Below are the most efficient Ice against Faust. The list is in terms of Faust’s cards-to-break through against the Corp’s credits-to-rez, ordered from most to least efficient. The cutoff is at 2/3 (cards/credits) efficiency, but to be confusing, the list is formatted with the “cost/cards” listed next to each Ice. =P
BARRIER:
Paper Wall (0/1)
Pachinko (1/3)
Wraparound (2/4)
Snowflake (1/2)
Ice Wall (1/1)
Meru Mati (2/2)
Eli (3/3)
TMI (3/3)
Galahad (2/2)
Hive (5/4)
Spiderweb (4/3)
Markus 1.0 (4/3)
NEXT Silver (3/2)
Wall of Static (3/2)
Rainbow (3/2)
CODE GATE:
Turing (N/A)
Bandwidth (0/3)
Lockdown (0/3)
Marker (0/2)
Pop-up Window (0/1)
Crick (1/3)
Chum (1/2)
Yagura (1/2)
Minelayer (1/2)
Builder (2/3)
Inazuma (3/4)
Hudson 1.0 (3/4)
Viper (3/3)
NEXT Bronze (2/2)
Little Engine (5/5)
Quandary (1/1)
Checkpoint (4/4)
Sensei (3/3)
Victor 1.0 (3/3)
Wendigo (2/2)
Bullfrog (3/3)
Cell Portal (5/4)
Hourglass (5/4)
Victor 2.0 (5/4)
Enigma (3/2)
RSVP (3/2)
Shiro (6/4)
Rainbow (3/2)
SENTRY:
Swordsman (N/A)
Burke Bugs (0/1)
Searchlight (1/3)
Pup (1/2)
Hunter (1/2)
Matrix Analyser (1/2)
Archer (4/6)
Caduceus (3/3)
Gutenberg (2/2)
Muckraker (5/5)
Cortex Lock (2/2)
Gemini (3/3)
Komainu (5/5)
Dracō (1/1)
Data Hound (1/1)
Zed 1.0 (2/2)
Ichi 1.0 (5/4)
Architect (4/3)
Errand Boy (4/3)
Negotiator (4/3)
Virgo (4/3)
Shinobi (7/5)
Shadow (3/2)
Tsurugi (6/4)
Sherlock 1.0 (6/4)
Rainbow (3/2)
I don’t mean this to apply to Faust, necessarily, but while doing this list, I noticed that Chum and Little Engine have an intriguing interaction, and it gives the runner an interesting decision: “Would I rather lose 3 cards or gain 5 credits?” With Faust, you would always break Chum.