Mola Ram (Thugs!)

Submitted by Timothy Linden on November 10, 2022 - 6:12pm
Eaters of the Lotus
Classic
Tournament winner
Competitive
37 cards.

Foundation (9 cards)

  • 4x Punk Geomancers
    X
    Punk Geomancers
    Punk Geomancers
    Divinatory Hoods

    Cannot turn to change location. When this card smokes a Power-generating Site by inflicting combat damage, you may burn that Site for victory.
    Fighting
    Fighting: 
    1
    Cost
    Cost: 
    1
    Provides
    Provides: 
    Eaters
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    Foundation
  • 5x Thugs
    X

State (18 cards)

  • 5x Shurikens
    X
  • 4x Bite of the Long Teeth
    X
    Bite of the Long Teeth
    Bite of the Long Teeth
    Vampiric Martial Arts State

    Schtick. Play on a Character. Subject gains +1 Fighting and +1 combat damage. When a Character is smoked at this location, you may remove X damage from subject. X = half the printed Fighting of the smoked Character (round up).
    Cost
    Requires: 
    Eaters
    Cost: 
    1
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    Keywords: 
    Schtick
  • 4x Haunted
    X
    Haunted
    Haunted
    Ghost State

    All damage inflicted on subject card is increased by 1. You may Reload this card when subject is smoked.
    Flavor: 

    The voices came to me again last night. They told me that my blood was trapped inside my body -- and I should let it out.
    Cost
    Requires: 
    Eaters
    Cost: 
    0
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  • 5x Vampirism
    X
    Vampirism
    Vampirism
    Vampiric State

    Schtick. Play on a non-Undead Character. No Character may be the subject of more than one "Vampirism". Subject gains +1 Fighting and the designator Undead. When a Character at this location is smoked, turn this card :: Subject gains +1 Fighting until it leaves play.
    Cost
    Requires: 
    Eaters
    Eaters
    Cost: 
    0
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    Schtick

Feng Shui Site (10 cards)

  • 1x Black Chantry
    X
  • 5x Feather Mountain
    X
    Feather Mountain
    Feather Mountain
    Feng Shui Site

    If this card is in your front row, turn and target an attacker that is not attacking this card :: Change the target of target's attack to this card. If it succeeds in inflicting combat damage on this card during this attack, gain 1 Power.
    Body
    Body: 
    8
    Power
    Power: 
    1
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  • 1x Gao Family Banquet Hall
    X
    Gao Family Banquet Hall
    Gao Family Banquet Hall
    Feng Shui Site

    Unique. Turn and target an attacking Character :: Target ceases attacking and all other attackers gain +1 combat damage until the end of the attack.
    Flavor: 

    "If you keep your wits, you might survive the party."
    Body
    Body: 
    4
    Power
    Power: 
    1
    Artist
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    Keywords: 
    Unique
  • 1x LaGrange Four
    X
    LaGrange Four
    LaGrange Four
    Orbital Feng Shui Site

    Unique. Turn :: Unturn target non-attacking Character.
    Flavor: 

    An entire city in space, designed to the principles of feng shui.
    Body
    Body: 
    4
    Power
    Power: 
    1
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    Keywords: 
    Unique
  • 1x Sea Turtle Cove
    X
    Sea Turtle Cove
    Sea Turtle Cove
    Beach Feng Shui Site

    Unique. Turn and maintain and target a Character you control :: Target gains Immunity to opponents’ Events.
    Flavor: 

    They were here long before humans, and they'll long outlast us.
    Body
    Body: 
    6
    Power
    Power: 
    1
    Artist
    Set
    Rarity
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    Keywords: 
    Unique
  • 1x The Dragon's Teeth
    X
    The Dragon's Teeth
    The Dragon's Teeth
    Feng Shui Site

    Unique. Turn and target a Character :: Until the end of the turn, target gains Unstoppable, and when target inflicts combat damage, draw a card.
    Flavor: 

    Its unique Feng Shui focuses your strength.
    Body
    Body: 
    7
    Power
    Power: 
    1
    Artist
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    Keywords: 
    Unique
Original creator: 
Tim Linden

A brutal, reliable and surprisingly resilient speed deck.  It has currently an 18-5 win record for me, which is ridiculously good.  A good start can dominate and win quickly, but it is also resilient, as often you can become a threat again with just another 2 power - new thug/shurkien/vampirism or whatever.  The deck has in some games lost the first 4 or 5 of the only 9 characters and still won.  Not always of course, and even small low resource decks can still go through half the deck before finding a second character, as one of the losses was.  And was not on lackey :)

Early versions did not have the feather mountain, but that is massively useful when a lone attacker is trying to kill off one of your dudes, or someone else is attacking a mostly destroyed Feng Shui it did not quite take. 

It actually works fine in both 3 player and 4 player.

Ultimately I think this is mostly an example of a few strong cards being created over time that combined too well and not caught and fixed in playtest.  Which is really hard to do, but very important to try!

Tim.