--- Begin House Irhaln "Nothing is Certain" Guild Deck ---
Guild Homeworld:
Tupile
Imperial Deck:
Dorvin Saeth
Harvesting Contract
Albrecht Nim
Gauvir Mucca
Harkonnen Industries
Assembly Chairmanship
Ionesco Valdeshar
Weather Control
Imperial Revenues
Schlag Hide Exports
House Deck:
House Mentat
House Mentat
House Mentat
House Mentat
House Physician
House Physician
Guild Navigator
Guild Navigator
Imperial Suk of the Inner Circle
Imperial Suk of the Inner Circle
Imperial Suk of the Inner Circle
Imperial Suk of the Inner Circle
Umma
Umma
Umma
Umma
Baliset
Baliset
Baliset
Baliset
Guild Shuttle
Guild Shuttle
Holding Tithes
Holding Tithes
Holding Tithes
Holding Tithes
Hoarding Tithes
Hoarding Tithes
Hoarding Tithes
Hoarding Tithes
Casting Nets
Casting Nets
Casting Nets
Casting Nets
Assailant’s Calling Card
Assailant’s Calling Card
Assailant’s Calling Card
Name of the Great Mother
Name of the Great Mother
Grant Furlough
Grant Furlough
Grant Furlough
Deck strategy:
Set up Navigators or Albrecht and Gauvir as Ummas, then with the balisets
deploy 4+ tithing events in a single turn, eliminating rivals through favor
loss. House Mentats serve to increase hand size (key, since you want to be
cycling cards as fast as possible), gain solaris (bonus with ACC, which is
almost a guaranteed four solaris the turn you pull it), and as targets for
Grant Furloughs to force an opponent's draw and consequent loss by favor.
Since everything needs to take place by surprise with minimal time for
opponents to recover, try to go late in the initiative order. Furloughed
Mentats will likely need to be foisted on later-interval rivals.
Casting Nets: I think this is an almost mandatory inclusion in decks since
you're free at any time to cash it for another card. It may be detrimental if
it sits in your hand and prevents you from drawing the tactic that would have
saved the game, but knowledge of your own deck should take care of that.
Name of the Great Mother: Such a fun card, making a whole set of cards (events)
into tactics. Plus, I think any deck should include at least two tactics that
would forestall a rival's victory. These were mine, in combo with either of
the Tithes.
Imperial Deck: since I have no arbitration power, I went primarily for charters
I thought no one else would play. Also, since I figured I would be running at
least two Holding Tithes in a fairly short game, I would only be able to recoup
a little from charters, and so threw in a (relative) lot of allies.
Harkonnen Industries I like because, at 6 resistance, it is cheap and hard to
take out, plus only one other player is likely to include it in their deck.
Imperial Revenues is such a ridiculously powerful card it was worth the remote
chance that I'd be first to petition it.
Ionesco Valdeshar: Thrown in because I wanted to run intrigues for cash, and he
is the best value (surprise!) in that department, even including the favor
loss.
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