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MY'A PHARAOH DECK
by Eric Jome ejome@execpc.com

I thought it was time to weigh in with an archetypical Pharaoh deck. The goal here is to make it both tough and thematic. so, onward...

This is the archetypical Pharaoh deck... using the difficult to slow down Pharaohs for pullers. The non-character cards concentrate in only 2 areas, pumping up the numbers on characters and defending characters. This deck has a very strong resources presence and can handle even Idealogical Polarization well. This could easily win a tournament, even if it would be pretty dull to play.

But there is a strong variant to this that would be better called a Quisling deck. here, you dump the Pharaohs themselves. Personally, I don't much like the Pharaohs as they don't seem to represent their RPG conterparts... I think they would be too powerful for the game if they really were representative.

To make a Quisling deck,

• Substitute Cyril Doros (80) for Prem K. Sharma
• Substitute Vibe Valiant (258) for Farah Nekhbet
• Substitute Giurgiu Otinka (D73) for Jagannath Adhi
• Add 2 International Influence

Some people prefer a Pharaoh-Psychic rather than a Pharaoh-Fringe deck. Ellen Wu and Akorra Encombi are both psychic and this type of deck allows players to take advantage of Ur-Master.

• Add Ur-Master (A146)
• Substitute Psychic Sensitivity (183) for Oppenheimer Contacts
• Replace Weird Radiation with 2 Hostility Channeler (119)
• Replace Veronica Sellers with a psychic hitter such as Notify Grout (A63) (or)
• Treat Isa Ifaq as an Attacker Add Blush Quay (A121)

Pharaoh and Quisling are thus pretty flexibile and even if you dont have the cards for the exact deck I listed above, you should be able to make suitable substitutions.

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