Pietro Rossi

[Tuism]

Especially after playing AC Brotherhood (just finished), I find the Jesus role of this guy so interesting, but now I've tried just about everything with him and I've come to a conclusion that I can't make him useful

1) tried to stick him with small/med site rush so I can spam sites and drop him to score win. Pontifical highmasses does that better than pietro
2) tried to stick him with big sites and him so freeing up starting cards for defense. Still meh. The timing is too tricky, he almost always CAN screw you if opponent cuts down your influence before he resolves with +3.
3) tried him as site kill. Giving opponent +3 per site is not good.
4) best thing he can so is probably sit with a deck full of order counters and battlements, etc big kites, and let counter's carry the win and pietro can pretend to play the lead role. Meh.
5) a stolen pietro is a huge bitch for you cos you're running sites (ritual sacrifice)
6) not to mention that Borgia cardinal does a better job at scoring sites more than once...
7) maybe he can squeeze the last bit of juice out of utility sites and not score sites like art gallery,but that's very limited.

[Tuism]

OK So I've built a media/order deck with this idea in mind... it does fairly well, or at least it doesn't suck, but it's only cos it's riding on counters, and when I win I almost always didn't need Pietro. Once I had just barely outrun a Cesare cos I had Pietro.

Anyone have any thoughts on Jesu man?

[rav950]

Yeah, sounds about right on all counts. Still would like to give him a go, but likely as much of a dud as you suggest.

[Tuism]

Well my current Pietro Rossi riding the blue wave deck is doing ok, there's been a few cool moments where I whacked another site rush deck with him, and also moments where he ended a game for me that would have been death by Cesare.

But I don't really see how I'd prefer him to a Royal Intervention most of the time.

I think after the balance fixes... Well, I wonder, he'll be a better option than an RI, cheaper, but all the counter nerfs might slow the deck to hell (it runs Faux Pas lol). Might have to pack other boosters.

Busy migrating the Media/Order deck to Scholar/Order, dunno, it seems to not really work. For one Scholar has SHIT income boosting cards...

[Brontobeuf]

I failed building deck with him too.

[Tuism]

Scholar/Media Pietro Rossi deck works like a bomb - it can handle agent rushes, it can win relatively quickly, it can win site decks, it beats discards with draws/espionage, it can handle big agents...

Not saying it's cos of Pietro Rossi, but it came from the idea of Pietro Rossi

Not gonna share it just yet Seeing if it can handle speed thief. It already eats Cesare rushes. Well, not that I've run against a Media Cesare rush yet.