Rogue/Gearsmith Carnival King Deck

[kupo_kunic]

Late last year (in September), I had read that The Spoils was coming back and the next set was being worked on. I was thrilled and began working on improving my Node deck. I posted it here and got some great feedback. But the general census was that I badly needed three more “A Series of Tubes” and four “One-Legged Pogo Bear!”'s. None of which I had, and the fact that the game wasn't being sold again yet made it harder to obtain them.

I tested the deck and realized it was a pretty decent deck after the fixes, but I needed something I could build that would be effective right when the tournaments begin again in Florida. I came up with this:

Starting Resources:

[2] Elitism

Gearsmith Cards: (30)

[4] Basic Node
[4] Hub Node
[4] 633fy 31f
[4] 700160x 31f

[2] Devastating Mockery
[4] Luteoderm Prototype
[4] Spiky Altasphere
[4] 1337!

Rogue Cards: (43)

[2] Carnival King
[3] Pillaging Pirate
[4] Jumping Screamspider
[4] Entrancing Harlot

[3] Defenestrate
[4] Scrag
[4] Yoink!

[19] Deception

Right off the bat I'll point out that the deck could either splash Rogue and go heavy Gearsmith, or do what it does now and splash Gearsmith and go Rogue. Neither set of cards really have huge Threshold. Only one Rogue in my deck (Entrancing Harlot) has a Threshold above two anyhow. So I'm open for suggestions when it comes to swapping the main and side jobs.

The basic idea of the deck is for it to be a toolbox. It almost always have something I can pull to keep me alive. The ideal combo is to get Carnival King out with another toon using Spiky Atlasphere. Sadly I only have two Carnival King's (I plan to ask my friend to see if he has two more), so I had to improvise in order to make the combo effective.

I run a ton of deck thinning cards, such as 1337!, Defenestrate and Devastating Mockery. I can easily pull Spiky Atlasphere with a 700160x 31f as well, making that an easy card to get. My goal for grabbing the Carnival King lies with Luteoderm Prototype. When the character Luteoderm Prototype is attached to leaves the field (I assume through any methods), I can search my deck for a card and place it into my hand. So I typically grab Carnival King with this. The beauty of it is that I don't think I'm required to show my opponent the card I grab either (or perhaps I am, I forget).

So the deck generally brings out a lot of fast characters to stall and put a little pressure on the opponent, then as soon as I can, I drop the combo and clear his/her board. I think my biggest issues will be with field removal from my opponent, and not successfully drawing any of my search cards. So I'm really wanting to refine the deck down and make it consistent.

Edit: I am considering using "I Got the Gear!" as I think it'll make the deck more reliable.

[_blargmaster_]

Take Defenestrate and Devastating mockery out, their is no such thing as deck thinning in the spoils. You can pay three to draw a card. With these two cards removed their is room for necessary cards such as Guardforce Alpha Prime H4x0r, Cowering Golem, and maybe even Shipping Container since their is not a high rogue meta game anymore. Yes I believe you should definitely go Elitism high thresh since Pogo bear, Tubes, and Haxor are all extremely better than entrancing harlot.

[kupo_kunic]

As I said, I don't have the Pogo-Bear. I'd also like to point out that I am limited to First Edition Part 1 only. The Spoils died in my state before Part 2 got released. I do have a Series of Tubes, but only 1. Not really worth it. The whole point of this deck was so that I'd have something for when The Spoils returns to my state right off the bat, since no one will have cards in stock for me to buy. Is there anything I can do with just First Edition P1 only with this deck?

[jedibcg]

Take Defenestrate and Devastating mockery out, their is no such thing as deck thinning in the spoils. You can pay three to draw a card. With these two cards removed their is room for necessary cards such as Guardforce Alpha Prime H4x0r, Cowering Golem, and maybe even Shipping Container since their is not a high rogue meta game anymore. Yes I believe you should definitely go Elitism high thresh since Pogo bear, Tubes, and Haxor are all extremely better than entrancing harlot.


Basic Nodes thins deck....hehehe

[waiya]

just a quick 2 cents I'd like to throw in.

1. you have nothing to deal with items effectively. sure you have yoink but for the most part the only gear decked these days are prototypes, granted a yoink for a proto is a great trade but what happens when Mysterious invasion hits the board? I would suggest dropping them for precise sabotage for more broad usage.

2 entrancing Harlot. pretty good in limited from what I remember but in constructed its a dead card. unless you were running a SiN variant I dont believe her cost and thresh are worth it. if you have heist planners or swashbucklers they would do best here.

3 defenestrate back at the spoils launch at Gencon Socal josh was running a obb/dec pluck deck that used this card very effectively but with out you capitalizing on the effect with said pluck its pretty useless. unless maybe you decide to swap the harlots for swashbucklers then just maybe worth it. if not replace this with Rapine to combo off your toolbox/prototype ( play toolbox grab prototype rapine killing toolbox to steal their best guy and search for a card.

4 devastating mockery with out a second thought I would drop this card in favor for something that will keep your nodes alive since you are not running series of tubes as you can find your self in a very bad situation against a decent deck ( you have 3 hubs 2 basics carnaval king and a toolbox with spiky on. a perfect set up for your combo. you activate your carnival king to force the block on your toolbox ... opponent responses with kill card on your toolbox... combo shut down.... or lets say you get the attack off and you wipe their board... now you attack with your nodes for a total of 17 damage right? ... wrong opponent responds with a kill card to one of your nodes .... all dead ) I would suggest you fit in some hidden sandwiches to help avoid this situation.

hope it helps

[_blargmaster_]

Basic Nodes thins deck....hehehe
I knew someone was gonna call me on it eventually haha :D