Classic: Questor Defence

Summary

This is really a Legacy of the Tribes Special. When they released Questor, he really wanted to benefit from killing lots of prey... but in classic Rage there are very few ways for that to happen. Luckily there are victims which will attack you by themselves if you look right.

This deck is about pacing yourself so you can be attacked as many times as you can cope with each round.

Deck

Characters

• 1 Blossom
• 1 Questor
• 1 Longtooth Soulkiller

This counts as a double champion deck... even though the champions are not the biggest. They are, however, right for this deck and double for each other. It also leaves exactly the right amount of space for Blossom, the bane of many champion decks (and no answers in classic Rage).

Sept

• 3 Renegade Werewolf Hunter
• 3 Vigilante
• 3 Wild Animals
• 1 Tambertail's heart
• 1 Chronicle of the Black Labyrinth
• 1 War Knife of Benning Simon
• 1 Whip of the Wicked
• 3 Skin of the Hellbound
• 2 Vampire Blood
• 2 Spiral Boomerang
• 3 Sneak Attack
• 3 Friends in High Places
• 1 The Pit
• 3 Gaia's Will Corrupted

The core of the deck are the 9 victims, Gaia's Will Corrupted and a bit of Chronicle of the Black Labyrinth /The Pit (the latter two never did too much for me, but are definitely flavourful). The equipment and The Pit largely serve to back up the strategy by making it harder for the victims or other attackers to deal lasting harm. The Spiral Boomerangs and Tambertail's Heart really dissuade opponents from attacking you, allowing you to end combats you aren't involved in to slow down your opponents.

Combat

• 1 Frenzy
• 1 Taking the Death Blow
• 1 Fox Frenzy
• 2 Vital Blow
• 2 Block and Strike
• 1 Curb Stomp
• 2 Dry Gulch
• 1 Septum Crushed
• 1 Lucky Blow
• 2 Evasion
• 1 Fancy Footwork
• 1 Dodge
• 2 Off-balanced Attack
• 1 Overextended Attack
• 1 Shieldmate

The Frenzy, Taking the Death Blow and Fox Frenzy are fairly obvious. I'm not sure you need the Fox Frenzy but you can normally discard it if you don't need it. You have a bunch of 4 damage combat cards to take care of the six victims with 4 Health; and some Rage 1 cards in case of Vital Blow. And a good selection of dodges so you can outguess your opponent.

I am sure my actual deck (buried in a cupboard) is better tuned than this, but that's what practice is for.

Substitution

The biggest question in this deck is which characters to play. When I built this deck, I didn't have Zhyzhak so didn't have much often; plus I just like Questor. If your opponent does have a character which the victims might attack instead, Blossom can take them out for you. So I would suggest this is, in fact, the optimal build. But do experiment.

I don't think there are any obvious substitutions, although it might be worth swapping in a single Massive Wound; and you may find that you want to swap in more 4-damage cards.

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