[Crime/Scholar] Thorns

[victorybot]

I don't see any black/green game in this section, here is one that I've had good results with, and fun to play.

It allies a strong income, drawing power and good reactivity.

4 Discreet Calling
4 TU
3 Forced Charity
4 Rosa in Fiore

3 Nimble Thrust
3 PyP
4 Field Study
5 Scientific Espionage
3 Change of Plans

2 Salai
2 Antonio de Magianis
2 Fabio Orsini
2 Ezio
1 Leo

4 Assassins Guild
4 Secret Catacombs

In the current meta, where there is a lot of Sci Esp and In-depth Analysis, it is important to be on top of it, by Pyp your opponents own Sci Esp or counters early in the game (or big sites or combo elements...).

Also using FS with RiF instead of IDA discourages your opponent to throw his Sci Esp on the FS (when he doesn't have sites).

I have found that Fabio Orsini and Nimble thrust show a great synergy when it comes to stopping a rush as well. TU can be used to kill those Dante or AV, or later on Fabio to make him stronger.

Please suggest anything that would make it better

[Diomedia]

I've not tried it but at first glance I think Maybe you can find a replacement for Antonio.

If he is doing his job then you have no need for secret catacombs, also Orsini is going to kill him off as you have no health boosting cards in there. Just my thoughts

[victorybot]

Antonio was the latest addition to this after a loss against a strong all sites rush, but there could be some better options, what do you have in mind?

[Diomedia]

Well , I just ran through playing it in my head, I play 2x Antonio, he's taking down the sites in 2 regions, and now I have 4 copies of secret catacombs in my hand that I can't use. I love them both individually as cards but I think they don't synergise that well. Also if you putting 2 Orsinis down, that's goodbye to your Antonio.

On second thoughts I'd say , keep Antonio but put maybe one more in and put a different site in instead of SC and if I was playing Orsini , I would definitely play Lanz, just so I don't kill my own agents.

[Tuism]

Giovanni is great, he's a Mario for sites if you need to kill sites quick he's your man. Orsini doesn't synergies with Antonio well. Also nimble thrust really sucks. Rather pack more orsini - I love that guy

[victorybot]

OK I replaced the 2 antonio by Lanz, it looks great so far, adds early game threat to the deck.

I will keep nimble thrust for now though, adds 1 income and Orsini costs 5

[Diomedia]

I would have put Lanz in IF you keep Antonio and Orsini. Lanz is boosting your Antonio so he doesn't get killed by Orsini. If you take out Antonio, Lanz has nothing to boost, so he isn't being used to his full potential.

I'd try it with Antonio, Lanz and Orsini, and lose the secret catacombs, you might find it works better?

[Brontobeuf]

I think you may be low on ressource boosters early game. also, to feed FS, you may wat 5 RiF instead of 4.