[Order/Scholar/Golden] Greed is Good

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Been loving this deck! But I warn you, it is not for the feint of heart.

I doubt this is a new concept, as who doesn't want to use Juno. In a lot of ways, this is similar to a Fem Fatale deck (you just focus on accumulating Gold rather than Courtesans).

Agents
Juno x2 (Would play 3 if I had 1 more)
Teodor Viscardi x5
The Spaniard x5
Cesare Borgia x3 (I play with taking him in and out of this deck)

Sites
Merchant's Guild x4
Tax Collector's Office x5

Actions
Knowledge Has A Price x5
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained x2
Knowledge Is Power x4
Forced Inheritance x5
In-Depth Analysis x5
Family Heirloom x2 (Would play 3 or 4 if I had more)
Impending Pandemic x3

This deck is (obviously) all about resource building. You have 3 ways to win, depending on your opponent.

1. Build to 30 and win with Juno
2. Place Merchant's Guilds and accumulate gold/influence
3. In rare cases, you can go the boss route and overpower with your agents.

The beauty is it is extremely easy to win either of the first two ways. Impending Pandemic is a nifty add-in that I have enjoyed. You can take a lot of punishment, accumulate gold, and then just set the entire board back. Time things right, and you can get a frustrating (for your opponent) win out of nowhere. I have had a lot of last second wins with this deck, so play this deck with that disclaimer.

The only deck that has given me any trouble has been the Ezio and Cesare boss decks that also tend to spawn resources quickly.

[Tuism]

It looks like fun I've never really had any faith in Juno, 30 gold in 3 days? Really?

It looks like it would be vulnerable to key removals, or counters, which I see you at least h Cesare for can you outpace something like nicodeck? How many turns does it usually take to win with Juno? Cos I don't see any defenses either (besides pandemic, but one card doesn't make for defenses ) ... It's really not for the feint of heart

[crazygambit]

It's weird to see a Juno with no Animus Reboot. Key card IMO. That card at the right time can stop a Nico deck, though it's a hard match up, since it's so fast. I also run plenty of counters on mine, for after the reboot.

It has some really good match ups, like femme fatale or Pan/Ri decks. But since no one plays those anymore I don't play it much anymore.

[UnCL0NED]

I like your thoughts.
I've been tinkering on my Juno deck lately as well (yeah, I invested another 40 Euros, so I have some new cards to try out ).
I have been playing around with the idea of using Monteriggioni in the deck, making your resource boosters and card drawers pop out faster speeding up the process. My experience with Tax Coll. Office is that if you put in too many they just slow down the deck... 2 or 3 should be enough if you play it with card drawing cards...
And indeed Animus Reboot is an essential card in this type of deck, I'd also say! You should replace Impending Pandemic with AR if you can. Makes your Family Heirloom more useful as well...

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Feb 21, 2012 0:18:50 GMT -5 Tuism said:

It looks like fun I've never really had any faith in Juno, 30 gold in 3 days? Really?

It looks like it would be vulnerable to key removals, or counters, which I see you at least h Cesare for can you outpace something like nicodeck? How many turns does it usually take to win with Juno? Cos I don't see any defenses either (besides pandemic, but one card doesn't make for defenses ) ... It's really not for the feint of heart

I usually find I can delay most decks for several days to get 30 in about 6-8 days. Counter decks are a bitch, but generally I can keep pace as it isn't all about Juno. I used to play this with Animus Reboot, but I actually didn't find it very useful in most matches. Pandemic generally works great because I will have 1.5 or 2 times the resources. I can easily out pace my opponent in rebuild, and the delay, timed with a Juno launch right after Pandemic, is plenty to win.

This deck has yet to face a Nicodeck. The race would be fun to see, and I think I could at least stay in a race with that build.

[gamemaestro]

Seems really interesting. I've actually won quite a few games with Juno using my discard deck (Walrus played that one today) as I don't pack a lot of game winners in it.