FG Theme: Outcasts -- Jezebel

[Essence]

Jezebel             


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The Lady of the Night.  The Painted One.  The Illicit.  Her names are many, the legends that surround her are impossible in number, and her powers are unknown to all but the most dedicated researcher.  She is Jezebel, once the leading lady of the False Gods until her position was taken from her by the brash and headstrong Fire Queen.  Left with nothing but her wounded pride, Jezebel nursed her tears, bided her time, and learned to turn her natural inclination toward secrecy into power -- the kind of power that would restore her to honor in the eyes of the False Gods that once rejected her.

Once, years ago, everywhere that Jezebel's tears would fall, a beautiful but forlorn spirit was born.  Today, the Painted One has gathered those spirits around her, and makes her triumphant return to the highest order of Elementals with her entourage of many colors -- and many powers -- holding her aloft.

It has been a millennium that Jezebel has hidden herself from prying eyes, but her time has come.  Time to remind them all of what a real Lady can do.

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Jezebel is a False God designed to win through subtlety and secrecy.  By hiding her activities with Cloak, she prevents the players from knowing which Nymphs she's pulled up with her Tears.  Because those Nymphs are random, every game against Jezebel will play out differently.   But her defenses are many: Cloak to protect her precious ladies from the prying eyes of the elemental brutes that dare assault her; her own skills at purloining the items of her opponents, honed by a millennium of hiding and skulking;  her icy demeanor, a virtual shield of frost that stops lesser creatures cold; and of course her 'damsel's defense', a small dagger enchanted with the dark magicks she learned in her time as an outcast.

Offensively, the huge amount of Steal-power in Jezebel's arsenal will turn many standard FG decks on their heads, and of course the right Nymphs will put a hurting on almost any deck if they happen to pop out at the right time.  There's not a lot of attack power in there unless a host of Green, Time, and/or Turquoise Nymphs come up, but then Jezebel's not looking for a fast victory -- just a sure one.


Isn't it time the FGs had a little sex appeal?


For Zanz:

Original (Polled) Deck: Jezebel Code: [Select] 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 7gk 7gk 7gp 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7i6 7i6 7t9 7t9 7t9 7t9 7tb 7tc 7tc 7ti 7ti 7ti 7ti 7ti 7ti

Modifications Needed: Code: [Select] 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 7gp 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t9 7t9 7t9 7t9 7tb 7tc 7tc 7ti 7ti 7ti 7ti 7ti 7tiThe original deck has a problem in that the AI will always target Nymph's Tears on a standard tower before it targets a Quantum Tower.  That makes both Water Towers and Obsidian Towers nonviable, since the point is to get random nymphs out.  The solution is to use the Mark for spare Water, and add Pests to get the extra Darkness quanta you need -- removing all non-Quantum towers.  The revised deck is played perfectly by the AI, and works exactly as intended.

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[EvaRia]

Well, looking at it, it seems like it would be fun to play with.

But looking at an AI perspective for a moment.....

Does the AI use nymph's tears on water or Quantum Towers first?

Because if it uses tears on water first, then the deck may not work as intended.

Also, there may not be quite enough water generators to power all 12 tears, a couple more couldn't hurt.

[Essence]

The quanta issue is intended.  Nymph's Tears is literally used on whatever stack of pillars gets put down first, and that's the key to the whole deck's pillar balance.

The idea is that most of the time, she'll end up NTing a Quantum Pillar, because most of the time, she'll get a QT out before her Water Towers hit the field.  If she happens to play a Water Tower first and make a Nymph Queen out of it, that's OK too.  But if there were more Water Towers, she'd be more likely to make more Nymph Queens, and that's actually bad for her long-term quanta production.   This way, she has to rely mostly on the quanta from her QTs to get her Tears on, and generally the large pile of QTs will protect the small amount of other quanta she gets from being consumed by the Tears along the way.

This was very carefully planned and calculated on my part. 8)

[EvaRia]

Okay, that makes sense.

I was just checking to make sure

It seems that enough PC will cause this god quite a bit of trouble, but I could be wrong.

[jmizzle7]

Okay, that makes sense.

I was just checking to make sure

It seems that enough PC will cause this god quite a bit of trouble, but I could be wrong.

I agree. Because the deck is relatively slow, a protected Pulv or a creature with destroy (BE) would just about spell game over. Of course, it's easy to point out direct counters to just about any deck. Solid build, IMO.

[Essence]

^^ This...ish.

Yeah, it suffers from permanent control... but just permanent control doesn't do anything except remove the Cloaks; if you can't deal with the Nymphs once they're revealed, the permanent control becomes practically irrelevant.

And at the same time, an unprotected Pulvy will be mincemeat to the Steals, and an unquinted BE creature will die to Drain Life, Berzerk, Aflatoxin, BB, LS, or possibly even Unstable Gas.   So yeah, protected stuff screws her, but then, isn't that pretty much how it's supposed to be?  That's what protection is for.

[The_Mormegil]

Thumbs up for a great fun deck. I don't really like the backstory, but that's just my taste.

Would need a bit of testing for quanta production though...

[Tiko]

My all-round favorite of the competitors, very nice work! Would really love to challange her

[Dragoon]

Very interesting deck.  What if you went with Water Mark and Darkness Towers/Pendulums instead since the Darkness cards are cheaper?  You could get out Nymphs sooner that way.

[The_Mormegil]

Very interesting deck.  What if you went with Water Mark and Darkness Towers/Pendulums instead since the Darkness cards are cheaper?  You could get out Nymphs sooner that way.

...ad get lots of Black Nymphs. Not a good idea, imo.

[Dogg]

Wow, very nice idea. I am loving it! Great job, Essence!

[Essence]

Looks like Jezebel won!  Does that mean this thread gets moved into the Reliquary?