I struggle to see the draw of this card over Faerie. Faerie costs the same, starts with 2 strength, and breaks any number of subroutines in exchange for trash. As a breaker, Faerie is better in almost every way.

I do see a few edge cases where Shiv has an advantage:

• When you have 2 it costs 0.
• Shiv is one less influence to splash into another faction.
• Shiv triggers Armand "Geist" Walker: Tech Lord.

Are those advantages worth giving up the ability to pump strength for 1 and break >3 subroutines? In my opinion - no.

The cheap install cost gives this code gate breaking killer a lot of flexibility. I imagine that it might end up seeing some play in Eternal. It compares favorably to other 'cloud' breakers like ZU.13 Key Master.

The weakest of the Breaking and Entering Suite, in my opinion. Most of the high impact or important sentry cards tend to hover around Strength 5-6.

The relevant sentry cards it will generally break are: Architect, Ichi 1.0, Cortex Lock, Swordsman, Neural Katana, Komainu, Data Raven, Caduceus.

When I play Armand "Geist" Walker: Tech Lord I still run 2 however. A cheap easy way to break those cards that digs you into more economy or more powerful breakers, such as Faerie for the glorious derezing of Archer with Crescentus.