I played something similar at my FLGS this weekend, opting for 2x Plascrete and 2x Legwork over the 1-of Infiltration and Bank Job. It was ace, and I agree on the 1 RDI. I played against a combination of fairly standard good-stuff NBN, HB glacier, and RP glacier. Definitely performed well. I can see how the 1-of Infiltration would be useful, but not sure I’d cut the 2nd Legwork. Maybe dump the Bank Job for a 2nd Legwork, since you’re only running 2x SOT and don’t want to stretch them too thin between Infiltration / Legwork?
I built both decks myself to weigh in on RDI vs. Clone Chip. Some initial tweaking, I made the same changes you did to mediohxcore’s deck (-1 Infiltration, -1 Bank Job, +1 Plascrete, +1 Legwork), and -2 Infiltration, +1 Emergency Shutdown, +1 Plascrete on the spags/dashakan deck. I’m also trying out a list with Atman in it. Now it’s just a matter of determining which one best suits my playstyle… =)
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Cut the plascretes and play the money game. if you’re that worried about scorch, a decoy is better against everything except nbn scorch
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Plascrete helps more against Punitive Counter-strike.
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Even with a plascrete out, I usually wind up paying for the punitive trace or taking the damage to hand to keep the plascrete. You can play around it the same way as scorch, keep money and cards in hand
You can certainly get away with no Plascretes vs Weyland, (though having one or two helps). It’s NBN and Jinteki PE/Nisei Dvision that it helps the most against, as NBN can tag in any number of ways, many of which are hard to play around, (Breaking News, Midseasons with an early money lead), and Jinteki just has a whole assload of damage, (and you can do a whole lot to counter the work compression of running into Snare/Cerebral Cast if you just have 1 somewhere. It’s also potentially important against CI, who you might have a hard time staying high on money against without floating tags.
I think I really, really, really need to start playing x1 Posted Bounty.
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against nbn, yes. nbn scorch is a tricky matchup if you’re not running plascretes, and I haven’t seen the nisei division scorch yet, so I couldn’t tell you for that, but against CI I’d definitely rather have a decoy than a plascrete. going through a plascrete costs them a lot less than going through a decoy if you bank ~8-10 credits
if weyland could install advance advance and get away with it, they wouldn’t be having problems right now.
CI is just going to recur the Scorch the following turn, so, Decoy buys you one turn. Even 2 Plas isn’t a great defense v. CI if they get built up. You just need to punish their econ severely, and Legwork repeatedly.
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Because we’ve already establish the answer to Lotus is simple, right? Knight or Zu or Gordian! 
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…and Knight is the best! (or Femme) 
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I thought Atman was best? 
OMG, you’re right. Atman is best!! (the highest influence, though…)
Atman at 4 does solve both Lotus Field, and everything else with those Datasuckers. No good cut for her though.
I’m thinking about changing my Anarch rig Criminal deck from Andy to Ken Tenma to have extra inf for Atman in case Lotus field ends up being played.
What are your plans for making the most of Tenma’s ability and mitigating the lack of card advantage (in comparison to Andy’s 9-card opener/mulligan)? AS and Dirty Laundry alone don’t make his ability (and influence) worth losing the 9 card hand.
I think in general, downgrading from Andy to Tenma to play an Andy-style control Criminal deck is silly. Tenma plays best as a Gabe wannabe IMO.
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What about Ninja… ?
You see Ninja before you care about Ninja, if you care about Ninja at all.
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