Noise's ability contains one of the rarest and most powerful effects in all of Netrunner: the ability to FORCE the Corp to do something. We have forced de-rez cards and some rare forced trash effects, but Noise is in a league of his own. His ability alone forces the Corp to build a certain way; if you don't have Jackson Howard in your deck, you had better have a plan for your archives protection.

There is almost no downside to his ability. Putting a Cyberdex Suite in the trash could lead to some bad times (heh), but other than the nightmare matchup with IG, trashing Corp cards is just a solid move. He's very versatile and can be horrific to deal with.

It's extremely versatile with a cost to match. 1 click to play (make sure you're not tagged; it IS a resource), and then it essentially turns any event in your heap into a "double" type. Basically 3 clicks and the event cost to recur. It's steep, but it allows you to select whichever event in your heap would be most appropriate to the current game state. Even that part comes with a catch; if the most appropriate card would be Maker's Eye, but they're all still in my stack or grip, I'm s.o.l. It's popular for obvious reasons in Blackmail and Siphon recursion decks, but man... that cost is steep.