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Prepaid VoicePAD



Prepaid VoicePAD

Prepaid VoicePAD


Type: Hardware: Gear
Cost: 2
Faction: Runner Neutral
Faction Cost: 0
1 [Recurring Credits]
Use this credit to play events.
Set: Second Thoughts Number: 029 Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Mike Nesbitt
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11 Comments

Meh...

Meh...

Correct
In an Andromeda deck, this could be almost as good as an active UWC, without the downside of needing additional link.
Think about it: you're almost certainly playing x3 of Sure Gamble, FAO, Inside Job, and Dirty Laundry. You might also have things like Special Order, Hostage, Déjà Vu, Maker's Eye, or the new Recon. All of these events cost money, and although many cost only one (making the second Voice Pad a bit redundant), the first one is almost guaranteeed to gain you a lot of money.
Also, it's not a ressource, which means you don't need to fear for it if you go in tag-me mode.
Good point. And even with many of those events only costing one, if you have two PAD's out you'll benefit playing two cheap ones in a turn OR one that costs two or more. I'd say the diminishing returns comes at 3 in play, where having all three UWC out is just awesome.

In an Andromeda deck, this could be almost as good as an active UWC, without the downside of needing additional link.
Think about it: you're almost certainly playing x3 of Sure Gamble, FAO, Inside Job, and Dirty Laundry. You might also have things like Special Order, Hostage, Déjà Vu, Maker's Eye, or the new Recon. All of these events cost money, and although many cost only one (making the second Voice Pad a bit redundant), the first one is almost guaranteeed to gain you a lot of money.
Also, it's not a ressource, which means you don't need to fear for it if you go in tag-me mode.


I thought the same thing but so far I have had absolutely no luck with it. Even when I get it out early it just doesn't seem to be that useful. I can't quite put my finger on why it's so bad yet but here's what I think is happening. Obviously you want to get it out early so just having one of these even in an Andy deck is not good enough. But even when you do get it out early the whole point of Andy (at least the way I play it) is hyper-aggression. Spending 2creds and a click early to get it back later on is not that beneficial. I usually hate click equivilancy analysis but I feel like in this case it's appropriate. If we say that Pre paid voice PAD is equal to 4 clicks (1 to draw 1 to install 2creds=2clicks) It will take you at least 4 turns in order to gain any advantage from pre-paid VoicePad(assuming you are going to play an event that costs at least one the turn that you install it and then one every turn for the next 4 turns). That's just too slow for a deck where I'm sometimes close to winning the game by turn 5. So yeah if I don't see it do what it's supposed to do soon it's definitely out of my deck
Can anyone confirm if you can use that reoccurring credit to pay for Vamp?
My take is no. While it's an event effect, it's not an event: it descends from an event card being played, but it's not being "played" itself when you drain the Corp.
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CommissarFeesh
Jan 26 2014 12:17 PM
Agreed. Playing an Event means paying the play cost, NOT paying for anything the Event then allows.
You know while I originally gave this card a meh , it actually can do some work in a deck that has been built to manipulate it.

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Apr 13 2017 04:34 PM

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