A vicious early game ICE, it is extremely flexible but needs tech like Vovô to keep paying for it economical. Sentry subroutine is extremely useful against every killer except Afterimage. Synergises well with Working Prototype and Thunderbolt, especially against Tsakhia "Bankhar" Gantulga, and against Slap Vandal by itself. Mostly useful as a surprise (and nothing else) outside HB, but the current Shaper meta and the loss of Formicary mean that those Stegodon rez-derez decks that had this ICE were basically killed in their cradle.

Useful against what? Don't leave us hanging mid-sentence xD btw an interesting reprint of Chimera

Ah damn. Forgot the review was incomplete...

Writing a very niche review here due to something that came up in my game. Was up against a Knifing steve and my deck doesn't run deep ice so I was in a little bit of trouble. Knife doesn't want to score or care about scoring it puts pressure on the corp to beat their timeline.

Started installing remotes as a mix of Behold!, Project Beale Oracle Thinktank and Stoke the Embers. I looked like an asset spam deck in his mind so why wate time. I start slow advancing a few things, score out a Tomorrowʼs Headline to land 1 tag and slow him down.

Then the moment happened. I was able to chain 2x Stoke the Embers to get me to 6 points. He runs my other advanced agenda (Oracle Thinktank) which was behind Funhouse and alongside AMAZE Amusements. He couldn't ditch enough tags and I Psychographics out and scored a final agenda.

Older version of my deck had 2x Offworld Office but as a little Knife protection and to pop advancement tokens onto Behold! this makes the cut.

what format?

This ice is quite taxing until the runner decides to just float tags. Works really well for central protection in the tagging archetype. I want you to float tags, you don't want to deal with this on encounter so you want to float tags. Just don't get Mindscaped or go Psycho.

The cost is hefty but it's better than Cloud Eater where you have to rerez it every time you want its cool effect. One stolen or scored Send a Message will do the trick. Sucks to get emergency shutdown however.

A balanced version / replacement for Archived Memories. This gets you card draw and brings a card back from archives and makes you a little money. . It is however a double causing you a hit in tempo. One way to fix this (after Threat 3 has been achieved) is with Sudden Commandment. The 2 credits pay for most of the click-refund on commandment. This means you can spend 2 credits, draw 4 cards and add 1 card to your hand from archives for 1 click. You net 3 cards.

This is great to pair with a spin doctor if you're trying to "reach" for certain cards, esp if they would be gaming winning. Pull back 1x Mindscaping and "reach" for your 2nd copy while the runner happened to float 3 tags and be in a kill window. Or grab a Your Digital Life, make a ton of money and spend it on something like Psychographics.

This card is also very well paired with Oppo Research. Refill your hand, pick up the oppo you used last turn and keep piling on tags until the runner submits and just starts floating.

Most decks would rather opt for Spin Doctor or Sprint. This is very much a card for repeating quite specific combos and/or builld arounds.

To me, this appears more to be a replacement of Blue Level Clearance with a built-in Archived Memories as a positive side-effect.You have N cards in hand and <span class="icon icon-click"></span><span class="icon icon-click"></span> later you have N+2 cards in hand and more money.

Messed up the syntax somehow... I meant two cliks later you have two more cards in hand and more money.