Monkeywrench (🐒🔧) shrinks a piece of ice, then shrinks again that ice's server!

Compare:

• a simplified Bishop crossed with a server-local Ice Carver.

• a “server-wide” trojan, like Rook and Living Mural (most trojans being “ice-specific”).

Banner (🚩) is an anti-EtR “icemelter” (ie. “non-breaking icebreaker”), as a fixed-strength fracter: it doesn't break any subroutines, nor prevent any non-end the run effects from resolving, but it still interacts with ICE and still must interface against ICE strength.

For example:

• Pharos: For $2 and 1 tag, Banner “melts” past its 5 strength (unless triple-advanced).

• Endless EULA: For $2, Banner would “melt” all six ↳ End the run unless the Runner pays $1. subroutines (though a Cleaver would still fully break it for just $3).

Banner “melts”:

• ↳ End the run.

• ↳ End the run if the Runner is tagged.

• ↳ End the run unless the Runner takes 1 tag.

• ↳ Give the Runner 1 tag and end the run. (→ ↳ Give the Runner 1 tag.)

• ↳ Trace[X]. If successful, end the run.

It can also:

• “melt” through unbreakable or semi-breakable ICE:

  • eg. a triple-advanced Akhet (The Runner cannot break more than 1 of its printed subroutines during each encounter.)

• “melt” past anti-breakage effects:

  • eg. a just-rezzed Hafrún (Choose 1 installed Runner card. That cardʼs abilities cannot break subroutines for the remainder of that run.)

• “melt” retributive ICE:

  • eg. an AI-facing Chiyashi (or a Gold Farmer).

• keep “nothing broken” checks on and “subroutines resolved” counts up:

  • eg. Mercury: Chrome Libertador
  • eg. Raindrops Cut Stone.

Compare:

• Endless Hunger: also anti-EtR. cf. Interface → [$2]: Break any number of “↳ End the run.” barrier subroutines..

• Flashbang: also an “icemelter”; it interfaces, but to derez (not to break).

• Umbrella: also a weapon icebreaker that's "nonstandard"/"unorthodox".

PS. Note that NSG's icebreaker retemplating (ie. adding Interface → …) clarifies which abilities must match strength (eg. Flashbang’s derezzing) and which can ignore strength (eg. Lustig’s bypassing), and thus facilitates more “icemelters” getting printed.

PPS. Since Parhelion (which printed Tsakhia "Bankhar" Gantulga and Raindrops Cut Stone), I'd been designing some custom icemelter cards that "mitigate" or "reimburse" negative subroutine effects (such as damage, destruction, tagging, zapping, and so on).

Some example "mitigators":

• Killer with Interface → [$1]: Choose 1 subroutine on the sentry you are encountering. For the remainder of this encounter, it cannot cause you to trash installed programs or to suffer damage.

• Decoder with Interface → [$1]: Choose up to 2 subroutines on the code gate you are encountering. For the remainder of this encounter, they cannot cause you to lose [$], lose [Q], or take tags.

And some example "reimbursers":

• Killer with Interface → Whenever a subroutine resolves on the sentry you are encountering, you may draw 1 card. Use this ability only twice each run.

• Stealth Decoder with Interface → Whenever a subroutine resolves on the code gate you are encountering, you may place [$1] on this program. Use this ability only three times each run. and You may spend hosted credits during runs.

Compare: Aumakua crossed with Faust.

Audrey v2 (🌻) is an AI fed by trashing the (Corp) cards you access as well as trashing the (Runner) cards you draw. (One hungry sunflower.)

Unlike Aumakua, you can't charge this up by spamming Archives (since cards that are currently already trashed can't be retrashed), but you can multicharge this by remote-breaching or multiaccessing (with enough credits for enough hits). Unlike Faust, you can't charge it up by just drawing cards (lol), and it's not just [1mu] (less memory for Imp’s, Botulus’s, et cetera).

nb. You can use Audrey’s “boost” to trash any card-in-grip at any paid-ability-window, which can clicklessly/suddenly:

• earn +$2 to pay off a Public Trail (if you had only $6).
• draw +1 card to survive an End of the Line (if you had only three cards in hand).

And Audrey v2 on a Knobkierie is like a “DIY Endurance” (lol).

Design: I love non-credit-based icebreakers like Audrey (it uses two different resources, cards in hand for boosting, and virus counters via breaches for breaking). However, I'd like the boost to be “predicated discard” (cf. Trash 1 non-_ card from your grip: …, or Dummy Box), to give the Corp some of that interesting "decisions under uncertainty" gameplay. For example, whether to rez a piece of ice with 7+ strength or wait, given a (known) Audrey v2 in play and three (unknown) cards in hand; if this were predicated on all but one card type (ie. Trash 1 non-resource card from your grip: +3 strength.), then the Corp can guess, but won't know (unless the grip was recently revealed, or the deck was built without resources, or something), whether the Runner has too many resources in hand to interface.

Flavor: Audrey II is from Little Shop of Horrors, and the quote is from Seymour (S3ym0ur).

en.wikipedia.org

Compare:

• a Gachapon crossed with Inject.
• the “red Rigging Up” or “red Career Fair”.

The Price will "fetch" you (draw+cast) the best installable from the top 4, and will net you $2 if the installable is costly enough (unless you milled only events and/or irrelevant/unaffordable non-events).

Synergies: Milling Strike Fund or Steelskin Scarring triggers them.

Note that if you can't afford any installations, you can't “fallback” to drawing (like, adding one to hand or keeping one on your deck, or something). Also note that you install from heap directly (you don't add to grip then install from grip, indirectly), which can trigger any “heap-matters” effects (like Exile: Streethawk, lol).

Design: In the RGB color-pie, Anarch can do card-selection, but can't do much tutoring (which is “infinite card-selection”). Compare Criminal tutoring an icebreaker program or run event, or Shaper fetching any program. While I don't want much red tutoring—maybe just for virus’es (like Djinn) or for sabotage, maybe not—I do want more “chaotic pseudo-tutoring” in red; like Frantic Coding was (“mill 25%+ to fetch a program”); or like a redshifted Spark of Inspiration would be (“cascade into a program”).

M.I.C. (aka. "military–industrial complex") is like a softened Border Control crossed with a harshened Enigma.

A Jinteki M.I.C. ("P.N.C.", aka. "pharmaceutical–narcotic complex"?) could be an AP with 🗑️: End the run unless the Runner suffers 1 net damage. and two ↳ Do 1 net damage. subs.

And an NBN Border Control ("Consent Manufacturing") could be an Observer with 🗑️: If the Runner is tagged, end the run. Otherwise, end the run unless the Runner takes 1 tag. and two ↳ Give the Runner 1 tag. subs.