Article: The Billionaire Is Going For Broke

[Michael (Arcane Tinmen)]

Terence Dorman takes The Billionaire to the Vast Mastabatorium for him to spend all of his easily earned money.
Full story here: http://www.thespoils.com/spoils/view...million_served

[Kettil Brochmann]

Seems like a cool deck. I've actually sketched on a deck similar to this, but Terence has built it a LOT better than I. But then, I've moved on to other Billionaire shenanigans.

Good read as alway!

[Michael (Arcane Tinmen)]

I've moved on to other Billionaire shenanigans.

We must see your deck(s) next then

[Kettil Brochmann]

If I manage to make it work consistently I could present it to you. I don't think it will be nearly as stable as Terence's build, though.

[Michael (Arcane Tinmen)]

If it isn't fully functionable then you coudl just present it here on the forums; I am sure there will be someone out there with an opinion on what might work

[ImInneren]

Sounds funny

[Bizze]

How about including Tax Attorney to save yourself from the effects of the Masterbatorium? Too slow? Maybe you don't care about your own influence?

[Terence Jason Dorman]

When I first built the deck (i.e. when it was a pile of 150 "possible" cards), Tax Attorney was in the pile. The more I thought about it, though, the more I realized he is rather unnecessary.

The primary reason he is unnecessary is that I don't really take much influence loss from the Mastabatorium. It only needs to be activated once to put it under my opponent's control, so even if I have 4 out (which never happens) and want to go for the super bomb, it only costs me 4 influence.

Also, I found that I don't often use the Mastabatorium as an actual draw engine. It very rarely comes up and if it does, I'm probably already in a bad enough situation that saving a 1-5 influence from the Mastabatorium isn't going to make a big difference. The deck has enough resource acceleration via Burly, Ceremonious Groomer, Rusty Pickaxe, and Miraculous Regeneration that my "draw engine" is really just the Tournament Faction.

Of course, I could certainly see the merit of having Tax Attorneys and I wouldn't argue against trying it. I just don't think they are needed unless you intend to use the Mastabatoriums much more than I do.