[crime/order]Courtesans' Guild

[Brontobeuf]

While I was working on my version of the Borgia's Art, I came to the conclusion that some Nobles have to be added to the deck. Then, I was sad that Dama Rosa was not a Noble, but a Courtesan (and it's quite good so the deck list will come soon, but it need a lot of tweakings before I release it).

Then, eureka, I thought of this deck, and it's a killer. ^^


5 Paola
5 Beguling Courtesans
5 Fiora Cavazza
5 Madonna Solari
5 Claudia Auditore, Assassin
3 Theodora Contanto
2 Coy Courtesan

4 Femme Fatale

5 Borgia Tower
5 Thieves Guild

2 Court Order
4 Preemptive Strike

When you play a Courtesan deck, you're just waiting here like a sitting duck to get your 6 girls ready to work for you. Usually with some draw power / quick study to get them and the Femme Fatale to end the game. You're vulnerable to counters, surprises, discard, mass removals, etc. If you try to go with Media, it's even worst.

In this deck, they will fight. And if they don't, you can still gain influence with the Thieves Guild / Madonna combo like crazy.

And the best thing is that it's very easy to play.

Enjoy!

[Tuism]

Looks good! All the traditional femme fatale decks are exactly that - combo decks. Boring, reliant on a single win con, blah. I like this concept! Now if only I can find 4 more femme fatales... Auction house Acution house please....

[Diomedia]

Nice!

My media version did ok as your courtesans become pretty good with the media buffs ( motivational speech, man of the people copied and recast with clothes make the man )and art gallery combo's. Also the media courtesan than gives +4 power to another agent ties in well too. Sadly I had to shelve it as 2 copies of femme fatale wasn't enough.

[The Rancord]

Hm yeah borgia tower is much better, I used Art Gallery, and the problem is that u win the art gallery region but never a 2nd one

[Tuism]

Well that's why Art Gallery + Borgia Tower makes a strong combo - start with weenies, pump them up, for one kill, and it's sustained enough to chump art gallery and even fight strong without art gallery.

But with the option of Femme Fatale too this deck would be a MONSTER!

[The Rancord]

borgia/art is a deck that has a hard time recovering though. Same with this deck. It cannot recover very good from a blow *animus reboots for example*

[Tuism]

When I played my original Borgia Art deck I've come back from a good few wipes - Animus Reboot, Wrath Of God, etc.

I play very carefully when I see my opponent is playing cautiously, not dropping agents/sites, etc, so I hold back a few accordingly. Especially since half the deck is zero-cost, All I have to do is drop an Art Gallery and a few 3 zero costs straight after to continue pressure. Especially the Calling All Stand Ins Token.

But of course it doesn't always work out like that. Bad draws would kill me against a wipe, of course. But the chances of that are less since getting to post-wipe, gold isn't as much of a problem as the beginning of the game.

[crazygambit]

Jan 5, 2012 13:50:35 GMT -5 Tuism said:

When I played my original Borgia Art deck I've come back from a good few wipes - Animus Reboot, Wrath Of God, etc.

I play very carefully when I see my opponent is playing cautiously, not dropping agents/sites, etc, so I hold back a few accordingly. Especially since half the deck is zero-cost, All I have to do is drop an Art Gallery and a few 3 zero costs straight after to continue pressure. Especially the Calling All Stand Ins Token.

But of course it doesn't always work out like that. Bad draws would kill me against a wipe, of course. But the chances of that are less since getting to post-wipe, gold isn't as much of a problem as the beginning of the game.

I feel that Calling All Stand Ins becomes a terrible burden when playing against those decks. It's almost guaranteed to get countered, but also there's a very good chance it'll get stolen and used against you. That's the reason I'm no longer playing a deck that relies on it.

[Tuism]

Finally I got the cards (thieve guild and femme fatales, thanks market thanks ubi to play this deck, so I've been testing and tweaking, and I must say its soooo much fun! The cards all work together in a way very few other decks can, and there are so many ways to win besides ol femme fatale

Only thing about this concept is that it pretty much goes belly up against any decent site deck - rushes or big ones or combo ones

But still it's so much fun, new flavour of the moment

[The Rancord]

This is not fotm. fotm is still blue counter grimaldi and borgia art.

I tried it 3imes and lost 3times. Its way to slow, that my main problem. The best shot u have is borgia tower so ure 6 courtesans cant be upjeaveled to death.

They rly need more utillity card to be useful.

[Tuism]

Apr 14, 2012 5:32:32 GMT -5 The Rancord said:

This is not fotm. fotm is still blue counter grimaldi and borgia art.

I tried it 3imes and lost 3times. Its way to slow, that my main problem. The best shot u have is borgia tower so ure 6 courtesans cant be upjeaveled to death.

They rly need more utillity card to be useful.

It's my flavor of the moment I've also tweaked mine a bit for speed but the core remains the same. I've been consistently winning everything but site decks, so either I accept that or try and address that and probably dilute it.

But I really find it super fun

[Brontobeuf]

Don't remember why I stopped playing it. ^^

[UnCL0NED]

Nice idea to play courtesans with order. I tried a art gallery courtesan deck a while ago, but it wasn't working out... What do you do against site-rush decks?

[KillingSoftly]

So many people talk about the Courtesan decks, but none of you have the same idea with my undefeatable courtesan deck yet.

[mana]

i wanna see that