With more than 50,000 of our Kickstarter backers set to receive their Welcome to Night City Starter Decks soon, today we’re excited to reveal the full contents of both decks.
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Let’s kick things off with a look at Embracing Power.
Embracing Power Starter Deck
Legends (3)
- Goro Takemura: Hands Unclean (Starter Deck exclusive)
- Yorinobu Arasaka: Embracing Destruction (Starter Deck exclusive)
- Saburo Arasaka: Stubborn Patriarch (Starter Deck exclusive)
Main Deck (40)
- 2 Chrome Fang
- 2 Minotaur (Starter Deck exclusive)
- 3 Ruthless Lowlife
- 2 Swordwise Huscle
- 2 Emergency Atlus
- 2 Field Operator
- 2 Goro Takemura: Losing His Way (Starter Deck exclusive)
- 2 MaxTac AV
- 2 Arasaka Emergency Radioport
- 3 Mantis Blades
- 3 Satori: Sword of Saburo
- 2 Industrial Assembly
- 2 Over the Edge
- 2 Shattered Memories
- 3 Corpo Security
- 3 Sandevistan
- 3 Corporate Surveillance
With the Embracing Power Starter Deck, you can harness the overwhelming power of the Arasaka Corporation. With Goro Takemura, Yorinobu Arasaka, and Saburo Arasaka as your Legendary crew, you’ll have everything — and everyone — you need to overwhelm your Rival with pure corporate might.
The deck boasts a complete suite of powerful Units, efficient Gear, and some handy Programs to help keep you in control of the Field. Overpower, overwhelm, and overcome any opposition that stands in your way.
Spotlight cards:
- Minotaur: Nothing shows the military power of Arasaka quite like a Minotaur. Boasting high raw Power and a powerful effect that rewards you for having higher Street Cred than your Rival, this Unit showcases everything the Embracing Power deck wants to do. And the cherry on top? When your Saburo Arasaka Legend is flipped, Minotaur attacks with 10 power — exactly enough to steal 2 Gigs!
- Mantis Blades: Deceptively simple, devastatingly lethal. Granting +2 Power for just 1 Eddie, Mantis Blades is the most efficient weapon you’ll find in Welcome to Night City.
- Sandevistan: Speaking of high-impact Gear, Sandevistan packs a punch while doubling up as protection for your chromed-up Units. Make a powerful attack, then Ready your Unit at the end of your turn so that your Rival can’t retaliate.
The Heist Starter Deck
Legends (3)
- V: Corporate Exile (Starter Deck exclusive)
- Viktor Vektor: Sit Down and Relax (Starter Deck exclusive)
- Jackie Welles: Pour One Out For Me (Starter Deck exclusive)
Main Deck (40)
- 2 Dexter DeShawn: One Last Chance (Starter Deck exclusive)
- 2 Heywood Ripperdoc
- 2 Offduty Malfini
- 2 Secondhand Bombus
- 2 T-Bug: Amateur Philosopher
- 3 Kiroshi Optics
- 3 Mandibular Upgrade
- 3 Zetatech Faceplate
- 2 Afterparty at Lizzie's
- 3 Delamain Cab
- 3 Evelyn Parker: Scheming Siren
- 2 MT0D12 Flathead (Starter Deck exclusive)
- 2 Psycho Squad
- 2 Dying Night: V's Pistol
- 2 Tetratronic Rippler
- 3 Floor It
- 2 Reboot Optics
Where Embracing Power wants to go big, The Heist prefers subtlety. With multiple payoffs for maintaining a low Street Cred total, some highly effective Quickhacks, and numerous ways to generate card advantage, The Heist will appeal to players who prefer to take a slightly slower, more methodical path to victory.
Block your Rival’s powerful attackers, tip the balance of Fights in your favor with Quick Programs, and counterattack with your own crew of combat-ready techies to snatch the Gigs and seize control of Night City.
Spotlight cards:
- MT0D Flathead: A sellable Unit?! You bet! In addition to being (arguably) the most flexible Unit card in Welcome to Night City, this nimble drone boasts great stats and a very relevant ability that’s a huge payoff for keeping your Street Cred low.
- Zetatech Faceplate: Who says you can’t have it all? Zetatech Faceplate delivers a significant Power boost for just two Eddies, enables you to manipulate your Gigs and keep your Street Cred low, and draws cards. What more could you ask for?
- Offduty Malfini: The Embracing Power deck wants to play its Units and build up their strength by equipping gear, then make a decisive strike. Off-duty Malfini gives The Heist players a great way to spend a unit early, so it can be attacked before the opponent can reinforce it with chrome.
See both decks in action in our Kitchen Table Starter Deck gameplay video!
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Starter Decks are making their way to Kickstarter campaign backers now, and will be available in Hobby Stores everywhere on November 6th.