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Post by marceloeafaria on Mar 1, 2012 16:07:49 GMT -5
Hi everyone! First time posting here and i actually regonize many of you from the game. I would like to share my main competitive deck and ask your thoughts about it.
It is basically a MTG goblin deck with nobles. The main goal is to take board control as soon as possible and win by boosting your minons.
The deck:
agents: 5 x Teodor Viscardi 5 x Dante Moro 5 x Donato Mancini 5 X Beautiful Heiress 3 x Arquebusier 1 x Octavian de Valois 1 X Vieri de Pazzi 1 x Carlo Grimaldi 2 x Cesare Borgia
places 1 x Borgia Tower 5 x Art Gallery
Actions 3 X Political Patronage 3 x Forced Inheritance 4 x Court Order (don't have 5) 1 x Under Arrest 2 x Just Cause 2 x Motivational Speech 1 x Men of The People
It works most of the time. I'm now ranked 97 and beat most of the players beforte they can develop a real game. The only big threats I face are Discard decks, Rome and First Sequence.
First Sequence is hard because it is usually fast and can resist the early board control. The good thing is that most players playing this are not experienced.
Rome is obvious: I got nothing against places at all, I only have the option to win early or counter Rome with Court Order.
Discard decks usually win by card advantage, since this deck have nothing to draw cards and are weak if the opponent can control your daily draw.
So, sorry about the english, i'm not a native speaker. Happy to found a community about this great game!
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Post by Ringel on Mar 1, 2012 16:27:28 GMT -5
Nice! What I would do for a single Political Patronage... (well, short of spending a bunch of money on new cards. )
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Post by gamemaestro on Mar 2, 2012 22:10:58 GMT -5
Do you often use Men of the People? The idea of the card is great but I wonder about the practical application given that it's not a surprise.
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Post by Raphael Majere on Mar 3, 2012 8:41:03 GMT -5
For those who has the cards - I run a 5x Pp, officials deck. I call it my ghost deck - it's full of unblockable agents. Grimbldi, don, the 5/5 order lady, Marco, and lastly Dante.
Wins a lot.
Also 5 mag personality, order of the king, no need for forced inheritance, 5 Borgia tower. Very very strong.
Turn 1 grimbladi
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Post by gamemaestro on Mar 3, 2012 9:39:19 GMT -5
For those who has the cards - I run a 5x Pp, officials deck. I call it my ghost deck - it's full of unblockable agents. Grimbldi, don, the 5/5 order lady, Marco, and lastly Dante. Wins a lot. Also 5 mag personality, order of the king, no need for forced inheritance, 5 Borgia tower. Very very strong. Turn 1 grimbladi Is that the one I just played? Thankfully you didn't get PP so I was able to use your Grimaldi against you.
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Post by Tuism on Mar 3, 2012 9:43:24 GMT -5
Raph we had a basically mirror match, good one I wish I had enough Marco to field him, his official ability is super useful!
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Post by Raphael Majere on Mar 3, 2012 10:23:39 GMT -5
For those who has the cards - I run a 5x Pp, officials deck. I call it my ghost deck - it's full of unblockable agents. Grimbldi, don, the 5/5 order lady, Marco, and lastly Dante. Wins a lot. Also 5 mag personality, order of the king, no need for forced inheritance, 5 Borgia tower. Very very strong. Turn 1 grimbladi Is that the one I just played? Thankfully you didn't get PP so I was able to use your Grimaldi against you. I did a mulligan and yet I did not get it. nice discard deck there. I will try to build one.
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Post by Raphael Majere on Mar 3, 2012 10:26:14 GMT -5
Raph we had a basically mirror match, good one I wish I had enough Marco to field him, his official ability is super useful! Marco is great for late game. He can still be used as a counterspell. I had no arabesque in my deck. 4 untimely death though. Marco is Templar so u can try your luck to get him via boosters.
