How does this compare to NAPD Contract? Well, we usually consider the Corp gaining money to be better than the runner losing money, and this gains more on access than the runner would lose when they access NAPD. Plus it doesn't have the drawback of being harder to score when you get bad publicity, which is relevant now that Valencia Estevez: The Angel of Cayambe is around and also frees you up to play illicit ice in your deck like Grim. The main drawback of this card compared to NAPD is that you never have the situation where the runner accesses it but is unable to steal it. (Plus it can only be used in NBN).

What does NBN do best? Either fast advance astrotrain, or Scorched Earth. Both of those strategies need a lot of credits to work, and both of them are not too concerned if the runner manages to steal an early agenda (in fact, if you're playing Midseason Replacements, you actually want them to steal an agenda... and this card gives you just enough money to play that operation. Coincidence?) Here is an example of a possible turn: Pop-up Window, SanSan City Grid, Explode-a-palooza. If the runner decides to run that server, steal your agenda and trash your SanSan, you gain 6 credits and the runner loses 6 credits. That's like you Account Siphon them, except that you're the corp. If they don't run it, you can score the agenda next turn.

The flavor of this card is the icing on an already delicious cake. Same old action movie, still gonna make a ton of profit out of it.

Use this

• If you can use the tag during the run (Information Overload, Universal Connectivity Fee, Muckraker, and I'm not sure about the timing on Dedicated Response Team).

• Against cards that are immediately trashed when tagged (Rachel Beckman, Zona Sul Shipping)

• If the runner knows you can prevent their run from being successful but needs to run anyway (Crisium Grid, Caprice Nisei, Nisei MK II)

• If the runner deliberately wants to make an unsuccessful run (Au Revoir, Jinteki: Replicating Perfection)

• If the runner thinks they can make a successful run, but they actually can't. This one is difficult because you will need a server with another face down ice already on it. Chimera should work well for this.

Getting the tag to stick not only past the end of the run but past the end of the turn is quite difficult, unless the runner is already tagged and this is just adding to the aggregate.

A sentry with four strength and two subroutines is pretty good. It can't be easily broken by Mimic. Even an Eater has to pay four credits to get through it. But is it good enough to be worth paying eight credits for? You don't see a lot of Wall of Thorns or Tollbooth around, so I suspect that this won't get played "just cause". On the other hand, since this has the NEXT subtype, it can make your other ice stronger, so that might push it over the edge.

Or, you can plan to actually make the subroutines fire. You'll probably have a bit of other NEXT ice out to make X high enough to do some serious damage, but if you're having trouble finding or rezzing it, you can try Levy University, The Foundry: Refining the Process, Executive Retreat etc. The next step is figuring out how to stop the runner breaking the subroutines. Inazuma is cool, though it can be broken. Corporate Troubleshooter is probably your best choice. If the runner has an efficient breaker like Sharpshooter, you will need twice as many credits as the runner to stop them from breaking it though.

I also saw an upcoming card where the runner can either run a central server of your choice during your turn, or else you get some other benefit. That card could be used to goad the runner into hitting a NEXT Gold when they're not set up for it.

If you want to use The Brewery, try using Chairman Hiro and Gyri Labyrinth, or a Psychic Field and a scored False Lead, to prevent the runner drawing back above 1 card.

This card could be very unfair to newbies who don't know what it's back face does and assume the corp can only damage them if they made a run last turn.

This seems like a very powerful card, with the minor drawback that only unrezzed cards can be exposed. However, the Corp can't rez a card "in response" to Drive By, so if they think you are packing it, they have to rez their card in advance and give you free information. For example, a PAD Campaign or a Jackson Howard that is usually rezzed right before it is needed, or an ambush such as a Cerebral Overwriter that is protecting a Shell Corporation - if the Corp player forgets about the existence of Drive By, you can trash both cards by making a run after driving by, costing them heaps of credits.

One of the cards that this will be best against is Ronin since the usual Corp strategy of protecting it is to make you think that it could be an ambush. If you use Infiltration and discover an ambush, you have saved one click compared to using Drive By, but if you find a Ronin then you would have to make a run on that server and pay the trash cost, whereas Drive By would save you all that trouble.

It works well against any other cards that the Corp would usually like to keep face down yet aren't negated merely by being exposed... some examples are Corporate Troubleshooter or Thomas Haas with advancement tokens on him.