[Faith] Churches of the Vatican (Templar Only)

[Brontobeuf]

Buenas tardes,

Here is a core deck. It's done with *only* Templar Faith cards. You can add some Order counters, crime Change of Plans, draw power in Scholar or Ressource boost in Media if you want, but you don't have to. It's fine by himself.

It's a very easy to play site-rush deck, enjoy.



5 Basilica di San Petro
5 Quiet Chapel
5 Venetian Church
5 Roma, Vaticano district
5 Basilica di Santa Maria Novella

5 Sudden Exhaustions
5 Judgement Day,(or Pontifical Highmass)
5 Seeking Sanctuary
5 Papal Influence

5 Borgia Cardinal



No playbook for this one, as the only difficulty is to choose the right regions to play your sites and nothing I can write can help you with that, it's too situationnal. I try to focus on one region first, while building a second one because PI and the Cardinal can give you a win this way.

Be sure to optimise the San Pietro if you are low on ressources.

And please, if you play it, leave a comment!

[Tuism]

LOTS of decks running like this abound, like I was saying in the strategy forum. Thanks for sharing

[The Rancord]

its quit good, and you can overrun enemies. It would be so much stronger with scienetifics, but they are assasins

[xatria]

When I was playing my Discard deck and stole Basilica di Santa Maria Novella, it kept getting pumped by opponent's churches. Seems like a bug.

[xatria]

Tried this earlier.. Way too slow. The gold curve is just too high, even if you cycle 2 San Petros.

Made the following changes to smooth out the gold curve:
Removed 5 x Venetian Churches, Cardinal, Judgment Day, Santa Maria Novella
Added 4 x Knowledge is Power, 4 x Scholar's Converted Chapel (Church, cost 3, +2, infl 1)

Gold curve is better but it's still too slow in current metagame. Santa Maria Novella don't get pumped that often I noticed.

I reworked it into a sorta Weenie Site Rush. Doesn't seem to be that strong but pretty decent.

[Brontobeuf]

I play Converted Chapel too in my current version. But it's assassin.

If you really want to increase your speed/ressource, remove 2 cardinals, 1 papal, 1 Maria Novella and 1 Judgement for 5 Plentifull Crop.

I played the deck like I gave it a lot yesterday evening, and won like 90% of my games. I think I only lost to Raphael, but I'm not sure.

[xatria]

I made the suggested changes. Won 3 times vs the same opponent but he doesn't have the greatest deck either. Will play it more. Thanks!

[xatria]

Played like 8 more times and it won all but one. The opposing decks aren't top tier but better than average decks. Many times it was very close game so I think having Plentiful Crop helped the tempo. Although there's a game where I draw 2 mid-game and lost that one. Two games were vs big sites and Judgment Day was the key card. I think it's better than Pontifical High Mass for this deck.

[Brontobeuf]

Yes it is. In this deck, you focus on one region, then a second one. Judgement day, Pontifical, ect are working this way.

In my previous site deck, I was playing very differently, and Pontifical was better. but I was playing Field Study too, and more little sites, etc. Different concepts.

Glad to read it's working well for you! I'm gonna post something very weird tonight.

[Ringel]

Even cheap versions of this deck with limited rares are pretty effective. I add in green for card draw.