[Deck] Empowered Little Suckers

Critique welcomed as always, I've been toying with some of the ideas in my head and then noticed that Antonio D'Erlette has pot. :) I did shamelessly netlist a few decks together for ideas, so credits to the TWDA and the usual suspects for some of the cards that turned up. Deck Name : Empowered Little Suckers Author : Dave "Shockwave" Knowles Description : Take one Cryptic Mission deck. Take one Nephandus deck. Notice new card allows you to basically Cryptic Mission, with an untap AND gives you [pot]. Or to put it another way: "I just want to a Nephandus bleed for 2, get blocked and then rip someones arms off." Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 5 average: 4.25 ------------------------------------------------------------ 5x Antonio d'Erlette 5 THA dom for pot !Tremere:4 2x Esoara 5 DOM aus for pot !Tremere:4 2x Keith Moody 3 DOM !Tremere:4 1x Frank Weisshadel 4 dom pot tha Tremere:4 1x Almodo Giovanni 3 dom pot Giovanni:4 1x Ember Wright 3 aus dom !Tremere:3 Library [70 cards] ------------------------------------------------------------ Action [10] 10x Leech Action Modifier [8] 8x Empowering the Puppet King Ally [12] 1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter) 1x Gregory Winter 10x Nephandus (Mage) Combat [13] 6x Disarm 7x Torn Signpost Equipment [1] 1x Bowl of Convergence Event [2] 1x FBI Special Affairs Division 1x Unmasking, The Master [13] 2x Anarch Troublemaker 1x Barrens, The 4x Blood Doll 1x Fame 1x Pentex(TM) Subversion 1x Tension in the Ranks 1x University Hunting Ground 2x Wash Reaction [11] 8x Deflection 3x Delaying Tactics

¬_¬ I did originally put [DECK] into the topic, but of course Usenet doesn't like that. It should have been (DECK).

Shockwave wrote: > Ź_Ź > > I did originally put [DECK] into the topic, but of course Usenet > doesn't like that. It should have been (DECK). USENET likes it just fine. I saw it on my news reader. Google, on the other hand, has issues.

> USENET likes it just fine. I saw it on my news reader. Google, on the other > hand, has issues. Ah, wasn't aware it was a Google specific issue. Ignore previous comment then.

On Feb 10, 5:24 am, Shockwave <d_knowles...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Critique welcomed as always, I've been toying with some of the ideas > in my head and then noticed that Antonio D'Erlette has pot. :) I did > shamelessly netlist a few decks together for ideas, so credits to the > TWDA and the usual suspects for some of the cards that turned up. > > Deck Name : Empowered Little Suckers > Author : Dave "Shockwave" Knowles > Description : Take one Cryptic Mission deck. Take one Nephandus deck. > Notice new card allows you to basically Cryptic Mission, with an untap > AND gives you [pot]. > > Or to put it another way: > "I just want to a Nephandus bleed for 2, get blocked and then rip > someones arms off." > I like it in theory, but I think you're going to have a lot of "Nephandus uses Leech" "I block the Leech and take a damage or two in combat" "okay, now I have a bunch of potence cards in my hand that I can't use." I think the only way to get the Leech through is to somehow use Cloak the Gathering and Veil the Legions (not really an option for this deck), or play with so many Leeches in the deck that you don't have room for much else and/or just choke on them at other times. Not to mention that difficultly of actually getting more than like 2 or 3 Leeches for meatspace deck construction. I really wish there was an action modifier to give allies stealth. It makes sense, something like "Daylight Machinations" or "Afternoon Appointment" - Vampires get -1 intercept when attempting to block this action. Another option, which I'm afraid would turn out to be terrible, but maybe worth thinking about, would be Magic of the Smith some Deer Rifles or Sniper Rifles (a long with some other random, good equipment) to complement the Bowl, and throw in Suppressing Fire.

> Another option, which I'm afraid would turn out to be terrible, but > maybe worth thinking about, would be Magic of the Smith some Deer > Rifles or Sniper Rifles (a long with some other random, good > equipment) to complement the Bowl, and throw in Suppressing Fire. Ah, I've already tossed out the Bowl (No minions with AUS, what was I thinking?) and tweaked the combat slightly here: http://www.zen36316.zen.co.uk/vtes/empowered_leeches.html That said, I agree. I'm mildly worried about jamming on pot, the Vampires can all play it too but there's not a vast amount of it anyway. Suppressing Fire would be lovely (considered Zip Guns that I just don't fire!) but I figured if they block the Leech, I still get to hit most people a little bit, and a Nephandus losing an Action isn't the end of the world. The addition of the 2* Graverobbing were purely for 'What was I thinking?!' after conversations in #vtes on IRC. :)