Forced charity or knowledge is power?

[Tuism]

I'm tweaking a scholar thieves rush... Well, not quite rush, with boosters. Which one do you think is better and why?

[Deleted]

depends
knowledge is power is good, if you are going for income killing, since your opponent won't be able to take advantage of your present. Otherwise it is a gamble and depends on the opponents deck.
Forced charity is kinda slow and not rush.

Guess i will go with knowledge is power, basically beacause of speed.

[Tuism]

knowledge is power and forced charity are kinda the same card... I don't understand what you mean about income killing...
KIP = 1 cost +1 income, draw 1 card
Forced Charity = 2 cost +2 income, draw 1 card

I've decided to throw my early game and include both seems to be working pretty well...

[Deleted]

oh, i had other card in mind instead of knowledge is power. I was talking about "knowledge has a price" card.

[jefmajor]

Forced Charity is slightly (VERY slightly) better than knowledge is power because it puts 2 knowledge is power into one card, thereby further diluting your deck, but, that only applies if you were going to use 2 FC instead of 4 KP for example. Other than that, I'd say no, they are the same.

[The Rancord]

I have them both plus 5 plentiful crop 3 rosa in fiore and 5 nothing ventured nothing gained in my deck

[jefmajor]

Wow. That's a terrible idea.

[Tuism]

Rancord you still trying to run pan/ri after the nerf? or forgotten temple deck? I can't imagine all that income and giving up card advantage being good for anything besides a completely combo deck

In my books, nothing ventured is ALWAYS a bad card unless you have 2 merchant guilds on the table

[The Rancord]

I never run pan/ri also its quit impossible with crime/schoolar.

I like the card, because ur enemy cant play without income boost, and i use them to go quickly to the 12 cost aoe destrution.

Use the 8 cost thief and amerigo to win time.

[Tuism]

Mar 18, 2012 17:00:09 GMT -5 The Rancord said:

I never run pan/ri also its quit impossible with crime/schoolar.

I like the card, because ur enemy cant play without income boost, and i use them to go quickly to the 12 cost aoe destrution.

Use the 8 cost thief and amerigo to win time.

Mentioning the pan/ri was a joke, a lame one

Hmm interesting strategy!! I haven't got enough of those two (can't even remember the one that's not strategic assault's name) to try something with them yet, but I'll be on the lookout for that Strat

[jefmajor]

He might be talking about animus reboot?

[Tuism]

Nah there are two crime cards, one kill all opponents sites and the other all opponents agents, the land one I think is strategic assault, can't remember the other's name

[thedude808]

Target Practice

[UnCL0NED]

The Rancord's idea is sound. You boost income for both sides, let your opponent empty his hand, while filling your own and then destroy your opponents cards on the field, leaving only your cards to finish him off. La Russo should indeed work well in this strategy.
I like it a lot! I will see if I can make a deck with it...

[The Rancord]

U need schoolar, since you depend on card draw. The 6 cost abillity to draw 3 cards is jsut a must, if you play with so many income boosts.

The Venice Deck from the AI, is the one I used as a basis. (Decklist posted somewhere by me)
Blue/Green is to crippled, with all the nerfs as that it is played commonly, and very few decks play with card draw.

I think I need a history Glitch after the destruction. I have often one Location at 8 and one at 6 before I can clear the field.

Overall I think schoolar is clearly the stronges faction, if you cannot overrun them. Now after the nerfs you can play brontobeufs old decks, like leonardo Workshop, or the Tutor Schoolar/Crime deck easily.