Shemti + cam royalty Parity of Pain
Shemti and camarilla vampires (preferably with obfuscate and presence, but potence and even a little dominate are appreciated) mess up your predator with Shemti's special, Touch of Pain, Crocodile Temple and my newly acquired Retribution. Don't think your prey gets off easy! Parity Shift away their pool and vote them into the ground. The version I was playing with most featured all princes for the camarilla vampires so that I can play Fear of Mekhet. Extra fun for Justicars/IC members, especially those controlled by my predator.
AUS PRE wall
I won't go into too many details, but I've wanted to make a !Toreador deck for a while.
AUS CHI nightmare curse
After looking at Ravnos for a while, I've been thinking about using the Tremere in group 4-5 with chi/CHI and some other dudes to lock down some vampires. I posted one version here:
http://www.vekn.net/index.php/forum/7-deck-clinic/6069-dominate-wravnos
A good deck must have a good title. Dominate with Ravnos is both a pun and ironic since there are no Ravnos in the deck and you can think of "dominate" as either an action or a subject. My parents would be so proud....
Lord Ephraim Wainwright
This guy is awesome and needs to be doing... something. Is he helping to make a less card-intensive Cryptic Mission deck, gearing all your dudes up with Rutor's Hands, actually playing Gear-up, doing the Nightmare Curse dance I was mentioning, but faster, or what? I just got a fourth copy, so he is ready to become a star.
Tremere tap and bleed
I've been waiting for a good use for Nocturn Theater. I'm not confident that I've found one, but maybe with some Tremere to block/Salt of Thoth for defense and dominate to make the tapping worth-while, it could work. The two pool is outrageous for someting that can be burned as a D action, plus you end up having to tap a vampire of yours to make use of it. So this requires having several dudes. Do you use small ones for fodder, Rutor's Hand, both? Justine the Elder of Dallas has a decent special to help, plus DOM to bring out more guys/bleed like hell.
Trem/!Trem with necromancy
This idea is a little further out there. There are a fair number of group 3-4-5 tremere and !tremere with some necromancy. That has to be good for something, right? Jar the Soul to tap and bleed, Trochomancy to bleed (and doubly hose Girls decks after tapping them), use necromancy for stealth to maybe vote, or what? It is possible to tack this on with the deck idea above to combine tapping and blocking stuff. THA gives you Magic of the Smith to go get a Sargon Fragment. It could work, but it requires using bigger vampires than I might like.
What deck ideas are rattling around in your head?
Once upon a time, I thought Jar the Soul was playable. I have a hard time seeing it, anymore, even if the metagame orients itself around tapping a single bouncer. The effects just aren't that great. While, tactically, tapping someone may be better than just bleeding an additional time, lots of things are good tactically that fail at the strategic level. Nor am I impressed with the concept of using Jar the Soul with untaps, whether Fortitude with HoS or Rutor's. It's just too card intensive to have Jar the Soul and untaps and bleed cards; trying to remove the bleed cards, say, with inherent plus bleeders is a rather specific crypt.
ReplyDeleteI've thought of making a Weather Control Wall deck using Masquer Wraiths...
ReplyDeleteI don't know about the masquer/weather combo. Why not use Sport Bikes instead?
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