[scholar/crime] : Malfatto the Pimp

[obdy]

Hi,

I liked Brontobeuf's idea for a more active courtisan's sequence, using 'Borgia tower' and 'Thieves guild'. My first idea was to replace 'Borgia Tower' with 'Castle San Angelo'... it works but it becomes a little dull again, 'sitting like a duck' as brontobeuf mentioned. The scoring is rather good, and 'Femme Fatale' almost becomes optional

... one idea led to another, this reminded me of an attempt of sequence I had built based on 'San Angelo' and 'Malfatto', and thus I thought that Malfatto would make a great pimp !

I don't believe it is of any better interest than any other courtisan's deck... I just like the name of the deck ... and does adapt itself rather good... wel... errr... as long as it's not facing a big fat site sequence.
I'm sure it can be improved and I'm so opened to suggestions

there it goes

INCOME AND DRAW
4 plentiful crop
4 forced charity (or knowledge is power)

ACTIONS
4 quick study
4 Femme fatale

THE GIRLS
4 Paola
4 Coy
4 Beguilin
4 Madonna
3 Teodora
3 Claudia as assassin
3 Claudia as scholar

THE PIMP
4 Malfatto

THE BROTHEL
5 Thieves guild


I generally use quick study to get the Thieve guild when it comes at the beginning of the game. I'm not even sure I'll keep it. I'm thinking about replacing it with a winning card.
I dunno... merchants guild, San Gimignano, Forli.... not very sexy.

Maybe 'Lassitude', which would match the topic, or scientific espionage.


Any idea ? Comment ?

[ironcladtrash]

I really like Malfatto and seeing different concepts for him. I like your idea for having you win with either Courtesan And Femme Fatale or, Thieves Guild and Malfatto. You are right I could see this being really weak against site decks. But keeping it inline with the Malfatto theme I think you could safely remove some Courtesans and add a few Giovanni Auditores.

[Joek]

Drop a monteriggioni in there, maybe?
My current courtesan deck has 3-4 merch guilds as backup.

[obdy]

Definitely ! A bouncer ! Yeah ! That rocks !

Now, after testing it a bit more, I found a lack of gold, for Malfatto and Madonna being quite greedy with their capacities. I got rid of the tutors, and put more drawing.

I got rid of the Claudia assassin, for being costly and slow from my perspective, check out :

INCOME AND DRAW
4 plentiful crop
4 forced charity
4 tactical upheaval

ACTION
4 Femme fatale

LADIES
4 Paola
4 Coy
4 Beguilin
4 Madonna
3 Teodora
3 Claudia the scholar

PIMP
4 Malfatto

BOUNCER
3 Giovanni Auditore

BROTHEL
5 Thives guild



I'm still doubting for Tactical Upheaval. I love this memory, for being such a swiss knife, but most of my agents have 0 power... Of course I can use Madonna to get them back, but... maybe more Forced charity, plentiful crop and Coy and Paola ?

[obdy]

Oh, and concerning Monteriggioni, of course it would make the Femme Fatale unblocable, but the other memories involved are only Forced Charity and Plentiful Crop, not the ones an opponent would priorities in blocking, so... I wouldn't use it there.

I'll try it this way. If I find Tactical Upheaval not suitable, maybe I'll try Merchant's guild... But I don't imagine a Brothel in a merchant's guild

[Pete]

Whores are wares too.

[obdy]

True, but not the kind you sell out in the outfront of a respectable organisation

... I'll give shots


.... when I get 3 more Merchant's guild

[Joek]

How about a secret catacombs or two? They fit the theme, kinda, and they'd really help vs big sites.

[ABXantos]

Hmmm I'll play around with a Crime/Scholar Femme Deck. I tried constructing one that ran a Merchant Guild Backup/Distraction.

[obdy]

May 29, 2012 20:19:48 GMT -5 Joek said:

How about a secret catacombs or two? They fit the theme, kinda, and they'd really help vs big sites.

I thought of it, but then I might lose the benifit of the Thives Guild, wouldn't I ?... While with Giovanni and Malfatto, I'm cool !

[ironcladtrash]

I couldn't figure out what to call Giovanni to keep the the pimp theme, the bouncer fits well. I think it looks better now the rest might be nitpicking. I don't like Forced Charity when your playing Green. Early in the game it can actually slow you down and I'd rather have Knowledge is Power, late in the game I would rather have In-depth Analyisis, but I also like having Quick Study too.

[obdy]

Well, there it goes now :

INCOME AND DRAW
4 plentiful crop
4 Knowledge is power
3 In depth analysis

ACTION
4 Femme fatale

LADIES
4 Paola
4 Coy
4 Beguilin
4 Madonna
4 Fiora
3 Claudia the scholar

PIMP
4 Malfatto

BOUNCER
3 Giovanni Auditore

BROTHEL
5 Thieves guild

... and it works out quite fine. not a killer deck, but all right