Shred (🎸) “melts” any single EtR-effect,

Notes

such as:

• a defensive Upgrade trigger: Manegarm Skunkworks, Anoetic Void, ¿or Hyoubu Precog Manifold?.
• an off-server usage: like LEO Construction or B-1001.
• an non-subroutine ICE ability: like M.I.C. (saving a click), or Funhouse (saving a tag).
• and a Barrier/ICE subroutine (esp. gearchecks): Tatu-Bola, Ablative Barrier, Ping, Descent, Flyswatter), etc, as well as an ∞ strength Tree Line; but not a Kessleroid).

In particular, it converts a single ↳ End the run. subroutine into ↳ End the run unless the Corp reveals and trashes 1 card from HQ at random. (at the worst-ish). CF. Lucky Charm.

For example, Shred can:

• “melt past” a singular gearcheck;
• unless the Corp suffers “1 HQ damage”;
• while still triggering Phoenix (since the EtR-sub was not broken, yet the ICE was passed);
• thus forcing the Corp to suffer “1 HQ sabotage” anyways; CF. The Corp trashes (1 card at random or) 1 card of their choice from HQ.

Like Light the Fire!, Shred “attacks” (requires) larger server-roots (X is the number of cards in the root of the attacked server.), which makes it implicitly (but not necessarily) a Run a remote server. event.

For example:

• If the Corp is defending an agenda alongside Skunk–Void, they must Trash 3 cards from HQ at random..
• If the Runner has two clicks or five credits to spare (for the Skunk), the Corp must (have and) trash 5 cards from hand. Even a six-card PD couldn't retrigger Void (IIUC).

Flavor

Besides obviously “shredding” headquarters into archives, the flavor-text puns on “The Medium is the Message” . Some punk music can literally be about (IE. “the message”) volume/venue (IE. “the medium”).

Custom

PS.:

1) Why is the EtR-prevention preventable? I'd made a cycle of “Effect-quashing Run-events”, where the Criminal one gave you one hard EtR (CF. Lucky Charm), like:

[$1] Sneak
Event: Run
[criminal 2/5]
Run any server.
The first time a Corp card ability would end that run, prevent the run from ending.

It's an Inside Job variant, where the bypass gets “smeared”: not limited to the outermost ice, but limited to a single subroutine/effect. (I don't think it makes reaching servers too easy, but there's probably something I'm not thinking of.)

2) What if Shred had a Fracter subtype for Rising Tide? Because it can “frac through” any single-sub Barrier (even a high-strength Tree Line), like a “red Inside Job”.

Once Rising Tide was spoiled, I'd made the above into a cycle of custom Run - Fracter|Killer|Decoder cards, like:

[$0] Shred!
Event: Run - Fracter
[anarch 2/5]
Run any server.
If a barrier ability would end that run, instead prevent that run from ending.
(Subroutines are abilities.)

However (since Events are self-trashing), the problem is that you could just spam Shreds to “place 3 strength counters” on a Rising Tide. Some solutions would be: a one-per-namesake limi; a binary (non-scaling) check for non-icebreaker fracters; an option (for the Corp) to RFG the event; or so on.