[Faith/Scolar] Site Gunman

[TemplarTyler]

This has become my main deck since my old (Slightly updated) Learned Nobles (Now out of date) which until I have more Suleiman and Cesare will be left out of date I fear.

However I present to you my site deck:

Site
4 Basilica de san Pietro
3 Byzantine Church
2 Yerebatan Cistern
3 Basilica di Santa Maria Novella
5 Lair of Romulus
2 Great Vault
2 Hagia Sophia

Action
5 Holy Day
3 Source of All Life
3 Knowledge has a Price
4 Losing Faith
4 Field Study

Agent
5 Ottoman Gunman
3 Learned Widow
2 Pompous Preacher

I originally put together the Revelations Sequence, and looked at what I thought its weaknesses, dead weight and strengths were, and moved on from there.

Basically depending on what yoru against depends on yoru tactic
(Althought of course the overal Arch is to pile influence onto the sites.

If your against agents, Byzantine Church is Beautiful... Specially if you have 2 San Pietro's in hand.

Those Gunman are useful... but not the be all and end all. Infact I sometimes even sacrifice them against agents to give my winners the chance to drop.

Once Haigia Sophia has been dropped on top of a Lair or Vault it will be hard to beat, but it is so easy to drop in a site in each region and build up to killers using Gunman.

Learned Widow was put into this deck as an answer to Carlo, other nobles and threat agents. (FYI, It is rare that Antonio actually kills off a site) Despite some of the only 2 cards... it has a reliable draw wieght, which is made better through field study. I find it is also easy and no problem to let the opponent kill of a Lair or what not... cus most of the time you have a second to deploy staight away (I actually do dummy my opponent often)

Losing faith is brilliant for taking out key cards (I can usually deploy two at a time giving the opponent no chance to counter both. Using SoaL is a great way to take Exactly what you need (Cistern, ByCh, Hagia). It will be a little stonger once the update comes out and those Sudden Ex' won't ruin my Preacher for the entire game.

I have beat most other site decks I have come across and managed to beat Ringel's Burn Deck (Posted recently) and losing to Agent Decks is not very often and is usually down to a bad hand. Specialiest decks (certain winning condition, or unique styles e.g. FF, FT can get easy, easy wins against me at times) Occasionally you start the game with costs of 4,4,4,6,6,6 (As was just about the case, in the only time I have ever played Tuism) At that you just back out... its not often though. Either way, with me not being as creative or as good as you guys (At creating decks and knowledge of the game) I am very happy with this deck which has been going through alterations for a long while, and now I am very happy with it

[coolkendude]

Hmmmm... maybe include 2 Kadirs and remove 1 Gunman and 1 Field Study? Might make your deck a little faster especially if you already have two San Pietros.

[lurifaxb]

It is close to my OP site deck. Add 5x Sofia's office if you gave them. They are so good. I also like the engineers like gaspar and the draw power I'm the other guys. the +2 influence when you replace is also awesome with the replaceable sites and Sofia's office.

[kackman73]

I'm not sure what I'd remove, but I like using Into the Light for surprise sites.

Now, if I could just remember when I've played it and not space out and waste it on a Basicila di San Pietro when I was planning to drop a Hagia Sophia just before the day change....