One of the best agenda, and it is neutral! Even at the cost of one influence, it is worth it.

A neutral agenda with a fake point, what a bargain. This throw off the math of the runner. Usually, it will mean that the corp need to score 3 agendas and the runner will need to score 4 agendas to win. While Global Food Initiative does not make you win faster, it make you lose slower... which will let you have the time to win.

For more math about it, you can check this video.

While losing slower is good as good a defense as any, you need to have a game plan that goes with it. Because you still need to be able to score it. And this agenda does not have the defense of other 3 points agendas like SDS Drone Deployment, Bellona, Degree Mill or City Works Project. And it does not provide you with tempo like Send a Message.

And finally, while one influence is not much, it still take that influence away from other pieces of tech that could win you the game. But for the power of a fake agenda point, it is well worth it.

The art is well made and the quote is on point with the agenda. It also explain the power of the agenda in the fiction (revealing this plan is not very damaging for the corp). But I struggle to understand why a bridge, that seems to be the Tower Bridge, has anything to do with some kind of welfare plan by a corporation. Still, a good design overall.

Now, this is interesting. A cost 0 for a trash cost of 4 is really advantageous. What could really benefit from having its trace boosted?

While tracer ices subroutines would be boosted, this upgrade would really incentize the runner to break the ice, rather than paying for the trace. Which can still tax the runner for sure.

But you can also boost upgrade in the server. Such as Warroid Tracker, Forced Connection, Intake and Drone Screen. Making those trace hurt that much more, making those upgrade either more likely to connect or more expensive for the runner to save themselve. Of note, Rutherford Grid is not persistant (unlike AMAZE Amusements) and if trashed first, will not do boost traces after. But at 4 to trash, it will basically do the same thing as if it was persistent.

You check here to see all the ices that can be boosted by Rutherford Grid.

While this all sound nice, this card would replace other card that can tax just as much, while actually protecting your server, like another ice. So, I feel it is better when used with upgrades that can really hurt the runner (like Warroid Tracker).

The lore and flavor of the card goes well with the name and the nice graphic it has. Well done.

Until recently, because Endurance was everywhere, this upgrade saw no play, since it basically had no effect. But now that Endurance has been banned (we are in Q2 2023), rig shooting is back.

As any passive tag is concerned, NBN: Reality Plus shine here. Put a tag, get 2 or draw 2, trash Keegan Lane to trash a program, now the runner cannot pass the next ice.

I really like it when a powerful effect remove the tag (or give a bad pub), it feels more fair.

Otherwise, this card is especially good if your ice suite is composed mainly from one or two ice type, making the effect of trashing a specific breaker fearsome. Some runner have only one copy of each breaker, which could lead to a prison effect.

Of course, against bin breakers (Paperclip, MKUltra and Black Orchestra), the effect is more like economic denial. I think you should not use this against those, but rather against other program that support them (like Leech, or economic program like Consume and Fermenter).

Also, this does not combine with Quantum Predictive Model and with IP Block, since it remove the condition for this those two are better.

Graphic, quote and name, all makes this sysop great. If only the subtype sysop had any mechanics related to it. Great design.

Current are banned and trace are getting phased out. This card has no future. Which is unfortunate, because it reverse the way trace are done, which changes the math greatly. If traces had stayed, this could have been a type of lock-down. But even then, it probably would have been too powerful.

While the graphic is nice and kind of old school cyberpunk, it could have been less abstract to embody more the idea of this card. The lack of lore or quote on it makes it even less appealing, for such a powerful card. Unfortunate.

A simple card, but a powerful effect. Trashing ALL ressources can be either devastating, or merely a bit annoying for the runner, depending on the board state.

Because you can do this with a single tag, this is still a big tag punishment! Of course, most runner won't float tags anymore, ever since End of the Line became a card to watch out for. But giving a tag is quite possible, with the help of cards like Distributed Tracing, Public Trail and Hard-Hitting News.

The All-Seeing I then can save you many credits and clicks when you want to trash ressources. At the low cost of 1, you can trash ALL ressources. And in the Q2 2023 meta, most runner have usually two or three ressources on the board.

Unless you are against Adam: Compulsive Hacker, trashing all the ressources of a runner will set them back but not win you the game directly. It will give you breathing space as a corp, like any economic denial would do. But against Adam: Compulsive Hacker, it will make that identity blank, by destroying all the directives.

Currently, Market Forces and Self-Growth Program are prefered, but at 1 influence, this tag punishment can be imported in any deck that could put a tag on the runner.

Of note, this will not pair well with The Outfit: Family Owned and Operated or any Weyland that intend to use Hostile Takeover or Too Big to Fail to get credits, because of the secondary effect of the card.

We can see Victoria Jenkins being as awesome and beautiful as ever. The art and quote perfectly encapsulate the effect and intention of the card. Perfect!