- "Harbinger of Skulls Constant Revolution Wall" deck -- this deck combines the milling technique of the Harbinger with the wall deck qualities of a "Smiling Jack" deck. The deck idea stems from the new card "Constant Revolution" which is figuratively speaking the bridge between these two cards.
- "Ravnos Edged Illusion Sensory Deprivation" deck -- the deck idea is basically that you can handle both big cap vampires with "Sensory Deprivation" and weenie/ally hordes with "Edged Illusion". Blood management is problematic since both cards cost a lot of blood.
- Toreador Antitribu Anarch Presence Stealth Bleed" deck -- the deck combines the bleed capability of Anarch Presence small-to-midcaps caps using "Undue Influence" and "Power Of One" with light permacept plus guns.
- Tremere Antitribu Nephandus" deck -- this is the only well-known deck archetype. Basic "Nephandus" deck with "Antonio d'Erlette" feat. "Malgorzata".
P.S.: The Ravnos deck is currently under heavy reconstruction after yesterday's first test run. I got ousted after an "Anarchist Uprising" dealt 8 damage to me.
4 comments:
I thought, I'll comment on this one.
1. HoS - your decklist looks more or less ok, but you'll have problems with ousting, you have too few wakes to defend Constant Revolution and/or Smiling Jack and you're very likely to get 0,5-1,5 vp, I would add some cycling tech, probably Aura Reading (saves master slots) and maybe a Camera Phone or two; choosing this deck depends strongly on how comfortable you feel playing with a wall deck, personally I prefer to be more proactive during the game, especially during tournaments, where 3 timed-out rounds are a bit exhausting and that's a common situation while playing a wall ;)
2. Ravnos - I played with such a deck a while ago (g2 crypt) and it is weak. You must commit to many resoruces against your predator and get overwhelmed by your predator (or grandpredator) sooner or later anyways. In other words - defending your pool with Sens. Deprivation and Edged Illusion is ineffective.
3. !Tor - I'm not a fan of bleeding for 2-3 at inherent stealth. I feel it's a bit underpowered. I've recetly tried an Eternal Mask deck and it was an epic fail. You're too slow for a stealth&bleed deck unfortunately. The combat package is unnecesseary => they won't block you too often and you'll more likely bounce bleeds with your Tele. Misd. instead of blocking.
4. !Tre - Malgorzata angle is meh, she's too big for me, I like the Carna-Ankara tech of Hugh Angseesing better, I would exchange also half of the Emp. the PK with Leverages; the archetype itself is rather mediocre IMO aka it's a bit overrated, but it's still the best among the 4 you've mentioned.
To sum up - I would play either Nephandi or HoS... or I would go for something entirely diffrent (depends on whether you want to win the tournament or ratehr test some new ideas). Good luck. :)
Thanks for the elaborate comment. I'll be testing two of the decks this evening.
I actually like the !toreador deck, it got a lot of good things going for it. I'd probably add a bowl and 2 atonoments myself to it, so you gain a little more intercept (and potential weenie killing). Have you considered Pentex subversion for the deck?
Undue Influence Bleed gets my vote--
you forgot to add sabrina to your crypt (4 cap) I'd remove the extra copy of redbone to make room for sabrina. Weenies make the concept work. The converts can fish out redbone if you really need him.
I'm surprised there were no copies of Monkey Wrench! This is key for the final lunge oust! Just add 2 copies for a surprise (i personally use 4 in my ishtarri undue influence deck and it works well)
i'd also get rid of the phase motion detector and replace that with a bowl of convergence
--might also consider switching clans to Ishtarri (they have 2 vamps that have bleed bonuses Shasa and Agru and that helps pump up the bleeds) and you can use forced march and diversion to nice effects like vote and bleed (baron tech)
--also include Club Illusion for more bleed pumps--if you're going anarch might as well take advantage of all the nifty anarch tech! might also want to consider Hospital Food to fuel vamps after monkey wrench and club illusion
stick to 80 cards if possible but playing this kind of deck depends on metagame (dunno about your combat package or how many wall/combat or bleed decks are gonna show up but an anarc deck is definitely a good toolbox deck and can adapt well to most situations)
--johann, manila vtes
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