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Top Hat Times #5
Samedi Newsletter - January, 2009.
-= Table of contents =-
1 -- Word from the editors desk
2 -- Hunk of the Month: Rafaele Giovanni
3 -- Card of the Month: Houngan
4 -- Deck of the Month: As it was written
5 -- Hats off
===== 1 - Word from the editors desk =====
Yay! New Year and a lot of stuff to look forward to. My birthday is
just around the corner, a new Thor trade paperback is out soon and
I'll get around to visit IKEA for some furniture (been sleeping on a
mattress on the floor for a year... does a number on your back. The
whole things a long story :P). And this is just for January!
My new years resolution was that I need to have more fun, drink more
booze, be less healthy and take it slower with work. That way no one
will be disappointed if I break my new years res except myself.
Over and out.
/alex fnurp
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===== 2 - Hunk of the Month: Rafaele Giovanni =====
Rafaele Giovanni
Clan: Giovanni (group 2)
Capacity: 6
Disciplines: NEC cel obf
Independent: Raphael may bleed your predator as a (D) action. +1
bleed.
Last newsletter I covered some strong points about sharing the
Giovanni family treasure with the Samedi so here is another gentleman
that got good synergy with Samedi.
I'd like to start off with that Keystone Kine looks good to use with
Rafaele. You get to choose any effect on the card and since he can go
backwards it sets you up for some ally gibbing as a defence from the
basic necromancy version of the card. Carlton Van Wyk boring you out
of your mind and stripping away your stealth? Blow him up! Another
anarchism idea is to do a Cry Wolf + Khazar's Diary slam dunk, spice
it with Gear Up as you wish. Lets hold the anarchism ideas for the
future and continue.
Rafaele's got inferior celerity, something he shares with 3 Samedi
brethren (4, if you want to count Jack Dawson twice) and even though I
really hate inferior celerity there is some interesting cards to use.
Distraction is an underplayed card but works really good with Sudario
Refraction and Shambling Hordes. Allowing you to filter through your
library, sculpt your hand into perfection and dump zombie fodder into
the graveyard! Liquidation is much better at the job, but Distraction
is situationaly better - For example when ther cards in your hand
really bad and you want to cycle them out in a fast manner which
Liquidation cant really help out with. Another card from the inferior
celerity department that I like for its card efficient combat-defence
ways is Resist Earth's Grasp. For one blood you get a maneuver away
from all the close combat nastiness and a press against if the
opponent is in a pressy mood.
Also; Vultures buffet isn't that shabby to use at inferior obfuscate.
Turn an unused zombie into the graveyard into one blood and an untaped
hunter.
===== 3 - Card of the Month: Houngan =====
Houngan
Type: Master
Requires: Samedi
Cost: 1 pool
Unique master.
Put this card on a ready Samedi you control. During your untap phase,
this Samedi gains 1 blood from the blood bank, and he or she may tap
to gain an additional blood. Any other Samedi may move this card to
himself or herself as a +1 stealth action.
If you like, this is the hunting ground for Samedi as far as card
printed goes. It got some benefits over
the other hunting grounds; It only costs one pool and you can gain
additional blood if you want to, just
by simply flipping the vampire sideways. The drawback is that you cant
give blood to other vampires and
it takes an action if you'd ever want it to which kind of suck (and
you'd probably be better off with a
simple hunt-action in that case...). The last itching thing is that
other Samedis can steal it from you,
but the likeliness of that happening is pretty slim - When did you see
two Samedi decks at the same table?
Or even one? :)
I was tossing around the idea of handing this card to an embraced
Samedi, attach two blood dolls/vessels
to it to have an everlasting stream of poolgain just sitting by your
side doing its thing throughout the
game. The setup is pretty steep and there is few benefits of going the
embrace-route with the Samedi so
far. But its something at least I'm going to have in the back of the
mind for any upcoming bloodline related sets!
Overal this card is truly ace and should be a no-brainer inclusion
into any deck featuring the clan.
===== 4 - Deck of the Month: As it was written =====
Alrighty, I wanted to pencil down a quick idea I had - Using Jorge De
La Muerte's sabbat trait. By turning him into black hand he gains
access to Guarded Rubrics, sweet to run with Hag's Wrinkles if you
share it via Heidelberg. The wrinkles doubles up as stealth for the
mighty obfuscate weenies Jorge got by his side. Bloating via Vessels
and Reunion Kamut to gain resources and turn the dudes sideways -
hopefully to oust your prey with your bleed toys. The single Remover
in the deck is there to do trixy stuff with (tapping a blocker,
tapping Enkil Cog etc).
Reunion Kamut is an outstanding card by the way! Since theres no age
restrictions on the effect of the card like there is on similar ones,
for example Govern the Unaligned. But since the Cadetted vampire is
black hand only when he or she is *controlled* you can only use
Reunion Kamut on Roger Farnsworth in this current crypt - Hence the
extra copies of him and some Effective Managements to smooth things
out a little. At least in theory.
Since this decklist sits at a light 75 cards there's plenty of room
for more candy to fill the basket with and tailor make it as the need
comes. Wake with evenings freshness + Delaying tactics package, combat
protection/assaultiness and so on.
Deck Name : As it was written
Author : A.Gyhlesten
Crypt (12 vampires) Capacity min: 1 max: 7 average: 4.41667
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4x Jorge De La Muerte 7 OBF THN cel for nec Samedi:2
1x Josef 4 ani obf obt !Nosferatu:2
3x Roger Farnsworth 4 OBF aus !Malkavian:3
1x Tock 4 obf pot pre !Nosferatu:3
1x Lena Rowe 3 aus obf pre Pander:2
1x Max Lowell 3 cel obf !Gangrel:2
1x Shannon Price, the 3 ani obf !Nosferatu:2
1x Yorik 3 dem obf !Malkavian:2
1x Basil 1 obf Pander:2
Library (75 cards)
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Action [10]
1x Conceal
2x Psychic Veil
7x Reunion Kamut
Action Modifier [26]
1x Art of Memory, The
3x Cloak the Gathering
2x Faceless Night
5x Freak Drive
4x Hag's Wrinkles
2x Into Thin Air
4x Lost in Crowds
4x Spying Mission
1x Veil the Legions
Action Modifier/Combat [3]
3x Swallowed by the Night
Ally [3]
3x Reanimated Corpse
2x Marijava Thuggee
Equipment [8]
3x Camera Phone
3x Guarded Rubrics
1x Heart of Nizchetus
1x Ivory Bow
Master [21]
7x Cadet
1x Drop Point Network
2x Heidelberg Castle, Germany
1x Hungry Coyote, The
2x Information Highway
1x Remover
5x Vessel
2x Effective Management
Retainer [2]
1x J. S. Simmons, Esq.
1x Tasha Morgan
Crafted with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder.
===== 5 - Hats off =====
For once I've had the next months issue already planed out and it will
be a bit bigger because of this. I'll present an old-school smash hit
Samedi deck that is really, really good and something I consider
taking with me to the next tournament in Oslo. I have an old,
unupdated version laying about and I believe its time to dust it off
and see how it can be freshen up a bit.
Thanks for reading and have fun at the tables!
Thank you and good night.
/alex
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