Have to give Christie a try. She seems like she'll work indeed. However, when building both an All and Life Christie, I realized that, honestly, over half of both versions were All/Life, and that both versions had their perks (All has comboability, Life has aggro), so I figured, screw it! Combine the best of both worlds and make something we don't see often these days: a dual-symbol deck! But, it isn't dual symbol in the (I'll play off 1 symbol this turn, 1 symbol the next). It's "depending on what I draw and what the match calls for, I'll use one symbol's strategy, primarily." It's my attempt at making the best Christie that can be built currently. Hope you guys enjoy!

Christie Monteiro* - All/Life Hybrid

Actions: 7

4x Frantic Search 3/4 +2-HIGH (All/Life)
3x Base Hold 2/5

Assets: 6

2x Ostrheinsburg Castle - Gay Vampires 3/5 +3-MID [Terrain]
2x Path of the Master 2/5 +2-MID [unique] (Infinite)
2x Designer Clothes 2/5 +3-HIGH [unique] (All/Life)

Attacks: 18

3x Fruit Picker 5/3 +1-MID [Kick] (All/Life)
4x Lunging Brush Fire 5/3 +2-MID [Kick] (All/Life)
3x Samba 4/3 +2-MID [Kick] (All/Life)
4x Slippery Kick 4/3 +2-LOW [Kick] (All/Life)
4x Side Flop 4/3 +2-HIGH [Kick] (All/Life)

Foundations: 34

3x One with the Rhythm 3/4 (All/Life)
4x For the Money 2/5 +3-MID
4x Genius Alchemist 2/5 (All/Life)
3x Controller of Souls 2/5
4x Body of Souls 2/5
4x Searching for Family 2/4 (All/Life)
4x Researching the Past 2/4 (All/Life)
4x Hunt for Jin 1/5 +2-LOW (All/Life)
4x Torn Hero 1/5

Total: 65

R/F & N-Joy!

Breakdown:

Christie Monteiro* - When it comes to All and Life's character line-up, simply put, it's so diverse, so arguing why did I pick Christie is kind of pointless. However, why Christie over Ivy, a character I've repeatedly said is her successor? Couple of reasons.
1. 7 HS and a built-in draw: She may be 9 health shorter than Ivy, but she has a bigger handsize which means that, should she draw into some attacks, she ought to have more foundations than an attack-hungry Ivy that has a clogged hand and will likely mulligan. Furthermore, her F is a slightly more reliable draw in that it's just F Commit: have some kicks on your card pool to work.
2. Fruit Picker: Ivy DOES have Raging Gnome, but it's extremely unpredictable, and in this deck, I have constant pressure put on the opponent by means of For the Money, Twilight Castle - Gay Vampires, One with the Rhythm, and SSS Loop, so that a Fruit Picker is almost guaranteed to kill, if not knock the opponent straight to Desperation. Raging Gnome is extremely predictable, and Path of the Master isn't particularly the most reliable asset with anti-asset existing in so many great forms.
3. Better synergy with her support. Ivy is such a braindead character. Build, SWS, attack strings as much as you possibly can, POTM and/or Gnome FTW. Boo. Christie applies stupid amounts of pressure due to her support and abuse of other cards that EVERY attack is a GIANT threat (or can be bluffed into being a threat), whereas Ivy really doesn't make cards threatening.

Attacking Combos...

1. Frantic Search, Slippery Kick. E with Designer Clothes to add Search to momentum, Slippery Kick is unblocked (3 damage). Form with One with the Rhythm. Play Side Flop, E with Side Flop, Side Flop is blocked. Lunging Brush Fire, E with Christie, E with Lunging Brush Fire, LBF is unblocked (7 damage), Gay Vampires activates and readies One with the Rhythm, One with the Rhythm activates and adds a card to their card pool, LBF adds Side Flop to the momentum and discards itself. Form with Body of Souls to get back Side Flop, play Side Flop. E with Side Flop, Side Flop deals damage (10 damage), adds Slippery Kick to hand, Gay Vampires readies Body of Souls, One with the Rhythm adds a card to their card pool. F with Base Hold, play Slippery Kick. Slippery Kick is unblocked (13 damage), Gay Vampires readies anything committed, One with the Rhythm adds a 3rd card to their card pool. Play Fruit Picker. E with Christie/Gay Vampires/FPicker, Combo E (+6 damage, 12 damage total), Fruit Picker is unblocked (22 damage), One with the Rhythm adds a 4th card to their card pool, if Gay Vampires is ready, it activates.

