!Gangrel Swarm

Deck Name : THE PACK Author : Description : Just wanted to share my !Gangrel swarm deck. Clearly not the best clan out there but I think they can breed and fight pretty well since Leathery Hide/Target Vitals/Follow the Alpha don't require any disciplines. The basic idea is to flood your prey with minions and just go forward. Blood gain comes in the form of Life in the City which ideal in the early game while you're making babies. Hungry Coyote is great later in the game when you have enough minions to hunt with 1-3 while bleeding with the rest. Considering adding a copy of Narrow Minds and/or Uncoiling. Thoughts are welcomed! Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 1 max: 5 average: 3.41667 1x Celeste Lamontagne 5 !Gangrel:4 1x Mowgli 5 !Gangrel:4 1x Charlie Tyne 4 !Gangrel:4 1x Jeffrey Mullins 4 !Gangrel:4 1x Bill Butler 3 !Gangrel:4 1x Lula Burch 3 !Gangrel:4 2x Denette Stensen 2 !Gangrel:4 2x Jesus Alcala 2 !Gangrel:3 2x Leo Washington 2 !Gangrel:4 Library [71 cards] Action [14] 12x Embrace, The 2x Scrounging Action Modifier [10] 10x Follow the Alpha Combat [29] 11x Leathery Hide 4x Pulled Fangs 14x Target Vitals Master [14] 2x Hungry Coyote, The 6x Life in the City 2x Sunset Strip, Hollywood 4x Tribute to the Master Reaction [2] 2x Delaying Tactics 2x On the Qui Vive

Looks like a pretty legitimate deck. Follow the Alpha doesn't seem that great next to Harass, Rumble and Games of Instinct. I would switch at least half of them with proper rushes. Up to half of the Targets should be Sticks.

I like the deck idea. Switch Leo to one Janey Pickman. Bay and howl could speed up your swarm, but in the end tribute might help you stay in the game. Twisted forest for additional stealth, or couple of Frontal Assaults for big "swarm rushes". Follow the alphas could go. Couple of zip-guns and weighted walking sticks to overcome permanent maneuvers or damage prevention. Uncoiling is a must because of Dragonbound AND Scourge of the Enochians. Narrow minds would be useful as well. Ivory bow to contest. I'd be tempted to add 3 or 4 Ashur Tablets. Master section could be something like: 1x Giant's Blood 2x Hungry Coyote 5x Life in the City 2x Sunset Strip 4x Tribute 2x Frontal Assault ---- Banging trashcans, breaking windows We'll wake you up tonight We like the good time, we scream and shout And that's what fun's about

Aranthebes makes you impotent, I would pack 3 of them in the deck (to contest, or just because it's an awesome card anyway). Prince of Paris, France Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director

A couple of Abbot? Since it is a free action, you don't have to take anything out to put them in.

I would consider an event package so you can play the all mighty Slow Withering. Others could be: Break the code, Thirst, Veil of Darkness, .... Not sure you need Sun Set Strip when you obviously can fight fairly well. Frontal Assault maybe. Cheers Robert

Thanks for the input peeps. Aranthebes, I really don't want to add BUT this deck will die if prey plays it. I think I'm gonna try to fit a couple in. Swapping a few copies of TV for WWS seems like a fine idea. Pickman will also probably make it into the crypt. Sunset Strip can give way to Frontal Assault and by that same token would allow me to replace Scrounging with Aranthebes. I like the idea of being able to cycle combat out of my hand with rushes from FA. I've thought of adding a Gehenna module but I'm not sure I want to go higher in the total cards in library and am unsure about what to remove for them.

Well since I told KoKo I'd take a look at this idea last night, here I am. Originally this deck concept seems a bit weak on the power scale of what I see on JOL day to day. But with some tweaks it's got game against most of the common anti-weenie strategies. When he first told me about the deck I knew I wanted to include The Uncoiling as I see scourge of the enochians about half the games I play on JOL as anti-weenie tech. So this deck just tries to include answers to the most common anti-weenie tech. The delaying tactics were already there and are necessary. I had the count up to three on my first iteration but ended up cutting it back to two trying to keep the deck a bit tighter. Arenthebes is in since it's game over if he hits the table for your prey and gives you ONE source of intercept in the deck which is always nice. Took some of the suggestions in the response string. Games of instinct works very well in a deck like this so I included it as directed rush. I tossed in a few computer hacking just to screw up math for people who think your always going to bleed for one. Reduced the number of follow the alphas since it won't always be useful if you've got your prey pinned down for example. The Giant's blood is included because it's just a better life in the city that denies it to others who play big caps. Added some WWS for staying power. This deck will probably just die to a sniper rifle without some REAL luck and follow the alpha. Anyways here is my version. Think I tweaked the crypt to make it efficient to my tastes. You really want to draw at least three unique vampires and have them all in play so limiting dupes is good. Deck Name : !Gangrel Swarm Author : Chris Hill (Leijur on JOL) Description : Based off original deck idea from KoKo. Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 2 max: 5 average: 3.16667 1x Leo Washington 2 cel pro !Gangrel:4 2x Denette Stensen 2 obf !Gangrel:4 2x Jesus Alcala 2 cel !Gangrel:3 1x Bill Butler 3 pot pro !Gangrel:4 1x Lula Burch 3 for pro !Gangrel:4 1x Charlie Tyne 4 obf pro ser !Gangrel:4 1x Jeffrey Mullins 4 OBF cel !Gangrel:4 1x Scarlet Carson O'T 4 CEL pro !Gangrel:3 1x Celeste Lamontagne 5 ANI PRO for !Gangrel:4 1x Maria Stone 5 FOR cel obf pro !Gangrel:3 Library [79 cards] Action [24] 2x Aranthebes, The Immortal 5x Computer Hacking 12x Embrace, The 5x Games of Instinct Action Modifier [6] 6x Follow the Alpha Combat [30] 11x Leathery Hide 4x Pulled Fangs 11x Target Vitals 4x Weighted Walking Stick Event [2] 2x Uncoiling, The Master [13] 1x Giant's Blood 2x Frontal Assault 2x Hungry Coyote, The 4x Life in the City 4x Tribute to the Master Reaction [4] 2x Delaying Tactics 2x On the Qui Vive