For scoring, House Ceres’ ability may combo well with Dr. They also begin with an extra card in hand so if they can make other players banish cards from their hands by playing cards like Aja (gold), Antonia (gold), Karnus (gold), Rogue (gold),Tactus (gold), and Hypnotist (yellow), this house could have a huge advantage. When this house gains the Sovereign token, they can banish a card, which is good if the player knows what their opponents may need. If you end up with lots of Helium and Quicksilver (silver) comes in to play, be sure to snatch it before others do and secure your lead in having the most helium at the end of the game.īanishing cards with House Ceres - For your first game, try to avoid House Ceres. However, they can be great if comboed with Sponsor (silver), Stock broker (silver), and Banker’s (silver) deploy abilities that allow you to spend helium in exchange for better benefits.
The return is not as good as investing long term in the Institute or Fleet track. House Mars, the silvers, and heliums - House Mars specializes in Helium. This resource is only 3 points each so it may not be a good long term investment. This way, the other players would have less incentive to take those cards during their turn and you can be pull those back after one round and keep it in your hand to score at the end.
If you want to deploy these two cards to trigger the deploy bonus, my advice is to only do so after you have gained a big lead in the Institute. Politician (copper) and Timony (copper) have end game bonuses for having most influence at the institute. Certain copper cards also let players add influence to the institute when deployed so when comboed with Diana’s house power they could earn and maintain the majority status in the institute easily. House Diana can put one of these tokens at the institute when the Sovereign token is gained. House Diana, the coppers, and the Institute - At the end of the game, the player with the most influence tokens at the institute would gain 4 points per token. If you manage to keep Bondilus (copper), Nero (gold), Octavia (gold), Lysender (gold), Romulus (gold) or The Jackal (gold) at the end of the game then the Sovereign token becomes even more valuable. The Sovereign token is worth 10 points at the end of the game, which is arguable higher than the combined value of a single step on the fleet track, one influence token and one helium. This means, if they want the Sovereign token, it is theirs. While in possession the Sovereign token, certain cards such as Martyr (white), Justice (white), and Seer’s (white) abilities would be interesting to catch the opponents off guard. House Apollo, the whites, and the Sovereign token - House Apollo always goes first and gets an extra turn to go last. If those cards are either Invictus (blue), Pelus (blue), or Virga (blue), then keep those in your hand for their end game scoring bonuses.
After deploying these cards out, don’t hesitate to take them back into your hand if those blue cards are still on the board, so you can trigger the combo again at a later time. Many blue cards' deploy ability are bonus fleet track advancements, when comboed with Jupiter’s house power they would become unstoppable. House Jupiter, the Blues, and the fleet track - Each step on the fleet track could potentially be worth up to 4 - 4.3 VPs on average after getting past level 7, and House Jupiter can gain bonus fleet track advancement when they gain the Sovereign token. Some colors combo well with particular Houses: The green cards might be helpful if you are scoring grays. 4 out of 7 green cards allow players to bring out more cards from the deck to the board when deployed, thus helping to maximize scoring potential of gray cards. The mechanics, the soldiers, and the programmers - The ones that I personally feel are most useful out of all 13 colors, not courting gold, are the orange and gray cards. Their end game ability can help other cards meet the required bonus conditions. Most of them also have decent core values and easy to achieve end game bonus requirements. If it is a color or a name you need to achieve the bonus, then be on the hunt for an orange or gray card that can get you there. When gold rules with iron reins - There are 21 gold cards and only 7 cards in all other color decks. In general gold cards have higher core value overall and could be worth between 30 -40 points on average, or more if the end game bonus condition is met. If you can't find any synergy in your opening hand it may be a good start to pick up a gold card from the board and build a strategy around it.
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