[Faith/Scholar] Take the Power Back

[Brontobeuf]

I was listening to some music when I made the deck, so they share the same title.

Hey all!

Here is a very pleasant deck to play, and quite strong. The idea is old as Magic, it's just a big gathering of strong cards who can give you card advantage or make you draw.

So it's no new concept, it's no new idea, and I'm not playing any new weird card. But however, the deck is really stable and strong.

3x Plentiful Crop
5x Divine Intervention
5x Knowledge is Power
4x Tactical Upheaval
2x Sudden Exhaustions
5x Familly Heirloom
3x Pick Your Poison
5x Ancestral Discovery
2x Condottiero Tactics
1x False Hope

2x Venezia, San Polo District

5x Mysterious Stranger
1x Petruccio Auditore
2x Federico Auditore
5x Leonardo Da Vinci

Playbook:
The only possible issues you may face are when you are playing many searching cards at the same time. Heirlooms, Ancestral Discoveries and Pick your Poison will force you to make a lot of choices. That's mainly here that you will win or lose the game because all the other cards are pretty simple to play. :]

It's strong against discard because the expensive cards protect the cards you really need early game. Ancestral Discovery will take them back later. And the core concept (card avdantage and draw power) is just strong against discard too.

You have a Tool Box in this deck. You can pick up solutions and problems with Pick Your Poison and Familly Heirlooms and play them again with Ancestral Discovery. So it's important to know what are the gold cards that are in the deck. Don't forget to pick a Crop if needed during early game.
I don't play Quick Study because it's too slow and the deck has a lot of thinners in it, enough to let you play the key cards anyway.

A final word about the Auditore guys. They are here because they are Cunning. They can block Threats agents, Official Agents and even Fierce agents. In the current Meta, blocking Officials and Thieves is a huge capacity.

Hope you'll enjoy it.

[rha737]

looks like a lot of fun to play. do you find any trouble with a lower creature count like that? i would be scared of counter heavy decks with 5 untimely ends, but maybe this deck outpaces counters anyway?

[Tuism]

Thanks for this deck! I've mostly even quite apprehensive about playing toolboxes ever since it hadn't worked out for them (or me) very well earlier in the game's life (my double down deck... Haha), and since I had lost all my decks I haven't built any, this will get my brain rolling in terms of that direction cheers!

Ah crap need 2 more ancestral discoveries... Market market market... I really think tonight/tomorrow night judging by the usual game release schedules

[Tuism]

Apr 10, 2012 23:33:59 GMT -5 rha737 said:

looks like a lot of fun to play. do you find any trouble with a lower creature count like that? i would be scared of counter heavy decks with 5 untimely ends, but maybe this deck outpaces counters anyway?

The ancestral discoveries will help tons in this regard, and also why you need 5 of them. Which I don't have yet. Darn.

[Brontobeuf]

First thing, you discard, and this is not helping counter decks.
Second thing, you draw, they will have many things to counter.
Third thing, Ancestral Discovery and Pick your Poison (pick a Premeptive Strike to avoid eating it if you want) will fill your hands with problems they will also have to counter.
Final thing, you have 11/13 agents (depending on the version you play) in the deck, 2 small sites and a False Hope that can do the job by themselves.

I won many games today already. Lost one against a Doomsday deck (a lot of cards in common with mine, but more discard/control orientated than mine ; and I think I did a few mistakes). You can add Scientific Espionnage if you want to avoid that. There are rooms for cards and variations. :]

[Tuism]

Playing this I was reminded of this seemingly buggy bug: when you have a tutor open, one of the following events will reset your carousel selection (so if you're selecting for ancestral discovery for example, and select one card, if you get interrupted, you'll be selecting zero cards, and if you make 1 more selection, you'll leave the tutor with just one card instead of 2): drawing a card, another tutor activating, timer crossing the middle into a new day, discard a card.

It's pretty annoying, dunno if it's intended.

[gamemaestro]

Apr 11, 2012 0:21:22 GMT -5 Tuism said:

Playing this I was reminded of this seemingly buggy bug: when you have a tutor open, one of the following events will reset your carousel selection (so if you're selecting for ancestral discovery for example, and select one card, if you get interrupted, you'll be selecting zero cards, and if you make 1 more selection, you'll leave the tutor with just one card instead of 2): drawing a card, another tutor activating, timer crossing the middle into a new day, discard a card.

It's pretty annoying, dunno if it's intended.

There are several things which reset the carousel including anyone drawing a card, pulling a card from their sequence (tutor) or discarding a card. What I hate is that not only does it reset your choices, but I've often had only one of my choices make it into my hand. This has cost me a game here and there when I was counting on that choice.

[Brontobeuf]

Oh selecting only one card because of this happens to me at least once per game. ^^