Not terribly useful as a run stopper, but let's not expect fireworks at 1 cred to rez.
As it is, if the runner has no link, they are forced to pay 2 per run not to lose cards and deny the corp the intel, which is good for early game economy.
Still, the most important thing about this card for me is that it allows the corp to interact with the runner in a different way and I wouldn't mind if more of this effect showed up.

Trashing a runner's card? Yes please. I think it's a good threat. What if they only have a few breakers and they've not drawn them yet?

I actually like this card. Not to say that it's great or anything, but it can be useful in a control aspect.
If you assume that every card in a deck has a reason, looking at 1 card and discarding can be brutal. If you can target economy cards or specific ice breakers it could buy you time or even win a game. I agree with spectre- I really like the effect and hope to see more "control" type cards in the future.

I like this card too. Works well in my NBN tag deck.

I know I'm late to the party, but this is a pretty awesome card. This is a trace battle where your money isn't wasted winning the trace! If you spend 10 credits think how you can SCREW the runner? Put all his abilities, minus any tutors or other backhanded ways to draw, in the front then put his hardware, then programs, then money (assuming he has no income generation yet)

Corp could get WAY ahead. Runner must break this ice and strength of 2 with a cost of 1? Awesome value.

Oh, and what if corp has 15-20 credits? How many times does the runner have a card in his hand that shuffles the deck? Game over.

What balances the card is the low strength. If I'm the corp I use upgrades or chum on this to try to steal the game.

I know I'm late to the party, but this is a pretty awesome card. This is a trace battle where your money isn't wasted winning the trace! If you spend 10 credits think how you can SCREW the runner? Put all his abilities, minus any tutors or other backhanded ways to draw, in the front then put his hardware, then programs, then money (assuming he has no income generation yet)

Corp could get WAY ahead. Runner must break this ice and strength of 2 with a cost of 1? Awesome value.

Oh, and what if corp has 15-20 credits? How many times does the runner have a card in his hand that shuffles the deck? Game over.

What balances the card is the low strength. If I'm the corp I use upgrades or chum on this to try to steal the game.

What kind of runners are you playing that can't break a 2 strength sentry? And even if this does go off once a game when a runner face checks ice for some reason without any sentry breakers. What's the worst that can happen? You spend all of your money to see a couple of cards and trash 1 of them? That's supposed to scare a runner? As far as arranging the deck you're forgetting that the runners have a ton of tutors that will just reshuffle the deck so there goes that master plan. Finally if the corp somehow has 15 or 20 credits then the runner isn't face checking ice without a sentry breaker. When the corp has 15 creds I'm not thinking oh crap he might have Data hound. I'm thinking oh crap he might have Janus.

Also as far as how many times does the runner have a card that reshuffles the heap back into the stack? This might just be my meta, but about 90% of the runners I play against run Levy AR (including me), so in short... a lot.

I know they can break it, but my point is they have to break it. Your point is they can, but then you argue they don't have to? Which is it? It costs 1 to rez and yes it isn't that strong but it will usually cost the runner something.

And I said a card in your hand, not your deck. That is another point - if the runner doesn't break it and the corp spends a lot to trace, then any shuffle cards will go to the bottom.

I know they can break it, but my point is they have to break it.

What ice out there does the runner not have to break? By that logic almost every ice in the game is awesome because the runner has to break almost every piece of ice.

Your point is they can, but then you argue they don't have to? Which is it? It costs 1 to rez and yes it isn't that strong but it will usually cost the runner something.

My point is it gives the runner options if he hasn't set up his rig yet and is actually afraid of losing something then the runner can easily break it. If the runner is all set up and doesn't care about losing anything out of his deck then he doesn't even break it. The point is that it gives the runner options. As a corp you don't want to give the runner options. Also it costs 1 to rez but then you have to boost the trace in order to actually have any significant effect besides "trash the top card of the runners stack".

And I said a card in your hand, not your deck. That is another point - if the runner doesn't break it and the corp spends a lot to trace, then any shuffle cards will go to the bottom.

Here's a list of cards that will reshuffle the deck: special order, SMC, Test Run, Levy AR Lab Access, Replicator, Rabbit hole, and Djinn. Some of those cards aren't that common but some are the most popular cards in the game. So you just payed 7 or 8 creds to rearange the runner's deck and with one card he can completely negate that effect. The corp is out a lot of money and the runner is happy. Lets say that it actually works the way you say 1 out of 10 times. the other 9 you're going to wish you had some other card besides data hound. Sorry that doesn't sound like awesome ice to me.

Sorry that doesn't sound like awesome ice to me.

That's because it's not.