Apologies in ADVANCE

SilentBoss29 10

So! My second deck i have ever made, i took inspiration for this deck after facing an opponent who was using Pravdivost. I did not know this ID existed and as soon as i read the card i began to imagine the possibilities of combos, traps and ices who can benefit from that power directly.

The first element i began to design was ICE: I immediately began to experiment with a bunch of ices centered around Mestnichestvo and Vasilisa. Most of NBN ices i tried were not combining well, so i decided to finally add Weyland advancable ices and its working really well so far! I noticed i had some troubles with trojans so i added a Magnet, and problem (mostly) solved.

Next was economy: Daily Quest was a tentative choice but after playing with it a while i noticed some runners would really benefit from it, so i ended up using 2 Ubiquitous Vig, its a good advancement target and its very expensive for the runner, specially behind an ICE like Akhet or Mestnichestvo.

Now was Asset time: This was really tough, but the obvious choices were NGO Front, Spin Doctor and Rashida Jaheem. For the rest i added the Ubiquitous as stated before and added a federal fundraising to be able to control what i was drawing ensuring to keep my HQ useful and my R&D predictable.

Next: Operations; When my assets and ices were finally assembled operations were very intuitive: Business As Usual ensures that your advancements are fast and you can deal with some AI trojans, icebreakers or programs. Predictive Planogram was a bit weak and was rarely useful while subliminal was very very useful when it came to my hand so i ended up taking off the 2 planograms to add 1 subliminal and 1 ubiquitous for maximum profit instead.

Now the most clutch card of all: Vladisibirsk City Grid. I can't tell you how many games i have clutched with this card. The amount of security and time saved by this card is actually amazing. Let me explain: So you have an unstable server, probably the runner can get in no problem in next turn, you are 1 agenda point away from winning and have 1 agenda in your HQ and you have 1 or 0 tokens on Vladisibirsk. You are not going to jam the agenda there but you can set a trap, maybe with a NGO front, maybe with Ubiquitious. You install in and end turn. The runner begins it slams some resources, etc. etc. and now it runs any server. Maybe Akhet gives you an advancement on Vladisibirsk, maybe a Vasilisa, and dont forget the succesful run free advancement too. Now vladisibirsk has 2 advancement and maybe NGO has 1. The runner panicks and runs that server, spending +10 credits to get in, it reaches it and you pop the NGO front and they dont have enough money to trash Vladisibirsk, they end the turn. Now with just 3 clicks you can score your 4/2, just install, move the advancement from Vladisibirsk to the agenda and advance 2 times. And the best part is that this situation will happen multiple times in a match if you can identify these kind of situations. I would say that this combo is what gives this deck the winrate it gets me.

The agendas were easy to choose: Artificial Cryptocrash to make the runner lose money, Offworld office to win easy money, Project beale to score as a 5/3 and a Tomorrow's Headline to destroy vital resources.

So this is it and go have a blast like i have!!

On jinteki.net it has gotten me 70% winrate across 20 games!

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