Design: Valentão is a “soft” illicit that drains credits before comparing credit pools.

• You can detag to skip the badpub (unlike “hard” illicit's).
• You'll end the run if, for example, you had $4 and they had $7 before the encounter, (because you'll reach $6 and they'll drop to $5). Which is like a “pseudo-trace-attempt” (cf. ↳ Trace [4]. If successful, end the run.).

Compare: Whitespace crossed with a Veritas (and a Muckraker).

Flavor: In Brazilian Portuguese, “valentão” seems to mean “bully”.

en.wiktionary.org

PS. A Jinteki Valentão could “drain” cards (like Vampyronassa does) before comparing hand sizes: ↳ Do 1 net damage. ↳ You may draw 1 card. ↳ If there are more cards in HQ than in the grip, end the run.

(EDIT) Piranhas has been printed in this (mini?)cycle, which is also a $5/6s/3↳ codegate, also with take 1 bad publicity or remove 1 tag illicit-ness, and that also ‘drains’ a value (from the Runner to the Corp) before comparing those values; but it's in NBN and it drains cards-in-hand.

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”.

EDIT: Design-wise, Debbie’s Whenever …, place 1[$] on this. trigger (differing from Ken’s The first time each turn …, gain 1[$].) alongside her [click]: … spend hosted credits … action (similar to Pennyshaver’s [click]: … take hosted credits …) does two main things:

• Lets a trigger be unlimited without being unbalanced (like Desperado was): You might play three run events in a turn, but those three hosted credits aren't spendable until you first spend a click. But, you still get rewarded for playing as many run events as you can (not just "enough to play one run event a turn on almost every turn").
• Sets up an interesting tension: The longer you wait to “withdraw”, the more efficient the “withdrawal” becomes. But the longer you wait, the more “unsubsidized” basic-runs you might be doing; and for a resource (unlike a hardware), the more vulnerable those credits get.

I really like this.

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.