Deck: Nightvision (Salubri w/Obt)

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Played what I considered to be an incredibly goofy concept at last
weekend's Milwaukee tournament - an almost all-Salubri crypt, no Clan
Impersonations and (hopefully) no paying of Scarce-cost. It did much
better than I expected - I ended up paying the Scarce cost only once in
3 rounds, picked up a couple of VPs and was a lot of fun to play.

Since people have asked about it, here's the deck after a post-tourney
tweaking to give it better forward motion:

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Deck name: Nightvision
Created by: John Flournoy
Description: The Salubri get Obtenebration, and use Descend into
Darkness to avoid paying the Scarce cost - if your current Salubri are
DiD'ed, there's no penalty for bringing out a new one! As a nice side
effect, this bloats them on blood, too. Once you flip them back up, the
Obtenebration provides additional stealth and S:CE-at-range. I had no
trouble bringing out all three Salubri consistently and keeping a lot
of pool. Vulnerable to vote decks, but at under 90 cards, easy enough
to adjust things if you want to plan against it.

Crypt (12)
4x Matthias AUS FOR OBE nec (7, Salubri) +1 intercept
3x Blanche Hill aus FOR OBE (6, Salubri) hunt special
3x Miriam Benyona AUS for obe (5, Salubri) rescue special
1x Gerard aus dom for obt (5, !Ventrue)
1x Maldavis AUS for pre (4, Caitiff)

Library (82)

Masters (18)
9 Obtenebration
3 Blood Doll
4 Minion Tap
1 Heidelburg Castle, Germany
1 Stranger Among Us

Actions (22)
6 Spirit Marionette
8 Descent into Darkness
3 Renewed Vigor
1 Sanguine Instruction
3 Pulse of the Canaille
1 Precognizant Mobility

Combat (9)
5 Anesthetic Touch
5 Shadow Body

Action Modifiers (21)
5 Shadow Play
4 Shroud of Night
1 Daring the Dawn
4 Repulsion
5 Freak Drive
2 Neutral Guard

Reactions (10)
5 Wake with Evening's Freshness
5 Telepathic Misdirection

Equipment (1)
1 Signet of King Saul

Allies (1)
1 Mylan Horseed, Goblin

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-John Flournoy

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You should add more daring the down, since you doesnt take the damage
after the DiD is resolved, replacing the neutral guards maybe, or the
shroud of night (and trade them with me :-p).

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OHH, i didnt thought of that that, then you should add a lot more at
least 5, maybe 7 if you are going to use that trick that many times,
and miriam can rescue from torpor very well if you add more neutral
guards consider adding 1 signet of king saul to make mattias
unblockable.
When i ran my salubri deck i also added 2 disciplines: fortitude to
play them on blanche or on a minion controlled by my prey to steal it
and send it to torpor

John Flournoy wrote:
> Omael wrote:
> > You should add more daring the down, since you doesnt take the damage
> > after the DiD is resolved, replacing the neutral guards maybe, or the
> > shroud of night (and trade them with me :-p).
>
> True, I didn't even consider using Daring the Dawn on the DiD's. It's
> mostly in there for the 'spirit marionette a minion with Fortitude and
> torpor him' aspect.
>
> The Neutral Guards are pretty handy - once Matthias gets OBT, they're
> 'unblockable by under-9-caps or allies', and without going to torpor.
> I've actually considered adding more.
>
> -John Flournoy

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Fabio "Sooner" wrote:
> On 27 Jul 2005 06:44:02 -0700, "John Flournoy" <carneggy@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >Some ideas to make it more competitive are already incorporated into
> >this version - this is how the deck looks after I tweaked it
> >post-tourney to make it more competitive. (For instance, the deck
> >as-played against Dan had no Pulses.)
>
> Hm, didn't notice it. Anyway, nice to discover that DiD and Daring the
> Dawn work so well together.

Yeah, and the sad part is that I did not once use the two together - it
hadn't even occured to me when I was building the deck. (Nobody really
tried to block the DiD in the first place, either.) The Daring the Dawn
was in there for the 'Spirit Marionette a vamp with fortitude -> they
dare the dawn on the bleed and finish in torpor' trick.

> Fabio "Sooner" Macedo

-John Flournoy