Unofficial New Raw Deal Starter Decks

Below is a thread suggesting netdecks to help get people interested in the full aspects of this new installment of Raw Deal. Within that thread, somebody suggested that 4 reasonably balanced decks be made so that PDF's could be made from them, for some reason or another.

So I got to thinking about fashioning 4 "Starter Decks" for the New Raw Deal CCG. Below is what I came up with.

I went into this project with the following criteria in mind:

1) Picking four superstars with reasonably comparable stats.

2) Picking four superstars who had easy to teach superstar abilities.

3) Picking four superstars who had easy specifics to understand, preferably with a non-midmatch based trademark finishers (Mysterio exception).

4) Picking four superstars who's abilities did not involve backlash decks.

5) Picking four superstars who were diverse enough to catch all manners of player types. (Kane was too similar to Undertaker flavor wise, and Triple H, Orton and Flair were too associated with Batista.)

6) Building 4 decks using as many styles and strategy types as possible to get the full experience of what you could do (Used all styles minus Showman which relied too much on Midmatches, and each deck either uses primarily Strikes, Grapples, Submissions or High Risk respectively).

7) Building the decks with as little reference to backlash decks as possible, with the strategies built not considering what they would be with a backlash deck. (The only exception to this is that all decks will start with the two Backstage Area Styles revealed, these will be used independently from any reference to a Backlash Deck.)

NOTE: The reason for this was due to the fact that I believe Backlash Decks only muddle the process of LEARNING the game of Raw Deal, the mechanics at it's core. These decks were build with the intent of teaching the game of Raw Deal to people who have never played before, are new to the game, or possibly have never even played a CCG before. So although Backlash decks are an integral part of the RAW Deal experience, these concepts could be taught later after they got a basic feel for the game itself, and wanted to start building their own decks.

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Avoiding hybrid cards as much as possible, or any other types of cards that could potentially cause confusing rules situations. The goal was to make things as simplistic as possible and allow those interesting to explore further from there.

9) And of course, making sure that the decks were all reasonably balanced, with no one superstar clearly having a distinct advantage over all the others.

This brought me to choosing the following superstars.

1) The Undertaker. Hardcore Brawler with head strikes as the maneuvers of choice. Aggro Build.

2) Batista. Dirty Grappler with tons of grapple support as the base. Aggro Build.

3) Rey Mysterio. Clean Highflyer with a varied F: O moveset following up into High Risks that take advantage of the High Flyer Style. Mild Combo Build.

4) Chris Jericho. Submissionest Technician with tons of submission support as the base. The only complicated build of the bunch, due to his natural Control Build.

Here are the official decklists. Tell me what you think.

The Undertaker (Aggro)

Deck: Hardcore Brawler

Maneuvers: 28
Tombstone Piledriver
X3 Slap
X3 Punch
X3 Throwback Punch
X3 Headbutt
X3 Kendo Stick Shot
X2 Axe Kick
X2 Back Rake
X2 Clothesline
X2 Big Boot
X2 Chair Shot
X1 Hammer Throw
X1 Brass Nuks Shot

Reversals: 26
Undertaker Sits Up
X3 Elbow To The Face
X3 Oversell Maneuver
X3 No Sell Maneuver
X3 There Are Two Things You Can Do, Nothing and Like It
X3 Block
X3 Escape Move
X3 Reach for the Ropes
X3 Roll out of the way
X1 An Immovable Object

Actions: 6
Look Into The Eyes Of The Deadman
X5 Irish Whip

Chris Jericho (Control)

Deck: Submissionest Technician

Maneuvers: 21
The Walls Of Jericho
Lionsault
X3 Rest Hold
X3 Wrist Lock
X3 Standing Side Head Lock
X2 Neck Torque
X2 Nerve Hold
X2 Triangle Choke
X2 Indian Death Lock
X2 Full Nelson

Reversals: 24
X3 Block
X3 Dodge
X3 Break The Hold
X3 Lift A Boot
X3 Oversell Maneuver
X3 Elbow To The Face
X3 There Are Two Things You Can Do, Nothing and Like It
X3 Playing Possum

Actions: 15
Don't You Never...Eeeever!
X1 Ringside
X2 Can You Keep It Up?
X3 Maintain Hold
X3 Roll out of the Ring
X5 Dragged to the Center of the Ring

Batista (Aggro)

Deck: Dirty Grappler (Aggro)

Maneuvers: 22
Batista Bomb
X3 Arm Drag
X3 Snap Suplex
X3 Lock Up
X2 Throwback Suplex
X2 Fallaway Slam
X2 Suplex
X2 Swinging DDT
X2 DDT
X2 Press Slam

Reversals: 23
Thumbs Down
X3 Elbow To The Face
X3 Oversell Maneuver
X3 There Are Two Things You Can Do, Nothing and Like It
X3 Step Aside
X3 Dodge
X3 Reach for the Ropes
X3 Roll out of the ring
X2 Dirty Low Blow

Actions: 15
Batista Unleashed
X1 The Parking Lot
X2 Table! Table! Table!
X3 Spit At Opponent
X3 Energy Burst
X5 Irish Whip

Rey Mysterio (Combo)

Deck: Clean High Flyer

Maneuvers: 22
The 619
X3 Chop To The Chest
X3 Arm Drag
X3 Standing Side Head Lock
X3 Hurricane Kick
X3 Lunge
X2 Leg Drop
X2 Mysterious Kick
X1 Splash
X1 Moonsault

Reversals: 25
It's not the size of the dog in the fight...
X3 Elbow To The Face
X3 Oversell Maneuver
X3 There Are Two Things You Can Do, Nothing and Like It
X3 Step Aside
X3 Escape Move
X3 Reach for the Ropes
X3 Lift A Boot
X3 Good Things Sometimes Happen

Actions: 13
Lucha Libre Extravaganza
X1 Ladder In The Ring
X3 A Style That Can't Be Stopped
X3 Offer Handshake
X5 From The Top Rope

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