Here is a Smugglers deck titled "Fist Under Hand". I derived this titled
from the term "Hand Over Fist" as in "making money hand over fist", and then
switched to give a glimpse of the underhanded things this deck is capable
of.
This deck is designed to win using the "Request Admission to the High
Council" victory.
Stategy: Get Beyond the FauFreluches, Carthag and Arrakeen into play early.
Fortune of Al-Lat will allow you the ability to discard from your assembly
without worry, so discard from your assembly to get these into play early.
The Arrakeen Patriarch and Carthag Privateer are included to disengage the
cities. The House Physicians and Wake Shots will allow the Patriarch and
Priateer to work overtime. Once you get some Sisters of the Azhar out, use
them to disengage Glossu Rabban with Manual of the Friendly Desert. This
stategy, coupled with the House Physicians, Arrakeen Patriarchs, and Carthag
Privatteers, will allow to make money from the cities "hand over fist".
Glossu Rabban is best put to use working The Great Flat.
This brings us to Dune and its control. Deploy Dune as soon as you think
it's possible. Hopefully you will have a Smuggler Band and/or Smuggler
Battalion in hand. Deploy the either of these to Dune. Use Diplomatic
Settlement to stave off any arbitration rites against Dune. If Dune is
governed by an oppenent, use Rabban with Disquised Sardaukar to battle Dune.
This deck has a lot of card drawing manipulation in it. Esmar Tuek, Mohiam
with Passages Within, Salvaging Operations, and False South Wall will keep
your options at a maximum. It is actually possible to continuously cycle
thru the deck. I will leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Many cards in this deck make use of discarding favor. That is why Beyond the
Faufreluches must be in play. If you are discarding/reducing favor, do your
best to make sure you end up directly at 0 favor as a result. Further
reductions/discarding of
favor will result in tokens being assigned to Beyond the Faufreluches. NOTE:
This card is ONLY effective if you are at 0 favor or less when you use it.
Example: Having 3 favor and discarding 4 will NOT assign a token to BTF. If
you are at or below 0, use BTF to bring you back to 0. If for some reason,
you are unable to do this, try to have Smuggling Compact ready to reduce
your hand size where necessary. This can be costly but this deck has no
problem with solaris.
Using Stake Reputation will often result in tokens being assigned to
Dominate the Assembly. Many players will be unable to outbid you
when you can use favor in this manner. This will set your opponents back and
give you a need advangtage.
Assign Smuggler personnel to Smuggler allies for a bit of intrigue and
battle. This is a side effect of this deck and not the main focus. Focus on
using The Great Flat to accumulate spice and having Dune to get the spice
into your hoard. You will be able to buy spice regardless of price if there
is any available.
Fist Under Hand
Smugglers deck
False Wall South
Dominate Assembly
Imperial deck: (15)
Carthag
Arrakeen
The Great Flat
Glossu Rabbon (TAT)
Gauis Helen Mohiam (EOTS)
Esmar Tuek
Feige Treazel
Kaldo Radij
Remy Egusku
Staban Tuek
Smuggling Revenues
Trafficking Partnership
Smugglers Ambassador
Beyond the Faufreluches
Regent Siridar
House deck: 72
Sister of the Azhar 4
Diplomatic Settlement 4
Manual of the Friendly Desert 2
Policy of Oppression 4
Arrakeen Patriarch 2
Carthag Privateer 2
House Physician 4
Wake Shot 4
Protracted Duration 4
Contract Negotiations 2
Disguised Sardaukar 4
Fortune of Al-Lat 2
Stake Reputation 4
Unfulfill'd Plans 4
Gross Soliciting 2
Smuggling Compact 2
Preordained Sequence 2
Byzantine Corruption 2
Salvaging Operation 3
Shifting Tides 2
Passage Within 4
Smuggler Band 3
Smuggler Battalion 3
Smuggler Underground 3
Phillip Edwards
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