Şifr might be worth combining with this card. If my understanding of the rules is correct, if you reduce ice strength to 0 while playing Prey, you may trash 0 of your installed cards to trash the 0 strength ice. If this is correct, Şifr would make this a 0, Forked, Knifed and Spooned all in one card. And, unlike the cutlery events, you are not limited to the first piece of ice you break subroutines on, you get to choose which of the ice you want to trash.

Really handy for muching small pieces of ice. Probably not likely to see a whole lot of play outside of Apex, but still a useful option to keep in mind for ice removal.

It shines best for blowing up 0 or 1 strength ice. Pop-up Window is usually a good use for it. Quandary is good, if you can get through. It's a good way to avoid having to pay the tax for Errand Boy or Komainu too often. And if you can sink a Tour Guide with it before it gets too expensive, then you're in good shape.

One important part about this card: Unlike the Anarch silverware suite, (Spooned, Knifed, Forked) Prey does not require you to actually break the ice - you just need to somehow get past it. So ice that doesn't end the run is fairly vulnerable to it, and if you get desperate, things like Inside Job can be used to trigger it as well.

Prey has an incredibly useful effect and is far more general than Forked, Knifed Spooned and Run Amok which all have restrictions and conditions regarding which Ice you can target. Unfortunately Prey asks you to trash installed cards, which is typically undesirable outside of Apex: Invasive Predator or maybe Noise: Hacker Extraordinaire decks. It is already clear that Datasucker or Ice Carver will not help you lower the strength of Ice for Prey and using Scrubbed could be considered a little excessive. So how do we lower the strength of Ice outside of an encounter?

Bishop is the only option apart from Parasite to lower strength outside of runs.

Wyrm: One of the most derided and disliked AI breakers has finally found a purpose. It is time for this ugly duckling to find a place in the sun. Since Apex will already have e3 Feedback Implants as well it might even potentially be used as a backup breaker, although Wyrm is still hideously expensive for that purpose. Maybe a backup breaker for the backup breaker? You will need an extra 1 for that however.

When you play Apex: Invasive Predator, there are two ways to build the deck : either with Apocalypse or with Prey. The former makes you build all around the fact that you'll trash your own board. The later (this card) is more a regular runner. It feels more like a different Hippo.

Outside of Apex, this card is more suite to trash low strenght ice, because it require you to trash something from your board. A long time ago, there was Tour Guide that was nice to trash with this, now there is Endless EULA, Whitespace and Echo which can be trashed easily with this. At only two influence, it could be imported if your deck worries about those ices (especially Endless EULA). Otherwise, only Apex can really leverage this card to trash high strength ices.

The art is colorful, but a bit oversaturated, making it difficult to understand that those are tentacles from Apex: Invasive Predator. Still, quite thematic for the faction. Like always, I would have prefered if there was a quote or small bit of lore with the card. The name of the card really work with the concept of it. All in all, a good job.