This isn't exactly essential and it can be tedious, but you're way better off starting off a new campaign that gives you a $4000 check or a rare card/item off the bat than a $ enemy.

1. There is no penalty for hitting ALT+F4 or pressing Esc and clicking "Return to Main Menu" when losing or if you make an incorrect chocie on the map. The game lacks a real time autosave, so if you are losing a match or had no good starting hands, you can close the game and continue the campaign from the map choices. This is a great way to save your lives if things go south. The trade-off to doing this rather than surrendering or losing naturally is that you do not get a free card.

Biz has the most priority at the beginning of any match. If you're not playing your business cards first then you are not playing this game correctly. You want to ramp your cash intake right off the bat. By the time you get to $$$ enemies, they will be consecutively stacking biz cards or covering the board at the first chance they get. If you choose to place henchman before biz then understand that you are increasing the amount of turns it would take for your money to ramp up.

When you place a biz card on top of another the dollar amount from the business earned will stack. Your biz will aso gain more armor. Unfortunately the card's effect or description does not always stack. For example placing a second Harbor Depot on another will not double the $50 per card in your hand to $100 per card in your hand. If you want to double the effect of a passive biz card like Harbor, you would need to give the second it's own street instead of stacking. Some biz cards such as the Main Office have active effects and will repeat their one time action effects when played on top of each other. So if you stacked three Main Offices, you would draw three cards.

After you deck-out you are given free grey cards that give you free cash or more cash for every henchman and so forth. Not all of these cards are "free". If you haven't noticed, a cash advance accelerates your debt. Don't just mindlessly play these because it's a 0 cost card in your hand. You may not feel the debt in the moment but will when you're 90% of the limit in a match later on.

These will not disappear forever unless they have "destroy" in the card description.

Don't go crazy popping off all of your henchman in one turn. If you drop your hand's two strongest bruisers onto a street protecting your biz then the AI will see that as an opportunity to drop Rat Thieves on lanes your henchman can't reach. Moments like these can lead up you to potentially losing 500+ cash a turn.

They increase your likelihood of a campaign loss more than any other enemy because of their debt gimmick. It's just not worth the headache.

Note: Decks that can maintain low debt such as the Suits really only have to do fights and events for optimal cash intake. Below is a Suits deck that rolled a $4000 check event in the first round of the game.

I didn't go to the shop until right before the first year boss Condo King. I feel that most players would prefer to get there a bit earlier. Ideally you should you have 10,000+ cash before visiting a shop if you want to grab everything you need and leave feeling satisfied. I would only break this rule if you desperately need to avoid battling a Lender or really need more cards.

Some are just way better than others, you have to experiment.

It may take you a while to unlock some cards and other deck types before you are able to beat even Year 1. If you have been playing this game long enough, and even took the time to read all of this, then I hope you understand that you're getting better from your practice and studying. You're still gonna lose alot.

$ - Tier/Difficulty of enemy, $, $$, $$$

Active/Action Effect - In this case it is a one time effect that manipulates or changes something in the game: draw, kill an enemy, do damage, etc.

Deck-out - To run out of cards to draw from your deck

Lane - Street

Ramp - To increase the effectiveness of a card or playstyle over time

Passive Effect - In this case it is a constant effect that relies on other variables on the game board: gain $50 for every card in your hand, worker makes an extra Z if there are more Y, biz makes an extra $100 if two henchman are in it's lane, biz makes an extra $50 for every henchman that enters it's street, etc.

Stack - To play identical cards on top of each other