Everything about this card suggests to me that it was printed as an inside joke among the designers at Fantasy Flight; this card is anything but tyrannical. For 7 credits, you’ll receive a generous 0 subroutines. Spending 7 credits on any ice is already a huge tempo hit, but at least the big hitters like Heimdall 1.0 or Tollbooth are taxing enough to be worth their cost. Barring any supporting cards, you’ll have to invest 1 click and a credit (we’re at 9 or more credits now for those keeping track) to be at parity with Bastion; at this point though, you could just stack two Bastions for the same price.

Let’s run these cards through the acid (Corroder) test: Tyrant (with one advancement) = 3 credits to break vs. Bastion x 2 = 6 credits to break.

This is just unforgivable inefficiency. At least with Woodcutter (another awkward ‘rez THEN advance’ ice) and Corporate Troubleshooter you could theoretically win the game.

Back to the joke thing. It’s been a long time since I read the Bible, but didn’t the Hebrews escape Egypt?

I think this card is sort of viable in Tennin Institute deck, but other than that, this really is a toothless piece of ice —
without saying that morning star breaks it for 1 cred whatever the number of advancement tokens on it. —
I can't see this ever being good, but Woodcutter might get a new lease on life with PAD Factory. Runner plans for Ice Wall; gets his hand shredded out of Weyland instead. —
It might work better against Lady if you can put 5 counters on it. But at strength 4 it'd probably just get Atmaned. —
The mechanic is meant to reliably tax the runner more the more you advance it. Anything except Morning Star needs at least one additional credit to break this. You want to rezz him early and advance him once per turn. Sadly he will be parasited by then. —
Did some silly moves with this and Sub Boost. :D —