You could replace the "play Base Hold, Slippery Kick, Fruit Picker" with "play Slippery Kick, play Samba, loop 'til death." Gay Vampires helps pass checks, For the Money helps FORCE the opponent (because if they do not negate For the Money, they are taking a GIANT risk). Also, keep in mind that the above example didn't include Path of the Master, which would have killed ANY opponent.

Where's Drossel good sir?

Also the Christie deck around here is sporting Tira's little kick that's the dumbed down Bat Spin (I forget whati t's called of the top of my head) to fuel the SSS combo.

Good deck. Gay Vampires love Genius Alchemist and Searching for Family. My one question is as follows: why 3 Samba? Do you only have 3 at the moment?

3 Samba because it only gets back Low kicks, and unlike Side Flop (gets back Slippery Kick and Lunging Brush Fire) and Slippery Kick (gets back Samba and Fruit Picker), I only run Side Flop as the low, not really necessitating running Samba.

Also, eh, no need for Swing Kick really.

Last bump. Lovin' this deck so far, a big difference from common metagame I feel. Anybody else have any thoughts?

Lunging Brush Fire clears your card pool and gets you momentum but is conditional on dealing damage, and you don't really need that much momentum. I'd say scrap LBF, add one additional Designer Clothes for the momentum needed and consider one of the following kick options:

Evil Sparrow - 3/3 3M3 +2M, so it's spammable, turns its own progressive off for the cost of ditching a card, can be fetched by Side Flop in a SES loop.

Theemin Menkar - 4/3 3M4 with a +0H block and if it deals damage you ditch 2 to draw 2. It's a great attack since it's a kick with more than 3 base damage for only 4 diff. It's a sexy-ass block if nothing else.

The Boot - 4/3 3M5 +1L block and Stun:1 randomly. Sadly, nothing else but a 5 base damage kick for 4 diff? And a very rare small low block to boot. Sadly I got the pun.

Try each out and see how it does.

LBF isn't just for One with the Rhythm; it's combosauce with Body of Souls in a way that Designer Clothes cannot be (unless I want to tutor Base Holds?). It is dependent on dealing damage, but I have built in speed pump, One with the Rhythm, and deceptive SSS pieces.

I've definitely read your ravings about Evil Sparrow, and it IS good...

...but just not quite what I'm looking for hurr. Although it's super lawl spam, that's all it is, and I'm gonna need moar.

Theemin Menkar is pretty aight, and I did already think of it, but again, isn't particularly necessary.

The Boot is definitely a pretty fun card, and yeah, something that might be worth testing as it's quite a pressure-heavy card. I just like LBS because it has a lot of comboability in this deck when it goes off.

Have you considered Recon as an alternative to Researching the Past? It works with Hunt for Jin just as well, gives you a bit of info about your opponent's deck (which is always nice to have), gives discard the finger, and has a better CC (and a mid block to boot). It shares all 3 of your resource symbols, so it doesn't pose any splashing trouble. I'd give it a try... did I mention the effect was reusable?

LordAggro said:

I'm running a Christie deck similar to the OP's, and i, too, opted for Researching the Past over Recon for it's recurssion ability, as well as it's ability to rig my checks when i start the SSS loop. Yes, Recon checks better, is anti-discard (although a lesser form of it, fo sho), and is reusable. It really isn't as flexible, nor as good as Researching is, for what it's supposed to do in a deck like this.

Nice deck, MP!

Rockstar pretty much got it. Recon was in the draft, but missed the cut when the deck got the dual-symbol treatment.

Researching allows me to rig my next TWO checks, which is more reliable than "oh ****, I just committed a foundation to reveal an attack". Here's another key thing you missed:

Researching the Past + Searching for Family =