ECG Lockdown Pravdivost Consulting

For the Emerald City Grid Lockdown (Remastered Edition) Tournament. Lockdown points:

• 2 Pravdivost Consulting: Political Solutions
• 1 Project Beale
• 2 Artificial Cryptocrash
• 1 Authenticator

First time playing Pravdivost Consulting: Political Solutions and it sure is fun. The rough game plan behind this deck is to score out a few things early while you can, hang on through the midgame with Daily Business Show and by baiting runs into the scoring remote with assets and upgrades, and then hopefully the runner starts floating tags at some point and you can close out with the tag punishment cards.

This actually played out surprisingly well, won a game with exactly that strategy and lost two others that were close. I'm definitely inspired to try building a non-lockdown Pravdivost Consulting: Political Solutions deck, for example with Mestnichestvo since that definitely plays well here but I couldn't spare the lockdown points for. NAPD Cordon was also brought up as a great include in a deck like this, and that absolutely would have helped me get some agendas out in the mid-game.

One of the failings of this deck was that I tried to fit two big strategies in: advanceable cards and associated tricks

• Ubiquitous Vig
• Vladisibirsk City Grid
• Trick of Light
• Akhet
• Ice Wall
• Vasilisa

and tag-related shenanigans

• Orbital Superiority
• Backroom Machinations
• Greasing the Palm
• Oppo Research
• Predictive Planogram
• Shipment from Vladisibirsk
• AMAZE Amusements
• Authenticator
• Funhouse
• F2P

which often left me split between the two strategies. Lots of times I didn't know which path I should follow. I like my decks to have a simple plan! Next Pravdivost Consulting: Political Solutions deck I build I'll try for a more coherent gameplan.

That was my first ever netrunner tournament! Huge thanks to Colin for organizing and everyone for the games, tips, and friendly environment :D