[Faith/Scholar] Washout

weltista
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[Faith/Scholar] Washout Mar 12, 2012 4:57:45 GMT -5

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Post by weltista on Mar 12, 2012 4:57:45 GMT -5

Washout (G-R).

This is a repost from toucharcade, but since then I played this deck for a while, plus opened a few more busters =).

The idea was to build the deck around Impending Pandemic. IMO this card has a good potential, not sure that following deck fully utilizes it.

Win:
1x Juno
3x Leonardo

Accel:
5x Plentiful crop
5x Knowledge is Power
5x Merchant Ship
4x Capable Carpenter
5x Basilica Di San Pietro

Draw:
4x In-depth analysis
2x Family Heirloom

Control, etc.:
3x Impending Pandemic
2x Venezia, San Polo District
1x Animus Reboot
5x Ritual Sacrifice
3x Doomsday
4x Benvenuto
2x Ancestral Discovery
1X Scientific Espionage
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The key card (aside from Juno -) -- Impending Pandemic. It slows the opponents rush and in the same time lets you reuse small land and unit mana accel. Plus it goes in a nice combo with Doomsday, Leonardo and Venezia.

The rest pretty obvious -- once mana pool reaches 30 we bring Juno.

Unfortunately there are too many starter decks out there, so I can't say for sure if it can stand a real challenge. Comments are appreciated.

Tuism
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[Faith/Scholar] Washout Mar 12, 2012 5:36:50 GMT -5

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Post by Tuism on Mar 12, 2012 5:36:50 GMT -5

I'm also looking at building a deck around impending pandemic, haven't decided on a deck yet

But the thought is to take advantage of coming-into-play effects, kinda like Bronto's visiting venezia deck, in agents and sites, and lots of cheap things that can get dropped quickly after a pandemic.

But it's just not making sense to me yet. Valuable come-into-play effect agents/sites are too expensive to run and cheap cards are too useless to re-play.

I think your set has good potential, but I'd maybe look at less actions and more synergies with pandemic - so things that can bounce and have an effect when re-played.

Yo probably need some more tutors than 2 family heirloom, cos it looks like you're searching for a lot of loose cards, too. Not sure if Benvueto is god for this cos the theme here is not necessarily grave-digging.

Good luck with the idea

I'll share if I find anything worthwhile

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[Faith/Scholar] Washout Mar 15, 2012 4:15:09 GMT -5

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Post by weltista on Mar 15, 2012 4:15:09 GMT -5

Thanks for the comments!

It seems that this particular deck isn't that competitive. Chances to win vs decent blue contol are minimal (had some experience yesterday).

So perhaps you right, it doesn't make that much sense ATM. )

Tuism Official Nitpicker AKA Design team (also sells skincare products) - currently under the assumption he looks like John Wayne. Enjoys Gardening, ACR and screenprinting on shirts. Can identify several different plant species in the wild. Steven Tu (gamecentre) - I like to break forum headers www.twitter.com/tuism Posts: 3,617	[Faith/Scholar] Washout Mar 15, 2012 4:36:08 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Tuism on Mar 15, 2012 4:36:08 GMT -5 I wonder if there's merit in decking a deck with tons of income generating sites and agents, and playing pandemic to bounce and play again, effectively doubling the income.... and then using that for something big Hmmm
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Pete Administrator Posts: 1,183	[Faith/Scholar] Washout Mar 15, 2012 4:54:33 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Pete on Mar 15, 2012 4:54:33 GMT -5 Does pandemic put all cards in the archive back into your hand?

UnCL0NED Administrator Posts: 369	[Faith/Scholar] Washout Mar 15, 2012 5:21:46 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by UnCL0NED on Mar 15, 2012 5:21:46 GMT -5 ^^ No, only cards in play and the agents in your headquarters.

Tuism
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[Faith/Scholar] Washout Mar 15, 2012 16:37:27 GMT -5

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Post by Tuism on Mar 15, 2012 16:37:27 GMT -5

I tried to build something of a pandemic deck, but I found this to be a bit of a bust...

5 knowledge is power
3 engineer's workroom
4 rosa in fiore
4 forced charity
5 palazzo library
2 venezia, san polo district
3 scholar's den
3 behind closed doors
5 scientific espionage
5 assassin's guild
1 academy of physic
2 secret catacombs
5 pending pandemic
3 leonardo da vinci

Idea is to accelerate income, drop stuff, bounce and drop again, removing stuff with the black sites. This concept is very flexible as it can work for sites AND agents, I wanted to use agents and sites but found that diluting it meant I needed two kinds of tutors if I wanted to go searching for solutions.

The black Mercenary that gives -1/-1 to all agents would have been a good addition to control rushing opponents... And maybe using all 3 site slots and 6 agents slots would be a good idea in bouncing and replaying...

But meh, I'm not getting this to work, hopefully someone finds something worthwhile out of this

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Post by weltista on Mar 12, 2012 4:57:45 GMT -5

Post by Tuism on Mar 12, 2012 5:36:50 GMT -5

Post by weltista on Mar 15, 2012 4:15:09 GMT -5

Post by Tuism on Mar 15, 2012 4:36:08 GMT -5

Post by Pete on Mar 15, 2012 4:54:33 GMT -5

Post by UnCL0NED on Mar 15, 2012 5:21:46 GMT -5

Post by Tuism on Mar 15, 2012 16:37:27 GMT -5