[Faith/Media] Ezio's Apocalypse [ Assassin Only ]

[Diomedia]

This deck was born out of the need to find a deck for Ezio gold, especially after the balance changes. It started off as something completely different and evolved, via discard, into its current state.

I don't often play it as its very noob unfriendly ( day one doomsday ) as a result it may need adapting to cope with the current meta.

Agents

5 x Ezio ( gold )

4 x Nico Machiavelli

5 x Caterina Sforza

4 x Francesco Vecellio

4 x Benevolant Midwife

Sites

4 x Village Chapel

3 x Venezia San Polo

Actions

5 x Political Patronage

3 x Role Reversal

5 x Divine Intervention

3 x Ancestral Discovery

3 x Holy Calling

3 x Doomsday


The premise is simple , Ezio is your main man , get him on the table as soon as you can. I think all the other memories are obvious except for a few.

Francesco Vecellio, I tried him in the deck and it felt right so I kept it. He's 4 cost and a +1 income boost. The majority of opponents are going to put Templar Agents down. ( Cesare, Lanz etc ) Ive hardly seen him used before, I think I may try out his counterpart Raving Drunkard in the future.

Benevolant Midwife. Shes great, 0 cost. Things to note, when you choose your two memories number 2 will come before number 1 , not sure if that's intended or a mistake.
A common mistake I made with her, if you select your memories and then use another action that randomises your sequence again , you cancel out her effect, ie don't play 2 benevolent within 2 days of each other, ( unless you need to change your choice )

Caterina Sforza , I love her , low cost , distracts your opponent , do they use a counter on her or save it for what ever comes next? If they leave her she's going to kill their fattie, a dilemma.

Village Chapel and Venezia San Polo , income and anti site respectively.

Holy Calling , your answer to untimely end etc.

[Rob (Roebidoebi)]

How do you manage to play Doomsday on day one when it's not in your deck? ;-)

I prefer an end-of-the day doomsday (so you discard the newly drawn card as well), which you can pull-off with one PP and Dama Rossa as well...

[Diomedia]

Oops, edited it , thanks for pointing that out

Yea first day doomsday almost feels like cheating to me, I often don't play it just so I get a game.

[jmeredith06]

Nice! I see some pretty sweet ideas here. Quick question for ya, I'd you don't get Doomsday combo in opening hand, does it fair well mid/late game? Particularly against Scientific espionage/counter. I see the ancestral discovery for that, but just curious on how it's done

[Diomedia]

You don't actually need doomsday.

It mainly there for insurance, there are some pretty nasty decks out there so, yep if I know im facing a discard deck ill use for examplewool do a day 1 if I can. it's still perfectly capable of winning without it against standard deck types.

If you just want to get your daily credits fast , then by all means but it's no fun for me.

[UnCL0NED]

Hey, Nice deck.
When do you usually play Nicco? I've been messing around with this guy lately, and I notice that in de early game I rarely play him, because I always feel I need all the cards still (most of the time). I wait most of the time till I've emptied my hand, but then I usually also have already some income build up...

[Diomedia]

That's one of the problems with this deck , I rely on benevolent midwife to get me what I need so I can get say an ancestral if I'm low on memeories. I normally just play it by ear, if there's a card there I know I won't use , great, fodder for Nico, it's just different for each game. If I'm already in control I'll wait on using him.

Edit : but Bounce is Nicos worse nightmare.

[Tuism]

I feel the focus isn't quite there in this deck

- 3 doomsdayed means you might get one whenever, usually not at the start, and by then your opponent either has very little cards in hand or if holding cards they probably are playing counters.
- I wonder if you need answers to everything. I'm a bigger fan of providing more threat than to solve every threat.
- I loved Francesco - played a lot with him earlier on, but after a while I tended more towards either sudden exhaust or thespian legionnaire.
- don't like midwife. I'd rather load up with tactical upheaval or answered prayers or divine intervention.
- village chapel... I don't see it being useful over dama rasa or even plentiful crap. If you want +2, you really don't need the extra 1 influence a turn if you're packing large fierce agents.
- you need magnetic personality!

My 2 cents

[Diomedia]

The doomsday is there as insurance really, I don't like playing it that much. For example today I was playing my cash is king deck and I faced pure counter decks. This led to long drawn out games where I couldn't win, everytime I played a card it was countered. Then I faced the same opponent in quick match again, he took a bite of my day one doomsday shit sandwich and quit, saving us both time and netting me the credits

The threat is there, I'm dropping Ezio's and nico's and caterinas fast that's my win, they have to deal with that.

Tactical and divine int are already in, midwife is useful. I'm burning through my cards pretty quick, I want something useful for my next draws. A pp can be worthless, midwife lets me pick 2 cards I need in the circumstances.

Edit : I don't mean to seem like I'm dismissing your advice, the deck isn't perfect, It Started off as a deck to beat discard when it was very popular after the balance changes, this is why it's based on Ezio too as he escaped a nerf. I don't really play it, only when I have an idea of what the opponent is going to play.

Village chapel is still in from a previous incarnation, I agree I could look at something else there, my tactic with it is to drop it on another village chapel, making a 2 or 3 influence site giving the opponent another thing to deal with . Dama Rossa is Templar , plentiful crap is ok but I don't really need another pure income booster, doomsday at 7 is my highest cost card, Ezio , my main card is only 5 cost. The pp helps me get stuff down quick to beat discard.

Magnetic personality, yea I agree, but magnetic and fierce is cheating a magnetic on an Ezio nets you 10 points.

[Brontobeuf]

Dama is fine as Templar. By the time you have an Ezio on the field, you don't care about Dama Rossa. And she will stay in the hand to feed Machiavelli.