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Lambda Lambda Lambda
| Submitted by: | Hellfury |
| Submitted: | Jun 26 2012 03:30 PM |
| Last updated: | Jun 26 2012 03:34 PM |
| Category: | Call of Cthulhu Decks |
| Deck Name: | Lambda Lambda Lambda |
| Deck Strategy: | Mono-Nerd rush/support abuse deck. |
| Deck Contents: | Total Cards (50) Story (0) Character (29) Medical Student (PT) x3 Dr. Carson (TSotS) x3 Professor of Folklore (ER) x3 Professional Counselor (TTB) x3 Museum Curator (TWB) x3 Focused Art Student (WitD) x3 Archaeology Interns (IT) x2 Soothsayer (SoA) x3 Eryn Cochwyn (TBJ) x3 Marcus Jamburg (WoP) x3 Support (21) Rabbit's Foot (TSotS) x3 Atwood Science Hall (Core) x3 Infirmary (WoP) x3 Open for Inspection (Core) x3 The Hall School (KD) x3 Scientific Text (SoA) x3 Parallel Universe (TTftS) x3 Event (0) Conspiracy (0) Mono-Nerd rush/support abuse deck. “If you like nerds, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards.†~Violet Haberdasher As the card pool for each faction grows, so too do the options become deeper for each faction. Nerds are seeing some very interesting, if not downright compulsory cards being introduced for their faction. Namely Professor of Folklore and Eryn Cochwyn. The Professor of Folklore is likely one of the most exciting and efficient Nerds to come along in quite sometime as the faction sees many many characters introduced but they are predominantly high cost and unfit for rush. But the Prof of Folklore is special. Even before you take his text ability into account you have a 2 cost character with 3 skill and two useful icons. All wrapped up into a non-unique character. Add its text ability, and you have a highly useful character to help combat destruction deck archetypes wrapped up into one cheap character who has the investigator subtype in case you wish to abuse investigator subtype decks. This and the Infirmary are just what Doctor Carson ordered in a meta that threatens destruction abuse to such a high degree. The Infirmary tells the rest of your characters in play “If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer.†Then we have Eryn Cochwyn whose icons and skill are reasonable for her cost. But her real power is concealed in her ability as she can combo quite well with certain cards in this deck, making for a great 4th turn play and a nice finisher to grab that last story before the Nerds run out of steam. With an Open for Inspection played as an action on a story card care of Marcus Jamburg, that final story can be won in a single turn. Parallel Universe is also another key card to play when battling for stories and the Nerds can easily make use of the skill required to win stories through use of Atwood Science Hall. The Soothsayer is not left out of the mix either as she can choose Investigation as an icon to really ramp up her skill in the presence of Atwood Science Hall. Sac the Hall School for investigation icons to escalate skill in the face of Parallel Universe, or sac it to help terror and combat icon struggles when necessary. Nerds have always been poor when it comes to terror or combat struggles, but cards such as Professional Counselor and Rabbit's Foot help ameliorate their shortcomings while also producing a bit of card draw in the mix. And typical of Nerds, they are able to expand their hand options quickly, with dual duty in the form of characters or other support cards. Even the apparently lackluster Archaeology Interns does a great job as they give you two potentially great cards you can exchange for one card in your hand back on top of your deck. With so many support cards, the Museum Curator really shines. And when those support cards become used or destroyed/sacrificed, the Marcus Jamburg works hard to get those cards back into the control of the University. All this in a package that plays mostly in a resource management no greater than 3 in each domain, but typically in 2 as the tempo is geared towards 2 in each domain. (see the highly useful corresponding graphs). Ideal domain resourcing is typically 2/2/3. This deck isn't a tier 1 deck, but it is a nicely tuned mono faction deck that compliments itself and is competitive in casual formats. |
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