King of Greed

Deck: 9 cards

The first card is the base. You start a run with the base and 3 random cards from this deck.

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  Palace

  Base

  Casts a ray that insta-kills target. Golden enemies drop gold.

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  Thief

  Troop

  Fast assassin that jumps straight to the enemy's backline.

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  Mercenary

  Troop

  Strong but fickle warrior for hire. You always have 1 unit for each 9 gold you have (Patch #29).

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  Vault

  Building

  Every year, gives you 3 gold per level. Automatically levels up.

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  Beacon

  Building

  Every year, adds attack speed and movement speed to all adjacent plots (+2% per level on the official wiki table).

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  Dispenser

  Tower

  Single-target tower. Gains attack speed for each gold you earn.

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  Mortgage

  Tome

  Destroys target plot and gives you gold for each level it had.

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  Over-invest

  Tome

  Spends 30 gold to increase every stat of a plot.

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  Midas Touch

  Enchantment

  When this troop kills an enemy, there is a 2% chance per stack to earn gold.

How the cards fit together

• Mercenary: you always have 1 unit for each 9 gold you hold (Patch #29 lowered it from 15), so spending gold shrinks the plot. Servitude stops Mercenaries being fired.
• Vault gives 3 gold per level each year and levels itself automatically since Patch #29; Speculation raises its level cap to 99. Wall Street (2.5% of players) needs Vaults on every unlocked plot except the base.
• Mortgage turns a plot into gold by level; with Foreclosure (1.0) the mortgaged card returns to your hand.
• Over-invest spends 30 gold to raise every stat of a plot.
• Golden Hour (1.0): each time you gain gold in battle, the Palace beam hits a random target for damage equal to your gold.

Royal decrees

Decree	Effect	Limit
Insurance	Gives you gold for every 9 allied unit deaths.	Repeatable without limit
Burglary	All troops gain 3 stacks of Midas Touch.	Repeatable without limit
Foreclosure 1.0	Mortgaged cards go back to your hand.	Up to 3 times
Golden Hour 1.0	Every time you gain gold in battle, your Palace shoots a beam that hits a random target. Deals damage equal to the gold you have.	Repeatable without limit
Mecenate	Gives you 1 Over-invest card for each occupied plot in your kingdom.	Repeatable without limit
Salvage	Cards thrown into the pit give you triple gold.	Up to 3 times
Scimitars	Thief attacks are always critical strikes.	Up to 3 times
Servitude	Mercenaries no longer get fired.	Up to 3 times
Speculation	Vaults' level cap is now 99.	Once per run

Perks

Perk	Effect per rank	Ranks
Fixer	Dispensers start with extra damage.	3
Goon	Thieves deal extra critical damage.	3
Nepobaby	Start with +20 gold.	3
Oligarch	Start with +1 Vault card in your hand.	2
Patron	Over-invest gives a bonus to all stats.	3
Peddler	1 free shop purchase.	3
Planner	Losing a life gives you +30 gold.	3
Smuggler	Mortgage gives extra gold.	3
Tycoon	Mercenaries cost less gold.	3

Perk slots and ranks open with king levels. How perks and king levels work.

Guides for this king

• Gold, merchants and the pit: income, shop prices and re-roll costs
• How to beat King difficulty: perk board, year-5 decree, enemy re-rolls and the year-33 battle
• Unlocking kings: every unlock counter and how it accumulates
• Royal Council decrees: how the decree offer is built and which pools it draws from