Empire of Darkness

Here is a deck list for the first deck I played at our get together at EpicQuest Games in Hartland.  It went up against a siteless 7 Masters / Monarch deck, another Darkness deck, and a Jammer / Dragon ROTU deck (BIG)

Empire of Darkness

Foundation (13)

Skin and Darkness Bats (x5)
Darkness Priestess (x5)
Darkness Warriors (x3)

Characters (14)

Avenging Darkness
Priestess of Itzcoliuqui
Palm of Darkness
Floating Teeth (x3)
Shadow Seductress
The Keeper of Hearts
Queen of the Darkness Pagoda
Chamberlain
Xitllali
Mistress of the Blotted Moonlight
Darkness Golem

Events (15)

Pocket Demon
Ice Blessing (x3)
Blood Lust
Avenging Thunder
Wriggling Skin Suit
Ritual of Death
Stolen Thunder
Brain Fire (x2)
Discerning Fire
Mark of Fire
Lateral Reincarnation
Transmogrification

States (6)

Consuming Darkness
Curse of Itzcoliuhqui
Obsidian Dagger
Ming I’s Chosen
The Crystal Skull
Prisoner of the Monarchs

Edge

Blanket of Darkness

Sites (14)

Darkness Pagoda
Disco
Bamboo Forest
Fox Pass
Devil’s Mountain
Hot Springs (x2)
Gambling House
Floating Restaurant
Mirrored Lake
Temple of the Angry Spirits
Waterfall Sanctuary (x2)
Family Home

This deck was built to try out the Darkness cards introduced in Empire of Evil along with the pre-existing Darkness cards.  The first iteration of this deck was unfocussed and did not have enough synergy to be effective.  Sacrificing is usually only worth it when you get multiple bonuses.  It takes a dedicated deck for that.  So the deck had to be tuned to the version above.  Some of the cards that did not make the cut were General Fung, Fanaticism, and Skin and Darkness Zealots.  Darkness decks seem to be very popular, so I’ll probably shelve this deck for a while now that I’ve gotten to be functional (not necessarily optimal).