Water Sellers Holdingless Deck
House Deck:
Aides:
4x House Mentats
3x House Swordmasters
3x Water Peddlers
3x Water Marshals
2x Guild Navigators
2x House Agents
2x House Physicians
2x Imperial Suk of the Inner Circle
Events:
3x Holding Tithes
2x Petitioning Delays
3x CHOAM Restructuring
3x Contract Negotiations
Tactics:
2x Protracted Duration
2x Pru-Door Scenario
Enhancements:
2x Expert Command
1x Umma
1x Prescience
Equipment:
2x Baliset
Ventures:
2x Enlist Survivor
1x Turn of Events
Imperial Deck:
Allies:
Albrecht Nim
Pardee
Lida Banfi
Styros
Zenzi Bewt
Holdings:
Whale-Fur Industries
Arrakeen Water Facilities
Dew Harvesting
Arsunt
Harkonnen Industries
Programs:
Fall of a Great Rival
This is a variation on my first holding-less deck. True, there are
holdings in the Imperial deck -- perhaps best to describe it as
holdings-optional in play. And version 1.0 did win in a four player
without bringing out a one of them. There are a couple non-starter
rares; none is integral to the deck -- the key cards are fixed (i.e.
Water Peddlers) or uncommon.
Strategy:
Have fun running rites all over the place.
Try to get a Water Seller ally out so you won't be relying on your
homeworld to engage for the win.
Don't bother deploying a holding unless it will pay you back next turn
-- the zero-cost holdings do this, as will Water Facilities if Arrakeen
is out, and Arsunt just through being a city. But don't refrain from
offering a bid -- let your opponents pay to stop you each turn.
Synergies:
Contract Negotiations is a fantastic target for Protracted Duration --
suddenly 4 favor is buying you an easy 24+ solaris of aides.
Water Peddlers (esp. w/Expert Command) convince your rivals not to keep
spare solaris lying around -- so you use the Holding Tithes and Enlist
Survivors.
With Water Sellers, Guild, and Harkonnen elements, almost any ally
counts as adversarial for the easy to fulfill Fall of a Great Rival.
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