Post by Tuism on Feb 22, 2012 17:32:57 GMT -5
This question has come up time and time again. So how do you make your deck better?
Make it as close to 50 cards as possible
The smaller your deck is the easier you'll get to the more important cards. If you think all your cards are good, you need to shift your thinking - some cards are good in some situations, and some cards are good with other cards. Not all cards are good all the time.
So you should find focus. How are you going to win? Is it with agents or sites? If with agents, big expensive but powerful agents, or small, fast agents? If big agents then you need income boosters more than if you want to win with small agents. If you're using lots of agents you probably don't want a lot of wipe cards - like wrath of the righteous or lassitude or Fabio orsini - they'll just kill your own.
That is looking at and understanding synergy - having cards that work with each other - instead of a bunch of "good cards". A Pontifical High Mass is useless if you're playing an all-agent deck. Playing it with 1 site is stupid. 2 sites is ok, having 3 sites out is where you want a pontifical high mass. So that deck should have about 20 sites at least to take advantage of pontifical high mass, should you choose as part of you road to victory.
There are no hard and fast rules to build a deck, except to keep it down to at least close to 50. Do you really want to draw any of your 90 cards all the time? Are you even able to play all of them all the time?
Another good thing to look at is cost. You want to be able to play your cards steadily. So in general, you should have about 15 0 or 1 cost cards so that you can start playing and boosting income soonest. Then depending on your mix you should brave about 20 under 4 cost. The rest do whatever you want.
Then when you play your deck, see how it performs and tweak. Read this post I made about deck building: acreedrecollection.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=academy&action=display&thread=542
There are other excellent write-ups that we have here that will tremendously up your game. If you haven't, you should read all these articles and get a better idea of card selection:
acreedrecollection.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=faq&action=display&thread=494
Good luck guys! The community is here to help
Make it as close to 50 cards as possible
The smaller your deck is the easier you'll get to the more important cards. If you think all your cards are good, you need to shift your thinking - some cards are good in some situations, and some cards are good with other cards. Not all cards are good all the time.
So you should find focus. How are you going to win? Is it with agents or sites? If with agents, big expensive but powerful agents, or small, fast agents? If big agents then you need income boosters more than if you want to win with small agents. If you're using lots of agents you probably don't want a lot of wipe cards - like wrath of the righteous or lassitude or Fabio orsini - they'll just kill your own.
That is looking at and understanding synergy - having cards that work with each other - instead of a bunch of "good cards". A Pontifical High Mass is useless if you're playing an all-agent deck. Playing it with 1 site is stupid. 2 sites is ok, having 3 sites out is where you want a pontifical high mass. So that deck should have about 20 sites at least to take advantage of pontifical high mass, should you choose as part of you road to victory.
There are no hard and fast rules to build a deck, except to keep it down to at least close to 50. Do you really want to draw any of your 90 cards all the time? Are you even able to play all of them all the time?
Another good thing to look at is cost. You want to be able to play your cards steadily. So in general, you should have about 15 0 or 1 cost cards so that you can start playing and boosting income soonest. Then depending on your mix you should brave about 20 under 4 cost. The rest do whatever you want.
Then when you play your deck, see how it performs and tweak. Read this post I made about deck building: acreedrecollection.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=academy&action=display&thread=542
There are other excellent write-ups that we have here that will tremendously up your game. If you haven't, you should read all these articles and get a better idea of card selection:
acreedrecollection.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=faq&action=display&thread=494
Good luck guys! The community is here to help
