck, find a window to score your first Committee and then wait for having a Shipment and an agenda in your HQ and score it from hand. Rince and repeat.

(Rule note : as Shipment From SanSan effect is to place advancement tokens and not advancing cards, this combo is possible).

It has gone out of fashion, apparently. People are nowadays more confident in glaciers and NAPD Contract became the 4/2 agenda of choice (two things that may be tied, if you think about it). Yet, the effect of EC is nice : gaining 3 to get whenever you want, isn’t it great ? But Corps don’t mind to gain if it doesn’t allow to score from hand, and the 3 influence points of Shipment from SanSan are better spent elsewhere.

On a side note, I used to use this rockabilly guy as an avatar on the french forum Run4Games and I’m waiting for a dedicated card. J’adore ce mec, il a trop la banane.

Freelance Coding Contract suffers from one fact : it’s in the faction that has Self-modifying Code and Test Run. As this, when deck building, players put generally 1x of each program, rarely more except for SMC.

So when playing such a deck, you will unlikely have a load of program you want to feed this card. Either it’s early game and you’d rather install them, or it’s late game and they’re installed. Of course, there’s Clone Chip, but you’re probably more willing to use it for recursing Parasite, Sharpshooter or a lost program than for making some shenanigans with this card for money and further usage.

Also, when doing that, you trash a certain number of card, and emptying their hand is not something the Runners like to do. They have then to click for drawing, so it’s money against tempo. Not great.