Virtual Service Agent is an “anti-non-decoder” code gate, as Wraparound is an “anti-non-fracter” barrier (both being cheap NBN ice). While the latter just asks you to have some fracter, the former asks you to use (and reuse) the decoder you have. So if you don't keep buzzsawing VSA fair and square, you'll keep taking 1 tag (and losing $1 too).

AirbladeX (JSRF Ed.) prevents three “when encountered” triggers and/or points of net damage, and is charge-able.

Compare: Hunting Grounds crossed with a Feedback Filter.

Flavor: Padma's vehicle was a big boat, Arissana's vehicle is a pair of rollerblades. Also, Asmund Pudlat being a blue “weapons-matter” card, I'm hoping for a green “vehicles-matter” card (once enough bikes, hover-bikes, cyber-bikes, and space-bikes have been printed).

PS. I wish Arissana could flash this in against a rezzed AP though, like she can flash in a splashed Laser Pointer.

Downtown Deb earns credits when you play run's, and can spend those credits during her own “pseudo-basic” run any server ability.

Compare: Ken "Express" Tenma: Disappeared Clone, crossed with a Trickster Taka or Fencer Fueno.

For example, if Ken installs Deb, you'll earn $2 a turn by playing a run event and then “Debbie-running”.

Synergies (here's some standard-legal criminal/neutral run-events):

• Inside Job
• S-Dobrado
• Tread Lightly
• Overclock
• Legwork
• Jailbreak
• Hot Pursuit
• Dirty Laundry
• Bravado
• Pinhole Threading
• Diversion of Funds
• Concerto
• Carpe Diem

Saci punishes the Corp for rez-zing a hosted piece of ice, and rewards the Runner for derez-zing that piece of ice.

Compare:

• Keros Mcintyre, also rewards ice-derezzing by gaining credits, but is global although once-per-turn.
• Compromised Employee, also punishes ice-rezzing by gaining credits, but is also global.
• Cache, also a $3-for-$1 (ie. +$2) program, which can be built around to net more credits or to earn credits multiple times (by placing virus counters, recurring virus cards, and so on).

Synergies (ice derez):

• Emergency Shutdown
• "Baklan" Bochkin
• Tranquilizer

Flavor: in Brazilian folklore, Saci (pronounced like "sassy" in English) is a one-legged red-capped guy who can teleport. (edited to add the comments by @Anzekay: Saci can transform into a striped cuckoo, the bird in the artwork, or a dust devil, one of the lines in the flavor text.)

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Design: Building around “derezzing-matters” sounds fun, but maybe it should cost $0 (like No Free Lunch)? Or maybe it could have a server-wide “on derez” trigger but still keep the host-specific “on rez” trigger (like Monkeywrench)?

Note that:

• It cannot be flashed in by Arissana in response to a piece of ice being rezzed.
• It punishes Haas-Bioroid's derez costs (eg. Élivágar Bifurcation) and thus could hate its “derez-to-rerez” theme, but it's not global.

Shibboleth is an early-game higher-base-strength-than-install-cost decoder.

Note that Shibboleth is the only “unthreat” in The Automata Initiative (ie. the only card with a negative ability under a Threat _ → … flag), being better earlier and worse later. These two expanded templatings would be equivalent:

• base [3s] and If either player has 4, 5, and/or 6 agenda points, this program gets −2 strength.
• base [1s] and If both players have 3, 2, 1, and/or 0 agenda points, this program gets +2 strength.

Flavor: A shibboleth (like a Passport) tells your state/megacorp where you're from, and thus a fake accent (like a fake ID) can let you flee to safety. The flavor text is a quote from Mercury (where the "accent" would be an unfree Nico's body language, speech patterns, cerebral imaging, or something like that).

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