Really? Is this REALLY what Netrunner needs?

Let's break it down. Mumbad City Hall is a stupidly, stupidly powerful card. It propels the Assetspam decks into an obscene powerlevel, has a frankly stupid interaction with Heritage Committee, and is more efficient than drawing and installing.

And now, for 2, , you can play ANY OPERATION IN YOUR DECK! Just by having this as a one-of in your deck and a City Hall on the table. This is madness. We already had an Asset toolbox more efficient than God himself, and now we have an Operation toolbox as well?

Think about it. Always having your Current online. Always having cash when you need it. Always being able to Interns back a clutch ICE that was trashed. Having a consistent Midseason threat. Always being able to find your random, one-off tech cards like Closed Accounts, Snatch and Grab or Power Shutdown. It's absurd. It's mad. It's terrifying.

So what happens now? Now that the corp essentially can play with over half their deck in their hands, and gets to pick and choose whatever they like? Is this good for the game?

Maybe I'm just being hyperbolic. Maybe I'm seeing ghosts where none exist. I really hope it is so, because of this is as powerful as it seems, I fear for us all.

New technology destroys the old.

The time for rotation has come, and with that, it's time to say goodbye old friend.

The Professor is a teacher. He taught me a great many things about Netrunner.

The Professor taught me the true extent of what a Shaper toolbox can do, by pushing the limits of what you could put in it. He taught me the limitations and strengths of Shaper in general. He taught me how to tune decks like no runner before him, thanks to his unique influence setup. He allows you infinite options for exploring new ideas, even as he forces you to evaluate every card you put in his curiculum.

No, The Professor will never turn any metas on their heads. He will never be the most powerful thing, featured on DotW for winning Nationals. He doesn't exist for the power players. He exists for the dreamers, the ones who want to try things rarely tried before. He exists for the underdogs, the ones who find satisfaction in taking bad cards and making them work, against all odds. He exists for the hopeful hearts, and creates inspiration in anyone who looks at the ID for the first time. And that's valuable.

I hope The Professor won't fall into the wastebasket of history. Maybe NISEI will let him enter the Hacker Hall of Fame, or give him a retrain in some fashion. Maybe he will find a place among the juggernauts of Eternal, though I doubt it. Or maybe he will simply grace the kitchen tables of fools like me who will struggle to let him go.

Rotation may take you out of Standard, but the lessons you taught me will not.

What is the appeal of this card?

Let's get the obvious bad parts of this card out of the way: yes, the Runner can trash this card and ALL the assets you've put on it for 5. That means, worst case scenario, the runner can trash four clicks and a bunch of credits worth of assets for cheap. So how do we stop this? By making it not cheap.

The payoff you get is twofold: first of all, you get your assets cheaper. This can be huge for economy assets like Adonis and Eve Campaign, more disruptive elements like Hostile Infrastructure and Elizabeth Mills, and even pure value like Public Support. In this game of ours, cash is king, and Worlds Plaza can set up an asset economy fast and cheap.

Secondly, you can defend your asset economy with a single row of ICE. This is the big apeal of the card, as the problem with Asset economies has always been that the runner can trash your stuff and you can never have enough ICE to protect them suffieiently while also scoring agendas. Worlds Plaza solves that problem by allowing you to make a four-deep server protecting your valuable assets.

I think Worlds Plaza is an undeniably powerful card that may put Asset economies back on the map outside of Jinteki: Replicating Perfection. Powerful enough to, even at 5 influence, splash out of faction. It enables you to create an asset economy without fear of #Imp, by ICEing up your assets, as well as protecting all of them with a single Ash 2X3ZB9CY or Marcus Batty.

Try the card in a glacier deck. You won't be dissapointed.

So, after about a dozen times of looking at this card, I realized something insane: this card is not Unique.

That means that when you have two or even three out, you get Legwork every time the Corp scores. With HQ Interface, you could conceivably access the entire hand. This is sick against Glacier, as Agendas will stock up in there in anticipation of a scoring window. It is also great against FA as it can help you even the race for 7 through hand pressure.

What seemed to be a cool, fringe effect may turn out to be a real force to be reckoned with, and may even contest Legwork as lategame HQ pressure.