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Post by thedude808 on Mar 3, 2012 19:16:32 GMT -5
For those who has the cards - I run a 5x Pp, officials deck. I call it my ghost deck - it's full of unblockable agents. Grimbldi, don, the 5/5 order lady, Marco, and lastly Dante. Wins a lot. Also 5 mag personality, order of the king, no need for forced inheritance, 5 Borgia tower. Very very strong. Turn 1 grimbladi This sounds a lot like the deck I've been running with 5 PP looking for the day one Grimaldi. I only have one Borgia Tower so that hasn't been the focus of my deck. I've been running three Forced Inheritance, but it hasn't been as useful as I thought. The last choice in my deck was Tactless Theatrics over Magnetic Personality. I chose Theatrics because it would let me take care of some agents that camp in HQ, and it's cheaper. It's worked well, but I've been meaning to try out Magnetic Personality instead. I just haven't had the time yet. Good to know someone uses it effectively.
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Post by clarkage on Mar 3, 2012 19:55:40 GMT -5
PP is so expencive :< it must be good. only difference on tt and MP is if the opponent has no agents or few agents, tt is worse. but if the other side is a heavy neatrulize deck, and you may have no target to MP. If I have a full set, I may pay 2 each no more no less. Also I agree with B tower is powerful but it should be assissent not the core strategy and I might put 1 or 2 royal decree for site heavy deck (it not so good) I wont access more than 4 sites totally in mine
FYI PP is too tooo toooooooo strong and should be banned :>
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Post by Raphael Majere on Mar 3, 2012 20:20:19 GMT -5
For those who has the cards - I run a 5x Pp, officials deck. I call it my ghost deck - it's full of unblockable agents. Grimbldi, don, the 5/5 order lady, Marco, and lastly Dante. Wins a lot. Also 5 mag personality, order of the king, no need for forced inheritance, 5 Borgia tower. Very very strong. Turn 1 grimbladi This sounds a lot like the deck I've been running with 5 PP looking for the day one Grimaldi. I only have one Borgia Tower so that hasn't been the focus of my deck. I've been running three Forced Inheritance, but it hasn't been as useful as I thought. The last choice in my deck was Tactless Theatrics over Magnetic Personality. I chose Theatrics because it would let me take care of some agents that camp in HQ, and it's cheaper. It's worked well, but I've been meaning to try out Magnetic Personality instead. I just haven't had the time yet. Good to know someone uses it effectively. Mag Personality is a very strong card. For example, I use it in the last few secs to seal a win or seize control of a region, catching my opponent by surprise. When in Conflict, Mag Per would save my agent and even help me gain points via fierce. When Grimaldi is 'sudden exhausted', I also use Mag per on him, when he scores, he gains +2, rendering the Sudden Exhaust useless. Side point: Why Dante? Dante is used vs threat agents - send an agent to block Lanz, Cuttthroat, protect the agent. Kills the Threat Agents. Also, Dante has good synergy with Borgia.
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Post by thedude808 on Mar 3, 2012 20:46:50 GMT -5
I hadn't thought about how Mag Per can salvage a Grimaldi after Sudden Exhaust. I'll keep that in mind. I'm not asking why Dante? I run five. He definitely helps against Threat. He can also swing a match against other Official agents. It also helps that Dante gives +1 income. PP is great, but the quicker you boost your income the sooner you can play an agent without sacrificing your ability to play a counterspell afterward.
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Post by Raphael Majere on Mar 3, 2012 21:06:39 GMT -5
Ah yes, The dante is very important vs other Officials decks - and there are a lot of them due to cheap Official agents hence a lot of them in meta.
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Post by Order on Mar 3, 2012 23:32:23 GMT -5
I use dante for the same reason. Man of people is great since the ideia is to buff the agents and control the board. If you got 6 agents on board, even if they are 0/1, Man of People can do serious damage. I have only 3pp, this is why i keep forced inheritance
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Post by Raphael Majere on Mar 4, 2012 1:15:25 GMT -5
Yeah I would keep the forced
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