With the release of Terminal Directive, and many Criminals looking to Abagnale as the Criminal Decoder of choice, Peregrine may seem to be a distant second choice (or third, if you count Passport. But is it, really?

Abagnale has a cheaper install cost, and (generally) more efficient breaking cost while having the same strength and MU cost. The only exception is in the case of strength 5 Code Gates - of which you'll most likely face Fairchild 3.0, Tollbooth, and Mausolus - or strength 8 Code Gates, both of which are unique; Fairchild and Orion.

What about their extra abilities? Abagnale allows you to trash it to bypass ANY code gate, but unless you're packing extra Decoders, or have a reliable strategy to recur it, you better be stealing that last agenda. Once in the bin, it's also vulnerable to Ark Lockdown, Chronos Project, and the ability from Skorpios Defense Systems: Persuasive Power.

Armand "Geist" Walker: Tech Lord would also benefit from the trash ability, especially with Tech Traders to sweeten the deal.

Peregrine's ability not only requires you to pay to break subroutines, but also wants you to pay 2 more creds to derez that ICE. And that doesn't even include the cost and the click to re-install it!

When's a good time to use it's derez ability, then? When the Corp is too poor to rez other high strength Code Gates, and you can easily exploit in-faction Criminal econ cards such as Temüjin Contract paired along with Desperado to regain creds easily.

Los: Data Hijacker also has some indirect synergy with Peregrine, and works decently enough even without Compromised Employee or Ice Analyzer.

So, what's the conclusion? Peregrine is a narrow, specific hate card that excels at breaking some of the most common strength 5 Code Gates, but you definitely can't use it to derez ICE as easily (recklessly?) as Emergency Shutdown. If you are able to steer the board state to favorable conditions, though, you'll find out that few other breakers does 2 functions like Peregrine, saving you precious card slots for other Criminal tricks you want to pack.

A decent breaker against Glacier matchups, but you probably won't see this in Shaper or Anarch decks.

A solid piece of ice, with a couple of conditions.

1. Is every Runner in your meta packing Paperclip?
2. Are you playing a glacier deck?

If you answered "yes" to both questions, then this is the ice for you. With Paperclip breaking barriers more efficiently than Corroder, Seidr Adaptive Barrier is a good contender against Eli 1.0 to tax the Runner out.

Against Eli 1.0, Paperclip will usually cost 3 to break (or 2 with a Datasucker token).

Against Seidr, Paperclip will cost 3 to break if there's another ice besides Seidr protecting the same server. Every single ice on top of that just makes it's more taxing for Paperclip. The extra 1 rez cost compared to Eli 1.0 is also offset by the fact that you can't click through Seidr.

Seidr also happens to have exactly the same amount of of influence as Eli 1.0, so decks that originally imported Eli 1.0 should consider replacing it with this.

You probably don't want to rez this card as an early game gearcheck, though. But that's what Vanilla is for.

Many people may be dismissive of Sunny as her 2 doesn't seem to justify her min. deck size of 50, but she's actually worth a second look.

Sunny is actually the polar opposite of Leela Patel: Trained Pragmatist. While Leela is inherently better against Fast Advance decks, Sunny works better against Glaciers.

Cards like Underworld Contact work with her right away without the need for any additional support cards, and with her in-faction Cloud breakers (GS Sherman M3, GS Shrike M2, GS Striker M1), you might want to consider throwing in some Data Folding.

Her console, Security Nexus, costs a whopping 8, but with a high enough link (or enough credits), Sunny essentially gets a free/cheap inside job on ANY ice you choose.

The only problem is getting enough creds and clicks to play all these cards down. Cards like Career Fair, Modded, Datasucker and Multithreader can help with installing cards and making runs cheaper, but you'll want to put down 3x of these because of that 50 card deck size, and it also eats up influence pretty quickly.

If the Corp hasn't won yet by the time Sunny is set up, then they are in for a brutal late game, as no server is safe. Popular cards like Archangel, Assassin and even Ash 2X3ZB9CY are pretty much neutered when you have 5 or 6 , and Security Nexus helps you get by annoying cards like Tollbooth. Even 5 or 6 ICE remotes aren't safe with proper use of Security Chip.

Just don't bring her to a NEH Fastrobiotics heavy meta, they'll score out 7 points before you get a chance to say "Globalsec".