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On 9 Jun 2005 12:05:12 -0700, "CthuluKitty" <vtanarchist@riseup.net>
wrote:
>>>You
>only need a Gehenna event to be able to choose younger targets for
>Siphon. The rest of the card works normally.
>
>Ummm. Try rereading that. Normally, the vampire must be younger.
>Gehenna events let you target anyone.
Oh, sorry, I wrote it wrong. Read "you only need an Event to be able
to choose any target, not just younger ones".
I mean, I was thinking about just choosing a big enough Giovanni to
guarantee I'll be able to choose most vampires torporized by the
Purge. Since people usually play with big caps with titles and midcap
and weenie support (specific decks aside), they'll usually turn their
smaller vamps anarch to avoid the Revolts pool damage.
Other option is to play the Purges with big Lasombras, so I can
circumvent the gehenna event clausule by choosing which vampires to
torporize. I just need to make sure they'll be younger than the
Giovanni who's going to do the Siphoning - preferrably Pochtli or
Carlotta, thanks to their specials if everything goes wrong.
I would lean towards using a
>Giovanni with fortitude as the key player, since you'll want to be able
>Freak Drive and defend yourself in combat. Ignazio and Silvia are both
>good choices, as is Regina for the votes. Ultimately, the environment
>you're playing in should determine which of those to use, since they
>all fit your scheme pretty darn well.
>Cthulukitty
I was thinking about something like the deck below. Sometimes I need
bleed defense, and Deflection is the obvious choice. Combine the blood
cost for the rescue actions I'll have to take myself, the bounce and
the Freak Drive, and that's too many blood flowing away. Siphon can
remedy that, but I don't want to rely on Siphon - torporizing anarch
minions to trigger the Revolts is what I want. Siphon is just a nice
addition to get blood and cards back, but not crucial.
Deck Name : Anarchs Siphon after Baltimore Revolt
Author : Fabio Sooner
Description : Influence out a big [DOM] Lasombra first. Hold the Purge
as long as you need it to; take your time Governing down, going
anarch, playing Revolts and hunting as needed. In the meantime, you
should be able to defend yourself well with bounce and Obedience. When
ready, start the Baltimore madness. Choose the minions you'll
torporize with caution; punish vote decks as much as possible, along
with your prey, of course. Offer yourself to rescue cross-table allies
if they're not too threatening in the long run or would suffer too
much from the Revolts. Play Siphon to get blood back and the Baltimore
Purge, along with any cards needed for passing the action/defending
your key Lasombra.
Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 10 average: 7.09
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2x Angelica, The Cano 10 DOM OBT POT cel obf cardinal
Lasombra:2
2x Marcus Vitel Adv 10 DOM FOR OBF OBT POT PRE
Lasombra:3
2x Pochtli 8 NEC OBF POT cel dom
Giovanni:2
1x Carlotta Giovanni 7 NEC POT dom obf
Giovanni:2
1x Rafaele Giovanni 6 NEC cel obf
Giovanni:2
1x Isabel Giovanni 5 DOM NEC pot
Giovanni:2
1x Chas Giovanni Tell 4 DOM POT
Giovanni:2
1x Gloria Giovanni 4 DOM nec
Giovanni:2
1x Lia Milliner 3 dom nec
Giovanni:3
Library [72 cards]
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Action [16]
1x Anarch Secession
4x Baltimore Purge
5x Govern the Unaligned
2x Graverobbing
4x Siphon
Action Modifier [20]
4x Call of the Hungry Dead
2x Elder Impersonation
6x Forgotten Labyrinth
4x Smoke and Mirrors
4x Seduction
Event [2]
1x Anthelios, The Red Star
1x Blood Trade
Master [16]
1x Acquired Ventrue Assets
1x Anarch Railroad
7x Anarch Revolt
3x Blood Doll
4x Galaric's Legacy
Reaction [18]
6x Deflection
6x Obedience
6x Wake with Evening's Freshness
Crafted with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder. [Thu Jun 09 16:17:47 2005]
I'd love to include a Barrens, a Dreams and other similar
flow-enhancer cards, but I'm not sure what to ditch out. I suspect
this deck would function better with even less cards... Do you think
72 is good enough? I also included two events for general usefulness
and for emergencies regarding Siphon's clause.
Other nasty idea was to combine Ankla Hotep or Spider Killer and the
[obf] Giovanni. It would grant me one discipline in common (obf),
Purges at +1 stealth (or +2 if Spider-Killer is the man) or rescuing
the key vamp for 0 blood (Ankla). The downside is that I won't choose
the vamps to be torporized...
The main problem is that Dominate is too damn good to throw away the
mix. It grants bounce, poolgain, influence-speeder tech and combat
avoidance. If the main vampire is a non-[DOM] one like Ankla or
Spider, I won't be able to Govern down from the beginning. It would
make the crypt even bigger and vulnerable for a quick sneaky bleed
predator.
I won't be playing V:tES for at least the next week, so if someone
cares to try this deck or some variation of it, please tell me how it
goes. It's not a friendly deck, so I appreciate to know reactions to
it and prepare myself for the complaints if it works as planned ;-)
best,
Fabio "Sooner" Macedo
V:TES National Coordinator for Brazil
Giovanni Newsletter Editor
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