I've always had a really hard time piloting Criminal decks. First, big plus is that it's got the draw efficiency of Diesel. Yeah, it's a priority event, so it's not strictly as efficient as Diesel, but it's still great. As a side benefit, you can use this to screw the corp as necessary. If HQ is full, now they'll have 9 cards in hand at the start of their turn. If HQ is empty, now they're a prime target for Legwork, or Sneakdoor + HQI buggery.

Force them to add new cards to HQ faster than they want, and then start slamming into it for those sweet sweet points. All the while, you're drawing into your tools to get in easier. Just awesome.

This card is mostly punishing HB and NBN since they are the only factions with 6 3/2's available to them Accelerated Beta Test & Project Vitruvius, AstroScript Pilot Program & Project Beale.

Seems best played once the corp has scored 4 or 5 points (depending on the spread). There's definitely something to be said about forcing your opponent to score a 3/1, 3/2, 4/2, or 5/3 as a 4/1, 4/2, 5/2, or 6/3...

Pros

• Economy booster for 1 and 1.
• Great combo in Noise: Hacker Extraordinaire. It is a Virus, so it can get 1 bonus from Grimoire, 1 discount from Cyberfeeder, and can be sold to Aesop's Pawnshop. You can also install it onto a Scheherazade to improve the returns, but isn't necessary for a sustained economy. Déjà Vu lets you recur these numerous times.
• Can effectively store 3 for later use (cannot be lost from Reversed Accounts or Closed Accounts.

Cons

• Wasn't printed as Anarch card to help them save on influence.

Pros

• Breaks high strength Ice for cheap up front cost of 3
• Works well with recursion and e3 Feedback Implants for longer term use.
• Doesn't self trash (for Aesop's Pawnshop, Scavenge) when empty.

Cons

• Can only break 3 subroutines.
• High influence cost of 4.
• Doesn't self trash (for Test Run, Clone Chip) when empty.

Pros

• Increases cost to access your servers by (under most circumstances) 1 per Ice on a server.
• No influence cost if in-faction currents aren't very good.
• Turns off runner current. So far this hasn't been a huge concern since corporation currents are more powerful as of writing this review (end of Lunar Cycle). This will become increasingly important once runner Currents start to surpass the strength of Net Celebrity.

Cons

• Increased tax is dependant on Ice and Icebreaker suite of both players. Against common fixed strength breakers like Mimic, a Tsurugi or Komainu will not cost more to get through.
• Historically hasn't proved worthy of deck space. Deck space is extremely tight, and adding a tax of 1-3 at the cost of a card in your deck is tough to justify.