Runner Strategy: Phase 3 Cards

Who needs to be playing cards in Phase 3? Run, dang it! But watch out for that tree! Cards in this group either require a particular and mature environment to be effective, or they fuel easy runs with permanent costs.

• Open-Ended(r) Mileage Program
• Core Command: Jettison Ice
• Kilroy Was Here
• Ice and Data's Guide to the Net (good opening for Phase 3; useful anytime, but needful here)
• Loan from Chiba
• Lucidrine(tm) Booster Drug
• Romp through HQ
• Social Engineering (no point to this if you don't have plenty of bits and the corp doesn't have ice you need to pass for free)
• Anonymous Tip
• Arasaka Owns You (the more i think about this card, the more i realize that it requires careful planning, perhaps even an intentional flatline; it wouldn't, for instance, save you from Liche)
• Deal with Militech
• False Echo (frankly, i'm not sure how to use this card effectively; Stephane says it belongs in Phase 1)
• Fortress Respecification
• Netspace Inverter
• Preying Mantis
• Stumble through Wilderspace
• Total Genetic Retrofit

Reminder: A card belongs to a particular phase if it should be played/installed during that phase, not if it is used during that phase.

Disclaimer #1: While i don't expect you to agree with all of my choices, i figure i'll learn more about how to play these cards by hearing your explanations. i don't have all of these cards, of course, so i may not understand their actual effect when in play.

Disclaimer #2: For the most part i'm looking at cards in isolation. Card combos are a different matter, and one i'm not very good at.