So we have had the game now a little over a year. In that time, I have found that deck construction for me is divided into building two separate decks. In one deck, I am trying to build an interesting challenge deck to see if I can get under 4 turns for 20 Victory Points. In the other deck, I am trying to build an optimized scoring engine. Since I usually start with the Adventure Deck, my Captain's decks are usually build around those cards. This works great for solo play but not so well for 2+.
I find that building Captain's Decks are a little more daunting because I haven't found a good ratio of card types that seems to be 'stable'. And by stable what I really mean is reliably predictable, because there are just so many cards. For example, in a Piracy based deck, there are three(3) cards that form a core win-con for collecting
tokens. You are only going to draw one of those 9 cards (Assuming 3 cards at 3 in the deck each) .080% of the time on your opening hand. And within 5 turns, you will only see
one of them 17%, assuming your hand size is 7 cards and you are burning all 7 cards. Turn 1) 7 cards (11%), Turn 2) 14 cards seen (23%), Turn 3) 21 cards seen (35%), Turn 4) 28 cards seen (46%), Turn 5) 35 cards seen (58%). Anyone whose played this game, knows that now you are just flirting with going bankrupt.
For those wandering about my 'core piracy win con' - Rhal'Kais Chop Shop, Black Market Investors, Sinister Reputation targeting Imlaii Ergarsuu or Baronet Cronin. My full deck is here
Jolly Rogers.
Also, the other thing I find myself doing is dividing down my Captain's Deck into 60 cards with 1/3 being core, 1/3 being support and 1/3 being expense. So if we take a look at the Jolly Rogers deck above out of 60 cards only 3 have a 0 expense and 24 cards have an expense of 2+. While I have 21 cards at an expense of 2 and only 3 with a cost of 3 which are the Data Mining Consultants, which I was thinking about dumping for some
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Another Interesting thing while in Deck construction is that your Adventure Deck absolutely needs to be in tune with what ship you are piloting, but with the current card pool, you can easily pick up your Captain's Deck and play with any ship. Sure a couple of the
aren't going to fit based on tonnage but if you were planning sleek at 100 Tons, pretty much grab any
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