The Intergalactic Pak'Ma'Ra Conspiracy to Steal Babylon 4

 

For the longest time, I was looking for an excuse to make a fun Non Aligned Worlds deck but never got around to it. Then came Nug/Ulg. Nug/Ulg made building the Steal B4 deck design perfectly viable, and definitely funny. This deck revolves around Nug/Ulg and Steal B4 to pull cards out of your deck like mad, increase your influence with Valen's War and the obvious events like Short Term Goals (fueled by Nug/Ulg's destiny mark engine), and then tie for first through the effective power boost from Steal B4. If faced with any serious conflict opposition, this deck isn't going to get anywhere, but that is the genius of winning off of Steal B4...you can convince your opponents that you are exactly zero threat to everyone else, as you can't win on your own, and make friends by promising to help other folks win, as long as you can win along with them. And it works--I tied for first place in the tournament we had right after I built this deck.

 

Opening Hand:

Nug/Ulg (starting ambassador)
Vlur/Nhar
Fashar
Muster Support
Rapid Growth

Deck (60 cards):

1x Hello, Old Friend
1x Nuclear Bluff
3x Cannot Run Out of Time
3x Time Jump
3x Evacuation
3x Watch Your Back
3x Trade Pact

1x Different Perspectives
2x Glitch
3x Short Term Goals
3x Trade Windfall
3x For the Good of All
3x Level the Playing Field

1x Test of Merit

2x United We Stand
2x Valen's War

1x Pak'Ma'Ra Spacelanes
3x Megalopolis

3x Steal Babylon 4
1x Higher Calling

3x Drazi Sunhawk

2x Lhim/Dram
1x Luhf/Syhf
1x Nhuk/Vrek
1x Milashi Voktal
1x Lazarenn
1x Wushmeshkeshlep Fo
1x Kalika Qwal'mizra
1x Non-Aligned Aide
1x She'lah
1x Hyach Matriarch
1x Zathras Who Was

The early game for this deck works pretty quickly. Turn 1, play Muster Support, Rapid Growth, sponsor Fashar (for 1) and draw an extra card. Turn 2, promote Fashar (for 2) and build to 6. From there, play and promote Vlur/Nhar quickly, but building to 10 influence isn't really your first goal, as this deck generally sits at 10 influence for quite some time. You want to get a sizable inner circle (the 4 facilitated by Muster Support at minimum) to maximize Nug/Ulg's destiny mark engine. Switch over to Steal Babylon 4 as soon as you can (but after getting 4 characters in your inner circle), and then proceed to pull all the B4 cards out of your deck, winning as many B4 conflicts as quickly as possible (while making everyone at the table your friend). With the Trade Pacts, Influence events and what not, you can jump up in influence a great deal in one turn, and hopefully latch on to victory at the last moment.

 

While highly unlikely, it is not impossible to accidentally win a sole, standard victory off the power gained from Higher Calling. Zathras Who Was is in there to maximize destiny marks.

 

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