I just got hammered by an Una deck..you need to see this!

(Sorry, don't know if this is going to the right thread - I'm having
some trouble with this google group thing... Says "Unable to retrieve
message")

I think it's a pretty genius deck, and has the potential to slay
pretty much any deck without much trouble. The way I see it, it has
three major faults.

One, it's a one-man-show (or a one-woman-show, haven't seen the
vampire), and is vulnerable to all kinds of nastiness targeting
single, powerful vamps. Still, rarely do those come up in your first
few turns or are doable right then and there... So I wouldn't want to
start as Una's prey.

Two, it can die from a bad shuffle or draw. If for some reason, the
deck only gets a few freaks in the first 3-5 rounds of the game, it's
pretty dead. Alternately, if it ONLY gets freaks, it can't do much
either (as the only actions you can do without cards are pretty much
hunt and bleed).

Three, it can die if the opponent has a good hand. Basically the
strategy here is to first equip everything you can and hire all the
retainers you can, then attack the enemy minions with direct attacks
(torporizing or at least tapping them), and then bleed for a lot. If
the enemy can withstand the attacks (which only takes a handful of
dodges, S:CEs or fortitude) - or even worse, torporize Una (agg damage
won't do the trick most likely as she has plenty of maneuvers and
damage prevention, but things like Coma would work) - the cycle stops,
and doesn't start again easily.

I do think its a powerful deck, IF it starts to run smoothly, and the
above three things do not come up. However, I also think that a sign
of a good deck is the ability to recover from a bad situation, and
that's something this deck lacks in a major way. Once Una goes to
torpor, its very unlikely she'll ever make it back out. If the player
gets a bad draw, he's gonna get eaten alive before he can discard
himself into better cards. Since there are so few direct attack cards,
Una can also be stopped by a good hand of defensive combat, and once
those rushes are gone, there's little she can do but bleed once per
turn and get blocked.

It IS a nasty deck though.

NorthSaber wrote:
> One, it's a one-man-show (or a one-woman-show, haven't seen the
> vampire), and is vulnerable to all kinds of nastiness targeting
> single, powerful vamps. Still, rarely do those come up in your first
> few turns or are doable right then and there... So I wouldn't want to
> start as Una's prey.

True.

> Two, it can die from a bad shuffle or draw. If for some reason, the
> deck only gets a few freaks in the first 3-5 rounds of the game, it's
> pretty dead.

That's pretty unlikely. Half the deck is freaks.

> Alternately, if it ONLY gets freaks, it can't do much
> either (as the only actions you can do without cards are pretty much
> hunt and bleed).

That happens but it is unimportant. I watched Dennis get a glut of
freaks and he just hunted, freaked, hunted, freaked, until he got
something useful.

> Three, it can die if the opponent has a good hand.

Certainly. Pred or Prey can do the job.

-Robert