It's the card designed to finally make Street Magic shine :).

On a more serious note: the real question is, how good is this in it's true home of Ob Superheavy Logistics. If the runner breaks but lets the trash-this sub fire, that probably means there is going to be a Border Control on this server for free through their ID 'Obgrade' ability, ending the run at the corps whim.

So if you want to get through on the same run, paying 5 with Paperclip or even Propeller is expensive enough that you start to calculate how often you would want to do this. This may get better with time, but on a run you want to succeed at, this will never be less than 4 to break with Clippy against Ob. Also unlike Sandstones strength, there is no known way of hastening the process of eroding the subroutines - at least yet. Notably, at least in the Startup format you're looking at

• a much worse with 6 or 7 for Cleaver,

• 7 or 8 for Corroder as well as

• 8 or 9 for a Gauss that's been around for a while, or 6 or 7 on the turn it was installed. That's pretty hefty and a good reason to not skimp on the influence for your fracter looking back to Standard.

Also be on guard if the Ob you are playing against uses Envelopment

• to get a Fractal Threat Matrix . It probably means they are about to Excavator it,

  • Obgrading into a Crisium, Mavirus or the combo piece MCA Austerity Policy , depending on what's going to annoy you more. Probably the latter, but Mavirus is the only one to not need more time or Excavator support to

  • Obgrade to a NASX - which in turn

  • Obgrades to a Urban Renewal and that you're always sad to see as runner.

As we are talking sad already:

Envelopment gets released

• sad Gbahali and Kongamato noises.

• Happy Grappling Hook and Street Magic noises - but sadly not in the Standard format anymore.

Paperclip can trash this unassisted for $4. If your gameplan generates a huge amount of value from trashing your own cards, cool. If not, drawing this card is probably worse than clicking for a credit. The fair market price for a card which drains $4 from the Runner one time is zero credits. So, if you're not playing Envelopment hoping to getting it trashed, this is not the ice for you.

In Ob, this looks very playable. The turn it’s rezzed, the runner can trash it for $4, beat it without trashing it for $5, or let it end the run. If you haven’t fired Ob yet this turn, Envelopment is a bit more efficient than Fire Wall. If you have already fired Ob, the runner will easily trash this for $4 and you’re losing the exchange. In Ob you’re building around a ID ability which can only be fired once per turn, I think this ice will probably be less reliable than it looks.

All the other reviews are much better than this one I would argue

Anyways; Strength 5, 4 ETR subroutines is rather solid I think, since that ends up being rather expensive. Best case scenario the runner avoids the server for 4 turns waiting for the power counters to run out. Doubtful that would happen anyways.

However, now that Banner is out, you know what happens. Corp pays 5, runner spends 2 to ignore all those subroutines, except for the one trashing the ICE of course.

Anyways what i'm trying to say is, I think there are more solid barrier options, obviously pairs well with Ob Superheavy Logistics: Extract. Export. Excel. but, again as I said, Banner.