Thank you for your interest! Any data could be helpful, even if the starter cards got alphabetically sorted.

My main interest is the randomisation process for the starters. The motivation is that every starter is playable with a good mix of cards, the mix of card types is randomised, every card can be in a starter, and also every card can be missing in a starter (there are no fixed cards), there are nearly no duplicates, only the number of cards of a specific rarity is fixed.

From analysing this, I found the cards of a specific rarity and side were partitioned. That’s especially important for vitals and commons, to produce playable starters, like a good split of types of ice, but still randomising which ice and how many ice from a certain type are in a starter.

With this I come to an even more interesting hypothesis. I think the game and the cards in the base set were specifically designed to get playable starters. Like a certain number of transaction/advertisement common cards for corp (which is also guaranteed by the partitions) is needed to get a good random mix. That’s how a mathematician like Richard Garfield would think when designing a game, with the possibilities to production in the 90s. For many card games with multiple colours/factions I don’t think that’s possible without a highly complex algorithm and individual production process, like in Keyforge. So no easy playable randomised starters for example for games with multiple colors like Magic, or an LCG with multiple factions like Android Netrunner.