Piece a the Action
Foundation
Student of the Bear x3Black Helicopter Squad x5
The Pledged x4
Characters
Corrupt Bookie x 5Gunslinger x5
Jan Zvireci
Shinobu Yashida
Adrienne Hart
The Unspoken Name
Rainmaker Floyd
“Monkey” Chang
The She-Wolf
Claws
The Eastern King
Events
Bite of the Jellyfish x2Mole Network x4
Operation Killdeer x4
The Golden Spike
Faked Death
State
Shadowy MentorEdge
Spin Doctoring
Sites
Opium DenFamily Estate x4
Battle Arena x2
FSS
Plain of AshCity Hospital x2
Sacred Heart Hospital
Jade Palace of the Dragon King
Endless Corridor
The Iron Palace
Turtle Beach
City Square
Kinoshita House of Pancakes
Festival Circle
Martyr’s Tomb
This deck came from trying to use Red Wedding Ascended cards. For a long time none of the cards spoke to me
for a good deck concept. The ReAscended
looked too unreliable for resources.
Rebecca Dupress has a decent ability, but being Unique would limit
possibilities. I would also need to
multifaction to get the best states.
Lodge Machinations was tempting, but I wasn’t ready to give up Pledged
cards yet. The Broken Wheel Brigade was
intriguing. If combined with Wisdom of
the Owl, can you build a deck that will recycle enough cards to get reliable
punch through with the Brigades? I was
not up to that challenge yet. The
Corrupt Bookie looked like an unreliable card that I had to play marginal
events to get any mileage out of it.
Then I saw the Gunslinger. Here
are two Pledged characters that can generate 3 power a turn if I have one of
each in play. From that I made this
deck.
So I have two Pledged characters that are going to generate a lot of
power through Faceoffs. Obviously, I
need Family Estates. Next I wanted cards
to make the Gunslingers have Faceoffs every turn. So I added healing effects and damage
reduction: City Hospital, Sacred Hearts Hospital, Jade Palace, Opium Den, and
Battle Arenas. Since my combo is
character driven I wanted a couple ways to recycle it: Faked Death, Martyr’s
Tomb, and Spin Doctor combined with Plain of Ash. I threw in a bunch of non-Lodge hitters for
spending the power. Finally, looking at
the large number of non-FSS, it looked like a large site structure could be
maintained. This let me include the
Golden Spike.
Future changes to the deck may include adding Lotus to allow for the
Death Ring. Throwing Black Helicopter
Squads into the Death Ring and betting against them sounds very profitable.
Any comments or suggested improvements would be appreciated.
Looks like a fun deck!
ReplyDeleteEastern King FTW! if you add lotus, I think the EK would have to go, and that would be sad but I think there is no other character in the game with as big a target on his chest than the EK (except for maybe the Iron Monkey).
ReplyDeleteTried a slightly cut down (to 55 cards) version of the deck in the NYC PG for CIA. Was fun to play, and "came out" each game, generally with Unspoken Name, Adrienne, or both, but could not quite keep up with the pack. IN this game, people were happy to suicide their weenies into teh gunslinger -- win or lose -- to avoid giving me extra power. Drawing Family Estates early was pretty key to doing fairly well, even so.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of slipping in some Lotus, for Death Ring (and then, of course, because you can, Evil Twin, Tortured memories, and possibly secret pact, or Shrieking witch Heads), is tickling at me, but it would surely take the deck out of CIA.
One interesting thought: since it was CIA, and since it always seems like everyone runs Discerning Fire in CIA, I ran two of the anti-magic card events. Used one against Shihong!