In his otherwise extensive review, chris_walker says he's not surprise that this card didn't get a review for so long. I strongly disagree, and I'm surprise it didn't get any, since from the 3 HB identities from Creation & Control, Cerebral Imaging is the only one that have seen some success at a time.

(Also, I wrote this review a few days ago and let it sleep in a text file, expecting it to be the first CI review. Chris stole my thunder, and some commenters already made the points I will do in this. But no worries, of course.)

It is first notable to be arguably the weirdest Corp identity of the game. And when it was released, nobody gave a serious look at this one. But then after, a few cards helped it, namely Green and Blue Level Clearance. For CI, getting both draw and money is a good deal. Out of faction, Celebrity Gift has been a good help too. Also Restructure as neutral.

And soon, a CI archetype emerged that has known quite a good success with the following plan :

• protect your centrals and grow your hand,
• score an Efficiency Committee from hand with 2 Biotic Labors,
• then chain 2 other Efficiency Committee with Shipment from SanSan,
• then score your last agenda with the same shenanigan. Reclaim your Shipment, or your Biotics if you lose a Committee.

Then a second flavor of this appears :

• add 2x SEA Source and 2x Scorched Earth in your deck,
• flatline the Runner with a simple SEA Source/Scorched/Scorched if you can,
• flatline the Runner with a SEA Source/Scorched/Scorched/Efficiency counters/Recamation Order/Scorched(/Scorched) if you must.

Heck, there's stories of Runner dying while sporting 2 Plascrete Carapaces and a full hand. That’s simple, for a short time, before NEH was released, the main meat-kill archetype was this.

In case you wonder why CI is more efficient than other identities for such a plan, it’s because keeping your hand growing without bothering for remote server really helps to assemble the pieces of otherwise quite clanky combos.

That is, CI is great for combo deck. Some Power Shutdown + Accelerated Beta Test deck have seen come various success.

Then it has fallen out of flavor but in a faction that suffers to be trusted by one freaking good identity with others desperately running after, CI, not despite but thanks to its weirdness, has shown some success. I hope it will again.

Lots of Risk, Little Reward... Unless you play it right

Functionally similar to the Runner resource Theophilius Bagbiter, this ID will bestow serious bragging rights to any player who is able to use it successfully. See Scorched Imaging decklist by PeekaySK as a masterful example of recursion & Scorch that was used to successfully overcome the obstacles that Cerebral Imaging: Infinite Frontiers puts up.

Combos

IQ is a nice for for this ID, get it installed early when HQ hand size is small/empty then they can become very touch to get through later in the game.

Ashigaru another ice that could be quite wicket with this ID since it's based on hand size.

Panic Button could provide the corp with lots of options for getting more cards or keeping the runner out of a server if perhaps used in combo with Ashigaru & IQ

A good economy. - You are going to need ways of constantly generating income efficiently

Astounding financial discipline - A player that Dave Ramsey would be proud of.

Research Station & Cybernetics Court could go a long way towards mitigating the negative aspects of this ID

Blue Level Clearance both provides economy & card which addresses both the strength & weaknesses of Cerebral Imaging: Infinite Frontiers

Jackson Howard or Archived Memories could be used not so much an offensive but a defensive backup plan in case the corp runs out of money and ends up trashing cards that need to get out of archives

Hide at bottom strategy: With Cerebral Imaging: Infinite Frontiers ID & Daily Business Show installed and a slow draw strategy along with a protected R&D it may be possible to reserve a number of agendas keeping them out of HQ. With fewer or possibly no agendas in HQ, this ID is isn't as risky and HQ size could be allowed to grow a bit more allowing more options. Finally Shannon Claire could be used to undo the madness when the corp is ready to score.

Scorched Earth & SEA Source etc could combo with this ID to tag & bag the runner since the corp will inevitably always have a lot of in reserve that could be used in one big push to flat-line the runner.

Pros

You'll always tend to have a pile of money, which can be used for 1 big game-ending push

It may be possible that you could have like 35+ cards in your HQ, making it bigger than your R&D. Think of the power! Start practicing your evil villain laugh

If you have an agenda or two in your 35 card HQ, they are probably pretty safe, you may even be begging the runner to run on HQ, anything to draw attention away from the dwindling cards in your R&D.

If through some miracle you are able to pull off a win in a competitive tourney with this ID people will high-five you in the comments below this review!

As you spend turn after turn collecting income and not playing cards from your HQ, your opponent will rue the day he/she sat down to play with you.

Cons

As you spend turn after turn collecting income and not playing cards from your HQ, your opponent will rue the day he/she sat down to play with you.

Any slip up and agendas or other important cards will be picked up out of Archives by the runner

Judicious use of financial attack cards such as Account Siphon or Vamp etc could be devastating if the runner is able to time things well.

With your economy constantly being locked up, You risk being paralyzed from executing your strategy by facing sub-optimal choices in relation to the other cards in your HQ.

Summary

There is good reason why this ID hasn't been reviewed on this site up to this point. Most popular player ID's provide a unique bonus to the player, with little to no side effects. This ID is the antithesis of most in that it provides a severe negative with little to no benefit. This ID really cannot stand on it's own, it really needs combo cards that work with hand size etc, otherwise corp players rarely benefit from larger hand sizes in the way that the runners do so bottom line: Play with critical combos otherwise this ID shines best when viewed as a handicap, where an experience corp player can use this ID to help even the playing-field when playing against a novice player.

--It just saddens me when I see cards with no reviews. If you appreciated this review, please give a heart and I'll be encouraged to write more.