This card exists for one and only one reason: to ensure whoever plays it will never again find a casual match within their regular playgroup. Pairs nicely with Noise: Hacker Extraordinaire with the traditional virus mill machine. Since you'll be floating tags anyway, be sure to pair this with Joshua B. and Amped Up to maximize the annoyance factor.

Do not, under any circumstances, run Hades Shard while using this card. The temptation to use it and immediately win by stealing 12-14 points of agendas from the archives for free is too great for all but the most steadfast millers. Stay the course, my friend, and soon you'll be basking in the glow of victory that can only be attained by flatlining the corp.

User discretion advised. This reviewer is not liable for injuries sustained or friendships lost while using this card.

This card would be amazing if it was written a little bit differently. Unless I'm mistaken, you must use the ": Place an advancement token on an agenda." rulebook ability to trigger it. If it triggered off simply adding advancement tokens to the card (a la Trick of Light or Shipment from Kaguya), this card would be really, really tempting.

I've proxied this to test it out and I'm a little confused about the design. You sort of want to fast advance it so it reaches the money-making threshold quickly, but most of the fast-advance abilities will not trigger its written benefit. Every time I drew it, I would have preferred to see Geothermal Fracking, High-Risk Investment, or even Government Contracts.

I'm sure someone will figure out a way to make this card worth playing, but in my eyes, Weyland has a lot of other comparable agendas that can make it a lot more money with less risk and less investment.

This is one of my favorite cards in the game, and I have no idea why it's not a more popular splash option. I run it in my Blue Sun: Powering the Future and in my Argus Security: Protection Guaranteed decks, and it never fails to go off once it's been installed. People seem to prefer Snare! since it has a tagging element to it, but there's no reason you can't run both. I'm currently testing a build with 1x Edge of World and 1x Cerebral Overwriter, augmented with 3x Snare!, and they work beautifully together. Once the Runner seeings one, they will not be expecting the other. Since they behave the opposite of each other, they compliment your mind games quite nicely.

And, of course, once you manage to slap the Runner with some brain damage (from any source -- some prefer Janus 1.0, particularly out of Blue Sun, and that's a fair choice, too), finishing the job with meat damage becomes much, much easier because you'll often only need a single Scorched Earth or Punitive Counterstrike to finish the job.

There are 3 good reasons to run this card:

1) You're running Sage and don't want to run Dinosaurus alongside it. (If this is you, you might have better luck with MemStrips.)

2) You're running a Reina Roja: Freedom Fighter terrorism build designed to tax the corp into oblivion using Rook and Knight.

3) You really, really enjoy a challenge.

I'm not convinced option 3 is any different from the two above it, but there you have it.

This card's worth 1 or 2 slots in almost any Blue Sun: Powering the Future deck, and other Weyland IDs may benefit, too.

PROS

1) This is the perfect counter for runners using the Keyhole/Eater engine. At 2, 4 strength, it's expensive to chew through (3 for Eater, barring any Datasucker or similar effects). But chew through it they must if they want to be able to keep using Eater on the rest of the cards protecting your R&D. It's a respectable tax.

2) Can counter the runner's anti-Archer cards like Femme Fatale or Faerie.

3) It's a freaking Wendigo. Who wouldn't want one prowling around their perimeter?

CONS

1) You don't want to draw this as one of your two starting ice, but even if you do get one out early it can milk an extra turn or three out of any low-cost ice like Ice Wall, Enigma, Chimera, or Quandary.

2) Can't protect a server on its own, unless the runner is afraid to face-check it.